um,if its in firing range then i think halo is done for.

the only thing i need to know is does the death star need to be ran on living things? cuz if A.I. can make it then hell the halo is gone.

Also; considering the Death Star’s computer core allow it to operate without a crew means that the only “weapon” the Halo(s) have is practically useless.

Or the crew could launch anyone of its unmanned Fleets and destroy the Ring whilst sitting pretty several Galaxies away.

Unless used correctly upon the exact ooponent, then the Rings represent nothing more than a big pile of useless Onyx.

“Does Halo have an exhaust port about 2 meters wide?”

Nope, it just has a very unstable core, a large exposed surface area and no self-defence network to speak of, making it incredibly vulnerable for a construct of its size.

“Does the Death Star have various types of eco systems? Decor?”

Grass and paint, which would protect the Halo from Turbo-blaster rounds how?

Seriously… you guys never ever read the scenario…

well the fact that the scenario says the death star is in rane,and i dont think it takes more than a minute to fire…

Ah, TL. Your Frankness and lack of analysis shall always remain a burden to yourself. Try and adopt some tact in future.

1) The Death Star itself is not just a single Particle Superlaser weapon platform, it also uses a myriad of other particle propulsion devices not limited by immediate range combat. The myriad of heavier Turbolasers could achieve ranges far greater than the firing sequnce of the Halo itself, whilst Hyper-Drive ordinance assures that it never even has to be in the same sector of the Galaxy as the Halo.

2) It is a mobile Space STATION, whose primary purpose is to act as a Carrier in large Naval and Marine operations. It is designed to first and foremost deliver craft before itself (Which was the fatal flaw the crew adopted in ‘A New Hope’) and could hold a payload of Imperial Cruisers and a large number of ships within it’s own drydock; designed expressly for Naval engagements.

Think of it as a large Aircraft Carrier and mobile Drydock that just so happens to have an extrmely potent cannon equipped. In all due respect, I believe I’ve actually sustained within the confines of the scenario presented, it just so happens that everyone else has a very limited perception of what range actually means.

I don’t really know the range of the Death Star, so pardon me.

As for the firing range of one single Halo, it has an effective radius of 25,000 light-years. How far can the Death Star fire? And the problem is, can the Death Star’s Turbolasers render Halo Ineffective?

And pardon me, but you did not sustained within the scenario. It’s Death Star vs Halo, not Death Star and Fleet vs Halo. This is a match to determine the better super weapons, not the docking capacities of the Death Star or Halo (which didn’t had any). And Halo’s weapons would probably wipe out every living crew in their fleet anyway.

Correct me if I’m wrong about anything.

lol a fat wedding ring

@TL

If we are looking at it the way you suggest, then I agree with you.

Death star would just blow a hole in halo it’s not a planet so the energy wouldn’t be able to build up in a chain reaction. The Halo would most likely go off before it tears itself apart killing everybody in the galaxy. But the forerunners who activated it would most likely escape to shield worlds and those dreadnaughts are real tough and blow the death star as they leave leaving bot destroyed but forerunners winning.

Also another way are the setinels. their beams would cut through that base like nothing…

I’m going to presume this was towards me. If not, then I apologise.

“And by that logic, the Halo would be a ICBM.”

Not really, since it fires a pulse of unknown quantification, not a missile. Is capable of launching a payload over multiple sectors of the Galaxy, not just single continents. And uses the same pulse to neutralise specific targets, therefore not a ballistic of any kind.

The Death Star is a multi-purpose Station, serving as a waypoint station, a Battle-Cruiser, Star ship deployment platform, Marine, Frigate and Fighter insertion device, construction yard, a Garrison, a Fortress, mobile Artillery, a Carrier, an Inter-Galactic bombardment vessel, dry-dock, R&D facility, Stormtrooper training and Cloning plant and a weapons, power, vessel provision factory.

It pretty much serves every function from training Stormtroopers and pilots, constructing Droids and providing power to and restoring Planetary shields.

It also just happens to having a big cannon positioned on the front.

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Now as far as I’m aware this is a Death Star Vs Halo matchup, which denoted the entirety of the construct itself, facilities, personnel and all. This in the case of the Halo would dictate all of its primary functions, including the Sentinel facilities.

My point being is that each proponent is not limited to just having a big gun that goes boom boom, it dictates that each construct use whatever resources available to win this fight. Now the Death Star is not limited to the Darksaber, it can also fire Hyper drive rounds capable of firing from outside the radius of the Halo, or using the interplanetary Ion Cannon to simply deactivate the Halo at long range.

