Executor Super Star Destroyer vs CSO Covenant Supercarrier (29km) | Star Wars vs Halo: Who Would Win

Halo's CSO-Class Covenant Supercarrier, coming in at a whopping 29 KILOMETERS LONG takes on one of the greatest weapons of the Empire: the Executor Class Super Star Destroyer. Halo vs Star Wars; Covenant vs Empire; Super Carrier vs Super Star Destroyer... Which one of these mighty beasts would come out on top in a one-on-one space battle? Find out on today's episode of Star Wars: Who Would Win.

For those who don't know, the CSO-Class Covenant Supercarrier is the deadliest known Covenant ship. At 29kms long, this thing had more tonnage than a fleet of human ships. The Supercarrier made it's first appearance in Halo Reach, at the end of the mission "Tip of the Spear".

I hope you guys don't mind, but I went a bit informal with this video - instead of the typical categorical approach. If you want, I'll do a more normal version once the new Halo book is released.

[Shugadonk]

The covenant are not "used" to fighting the unsc, if anything their weapons are really new to them. They have thousands of years of experience with combating each other's energy based weapons, it isn't new to them at all. In Halo 2 you can even hear elites scream "ITS LODGED IN ME!" when they get shot with a bullet.

[FalcoAcePilot]

we honestly havent seen stardestroyers do something powerful ever .... in the movies

[chapsonacouch]

Another thing to note is that imperial ships have exposed bridges, which is a terrible design for a space ship (the executor literally died from one star fighter hitting it) whereas large covenant ships generally keep their control centres within the ship, much better protected

[mrsegagamecube]

If the 200 gigaton number is accurate, then the death star is as pointless as tits on a fish. It's estimated it would take 30trillion tons of tnt to blow up our moon. Given additional mass, we can guess it would take triple to quadruple that about to blow up earth putting it between 90 and 120 trillion tons of tnt to destroy our planet. The Executor can put out, again if the 200 gigaton number is accurate, with its 4000 turbo lasers and heavy turbo lasers the equivalent of 800, 000 gigatons of tnt everytime it unleashes a full turbo laser salvo. A gigaton equals one billion tons of tnt. This means that 800, 000 gigatons equals 800 trillion tons of tnt. That means one salvo is enough to turn a planet into a vapor cloud. Alternatively if the shields really are that powerful, the Executor could just crank it's shields to max, shift then full forward and ram a planet and destroy it. Now we have to then consider that this ship can shrug off the full firepower of itself as seen when Reaper dueled Lusankya in the Battle of Orinda. There is not a ship in science fiction or fantasy that can, one on one, out perform the Executor class Super Star Destroyer in an engagement. This 200 gigaton turbo laser number cannot be accurate is it defies even Star Wars logic and causes Star Wars to make no sense whatsoever.

[talandar]

It definitely seems like the numbers are skewed for the Empire. If they actually had the ability to manipulate that much energy there would be much more effective ways to wage and win wars than what happens in Star Wars.

[ssfbob]

The Covenant have one major advantage over the Executor: Pinpoint accurate slipspace travel, which includes short range jumps. They can literally just jump into its blind spot, fire, and repeat until the fight is over.

[danielfrench]

Halopedia has info on the armament of the CSO if you were to do a more statistical video

[verdigo]

I feel that the CSO would win over the Super Star Destroyer. the only reason I say this is because I also feel that the numbers from the Star Wars Universe have been overcooked. (overcooked as in being indistinguishable from charcoal)

[adamalexander]

To clarify, 200 gigatons would be enough to take out *almost* the entire United States, shattering the earth and the tectonic plates, but not enough to destroy the earth.

At this number, why build a death star when you can drive-by a planet with approximately half a dozen turbo laser shots and achieve the same result. A ~100 mega ton shot would turn the state of Massachusetts into a crater, a 6 megaton shot would likely make a crater no more than 12 km in diameter. The legends numbers are completely unreasonable, sadly, as a point defense turret would be able to make an explosion many times the size of the unshielded ship it is shooting at. Based on overall observed effectiveness, and based off practicality in reference to the death star, I'd expect a quad turbo laser to be not even be at payload levels of Little boy and Fat Man. As it would make no sense for a death star if your average capital ship can generate the equivalent of 100s of nukes a minute.

Also, due to the vast amounts of electromagnetic disturbance that a covenant energy projector causes, energy shield systems are known to fail within several kilometers of the beam. Likely scenario would be the beam would "force" an opening in the shield of the Executor, which will then cause massive damage to hull integrity and subsytems across a couple kilometers of hull.

[arstotzkanatthedmz]

Executor has one bridge, gets taken out by a single fighter breaking through the defenses.

Hits self, empire, why

[brokenursa]

I refuse to believe that a turbolaser has an output of 200 gigatons. That kind of energy would level an area the size of New Delhi in a single shot. Also, given the kind of damage they do to enemy ships, i would consider the power of a turbolaser in the kiloton range at most.

[ldhuntel]

corrections CSO-supercarrier is 28.960 km.
and it has atleast 7 energy projectors.
remember that energy projector can penetrate trough forerunner installation such as the ark as you see an assault carrier did on Halo wars 2 .
shielded or no shielded ship will get shredded by that beam like they where made of paper.

[thegoatking]

if the shielding of the executor were that strong then that guy who flew his fighter into the bridge was probably a supermagician

[brandonhughes]

In Return of the Jedi the Executors shields were taken down relative quickly and was destroyed from just an A-wing crashing into the bridge. Based of this alone I think the CSO would win.

[alturial]

Feels like a very important thing that was overlooked were the carrier's plasma torpedoes. They are guided either automatically or manually and miss rarely. Plasma weapons of Halo including these torps have tendancy to drain shields fast, and melt through hulls.

And the pulse lasers used for ship to ship and anti fighter combat can melt through most hulls with ease. Not to mention that there are a lot of them. Looking at the Halo Legends episode, "The Package" a small surface of a much smaller Covie ship has dozens of pulse lasers.

The focus on the on the energy projector is a little unwartented considering the abilities of the other weapons. Even then they are looked at wrong since CSOs have multiple energy projectors, such as the CSO, in Ghosts of Onyx. They can also can create gigantic glyphs on the face if a planet in a relativly quick time, which has enough power to turn everything it touches into molten glass.

[alfredelfgren]

Grand Admiral Thrawn vs UNSC Preston J Cole and they will fight in an fleet to fleet scenario and should probably the same fleet so it is more about them
(5th attempt)

[AuriofTheHooligans]

The only CSOs we’ve ever seen destroyed have actually been either luck based, or breached and planted with bombs (sometimes both!) and we’ve never actually seen one destroyed through outright firepower. The only thing that has a chance of killing it without tactical use is a NOVA bomb. The disintegrate planets from miles and miles away.

[adarkwind]

6:36 “I don’t see the fighters doing a whole lot here” until your shields somehow go down and that one lucky A-wing pilot makes it through literal waves of turbo laser and ship to ship fire to ram you command bridge.

[vutava]

Another thing to keep in mind is how absurdly resilient Covenant ships are. If you don't manage to hit a vital system, you could punch a big hole straight through the middle and it would still be almost perfectly functional.

[ThePppp]

The fireball radius alone of a 200 gigaton nuclear weapon would be 63.37 kilometers wide (according to Nuke Map classic). The shockwave, thermal radiation, etc. being large enough to nearly cover the entire US.

So.

No.