The Yuuzahn Vong invade the Federation

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The Yuuzahn Vong invade the Federation

Post by Enterprise E » Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:07 am

The Yuuzahn Vong are looking for a galaxy to conquer so they can live in. Something happens that renders the Star Wars galaxy uninhabitable to them and they make their way to the Milky Way with their full fleet. They try to do what they did to the New Republic and destabalize the political structures at first, but the governments are too strong and the counter-intelligence agencies of the major powers are too good for them to make any real head way. They do get some information on what Federation and Federation equivalent ships are capable of by merely observing the battles of the Dominion War, so they have a rough idea of what they are up against.

In the year 2379, the Vong are realizing that their Worldships are no longer cutting it so they decide that they have to make due with the Milky Way, despite its larger size than they are used to. They decide to breach the galaxy in the Alpha Quadrant and begin to make in roads. A year later (after the Vong have colonized some planets as a stop gap measure), a Federation sensor array picks up the Vong fleet. They decide to make first contact, but things don't go well and the Vong declare war on the Federation in very certain terms.

Will the Yuuzahn Vong enslave or kill everyone in the Federation as a beginning to galactic conquest, or will the Federation be able to repulse the extra-galactic invaders?

Notes: Since the Yuuzahn Vong are a creation of the Expanded Universe, EU weapons yields are allowed, however, they are restricted to yields that are seen in the New Jedi Order series.

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Post by Mike DiCenso » Fri Sep 01, 2006 12:26 am

As per the New Jedi Order EU? In that case, Trek readily wins hands down, if this is what I think it is, since starfighters only have kilojoule-range lasers, and capital ships even combining their firepower rate at best around terajoule range? Hell, most of the EU as we know has pretty pathetic firepower for SW ships:

http://www.st-v-sw.net/Obsidian/Miscell ... ation.html

The Yuuzahn Vong would be better off trying to take on the Lysians and Satarrans, and not even think of going after the Federation.
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Post by Enterprise E » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:00 pm

The thing that made the Vong dangerous wasn't necessarily their firepower, I think that some of the earlier NJO books mentioned that. The thing that made them dangerous was the Dovin Basals, the organisms that created singularities that sucked up the fire, and also the shields, of their opponents. In fact, their hulls were quite weak, seeing as how in some instances starfighter weapons could significantly damage them. Now the New Republic found some ways around the basals. I don't doubt that the Federation will as well, and when they do, it's bye-bye Vong, but until they do, the battles between the two could be quite interesting.

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Post by Mike DiCenso » Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:58 pm

Well, it's true what you say about their ability to create black holes, but the Vong advantage won't last long, and the Federation and it's allies also have some signficant advantages of it's own that can be brought to bear, like the ability to go to FTL using warp and still remain permeable to realspace, and even strafe from warp. The Vong might be able to get away with their subterfuge, as they did the with New Republic, but post-Dominion war, the Federation will be watching more closely for that sort of thing.
-Mike

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