Death Star’s main weapon, the Superlaser has a working range of 420,000 km.

Interplanetary Ion Cannon’s range is sufficient to target planets at interstellar ranges, but it’s maximum range is not explicitly stated.

Hyperdrive: aren’t those the engines used to enter hyperspace? The only weapon that comes close to the description is the Galaxy Gun, but it was not built on the Death Star, but rather a separate superweapon commisioned by Palpatine after he was reborn.

i think halo cud do far more damge then the ds but not ne to the ds

Is this to decide which would destroy the other? If it is then I would say death star, Why?

Halo kills sentient species. as far As I know It is never specified whether it can destroy any thing else.

If it kills all life then death star wouldn’t have a crew to fire it wouldn’t it?

Well, If the death star is automated than that is no problem. It can fire sooner than halo because on a halo you would have to scurry over to the library, grab the index, and bring it back and then start the long firing process.

Death star is built to destroy, not just kill

Death star wins in my book.

so what if he builds another 1 he still lost

“Death star would just blow a hole in halo it’s not a planet so the energy wouldn’t be able to build up in a chain reaction”

As we all know The Death Star can blow up planets. If you watch A New Hope then you see it dows not cause a chain reaction. That would be like frieza and his *Sarcasm Activate!* five minutes for the planet namek to blow up. When the Death Star shot Alderaan it went *Boom=Dead in about a second. As an explosion as small as the Pillar of Autumn blew up the ring im certain a shot from the death star would be more devastating. Logically speaking humanity would not build ships with the self destructive force to blow up an entire planet or they would use suicide bombing ships piloted by AI to nuke the covenant to hell.
So one scale of super weapons it should be known that DBZ Cast>Death Star> Halo Ring.

Well, the Death Star can only destroy one planet at a time, taking a few minutes to fire a blast.

Halo can wipe out all life in a galaxy, but takes long to fire.

The Death Star would obviously destroy Halo before it fires.

The Death Star wins.

This is one hell of a one sided fight Death Star hands down.

Hey, wait! Phrasing implies that while DS is within 3 radii of galaxy, Halo is not orbiting the next planet hosting the DS. In other words, we have a dead “Death Star” being run by computers that would probably take a hell of a time getting to Halo.

I can see a scenario where the Death Star fires its WTFPWN Super lazer and i flies directly through the ring. It would porobably turn into another lazer chargin pun

if halo destroys all life in the galaxy who would be around to tell anyone that i’m just saying what if halo is a dud what if it just generates electricity or something like that

its an intersting idea, but the situtation is comparing a cannon to a pistol at point blank range, pistol wins. the halo’s are not tactical wapons, and were never designed to be used in this way, in fact they were suppose to remain hidden from the flood. the deathstar however has much more firepower and would win in this situtation, but in terms of overall killing power halo is exponentally more lethal.

Given that the Death Star was ready to fire at Yavin 4, which is a moon of a gas giant I don’t gravity will be an issue here. The beam is not made out of plasma, but a sort of “exotic matter”.

i agree with jay, what if the halo somehow moves to where the laser goes trough the center? heres how i see it:
DS AI: firing in 3, 2, 1…..
*laser fires, passing through the center of ahlo, missing completely*
DS AI: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-
or what if halo caught the laser somehow and turned it back? 0.o

“I do believe…all Halo’s orbit a gas giant due to gravitational issues”

We see the Halo’s fire right after going out of Slipspace, NOT around gas giants (Three of them are around Covenant home planets(They are still just in tribal/stone age)), the Halo’s don’t need to be around Gas Giants(Was 05 even around one?).

The forerunners built halo and they were an more advance race that the empire and we know that halo can be destroyed by a big explosion on the surface. i feel that since the flood had control of many of the forerunners ships they would have antisapated that someone would try to distroy halo from the outside so they would have some form of defense against a “lazar”
further more as seen in starwars episode 4 multipule technitians had to pull levers to fire, i understand that IG88 but you would think the empire would have made it so that you had to have a human presence there ot fire it
finnally even if the halo was distroyed the ark would build another one and send it back there probilly with an ability to counter (if it didnt have one allready) the DS “Lazer”

There is also the irrifutable fact that one of the Halo stations was completely destroyed by an explosion that is several orders of magnitude less than the Death Star’s super laser. If a Halo, which is already known in the canon to not being able to stand up against a small explosion, were to try to stand up against to a planet busting laser it would explode even faster than compared to when it exploded from the small reactor of a starship.