Originally Posted by Moose

I do. It's like Unobtanium, only it's not. See, Unobtanium isn't real. Unlike Doonium, which merely doesn't exist.

Guys, just a request to play nice and keep things in perspective? Halo is fiction. Star Wars is fiction. You can't compare them directly without a common baseline. There isn't one. The worlds are quite different. I'd suggest incompatably so.

One objective comparison I think we can agree on: FTL space transit is trivial in the Star Wars universe. It's accessible to absolutely anybody with the money to book passage on a ship, even in time of war. In the Halo universe, space flight is available only to the military. Civilians travel only with great difficulty, if at all.

Military capability shouldn't be judged by the power of individual weapons, or the thickness of armor. Viet-Nam taught a harsh lesson we'd forgotten. You can lose every battle and still win the war. The real secret is logistics and mobility. The ability to strike meaningfully where needed, when appropriate.

The Star Wars universe has the advantage in both their mobility and their logistics. Individual weapons don't count when you can't find or intercept their forces, or prevent their ability to strike at will.

Better? No. They're different universes.