oh and btw, the main covenant starfighter is the Seraph Fighter, its got shields and all, the banshee is just a in atmostshere craft. The TIE fighter and interceptor class doesnt even have shields! It actually does come down to how many capital ships the empire has, since sucidal brave Elites could just ram star destroyers, even IF they were better, you cant survive a 1.5km ship crashing with 1.6km ships. They'd both explode, this is IF the covenant are on a lower level of tech than the covenant, which I highly doubt. Imperials aren't sucidal (they fear death) Otherwise, all they'd have to do to wipe out the rebel fleet at Endor was to crash all their star destroyers into rebel ships, wiping them all out. After all, there WERE 2000 Empire ships and... 50 rebel ships... what they did was hide behind their shields and send out tiny fighters to engage more tiny fighters...