Versus Match The Yuuzhan Vong vs. the Systems Commonwealth (Andromeda)

[Agent23]

ROB magics away the magog and the Spirit of the Abyss and replaces them with the Vong invasion that hit the Star Wars Galaxy, only he splits it in 3 parts and sends it to all 3 of the ASC galaxies.

This happens just prior to the Andromeda being sent on the mission that led to its first encounter with the Magog Worldship.


Fight!

 

[Spartan303]

Pretty sure that despite how incompetent the Systems Commonwealth can be in the art of war that even they can't fuck this up. They can engage from superior range with Superior weapons and the Vong won't know they're up shit creek until they're drowning in tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of missiles. A Standard KKV missile is the size of a basketball but can accelerate to over 90% speed of light for an impact yield of 40MT. And that is the weakest anti-ship missile they have. In any opening engagement a Glorious Heritage class cruiser will open up with dozens to hundreds in the opening volley. And these are engagements that can last hours at a time with thousands of missiles being shot back and forth. And there is no real worry of ordinance depletion which gives you an idea of just how deep their magazines really are.

There is literally no way the Systems Commonwealth can lose this. Just point, shoot multiple mass missile spams and call it a day. But I'm sure Constanza Stark might take that as a challenge and find some way to lose horribly...

 

[Husky_Khan]

Yeah even without the range advantage (which admittedly doesn't show up often onscreen especially in later seasons) and assuming all things are "equal" the Systems Commonwealth has things like Nova Bombs which seem almost ideally suited to destroying (non-Magog) warships. The main drawback or weakness of the Systems Commonwealth is the lack of actual FTL communications which always manages to surprise me and which the Vong could potentially exploit (like the Nietzscheans did in the opening of the Nitezschean-Commonwealth War ambushing ships) but the Vong apparently don't have the fifty to four thousand years of preptime they had for the Star Wars galaxy.

The Vong splitting the invasion on three axis has some advantages but honestly I think that it would simply split up their already finite resources. The Systems Commonwealth had fleets of ships just as large as Star Wars did and was able to mass them (in spite of lack of FTL comms) far more often it seems and could clobber smaller Vong fleets. It'll just be tricky catching them.

 

[Ash's Boomstick]

Technically the SC are active in six galaxies I think, which means there are likely some fallback positions and reinforcements there (albeit maybe not much) and on top of that they can move between any of those six in short order, something the Vong can't do. So really the High Guard and their Home Guard compatriots can likely pick and choose their battlefields, what is even better here is that the Vong don't have knowledge of local stars or planets, stellar objects etc. This means that they are less able to use their hyperdrives due to that lack of knowledge, stuck with short range jumps until they can chart new paths.

 

[Agent23]

Yeah even without the range advantage (which admittedly doesn't show up often onscreen especially in later seasons) and assuming all things are "equal" the Systems Commonwealth has things like Nova Bombs which seem almost ideally suited to destroying (non-Magog) warships.

Wrong, Nova bombs do some gravitic shenanigans that make stars go boom, but they weren't an effective anti-ship weapon.

Also, if I don't miss my guess it was specified in one NJO book that Wars ships could acheive pretty high fractions of C, themselves.

And while Andromeda FTL is very fast in theory it has the problem that it is dependent on per-existing slipsteam paths.

So even if 2 stars are very close by you can't really go from A to B directly.

IMHO purely tactically, the Vong would have the better FTL.