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Subject: where is the pillar of a.'s gun?
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Pillar of Autumn was a ship, not a Mac Gun. Mac Guns are Huge Railguns in orbit around Earth.

  • 07.15.2005 12:03 PM PDT
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It's possible that it's a receding gun. The rest are probably too small to see. If nothing else, hey, it's a game, details get forgotten.

  • 07.15.2005 12:04 PM PDT
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Well, the MAC gun is at the bottom, we don't really get a chance to see it. Plus, it might have doors so you couldn't see the MAC Gun, what the top guy said.

  • 07.15.2005 12:08 PM PDT
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is supposed to have a mac cannon and i hav looked at a pic and it has only one really small hole in the front too small for a cannon that can destroy a covie ship

  • 07.15.2005 12:01 PM PDT
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its that small hole...its a three round shot gun.......its in the book "Fall of Reach"...2 shots take down a covie ship shield...and the 3rd shot is the killer

  • 07.15.2005 12:46 PM PDT
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it is right in the front (long ways) it looks like this


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............. /......../
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.............[....O...]
............../......../ (flip the bottomleft [/]s and the top right [/]s
.............../..... /
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[Edited on 8/2/2005]

  • 07.15.2005 6:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: Crusher
Pillar of Autumn was a ship, not a Mac Gun. Mac Guns are Huge Railguns in orbit around Earth.

stupid a$$ the PofA's main gun is a MAC gun

  • 07.15.2005 6:07 PM PDT
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pillar is a ship that flys around mac guns defend earth they r in space stations... play halo 2 and look around out windows in the first level and u will get wat im saying!

  • 07.27.2005 6:02 PM PDT
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Yea but the Pillar of Autumn still has a MAC gun. I think all UNSC Cruisers hav there own, there not as large as the orbital MAC guns though. Read The fall of Reach and you will know

  • 07.28.2005 2:01 AM PDT
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alll ships have mac guns but they're three times smaller than the ones in orbit

  • 07.28.2005 2:55 AM PDT
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While we're on the topic of MAC Guns, where's the Cairo's?

  • 08.01.2005 6:59 PM PDT
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Posted by: Crusher
Pillar of Autumn was a ship, not a Mac Gun. Mac Guns are Huge Railguns in orbit around Earth.

Silly monkey, the MAC on the Pillar of Autumn was about 5 meters in diameter (16 feet) so it wouldn't be very visible. Also a Magnetic Accelerator Cannon is not a railgun, it's a coilgun, the weapon on Metal Gear Rex is a railgun, the magnetic weapons from Halo, like the Gauss Cannon, are coilguns.

  • 08.01.2005 8:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: Evil Fluffy
While we're on the topic of MAC Guns, where's the Cairo's?

The Cairo's is that big -blam!- stick in the middle, the one with the slidy thing on it, you even go into the fire control room (you found the marine in there?) although from the size of the shells and the fact 2 of the 15 ships were able to get through the MAC's, considering there were 100+ that should have been able to shoot them, I wouldn't say those guns are Mark V's like in Fall of Reach.

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  • 08.01.2005 8:17 PM PDT
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The Pillar of A. in the game didnt have a MAC gun. The book was made AFTER halo 1 came out.

It goes in this order:
Halo 1
Halo: The Fall of Reach
Halo:First Strike
Halo 2

Edit: Halo: The Flood isnt in that list because i cant remember the copyright.

[Edited on 8/4/2005]

  • 08.04.2005 10:52 AM PDT
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Maybe the Pillar of Autumn's Gun broke off, or was destroyed.

  • 08.04.2005 4:15 PM PDT
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In the cutsene the person says "Fire control to the main cannon is offline," would he not say Mac gun if that is what he meant?

  • 08.05.2005 4:29 AM PDT
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did u guys not see those 2 dinky guns in front of the bridge in the first cut scene? maybe that's supposed to be it because Bungie hadn't worked it out yet.





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  • 08.05.2005 4:53 AM PDT

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Posted by: DrkVegeta
meh i tell my its ok i can just put you on the corner

i just lost brain cells

THE POA HAS A MAC GUN ITS LOCATED IN DA REAR OF THE SHIP
(IF U READ ALL THREE BOOKS THEY SAY U HAVE TO TURN THE SHIP AROUND)

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Posted by: UNSC Leader
THE POA HAS A MAC GUN ITS LOCATED IN DA REAR OF THE SHIP
(IF U READ ALL THREE BOOKS THEY SAY U HAVE TO TURN THE SHIP AROUND)

I wish I had the books with me but I had just borrowed them, I do remember how big the MAC shells are from ships, how fast the Mark V's fire, and I assume the main cannon would be the MAC on the Autumn because that is a cannon, although I don't see how it would fire from the rear of the ship because the engines took up practically the entire rear of the ship.

[Edited on 8/5/2005]

  • 08.05.2005 9:29 PM PDT
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Mayby the mac guns wer folded up u no, like a tv areil, they fold into the ship to make it mor streamlined

  • 08.05.2005 10:24 PM PDT