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[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Give it WH40K tech. It would basically be invulnerable. Not sure that it would be able to hit the Trek ships with the torpedos though. They would outmatch it in maneuverability, but those battleships are made to withstand weapons that are many magnitudes larger than anything the Federation has available. They routinely destroy worlds, but battleships have been known to survive for generations totally disabled and exposed to the vaccume of space. They can destroy planets, but even WH40K doesn't have an effective way to destroy those battleships, without physically running them into a planet or a star.

[-] eva_sieve@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't sell short the levels of destructive capability Federation has access to if it really cared about such things. Off the top of my head, there are some messed up "off-label" uses for stuff we've seen the Federation has access to by the 2380s:

Red Matter is featured in Star Trek '09, though it originates from the prime timeline. Obvious application for making black holes on demand. Y'know, I'm not actually sure why the Vulcan Science Academy made so much of it, but we see even in small amounts it can be used as a planet killing weapon.
The Protostar Class from Prodigy is potentially the Federation's most terrifying weapon. The contained protostar at the heart of the ship explodes (canonically, though unrealistically) into a supernova if containment fails, and with full holo-emitter coverage it could be run by a holographic crew. Lock down the ETH's personality matrix and you've got a fully automated transwarp supernova bomb.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure they can annihilate planets, the WH40K battleships have plenty of planet killing weapons. The eldari shoot literal black holes, and these battleships shrug them off like they are nothing. It's easier to just shoot a vortex torpedo at one of these things and force it into the warp, than actually destroying one. I don't think the Federation, Romulans, Dominion, or even Species 8472 has galaxy killing weapons, and that seems to be the level of destruction needed to take down one of the absolute fortresses that are the emperor class battleships

That supernova bomb may cripple the ship, but I don't think it would destroy it. These things have photon torpedo explosions going off under regular operations, somewhat frequently. Sure a few hundred of the crew die, but it doesn't even affect the normal operations of the ship.

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