I would like to point out that the range for turbolasers on the Venator class SD are 10 light minutes(179,875,474.8 kilometers or 111,769,438.23 miles)and these were pretty standard for the pre-galactic civil war timeline. Of course this may or may not be affected by targetting data but as a basline range it seems to be similar or greater than Halo weapons.

Edit: Just found this: The weapon can fire a thin beam of extremely powerful and energetic particles. It is possible to predict when it was about to fire because it typically charges the beam up before firing. The beam has an effective range of over 50,000 kilometres, longer even than that of a UNSC MAC gun. 

This is in reference to the energy projector, it would seem that the effective range is quite less than you previously stated. Its ok though you do seem to be quite outnumbered on the Halo side, tis inevitable to make a mistake when so sorely pressed, though you have been doing a good job so far.

Sorry, I'v had other stuff to do. Thank you for correting my mistake. I meant to put 100000 kilometers instead of miles, thank you, I just hate putting up info thats incorret up. I should have double checked it at Halopedia, I just did it from memory. Thanks, I just hate putting up incorret info.

Ten light minutes for the Ventor, that would pose a threat if the Covenant ships didn't move. But this would be really only good against large stations like High Charity, large stations just make juicy targets.   

Now lets take a look at ground forces now. The Scarab walker is the largest ground unit the Covenant have, easily blasting AT-AT's and escorts away with it's massive main cannon and taking out any speeders with either one or two plasma cannons depending on the model. Wrath mortar tanks are the standard tank unit for the Covenant ground forces armed with a massive plasma launcher, when the plasma impacts all enemies within 20 meters is destroyed, also armed with a pair of auto turrets or one manned turret depending on model. Anti-Air Warth's are a variety of the standard Warth armed with burst-fire Fuel Rod cannons, though it would be better used in an anti-vehicle duty, armed with a manned turret. Ghost hover sleds are a standard Covenant light scout and combat vehicle armed with a pair of rapid plasma cannons, it hovers a couple feet above the ground, used best against infantry. Spectres are the counter to the UNSC Warthog, armed with a plasma cannon. I will do air craft later.

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Like I said a lot would depend on the fire control systems and then how fast the turbolaser bolt was traveling, one would assume light speed but you know what they say about assumptions.

Yeah, turbolasers are slower than light. That's one of the reasons why they're aren't actually lasers. If they were, they would travel at light speed, however, they are plasma, and therefore cannot do that.

Will it's been some time since I looked at either of those, and the Halo one was not complete then, and I never found the SW mod. It would be fun, that's for sure.

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You know what would be better, to use 7DS mod, which has the empire, I heard that they might include halo mod. for there entrenchment version

Since the Flood is a wildcard and the forrunners may as well be, lets give Star Wars one: the little-known Yhuuzhan Vong, who gave both the Empire and Rebels a run for their money. All organic ships, and for shields they use quantum singularities (mini balck holes). Plasma is a popular weapon amongst them too, so there goes any covenant advantage. UNSC would simply lose a numbers war. Forrunner, unknown. Vong have excellent disguise methods for infiltration, and would try "jump to the center of the death star" style tricks because they are just as fanatic as the Covenant. Halo activation is really a "nobody will take us alive" last resort in which everyone loses. Flood, a massacre on ground, but they could hold up in space due to their shield method.

Now, for those of you who are still comparing turbolasers to plasma projectors, consider this: with all the resources available too the Empire, why would they settle for a turbolaser that is weak compared to another weapon? They didn't. Turbolasers are designed to hammer away at star destroyer-type hull and shields, when the hull alone can survive nukes (read about Mandalorian Wars to confirm this). Covenant hull can survive one with severe damage. If a turbolaser can tear through that kind of hull plating, imagine what it would do to the covenant. Even better ranged weapons wouldn't turn the tide considering that 1 star destroyer has 60 of them. Fire enough shots and accurracy won't mean a rat's. . .er. . .you know. . . . Also, don't forget proton torpedoes and concussion+harmonic  missiles, which also can be guided.

