The universe of Elite Dangerous vs Star Wars and Star Trek

CMDR Jayce MacLeod

CMDR Jayce MacLeod
Greetings!

As an Elite Dangerous player, I've often asked, and have been asked, that age old nerdy question... Star Wars vs Star Trek, who would win?

Add Elite dangerous to the mix... I wonder who would win a battle royale in a three way. Who's tech is better, who's characters would lead better? Anaconda vs Enterprise vs Star Destroyer? Thargoid vs Borg vs Wookie lol you get the idea.

Thoughts?
 

kilvenny

kilvenny
Star Trek hands down. Star Wars reminds me of second world war fighters with lasers and the storm troopers of German troopers - great fun, but lesser tech.

ED is second world war fighters with lasers.
 

Zapgun

Z
I feel like the new star trek discovery tech is a lot like elite dangerous. You even have small 'warp capable' ships in both. In a war, Trek would probably win because they don't have limited jump ranges like in Elite, so its would be easier for warp capable ships to strike at strategic targets deep inside the bubble, whereas elite ships would need to push through defense lines to the do the same (don't ask my why there are always 'war fronts' in trek shows when you can just jump wherever you want).
 

Siobhan

Siobhan
At first glance, it looks bad for Elite compared to those... except...
In Elite Dangerous, even the smallest of ships can cross the entire galaxy in a couple of days (in Trek it takes 70 years)... However the weapons tech stacks up (and it might easily), you'd get in and out for raids before Trek or Wars people knew you were there.
And anyway, it wouldn't be a 'conda vs something like Enterprise. It's be a cruiser like a Farragut or a Majestic against it.
 

Arioch

Arioch
RELSPI said:
...If they just set phasers to kill, or willingly messed with alien civilisations, they'd probably be an unstoppable force of destruction.
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I reckon if Spock sported a goatee and they called themselves the Terran Empire, they could probably get an episode out of that! :D
 

Fishy

Fishy
If Voyager had got lost in ED, it'd have been published live on GalNet and just have taken Janeway a day or two (and 548 loading screens) to get back home, to the hilarity of random CMDRs explaining how they had done that trip much faster in the past and posting their screenshots of the systems of the area. In the meantime, the rest of the crew would simply have logged out of holopresence because nobody can be bothered actually travelling. Random CMDRs would then have started lobbying for a Colonize Gamma Quadrant community event on the Federation forums, as well as the replacement of Archon Delaine with CMDR Chakotay on the basis of better tattoos. This particularly protracted debate would end up being settled when in a brutal access of drunken honesty, an official Federation representative would post "omg, haha, lol, powerplay X-D". The Federation would however show that it isn't passively watching things, and demonstrate a can-do attitude with the introduction of Exclusive And Time-Limited Pro-Maquis and Anti-Maquis Decals that would appear on the store for only 2000 ARX each. A couple days later, CMDR Janeway would get ganked after reaching Sol and respawn in a Freewinder, being a bit short of rebuy.

As for me, I'd still be complaining that I was promised Star Trek Offline and be bitter about it.
 
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Zapgun

Z
Fishy said:
If Voyager had got lost in ED, it'd have been published live on GalNet and just have taken Janeway a day or two (and 548 loading screens) to get back home, to the hilarity of random CMDRs explaining how they had done that trip much faster in the past and posting their screenshots of the systems of the area. In the meantime, the rest of the crew would simply have logged out of holopresence because nobody can be bothered actually travelling. Random CMDRs would then have started lobbying for a Colonize Gamma Quadrant community event on the Federation forums, as well as the replacement of Archon Delaine with CMDR Chakotay on the basis of better tattoos. This particularly protracted debate would end up being settled when in a brutal access of drunken honesty, an official Federation representative would post "omg, haha, lol, powerplay X-D". The Federation would however show that it isn't passively watching things, and demonstrate a can-do attitude with the introduction of Exclusive And Time-Limited Pro-Maquis and Anti-Maquis Decals that would appear on the store for only 2000 ARX each. A couple days later, CMDR Janeway would get ganked after reaching Sol and respawn in a Freewinder, being a bit short of rebuy.

As for me, I'd still be complaining that I was promised Star Trek Offline and be bitter about it.
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Pro-Maquis all the way ;-)
 

ethelred

ethelred
Sadly, because they are smug jerks, Star Trek would win because they have teleporter technology so they could pop a couple of nukes into your star destroyer/sidewinder and you'd be facing the rebuy screen.

The only thing stopping them would be the endless hand-wringing.

Iain M Banks' Culture could take them easily though as they'd go full Special Circumstances.
 

TiberiusDuval

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Well Star Trek easily. Why so? Their weapons have big range, not some kilometers while flying at some hundreds of meters per second speeds, but hundreds of thousands of kilometers. Photon and Quantum torpedoes are FTL capable. More even battleground would be within Elite and Babylon 5 universes. Though we Elitists have shields, while B5 types do not.

On other hand Elites ships can outrange and outrun about every Star Trek ship. Warp drive seems to give out somewhat more max speed than Elite's supercruise, but make a jump and Star Trek ships just could wonder where did that odd unknown ship vanish. Jumping ship has enormous speed when measured in light years per hour. For example I did fly from Colonia to bubble in about six hours. Over 3650 light years per hour. So unless Star fleet is invading something that really needs to be defended, Elitists could simply avoid battle.
 

Siobhan

Siobhan
TiberiusDuval said:
Warp drive seems to give out somewhat more max speed than Elite's supercruise,
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Barely, an elite ship can hit 2001C in supercruise which is warp 9.something...

Also, taking game worlds to make things even, in Star Trek Online, they have very limited range on weapons too, up to 10km max if everything is set up for that.
 

TiberiusDuval

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Siobhan said:
Barely, an elite ship can hit 2001C in supercruise which is warp 9.something...

Also, taking game worlds to make things even, in Star Trek Online, they have very limited range on weapons too, up to 10km max if everything is set up for that.
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That would certainly even the odds in Elites favour.
 
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