What would it take, to take out a starbase?

[Johnny]

This only crossed my mind a moment ago, but have we ever seen a mushroom starbase (like the never confirmed starbase 1) ever been taken on by anyone? I figure it would probably take a lot of ships. Does anyone know the specs? Torpedoes? Phaser Banks? Shields?
What about power? Does it have 10 warp cores/antimatter generators onboard? etc. What could it fend off?

...hmm, lots of questions.

 

[Edinburgh]

An enormous base (even by enormous base standards), the Federation's heavy starbase design is in a class all their own. Built to be gigantic cities in space replete with all of the necessary equipment to build, repair, and upgrade Starfleet vessels, the few starbases that exist in the Federation are major defensive linchpins.

Starbases are armed to the teeth with advanced weaponry systems and the heaviest shielding making them nearly invincible fortifications that cannot be destroyed by anything short of a full enemy assault.

 

[btflash]

This only crossed my mind a moment ago, but have we ever seen a mushroom starbase (like the never confirmed starbase 1) ever been taken on by anyone? I figure it would probably take a lot of ships. Does anyone know the specs? Torpedoes? Phaser Banks? Shields?
What about power? Does it have 10 warp cores/antimatter generators onboard? etc. What could it fend off?

...hmm, lots of questions.

according to star trek legacy a battleship can easily destroy a starbase.didnt the romulans destroy starbase's in "balance of terror" using their "plasma" weapon?

 

[Michael]

What would it take, to take out a starbase?

The imagination of a script writer.

 

[asdf1]

What would it take, to take out a starbase?

The imagination of a script writer.

Very true, look at the Dominion fighters. At the beginning they were capable of taking down Galaxy class ships, by season 7 a runabout could destroy one them things

 

[Myasishchev]

They're possibly fortified in some fashion. Kind of shame Starbase 1 was on the other side of the planet during BoBW and First Contact, otherwise we might have seen something interesting.

If it did have any defensive function, one would assume there would be two stations, since a fortress with only one side isn't much of a fortress (e.g., Singapore, 1942). So I would have to guess there are not.

At the same time, there's clearly some kind of defensive grid around Earth, possibly even planetary shields--the damage done by the Breen during the Dominion War was nothing compared to even one photon torpedo could have done in the absence of defensive measures.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

One of those heavy Starbases (the kind in the picture above) is a playable feature in the computer game Star Trek Armada. I believe it managed to pack a hefty punch against the Borg, but then, I also would reinforce it with a couple of Starbases off to the side, so I may be misremembering...

 

[Marie1]

What would it take, to take out a starbase?

The imagination of a script writer.

Very true, look at the Dominion fighters. At the beginning they were capable of taking down Galaxy class ships, by season 7 a runabout could destroy one them things

That was cheating- a Vorta was helping!!

 

[erastus25]

Presumably the tri-cobalt devices that destroyed the Caretaker's array could do a lot of damage to, if not entirely destroy, a starbase.

 

[greenmystik]

I would imagine nothing short of a sizeable chunk of an enemy's entire fleet. But this is assuming that the starbase will not have any starships in orbit to defend it. If there are starships defending it then I would say it's a lost cause for anyone assaulting it.

 

[Johnny]

I'd guess the starbase could probably recharge it's shields faster than the enemy fleet could take them down. If you image the surface area and the power requirements. could fire a couple of warp cores at its shields!

 

[greenmystik]

That's assuming you could get close enough to eject the core. But then the resulting ship would be taken out along with the blast. Probably destroy a nice chunk of their fleet and starfleets.......fleet(feel like austin powers).

A sound tatic but one that would probably have to be extremely last resort and have to be coordinated very well so no one attacks the suicide ship makin a run at the base.

 

[EmperorTiberius]

I would assume they are 5-10 times more powerful than DS9 due to powerful shielding. We know they use type 11 or type 12 phasers, so they pack a punch while being very durable. This is offset somewhat by the lack of maneuverability.

If some 50 odd ships were enough to take down DS9 in Way of the Warrior and the episodes where the dominion attacks, I'd assume it would take several hundred ships to take one of these mammoths down, an entire enemy fleet.

And the Romulans were attacking small asteroid based outposts, nothing like this.

 

[Green Shirt]

This only crossed my mind a moment ago, but have we ever seen a mushroom starbase (like the never confirmed starbase 1) ever been taken on by anyone?

Well, not by me -- it's not my type. Besides, I'm married.

 

[Johnny]

This only crossed my mind a moment ago, but have we ever seen a mushroom starbase (like the never confirmed starbase 1) ever been taken on by anyone?

Well, not by me -- it's not my type. Besides, I'm married.

Hah!