Opee sea Killer (Star Wars) vs. Carcharocles megalodon

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Opee sea killer 
The opee sea killer, sometimes referred to as simply an opee, was a large meat-eating crustaceous sea creature of approximately twenty meters in length; a hybrid of crustacean and fish, that inhabited the watery planet core of Naboo. It was the third largest predator on Naboo, only smaller than the colo claw fish and the even larger Sando aqua monster.





The opee was a predator often found clung to rocky outcroppings or hidden in caverns or under ledges awaiting its prey. When forced to move, the opee was perfectly adapted to swim—in its own unusual way—sucking water into its mouth and jet propelling it from pores beneath armored plates at the rear of its body. This unique technique, coupled with three pairs of powerful legs and a pair of pectoral guidance fins, allowed the opee to accelerate quickly underwater. Once in range of prey, the opee would extend its massive adhesive tongue, successfully reeling in its prey to a vicious, gaping maw of multi-rowed teeth. The opee also used the long, antennae-like stalks protruding from above its head as lures to draw prey towards its double rows of fangs. Their thick chitinous hide could deflect small arms laser fire, along with glancing shots from heavy fire.


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Carcharocles megalodon 






C. megalodon is regarded as one of the largest and most powerful predators in vertebrate history, and likely had a profound impact on the structure of marine communities. Fossil remains suggest that this giant shark reached a maximum length of 18 metres (59 ft), and also affirm that it had a cosmopolitan distribution. Scientists suggest that C. megalodon looked like a stockier version of the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.





In the 1990s, marine biologists such as Patrick J. Schembri and Staphon Papson opined that C. megalodon may have approached a maximum of around 24 to 25 metres (79 to 82 ft) in total length, however Gottfried and colleagues proposed that C. megalodon could likely approach a maximum of only 20.3 metres (67 ft) in total length. Currently, most experts acknowledge that C. megalodon reached a total length of more than 16 metres (52 ft).



Pimiento and Balk (2015) using a sample of 544 specimens estimated a mean length of 10-15 meters long for C. megalodon, and the largest results from their dataset suggested ~18m (17.9, specifically). Though perhaps outliers of the species reached around 20 meters in length.


Both animals are 20 meters long in this fight.

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Opee's much larger than Megalodon on average, and has armor. I think the alien fish wins this.

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Alright, I'll add a stipulation where both are 20 meters long just to make it more interesting.

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Oct 2, 2015 15:47:17 GMT 5 @brolyeuphyfusion said:

Opee's much larger than Megalodon on average, and has armor. I think the alien fish wins this.

Who knows if the Opee isn't itself a max sized indiv as any movie tends to max size a creature ? Just kidding

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Grey , There's always a bigger fish.

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The Opee is actually not even the largest one among the other creatures of Naboo that I wanted to put. The Kolo Claw fish is the size of a Blue whale, which is overkill enough. The Sando Aqua Monster.....I'm not even gonna start (The Sando Aqua is 100 meters long!).

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I know though the Kolo Claw is quite slender, I don't expect him to weigh as much as a blue, but all these critters are more kaiju comparable than anything.
Note, as for the always a bigger a fish, this can apply to C. megalodon too, I'm investigating its max size and I tend to think that 20 m or a bit more is plausible but not demonstrated yet, though some teeth I posted in the size related thread are quite interrogative.

But any of these three Naboo sea monsters are too much for anything on Earth.

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Yeah, though just by looking at it, I'm sure that the Colo Claw fish would still pack several dozen tons on it :

The Sando Aqua is about the same length as Gozilla :

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Is this an accurate depiction of the opee sea killer from the side?


If so C. megalodon needs a length advantage to make this fair.

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I don't have the movie available to confirm but here's some probable concept art, it's pretty close.

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Should I make the Opee sea killer 15 meters and C. megalodon 20 meters? What do you think is a fair length disparity?

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So the Opee sea killer's hide can stop "small arms laser fire and glancing shots from heavy fire"...

Not that I don't think this thing would likely win based on an unquestionable durability advantage, but exactly how potent are these weapons? I want to get an idea, as I'm not a Star Wars fan (watched some films numerous times during my childhood, but it never stuck; it was always prehistoric fauna and later weapons).

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Nov 7, 2015 9:24:50 GMT 5 Infinity Blade said:

So the Opee sea killer's hide can stop "small arms laser fire and glancing shots from heavy fire"...

Not that I don't think this thing would likely win based on an unquestionable durability advantage, but exactly how potent are these weapons? I want to get an idea, as I'm not a Star Wars fan (watched some films numerous times during my childhood, but it never stuck; it was always prehistoric fauna and later weapons).

Some forms of blasters in the Star Wars universe are usually capable of penetrating clean through a fleshy being's body, and IIRC some particularly powerful blatwr bolts are known to be able to damage and/or destroy small to medium-sized vehicles.


I'm beginning to think that I may have made a one-sided fight here....

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Nov 7, 2015 13:05:32 GMT 5 Cross said:

Nov 7, 2015 9:24:50 GMT 5 Infinity Blade said:

So the Opee sea killer's hide can stop "small arms laser fire and glancing shots from heavy fire"...

Not that I don't think this thing would likely win based on an unquestionable durability advantage, but exactly how potent are these weapons? I want to get an idea, as I'm not a Star Wars fan (watched some films numerous times during my childhood, but it never stuck; it was always prehistoric fauna and later weapons).

Some forms of blasters in the Star Wars universe are usually capable of penetrating clean through a fleshy being's body, and IIRC some particularly powerful blatwr [sic] bolts are known to be able to damage and/or destroy small to medium-sized vehicles.


I'm beginning to think that I may have made a one-sided fight here....

I had that feeling from the start...

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Opee Sea Killer is slow due to its armored skin plates; it is adapted to ambush hunting life-style due to this factor. It can swim fast in short bursts but it can maintain high speed for long. Furthermore, not much is known about its sensory abilities. It have large eyes and this implies that it may pursue a potential prey after establishing a visual contact with it.

Megalodon (possibly) have advantage in speed and sensory abilities. It can bite through hardened substances as well. Fossil records reveal Megalodon fed on [gigantic] turtles and it is perfectly adapted large and powerful prey. Therefore, I believe that Megalodon is the superior macropredator in this contest.

Now, not sure how these two would meet in a hypothetical scenario but if a Opee Sea Killer ventures in to the domain of Megalodon then it is likely that it will get ambushed.