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Subject: UNSC Blade: The Hummingbird

When you think that you have it all is the moment that you can lose it. Don't think ahead if you can't think for the present.

Okay, so I know the name is not too original, but it is what I would call it if halo ever released a melee sword weapon in the game. The hummingbird is exactly as it sounds, it hums to activation the moment the wielder holds it out for combat. I'm sure the UNSC would have found a way for spartans to do combat at hand to hand with the elites and the brutes by creating a melee weapon of their own. I have actually read in many types of science fiction that certain ultrasonic waves can actually disperse energy, and thus, a way to countermand the strike from ever reaching its target.

I know everyone says that it is impossible, but I believe that it is quite possible for that tech to be developed, but don't forget, humans are very innovative when they put their minds to it, unlike the covenent who only integrate weapons to their arsenal without a full understanding of it, as stated in the books, 'they are integrative, not innovative'.

[Edited on 09.02.2009 4:04 PM PDT]

  • 09.02.2009 2:32 PM PDT
Subject: Weapon of my own: The Hummingbird

Posted by: ElementalRunner

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Still using a pump-action shotgun over 500 years in the future I see.

omg not realistic stop game production plz

I'm sure it'll be effective actually! The Covies will die from laughing hysterically at the name before they even get near.

Interesting weapon concept though.

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Kinda like Lord of the Rings when Frodo pulls out his knife and it glows Blue when orcs are around? *Cough* FAIL *Cough

  • 09.02.2009 2:56 PM PDT

Yeah dude, it's called the energy sword?

  • 09.02.2009 2:59 PM PDT

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Hummingbird would be a vehicle (possibly human jetpack or Banshee equivalent) name, not a weapon name.

  • 09.02.2009 3:04 PM PDT

Are you meaning make a sword in which beams of energy shoot off it when charged up?...

  • 09.02.2009 3:11 PM PDT
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i prefer the cricket from MiB. Little Cricket makes a loud noise. I could see one of those punching through at least a ghost

  • 09.02.2009 3:32 PM PDT

When you think that you have it all is the moment that you can lose it. Don't think ahead if you can't think for the present.

I call it humming bird because of the sound it makes once activated.

Its a metal sword made of a specific ore that can handle intense vibrations so that it won't fall apart. When I said that it can it is a human weapon, it is designed for Spartan use, as a measure to combat those who wields the energy sword.

Its not that it can slice through the energy sword, so much as it can bat the user's blade away so that it can cut its way through the covenants armor, its kind of a double standard: To combat the energy sword, and to be able to cut into your oppenents armor, as well as its flesh. Its simple, yet effective.

I can list a few references from different games and anime:

Evangellion, the Progressive, or Prog Knife
http://www.indopedia.org/Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_glossary.htm l#Progressive_Knife
It would have this function, but in a large construct, more or less a sword.

Star Ocean, the Workman's Blade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAuXMib4pf4&feature=PlayLi st&p=C3F46ACE35A9AA7E&index=5
This would more or less be like the base design of the blade.

These two items were what gave me the idea to think this weapon up, just so that the humans had at least one unique melee weapon.

  • 09.02.2009 3:45 PM PDT

Just enjoy the damn game!
Who cares about BR vs AR

Whatever you say, we don't call the AR a woodpecker because it's a constant hammering noise.

  • 09.02.2009 3:46 PM PDT
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Posted by: Achronos
It isn't our shiznit anymore.

We already have a close range weapon that can deal with the energy sword, it's called a shotgun, silly!

  • 09.02.2009 3:49 PM PDT

When you think that you have it all is the moment that you can lose it. Don't think ahead if you can't think for the present.

Hey, I just call it as I see it, besides, if Bungie already has plans for a similar concept, all the better.

  • 09.02.2009 3:50 PM PDT

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Posted by: P3P5I
We already have a close range weapon that can deal with the energy sword, it's called a shotgun, silly!


Yeah, and the Covies have the Mauler Shotgun that can be duel wielded, real fair.

  • 09.02.2009 3:51 PM PDT
Subject: UNSC Blade: The Hummingbird

It is my latest cultural research project! By randomly saying LOLWIN to semi-funny replies on the Halo 3 forum, I hypothesize that a temperary self-esteem boost will be present.

And once they read this, they will be a little worse off than before.

One thing I have noticed is that the UNSC are the only ones fighting, while each planet/nation apparently has no military. Also, the navy is the only branch? What ever happened to the good old fashioned army, deploying 100k soldiers.

There has to be some separate group with unique weapons, something like a sword. Mjolnir is not the only option, what about a carbon nanotube suit? It is unnatural that there is only one military force, wouldn't insurgents also want to fight the Covenant? And what about private military companies (Kinda like Blackwater is today)? There has to be more.

