Crom's Black Blade
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I believe that since you made the positive claim that Rommie was "multi-kilometer" it falls to you to provide proof of this assertion. Since it is in several episodes I'm sure it will be quite easy for you to track it down.I have heard the multi-kilometer size quote in several episodes, but do feel free to dig it up yourself.
The fact Rommie's hull can take a 20 megaton kinetic impact with barely a paint scratch pretty much already established she's well helluva armored warship. But that has nothing to do with anything since A.) Rommie isn't involved in this What If, B.) Rommie is depicted as being disproportionately stronger than most other vessels in her Verse and C.) we were discussing mass reduction technology.The mass just means they have extremely advanced nano materials and armor that are very lightweight.
Specifically you made the claim that the Commonwealth mass reduction tech was " orders of magnitude better" because of how large Andromeda was but in point of fact Voyager is the larger vessel in terms of the only relevant criteria its mass by roughly seven times. Per your own argument that would imply Starfleet has "orders of magnitude better" mass lightening. Unless you wish to now claim your original argument was based upon a flawed premise.
Up till know we were speaking of Commonwealth warships but if you wish to switch to biomechanical alien factions then a Borg scout ship masses 2.5 million metric tons, reference "I, Borg" season 5 of TNG, so a full sized Borg cube likely weighs much, much more. And Borg ships are fairly nimble when they want to be.Yeah, sure, tell that to the huge-ass and super-maneuverable ship that the Consensus of Parts had, the worldship, too.
Further I don't remember VX's ship doing anything that impressive maneuvers wise in "The Sum of it's Parts" and at one point I remember they specifically stated it wasn't maneuvering/evading their fire because it was so powerful it didn't need too.
Similarly the World Ship didn't appear to be maneuverable at all in "It's hour come 'round at last" or the "The Widening Gyre" so I'm going to have to ask for what specific example you are referring too.
Actually per Star Trek online, which I believe is considered canon, the Romulans have reproduced the technology for use as a weapon on their ships.Yup, trek always mass produces its oneshot plotdevice tech <sarcasm>
Not really, rather ground combat is under utilized and overly fixated on a narrow niche by Starfleet and its peers. On basic principals there's nothing wrong with using transporters to quickly move squads to and fro across the battlefield exactly where they are needed augmented by the level of battlefield awareness provided by tricorders/sensors. Execution is of course much more of a mixed bag and the system has vulnerability towards anyone who doesn't abide by the same ruleset. Hence the curiosity to see how they'd respond to a race that lives for ground combat.Trek land warfare is a bad joke.
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