User blog comment:SPARTAN 119/Covenant CPV-class Destroyer (Halo) vs Guard Ship Amaterasu (Starship Operators)/@comment-69.172.164.17-20110826045641

It's been a while since I've watched Starship Operators, but here are a few things to consider:

The Amaterasu is severely limited in the number of Gs it can pull not only by its own capabilities (it took boosters to allow it to accelerate at more than 5Gs for an extended period of time) but also by the limitations of the bodies of its human crew. If Halo vessels have some way to compensate for the effect of G-forces upon the crew they may actually have the edge in maneuverability. Although there was that fancy cancellation trick Sinon pulled using the gravity generating parts of the Amaterasu's warp system near the end of the series.

As for the Amaterasu's weapons, I got the impression the revolver fired projectiles of some sort. Also, Amaterasu does have point defense weapons -it used something to blow up an incoming projectile near the end of episode one, and some low powered weapons were used during the close combat with the short warping assault module in Episode 8. Additionally my memory may be off on this, but doesn't the Amaterasu use matter/antimatter power? If so might it's torpedoes not also use pack a pretty powerful punch?

There's also defenses to consider -while the Amaterasu lacks energy shields it does have the Kasumi and Ikasumi anti laser countermeasures (wikipedia describes them as a magnetic wave reflective plate and a magnetic wave absorption fiber, although I'm not sure how far to trust some of what wikipedia says on this matter) and the Hotaru heat dispersion armour. Though I'm not sure either would do much good any of those would do against the kind of weaponry that destroyer packs.(the series gave the impression that one good hit from a large scale plasma cannon would be capable of destroying the Amaterasu).