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That the Imperials were taking damage from instead of avoiding objects traveling in predictable orbits at about 17-19km/s (assuming the Hoth asteroids move at similar orbital velocities as Ceres) which we can detect and track from Earth when they're about the same size as a school bus from at...

I'd need to watch that again to confirm my memory. IIRC, the Imperial ships were taking damage from asteroids. Whenever we've sent (admittedly tiny compared to a Star Destroyer) probes into and through the Asteroid Belt they didn't have the ability to dodge due to the minuscule amounts of fuel...

@Sobek, The Llyrians are in an undeclared conflict with Earth in a "USN providing convoy escort in the Atlantic pre-Pearl Harbor" manner. Humanity, despite being quite technologically primitive as far as interstellar societies go, is also one of the few with warships the Llyrians have to treat...

Remembered this and tracked down the video: Asteroid fields are nothing like what SciFi presents. The Moon is 75 times more massive than Ceres and 25 times more massive than the entire asteroid belt combined.

Another one from Star Trek is the Borg Cube power output: 5.37TW Humanity already produces more than that on average. It's hard find good numbers but I think we're in the neighbourhood of 20TW from all sources. The most powerful of our high-energy toys can very briefly push us into Type I on...

I was thinking about what Picard would think if he stumbled upon Fomalhaut as it is at the moment in my story. He'd see what appears to be 3-ship standoff where the one in the middle is 15 times as massive the Enterprise-D while the other two are tiny. 25ly away there's a ship 1/3 the size of...

It's the escort vessels which make up the bulk of a fleet's numbers. In my story there are at least five for every single ship light cruiser-sized or larger.

I'm tempted to write a crossover omake for my story where the Enterprise (7.1TW) from Star Trek gets introduced to my setting, tries to interfere with something, and one of the locals basically tells Picard where his objections to the proceedings can be placed using less than polite terms for...

I was thinking in terms of power output and including waste heat which has to go somewhere else. At 32km the waste heat coming off the smallest Llyrian warship redlining its reactor is about as bright as the Sun is ... at noon on a clear day in the tropics. It's all gamma radiation. EDIT: The...

When I came up with the idea which resulted in the story Tintagel I'm sharing here I wanted to avoid a flaw that all too many SciFi writers fall victim to: tossing out numbers which sound impressive but actually aren't. Fr'ex: One of Babylon 5 movies has a massive fleet defending Earth from a...