Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-27642965-20160211003725/@comment-44249-20160925033318

Slug gunner fan wrote: StarSword wrote: I think all we've proven here is that 40k and Star Wars are both really inconsistent in power levels. Honestly, we haven't brought anything new to the table. This has been common knowledge for years. And really, all fiction has this going on to some degree, 40K and SW are just two of those examples where it's more pronounced because of the stories being written by dozens of different authors who have varying senses of scale and different ideas about the specifics of how the setting should work. Or just plain screw things up. I always like to respond to the guys who say Star Trek could roflpwn Star Wars by pointing to the Lysian command post whose shields could literally be knocked offline by a flashlight, and that the Enterprise had to close to spitting distance before it could fire on it, just to mess with them. Giving actual numbers if you don't know the science to know what they would look like is a good way to make a fool of yourself.