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7.2km/s isn't even fast enough to reach low Earth orbit. 7.8km/s is about how fast astronauts are going when their spacecraft hits the atmosphere during re-entry and they have to slow down, fast, without melting or breaking anything. Sci-fi writers have no sense of scale.

I don't because it's all stupid dick waving. Fr'ex: trying to say that a Japanese yumi is better than an English longbow - or the other way around - is bullshit because both types of bows are longer than I am tall and most people can't actually use a real one.

Let's not be Space Battles. It's fiction intended to entertain. It's not reality where "oh shit, that just broke" might result in a city-flattening mushroom cloud.

The Mimbari thought it was true. Part of B5 is the Mimbari learning that they weren't the most powerful of the "younger races" even though they were the only ones who could say "go fuck yourself" to the Shadows and Vorlons without getting instantly crushed.

It's fiction. Writers have no sense of scale and aren't engineers. If some of the numbers for an Omega or Sharlin are right neither would be allowed to orbit Earth because the waste heat alone would fuck up our biosphere.

Omegas are about the same size as Mimbari Sharlins (44 million tons). There isn't much of anything in the B5 setting which wasn't made by the Vorlons or Shadows than can go toe-to-toe with a Sharlin without getting bitchslapped within a few seconds. An Omega is probably going to lose that fight...