(My on topicness to this is that more organizations=more weapons)

  • 09.02.2009 4:10 PM PDT

When you think that you have it all is the moment that you can lose it. Don't think ahead if you can't think for the present.

Actually dude, there are more factions of the military all deriving from Sol (Or earth). Don't forget that the Marines, and that the Spartan 3 project came from the army, thanks to Kurtis when they faked his death.

Also, there are other suit types that were eventually scrapped or used for construction due to the immense amount of power that was necessary to power them. Mjolnir was the only successful suit that was created and was used especially to the Spartan IIs.

Yes and no about the insurgents, they don't have the military power to fight the covenant, since it always had to be a 3 to 1 just so that the humans could barely win, and since the UNSC was the only organization that was publicly funded, they had the resources to fight them.

  • 09.02.2009 5:11 PM PDT

There's the Marines. The Air Force is unneeded, as the Navy is in SPACE. And the Army is there, just not where the games are.

  • 09.02.2009 5:14 PM PDT

I hunt for the Prophet of Contentment, the San 'Shyumm that murdered my son, and stole his birthright, his Energy Sword. They call our species Heretics. They claim to all that our tongues sting, our words a vile poison that feeds on the unworthy. I have seen the true face of Heresy. The head of a gallant warrior lay on the ground. His neck scorched and blistered, scarred by his own blade. I shall retrieve the weapon, and drive it through that bastard's heart! Punishment for his sins is nigh.

The UNSC has never created a sword weapon for Marines or Spartans. Get over it. It would be retarded anyway.

  • 09.02.2009 5:17 PM PDT

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Actually dude, there are more factions of the military all deriving from Sol (Or earth). Don't forget that the Marines, and that the Spartan 3 project came from the army, thanks to Kurtis when they faked his death.

Also, there are other suit types that were eventually scrapped or used for construction due to the immense amount of power that was necessary to power them. Mjolnir was the only successful suit that was created and was used especially to the Spartan IIs.

Yes and no about the insurgents, they don't have the military power to fight the covenant, since it always had to be a 3 to 1 just so that the humans could barely win, and since the UNSC was the only organization that was publicly funded, they had the resources to fight them.


Spartan III's were ONI which means that they are Navy not army. And Kurt trained not "Kurtis".
Those "suits of armor that were scrapped" were also MJOLNIR, just earlier MK I, II and III models.

  • 09.02.2009 5:17 PM PDT

When you think that you have it all is the moment that you can lose it. Don't think ahead if you can't think for the present.

Posted by: Fos Tis Krisis
The UNSC has never created a sword weapon for Marines or Spartans. Get over it. It would be retarded anyway.

You never know when they might, or if they already have. Its just like when we were on Halo CE, and that we did not have Spartan Lasers or Hornets, yet in Halo Wars, which was years before that time, they existed. Who is to say that it does not already exist.

  • 09.02.2009 5:44 PM PDT

So, it is a Vibroblade? That would be cool. I really like the name.

  • 09.02.2009 6:37 PM PDT

Make the hum because of vibration, that would be interesting. A knife that vibrates violently on activation would actually do catastrophic damage.

  • 09.02.2009 6:41 PM PDT

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Posted by: YAY Steve
Yeah dude, it's called the energy sword?


The Bruteshot can be also a melee weapon but i rather not to deal the Elites nor Brutes hand to hand ( even when the spartans got muscular augmentation and strength reinforced by the Mjolnir armor ). If you read "The Fall of Reach" Spartans hardly can manage a battle hand to hand with a regular Elite.

Which it contradicts this statement if you played Halo Wars in the last cinema when the 3 Spartans fight hand to hand against, like what? 10 Elite blue armor? But oh well...

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  • 09.02.2009 7:14 PM PDT

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Hummingibird? Vibroblade?

A 3 gram bird and a sex toy. That's the best you guys can do?

Decent idea for a weapon, but a beyond bad name. Names.

  • 09.02.2009 7:18 PM PDT

When you think that you have it all is the moment that you can lose it. Don't think ahead if you can't think for the present.

Posted by: Justice One Duo
So, it is a Vibroblade? That would be cool. I really like the name.

Okay, lol, that sounds so wrong.

  • 09.02.2009 7:32 PM PDT

Doesn't Star Wars have a Vibroblade?
I could have sworn....wait, it's on KOTOR.

  • 09.02.2009 7:34 PM PDT
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No.

Yeah, so? Halo is every good sci-fi cliche rolled up into a big ball of win. I'm sure they wouldn't mind integrating another weapon into the arsenal.

[Edited on 09.02.2009 7:37 PM PDT]

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