User blog comment:GSFB/Tusken Raiders vs Indominus Rex/@comment-28493607-20160603201911

This isn’t the type of fight in which weapons can be separated into range categories and compared. The weapons themselves really don’t line up all that well. For example, the Tusken rifle has an optimal range of anywhere between 200 and 1,000 meters, which is significantly farther than the Indominus rex’s tail. It’s going to be silly to compare things like that, so instead I’m going to be discussing the actual effectiveness of each weapon ignoring the range specified. For starters, the Gaffi Stick is going to be completely and utterly useless. It’s not going to kill the Indominus unless it lies down and just lets the Tuskens kill it, which obviously isn’t something that a predator is going to do. Not only that, but nobody in their right mind would charge a dinosaur with a polearm with the intent of killing it. Even Tusken Raiders whose intelligence isn’t anything remarkable would be able to deduce that attacking the big lizard with a pointy stick is not going to work out well. Take that weapon and throw it out of this fight; it’s worthless.

What really matters with the Tusken arsenal is what effect the cycler rifle will have on the Indominus rex. Indominus was created to be the perfect carnivore, which is why so much different DNA was used in creating it. One thing gifted to this creature from all that DNA was incredible resiliency/durability. The Indominus rex managed to tank an indirect hit from an AT4 rocket launcher and fully automatic fire from a GE M134 Minigun. It survived multiple T. rex bites (T. rex’s bite power was between 4,500 and 12,800 pounds) and shrugged off a tail strike from an Ankylosaurus (Ankylosaurus’ tail power was anywhere from 364 to 718 megapascals of power, easily capable of breaking bones). In other words, Indominus can take a beating, but can it take fire from Tusken rifles? An important fact to keep in mind when answering this question is that the Tusken cycler rifle is a slugthrower, not a blaster. To vastly simplify the difference, a blaster utilizes different types of ammunition, is weaker, and less accurate than a blaster. Like real world bullets, slugthrower users have to take things like gravity into account when using their weapon. Slugthrowers also struggled immensely whenever it came to armor penetration. Given the Indominus’ impressive durability, it very well could survive slug rounds depending on where they hit. Obviously I cannot be 100% sure since Star Wars armor and dinosaur scales are tremendously different, but I believe that at the very least the Tusken weapons will fail to do enough damage to actually kill Indominus in a timely manner. They’re bolt-action weapons, so they aren’t going to have a very impressive fire rate.

Considering the fact that the Indominus can run at least 30 miles per hour (JurrasicWorld.com’s article on Indominus says that it can run 30 mph “…while confined to its enclosure”, so it possibly could mount higher speeds ), I’m going to go off on a limb here and say that the Tusken Raiders are going to be in a panic whenever they see Indominus coming their way. Although they are capable marksmen, they lack discipline. They were routed by Obi-Wan Kenobi, as pointed out by WanderingSkull. However, one thing that voter didn’t realize is the reason why the Tuskens fled. It wasn’t Obi-Wan simply walking towards them. Kenobi imitated the sound of a krayt dragon, and that sound is what made the Tuskens turn tail and run. If the roar of that creature can frighten the Tuskens, then a roar as loud as a Boeing 747 plane taking off will likely have a similar effect. If they don’t flee, they’ll be startled, and aiming at a moving target while panicking isn’t going to be helping your accuracy much. With the likelihood of an instant kill being low anyways, the Tuskens are in a world of trouble.

As for the Banthas…they’re kinda just there. They’re herbivores, and just looking at them I can’t really see their bite doing much to the Indominus anyways. Banthas aren’t particularly fast creatures from what I’ve seen (look at those legs), so what threat will those horns really pose if they can’t get any momentum behind them? Besides, Indominus displayed great problem solving instincts in its fight with an Ankylosaurus where it rolled its victim onto its back to prevent it from moving and putting up any more resistance. Banthas’ relations with the Tusken Raiders tremendously helped them survive predators, but whenever the Tuskens can’t protect them, they are going to be vulnerable. The Ankylosaurus and the T. rex had the natural weaponry and build that allowed them to fight Indominus. Banthas lack that. Their only real advantage in this battle would be to provide a warning for the Tuskens or to be a sacrifice so the Tuskens could run for their lives. The distraction aspect will allow the Tuskens to get some more shots in, but odds are they won’t know exactly what they’re doing since they haven’t exactly faced off against any creature like Indominus. It has strength, speed, intellect, and is a living nightmare for the Tuskens. When flight or fight instincts start kicking in, the Tusken Raiders are siding with flight.

In conclusion, the Indominus rex will live up to its name as “Untamable king”. I haven’t even touched up Indominus’ camouflage and things were already looking bleak for the Tuskens. Indominus could ambush the Tuskens, and even if it can’t take them all out, it can retreat and camouflage again. Hunting and killing a creature as dangerous as Indominus is one thing, but whenever it can camouflage and use thermal vision to hunt you? These Tuskens are better off praying to whatever god they believe in, ‘cause hunting Indominus rex is a death sentence. There’s no way ten Tuskens and a couple of Banthas are gonna get the job done here. It’ll take a lot more firepower to bring Indominus down, and unless the Tuskens suddenly form an air force, they’re going to be annihilated.