Can we be sure that the enterprise, or voyager, could penetrate the shielding on a star destroyer?
Granted, in the movies they do seem to let everything in to take a shot at them, for some unfathomable reason, but as far as I can understand larger imperial vessels do have some sort of (heavy) shielding. And if it's anything like the shielding on the ships in star trek it should negate the beaming scenario.
As an aside, tie fighters apparently don't. Apparently lack of shielding and a lack of hyperdrive was to be a preventative measure against cowardly retreats or somesuch, although it does seem to be a really good method of losing pilots fast rater than a really cunning morale booster.
Star destroyers are also what I think is a fair bit larger than the enterprise which might let them soak up quite a bit of phaser damage, and they do have a lot of laser batteries, more guns in fact than the enterprise's phaser banks.
Also, it should be important to note that a star destroyer is something of a carrier ship. Just as the star fleet vessels come with with a complement of shuttles, and photon torpedoes, a star destroyer will be packing squadrons of tie fighters and tie bombers. They should probably be considered part of it's armament, as no fully equipped star destroyer would leave port without them.
What star fleet do have going for them is the flexibility of their vessels. They can fly faster [
EDit: umm, the bloke on the site says they can not
] and they are more agile, like you say. And they do have some fancy tricks with the power routage. Which is why I'd want to give them the benefit of a doubt, unlike some.
When looking around on the web I found something you might find interesting btw.
http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/...veMinutes.html
EDit: Also, Imperial vessels travel through hyperspace, not the warp. What the difference is, except for how it looks I don't know
Which is the faster form of FTL I'm not sure about either, tho' I'm betting on hyperspace [
EDit:a hell of a lot faster, according to the bloke].
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