RE: Full Thrust vs Starmada

I also believe that the fighters, while not able to directly kill a SD
were able to knock out a shield generator and leave it vulnerable to
attack from the Rebel capital ships.

So perhaps in this case they were acting more like a needle beam,
capable of bypassing the normal defenses and attacking a specific ship
system.

Also the implication that the fighters could draw fire away from the
Rebel fleet implies that the SD's had weapons that weren't just
anti-fighter specific, but more along the lines of dual-purpose Class
1's. 

--Binhan

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
[mailto:owner-gzg-l@lists.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU]On Behalf Of Oerjan Ohlson
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 10:05 AM
To: gzg-l@csua.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re: Full Thrust vs Starmada

John Lerchey wrote:

 >So, one thing that I would do, had I both time and energy ( ;) ) would
be
 >to compare that statement with popular sci fi.  No one attacked the
Star
 >Destroyers in Star Wars with *fighters*.

Hm? Check out Lando Calrissian's order in RotJ that the fighters break
off 
their attack on Death Star 2 (since the energy shield was still up) and 
instead attack the Star Destroyers "to draw their fire off the [rebel] 
cruisers"...

Simply put, if the fighters were not a threat to the SDs there would be
no 
way in which they *could* draw the SDs' fire off the rebel cruisers -
which 
in turn would mean that Lando's order was completely pointless, and all
he 
achieved by the order was to expose the fighters under his command to
more 
enemy fire than necessary.

 >

Later,

Oerjan
oerjan.ohlson@telia.com