Don't bring the Forrunners into this when we know so little about their ships and weapons.

Onward to ground. . .
AT-AA's could decimate banshees and phantoms. AT-AT's are the scarabs' equal, but the empire has a lot more than the covenant. As said with turbolasers, Star wars armor is far superior to covenant, so plasma weapons would have little effect on anything, except stormtroopers. Both sides have cloak, neither superior. The Empire has repeating weapons, too, the just aren't used as often. Darktroopers are equal to Hunters, but once again the empire has a greater supply. Star Destroyers can also fire accurrately on enemy position on the planet.

Yes, but we can not forget that the Covenant could shall partly rearm a Forerunner Dreadnought that they had to keep at the low end of it's power because even a station as large as High Charity did not use that much energy.

Here's a quote from First Strike. After considerable study of the Covenant plasma weapons system, she now understood why they glowed before discharge. The stored plasma was always hot and ready to fire, but the Covenant used an inefficient method to collect and direct the chaotic plasma atoms into a controllable trajectory. They selected the charged plasma atoms with the proper trajectory necessary to hit a target and shunted them into a magnetic bubble. The buble was then discharged; subsequent pulse charges herded the plasma on target. For and advanced race, the Covenant's weapons relied on crude brute force calculations and were terribly slow and wasteful. She booted the new system she had devised to control the plasma. It used EM pulsesa priori to align the stochastic motions of the plasma atoms, herding their trajectories and eleven degrees of electronic freedom into a laser-fine columnated beam within a microsecond. This was, of course, an entirely theoretical operation. She test-fired the thre forward plasma turrets-red lines slashed across the black space and intercepted the three lead Covenant cruisers; their shields glowed orange, flickered, and failed. Cortana's plasma cut into the smooth alien hulls. Metal boiled away, and the trio of beams punched clear through the ships. Cortana moved the plasma beams like a scalpel-up and then down-and cut the vessels in half. "Adequate," she remarked. The plasma reserves of the first three turrets, however, were exhausted, and would be several minutes before they'ed recycle. If only there were better electromagnetic system on this flagship, she could have devised a more effective guidance algorithm. Alas, the Covenant's grasp of Maxwell's equations was ironically inferior to human technology. Cortana relized it was fortuitous she had shut down the enemy AI before it leaked her new plasma guidance system. The thought of every ship in the Covenant fleet refitted with improved weaponry was too terrible to calculate. Unquote. And here's another quote. Whitcomb set his hands on his hips," You need to rethink the tactical situation, Governor," he growled." Cortana, find me a target-a rock the same size as this 'gentleman's' base."              "Done," she replied.                                                                                                                                     "Burn it," he ordered                                                                                                                                       "Aye, sir!"                                                                                                                                                      A lance of plasma appeared on the starboard side of Ascendant Justice, cut through space, and blasted the surface of a three-kilometer-long stone tumbling through the asteroid belt. Its surface heated to orange, yellow, and then white, sputtering blobs of molten iron and jets of vapor that caused the massive stone to spine faster. The plasma cut through the rock in a wide arc-punched through the spposite side. The uneven internal heat caused the rock to fracture and explode into fragments. The debris pinwheeled away, leaving helical trails of cooling iron and glittering metallic gas in its wake. Unquote.

Ah, sorry for the Great Wall here; to much to type. Now since this entire Halo vs Star Wars falls within fan fiction, the UNSC would look at the threat that the Empire is, and hand over Cortana's data. Also, can you find me anything in the books or movies of SW that have one shot from a turbolaser taking out a three-kilometer-long asteroid in one shot. And the Prophets change tech as they see fit, they would take care of the short coming's that Cortana had within months. And please go to Halopedia and look at the Covenant Firgate; it can take control of enemy plasma and send it back at enemy ships, think about the Covenant putting that on all their ships. Also, look to the book Ghost of Onyx, the captured Covenant Destroyer used by the Spartans shot enemy plasma with their own which as it said. Quote. Fred understood what she was trying to do: fight fire with fire. But at these velocities hitting one plasma beam with another was like shooting a bullet out of the air. Unquote.

