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Re: Behemoth vs star destroyer, no fighters on either side. Whe would win?

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From: ty... Eddie Ting Yip Chan
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 00:00
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On Fri, 12 Jan 1996 09:26:33 GMT, J.P.Oo...@Inter.NL.net
(Jan-Pieter Oosterom) wrote:

>skre...@usa1.com (Andrew Paul) wrote:
>
>>Thomas Russell Hong <th...@columbia.edu> wrote:
>
>>>On 5 Jan 1996, Phil Paradias wrote:
>
>>>> Imperial star destroyer vs behemoth. With no fighters on either 
>>>> side. Which ship do you think will win?
>
>>>	(grin) 30 million gigajoules focused into one lancing point.  I 
>>>think the Behemoth will take an STD easily.  =)
>>Obviously.   The Victory could take a STD.
>
>>>	But the Bohemoth vs. the Death Star?  Whew that would be too close
>>>to call I think.  Probably the Death Star since the Bohemoth has 
>>>paper-thin shields and armor.
>
Who cares about paper-thin shield?  Heck, both of them have the
firepower to destroy a planet!  Shield strenght is absolutely
irrelevent.

>>I'd say that both the Behemoth and the Death Star could kill each
>>other in one shot, so it just matters which one fires first.

I'd say the Behemoth will win (if they don't destroy each other)
because the Behemoth have a much greater mobility.  So the Behemoth
might at least have a slim chance to dodge the shot.

Eddie
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Subject: Re: Behemoth vs star destroyer, no fighters on either side. Whe would win?
Date: 1996/01/14
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