User blog comment:Ratiu Grigore/Star wars vs.mass effect/@comment-2250460-20110620165927/@comment-217683-20110621060420

Are you kidding? The Death Star would own! It doesn't even matter if it doesn't use its main gun or not. (And yes, Legionwrex, the DS II did have a fast reload. Remember the Battle of Endor?)

The DS or DS II would be able to win by sheer firepower alone! Consider that, in addition to the superlaser, the DS II possessed the following armament:

15,000 turbolaser batteries 15,000 heavy turbolaser batteries 7,500 laser cannons 5,000 ion cannons 768 tractor beam projectors 7,200 TIE starfighters of various models 2,480 Skipray blastboats 16 unspecified capital warships

Note also that, being spherical, the DS II can engage targets on all sides. Being completely surrounded would work to its advantage. How would the Reapers destroy a space station which has a main gun that can destroy a ship with one hit that recharges very quickly, and that also has 42,500 other weapons, 100 wings of fighters, and 34 wings of heavy gunboats as powerful as light warships? How? Even if there were 40,000 Reapers, there'd still be one gun on the DS for each one, with weapons to spare!