TMA LIVE wrote...
If you claim you know better, then why don't you say why exactly an object we know barely anything about is a white elephant project, instead of doing your usual thing, and acting with the whole superiority complex thing?
Let's start by the fact that there was only one of them. Ever, as far we can tell, with no other known species having left any sign of a similar one. Not a mass-producible weapon, especially given the scale and power requirements..
Then let's go by how it broke itself. On it's
first shot. Meaning it had one, and only one, chance to hit a Reaper before it destroys itself.
Then let's go by numbers. One shot per canon means that if you want a strategy that relies on Super-Gun, you will need
at least as many super-guns as there are Reapers... meaning thousands, even with perfect accuracy.
The galaxy can't even build thousands of dreadnaughts, that don't break themselves in each shot.
Of course, we can also reflect on the blatantly obvious over-capacity. The Klendagon Canon was a world-shattering gun, which includes all the power and material requirments that such power necessitates.
But you don't need that much power to kill a Reaper. We saw it with the battle with Sovereign, which was being worn down by a diversified conventional fleet.
It is only effective against a single target, while it can still be destroyed by lesser Reaper ships that would be a 'waste' to use it against. It becomes the classical too-valuable-to-use weapon short of actual Reaper dreadnaughts, despite being vulnerable to lesser Reaper and indoctrinated forces.
It is over-designed without reliability. It has extreme design excess. It's cost is going to be extremely disproportionate to it's effect. It can't be produced in great enough numbers. It is disproportionately costly without disproportionate endurance or reusability.
And, of course, it's a centralized target which can only affect one target until destroyed, as opposed to spreading out the costs over a number of smaller, less disastrous losses, that can be recouped and re-used against more targets.
And you're confused about why it has the hallmarks of a White Elephant?
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