 I will go over the Scarab vs AT-AT and other things like the Vong in the morning. Good night.

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Good morning. Yes, I know they have a 120 weapons. But we have only ever seen the tip of the iceberg with the Covenant ships and ground forces. As I said before the Covenant were only slightly fazed by the lost of nearly 500 ships and a command station.

Go to Halopedia and read over the entire Scarab section, such as being dropped from medium orbit, is there anything that says that an AT-AT can do that? And then we do not know how many Scarabs there are, but you could say there's a lot since they were made as mining vehicles before combat versions. The All Tarrain Armored Transport is nothing compared to the Scarab when it comes down to terrain and firepower. Now I don't won't to do another giant post, so just go read over everything in the Scarab section and then I rest my case on it.  

I'll be back later.

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I've just been reading though this and i've seen a lot of interesting arguments, but i'd have to say star wars hands down.  All things considered, the empire alone has superior numbers, super weapons that dont commit mass suicide, much superior faster than light travel at least in terms of speed, Grand admiral Thrawn, who seems to be able to adapt to any enemy as long as its not his pet noghri, and the emperor who has an immense command of the force.

The force itself is powerful enough to take on about anything the covenant could throw at the empire given enough force users.  Given the shortage of these force users though, ill just say that the emperor  can use battle meditation on the entire imperial navy to help them fight, effectively giving his soldier more combat effectiveness while draining the will of his adversary to fight.  Furthermore, the force can be used to do things such as drain one's life, create massive force storms capable of annhilating entire fleets or even destroy all life on an entire planet (in a sense, force drain on steroids).  Combine those abilities (and just the force in general) with the comparable imperial weaponry and ships, much faster hyperspace drives, seemingly infinite resources, imperial superweapons and thrawns military genious (death by pet noghri aside)....  Even a thousand master chief's that for some reason wanna be buddies with the covenant would have quite the headache trying to take on that.

Hmmmmm....

I'lll hazard a guess that the Empire would win out of sheer numbers, but it would have a helluva tie keeping its holdings down, because:

* The Covenant would fight a gurilla (sp?) war against the Imperials, and we'd have a "galactic Vietnam War".

* The Rebellion would hepl the UNSC, no ands, ifs, or buts. Just imagine what a couple of Nebulon-B frigates could do if they worked with the good ol' In Amber Clad.

I think they would probably lay low and wait until the fight was over or subtly aide the Empire.  Any chance of them siding with Halo will vanish after the Covenant demonstate they indend to glass every world they can.

The tank droid is in the Star Wars "Guide to Vehicles and Vessels" I have.  It says they were deployed within a few years of Thrawn's return after Yavin.

Now lets look at the ship vs ship again. Now we know that with the upgrades Cortana made Covenant plasma has become far more dangerous then it had been before. If a Reverence can fire three of the overpowered plasma torpedos and shall charge it's Silpspace generator than we can safely assume full or nearly full power to sub-light engines.

So lets do a battle between two dozen ISDs and two dozen Reverence Cruisers. Starting at 10000 kilometers from each other. The ISDs and Reverences fire at about the same time, ion and turbolaser shots fly by the Covenant plasma. The Reverence's move to avoid the Imperial fire as the ISDs try to move out of the way of the laser thin plasma which makes a sharp turn and the first two hits burn through the shields and do minimum hull damage; and then the third plasma torpedos that hit each Imperial Star Destroyer melt their way through the prow of some ships, one torpedo turned toward the ship's command deck and boiled away the entire command tower super structure.  All ISDs destroyed from one volley with minimum damage to Covenant forces.

Will the Cruisers can evade the Imperial fire there is no avoiding Covenant plasma torpedos. I will probably edit this later. Also, is there anything about how fast a turbolaser bolt? That would help here.

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