Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-25606723-20151127143941/@comment-26444332-20151212154153

Forerunners VS Sith Empire?

Covenant VS Empire?

UNSC VS Republic?

Who would win? Vs. the Sith Empire? Hmm, that's a tough one, as the Sith Empire had access to the rare Cortosis alloys to deflect light sabers and blasters. However, the Forerunners had hardlight weapons. If it came down to it, the Sith might defeat the Forerunners by using Munificient-class star frigates to bombard the planets, while sacrificing their Shard-class fighters in an attempt to keep the Forerunners from destroying said frigates, which could melt a 1,000 km ice moon with one shot. If the Forerunners got through, the Sith could use the pseudomotion of their ships jumping to hyperspace to distract the Forerunners, who can't move nearly as fast through space. In a ground conflict, the Sith might win through virtue of their skill and their sheer numbers.

The Empire would win. The Covenant can have all the fancy tech it wants, the Empire has an entire galaxy to produce their war machine. A single STD I can break an unshielded planet in half, and TIE Defenders have the equivalent shields of a capital ship. TIE Avengers and Interceptors can go toe-to-toe with Banshees and probably Covenant Corvettes, and Imperial targeting computers are notoriously accurate against anything larger than a small snubfighter, far more so than ground forces. On ground forces, shadow troopers can render Covenant advantages in camouflage inert, and Imperial army troops(not stormtroopers) are actually quite accurate and highly trained. Enviro-troops can go most anywhere, and if we're talking about Grand Admiral Thrawn's empire, you have the best tactical mind the Empire could produce at the height of it's power. And let's not forget the power of the Force. A single Inquisitor or Sith could take down most of the Covenant ground forces sent against them.

The Republic. They have a much larger manufacturing base, army, more recruits, better ships, and two entire orders of Jedi on their side(I'm counting the Grey Paladins). The UNSC can't field enough Spartans to stop them.