StarWarsStarTrek wrote:The novel clearly mentions the asteroid impacting against the ship's hull, so there is no contradiction.
There is no data to define the size and speed of those asteroids either.
After all, the Milleninium Falcon could survive impacts which deflected rocks. I believe the very sloped and thickly armoured hull of an ISD wouldn't have much problems to deflect most of the small debris. In fact, in the movie, the fastest debris were the small ones. Barely bigger than a TIE fighter most of the time. The big ones were still.
And when a larger one flew into an ISD, it blew a whole section of it.
RSA once calculated the impact at around 8 KT, although I can't remember the momentum. That said, that momentum would never be a concern considering the hull properties given in the ICS.
AotC/RotS, sub-kiloton weaponry damaging ships enough to force emergency landing;
No shields were present, and not all of the weaponry was "sub-kiloton"; we see a SPHAT from a hanger,
ground artillery, tearing a kilometer long ship in two.
It would easily fit with low terajoules. I wouldn't expect more considering that once the outer hull was breached, the beam delivered the rest of the energy inside the ship, in the softer parts, where fuel and atmosphere are present.
Notice that the beam didn't come out on the other end either! And despite the fact that overcoming the outer hull at the point of impact happened for only a fraction of the firing sequence. So really, low terajoules is the best you can claim here, otherwise there's nothing that would have prevented the beam from tearing the ship's a new hole on the opposite side.
See below for a quick firepower gauging of the event.
As for no shields being present, that may be true of some ships, but I doubt all of them were downed. In fact, we have clear evidence that some did have their shields up, as evidenced by the bolts impacting against Trade Fedaration battleships (the C shaped ones, with blue painting).
Besides, ALL the shots exchanged between the Venators and the
Invisible Hand did produce explosions of similar magnitudes.
Although we can't explosions in space in a literal way, the magnitude of destruction is a good indicator of what Lucas was going for.
On that, we see that even the HTLs of the Venator firing at the IH weren't causing much more damage than the fixed gun positions firing through the windows.
All in all, the reentry caused about as much damage to formerly undamaged patches of the outer hull than the bombardment did, and to some extents, even more than said bombardment!
Perhaps the Venator was low on juice (I remember Leo pointing this out to me, there seems to be evidence of that in the novelization a few paragraphs before the naval battle), but we see that the hull still gets damaged by firepower nowhere near nuclear levels.
So the whole question is if the shields can actually cope with far more energies than the hulls can, and if yes, by which multiplier?
low-kiloton-range beams one-shotting Separatist cruisers.
And exactly how do you quantify that they are "sub-kiloton"
in space?
By the amount of energy you'd know to actually destroy a ship that big by delivering the energy inside. Put the air on fire, melting metal and so on, there are limits to all that. Even if we want to ignore the explosions, we can still go with the narrative facts, being that a beam is fired for several frames (almost a second), breaches the hull on very first frames, keeps pumping energy into the ship, but never comes out of the other side.
Meaning that all the "fleshy"' and obviously weaker internal structures proved enough to absorb the entire rest of the beam.
A Hiroshima-like delivery of energy
inside the ship would have been obviously much more violent than what happened.
There might be something I'm missing, I didn't watch Star Wars for quite long time). Only then can he use EU. Beacouse EU is non-canon, low canon at best; and as such, it cannot be used to disprove anything movie- or TCW- -related (movie-related includes scripts, movie novels, and radio plays. ICS are not movie-related despite trying to present themselves as such).
Actually, a decent argument could be made that the ICS is G canon. But I won't get into that now.
If that argument is that it has been a source of inspiration during some part of the production, you can already forget about it, as we already went there, and that against much fiercer debaters on the SW side.
