Registered: Apr 2001
Location: University Park
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The SPK was only just barely killed by two VCDs, and that by a maneuver that neither the Drakh nor the Shadows had anticipated. If the Drakh had been more prepared to counter the Victory's ramming, Earth would have been toast (unless of course Sheridan had decided to ram the centerpiece too, only to have the Apollo jump out right next to it and start shooting it). It looked pretty much like the VPK was dedicated completely to planet killing, and had not much defense except for its thick hide while engaging its beam. I'd guess that its power could be redistributed for anti-ship fighting, but it always seemed to be accompanied by a large fleet of Vorlon vessels to cover its arse. As we have seen, no ship can really claim invincibility even to a large enough group of younger race ships. If equivalently sized fleets went up against the unescorted PKers, I'm not sure how much resistance they would come up against. As far as the SPK, there are all those short range beam weapons, at least on the centerpiece, but I'm sure there are more. Into the Fire showed that individual missiles can be intentionally launched against ships inside, though it seemed the Drakh didn't think to do that. For the VPK, it would be a matter of having enough power to punch through it while avoiding its beam.

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Registered: Feb 2001
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remember forlong ships can morph new tenctilces with weapon emplacemtns so i imagine ti could defend itself quite admiribly and i believe its stats are around somewhere and it hik they said it came complete several vorlong dreadnaught type cannons - also assumeing vorlong ships can carry fighters - image how maybe that thing could unleash - if the spk though was used to its maximum potential and used to defend itself not preparing to destroya planet i image for younger races it would be teh ahrder to destroy since its scale prevents it being destroyed at range and entering ti with all the missiles would be suicide hoever vorlons versus shadows i think the vorlons would be better ableto destroy teh shadow planet killer than the shows able to kill the vorlon planet killer

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Registered: Aug 2000
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Uggggggh. Too many versus threads. Nothing personal.

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