- 22,042
- 18,126
This calculation is invalid due to planetary curvature revisions. It's not even close enough to the horizon for the new formula, and I honestly don't think the art in the comic is really accurate enough for it to be valid. However, as I said in the last thread, this calculation is still valid for shielded vessels of similar size.
The problem is, with the exception of the The Clone Wars, shields in the films and comics are typically within metres of each other and take a lot of firepower to harm each other, so what we need to look at are vessels capable of destroying vessels of this size and firepower rather quickly.
As an example, of similar vessels, the Arquitens-class Command Cruiser is a light cruiser designed to support capital ships with amazing offensive and defensive capabilities, whereas the Quasar-Fire can easily be destroyed by ships with light turbolasers. Nebulon-Bs are also 300 metres long and described as heavily armed and shielded vessels, having medium turbolasers instead of light or heavy.
There's plenty of examples where ISDs shred Nebulon-Bs. But you could chalk this up to lack of plot armour and prior damage.
I think standard and light turbolasers should probably stay the same or downscale to Large Mountain level, while Star Destroyers can just stay as they are. The calculation is based on penetrating a hole in one section of the shielding, whereas TIE Fighters find small gaps between shields (capital ships tend to have port, starboard, aft, fore, dorsal and ventral shielding, plus or minus a couple) and capital ships have to engage by peppering shields with lots of energy blasts. It strongly depends on the fight, but there are scenes where ships can deal moderate damage to a single shield layer by concentrating their fire on that section.
The problem is, with the exception of the The Clone Wars, shields in the films and comics are typically within metres of each other and take a lot of firepower to harm each other, so what we need to look at are vessels capable of destroying vessels of this size and firepower rather quickly.
As an example, of similar vessels, the Arquitens-class Command Cruiser is a light cruiser designed to support capital ships with amazing offensive and defensive capabilities, whereas the Quasar-Fire can easily be destroyed by ships with light turbolasers. Nebulon-Bs are also 300 metres long and described as heavily armed and shielded vessels, having medium turbolasers instead of light or heavy.
There's plenty of examples where ISDs shred Nebulon-Bs. But you could chalk this up to lack of plot armour and prior damage.
- Local space lit up as dozens of energy beams loosed by the Star Destroyer converged on the much smaller vessel. In moments the ship’s shields were overwhelmed and the beams began to take their toll, obliterating the Nebulon’s rudder-like ventral appendage, then severing the spar that connected the main body of the ship to the engine module. Cracked open, the ship spilled its contents into space and imploded, sucking countless droid fighters into its blistering collapse.
- One of their Nebulon frigates breaks in half—its front end still firing the full detachment of weapons, peppering the side of a Star Destroyer.
I think standard and light turbolasers should probably stay the same or downscale to Large Mountain level, while Star Destroyers can just stay as they are. The calculation is based on penetrating a hole in one section of the shielding, whereas TIE Fighters find small gaps between shields (capital ships tend to have port, starboard, aft, fore, dorsal and ventral shielding, plus or minus a couple) and capital ships have to engage by peppering shields with lots of energy blasts. It strongly depends on the fight, but there are scenes where ships can deal moderate damage to a single shield layer by concentrating their fire on that section.
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