"If the Warlock's weapons were so advanced, they would have been used on the VCD"......They Wouldnt be used on the VCD because EA would never allow them to have the tech , they would guard it like they do the shadow tech theve aquired.
"The VCD is also much more powerful than a Sharlin. If it wasn't, why build it, why not build more Sharlins and save money."......again very flawed, they build is because its the ISA's top ship not the Mibarirs Top ship, hence the ISA's distiguishing ship. and they could build Sharlins because EA was contructing the ship in exchange for some help with their Anti grav drives. The Minbari would never allow them to build Sharlins.
"Also, if the Heavy Quantum Discharge cannons (whitestar cannon) are less powerful than the Sharlins weapons, why use them or even bother developing them for that matter"........because they are the strongest weapons avalible for a ship of its SIZE!, A Whitestar or even 2 is no match for a Sharlin. Whitestars are made to pack hunters and hit and run ships.
"If the Slicer Beams or another weapon on the Sharlin was more powerful it would have been used on the VCD. The same applies to the Warlock, which is a slightly older design than that of the VCD."........Only if the Minbari would allow EA the tech since they were the ones building the ships, which they wouldnt. You also have to take into consideration power contraints, the Beams on the VCD might "might" be more Powerful then the Minbaris Nuetron Cannons If they didnt fire in bursts and had the exstended firing cpability the Sharlins have with theirs.
"The VCD armor also reflects 80% of a weapons power meaning the definitely less powerful Warlock weapons would inflict damage over time, but not before the VCD could cut it to pieces."........They only stop 80% up to a level, heres a simple example. Imagine a trampoline and you have 2 500lbs sets of weights, 1 group is in 50lbs weaigs while the other is 1 500lbs weight, well the Trapolin could take an exstended pounding from the 50lbs weeights, but would be pushed passed its threshhold when the entire 500lbs was dropped on it at once. Well the God cannons on the front of the VCD are 1000lb weights.
"I was wondering why you think an obviously more advanced race like the Minbari wouldn't be able to design a better weapon than that of the EA which is over a 1000 years younger"......well lest see in EAs 1st ten years of space travel after meeting the Centauri they jumped ahead 500 years from a technological Stand point, and haveing access tech now from the Oldest race ever know "shadows" besides Lorien and help from Shadow Thralls to understand it to a degree and further help from the minbari themselves to further some tech, How far do you think that pushed the EA forward? and Lets not forget simple human Ingenuity.
"And I don't know how a ship with all its thrust in one small area could turn that quickly, the thrust vectoring alone would make it slow, the gravitic drives could help, but their first generation, the Minbari have it for over a 1000 years (the Tinashi in the last pre-EA war against the Shadows). The VCD would be powered by nothing but gravitic drives, meaning omni-directional thrust. Plus the engines are arrayed in a large triangle that would allow asymetric thrust to push it around much faster even though it is larger.".........Cant give you a definity answer to this one cept that it can it does and perhaps it has something to do with the Shadow Tech involved int he Warlocks contruction, and before you bring up the Vorlon Tech in the VCD please consider that the Shadows ships were always MUCH fast and more manuverable than the Vorlon ships.
Posted on Jan 11, 2002, 8:27 PM from IP address 12.239.59.163