- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Mister Chief
Covenent unlike Humans, did not actually create this plasma technolegy, they recieved it through the forerunner, a race which much older than the covenant. and you think that a mac round is not effective? ok take a few hundred pound projectile made of depleted uranium (the army uses that stuff on M1A1 tanks, its basically impenetrable to any enemy fire today.) accelerate it to about half the speed of light thanks to magnetic force. how much force do you think it takes to stop this.
as for shielding. the MCs armor is shielded, and not very well (2 pistol shots get rid of it). His suit weighs about one tons and probably some source of energy powers the shield. I would say about 500 pounds of his suit is some sort of genorator for his equipment and mainly his shield. so five add five hundred pounds of weight to every ohh... 13 square feet (an estimate of how much the shield covers on MC) of the ship that you would like sheilded. thats a rough estimate and i dont want to figure the outside square footage of a fictional human battle cruiser. so you would have to add a few thousand tons onto a ship, slowing it down, where as it is allready slower than its enemy. even if you did have shielding of the same strength as above, it would only be able to hold the force of two pistol shots, not a huge ass ball of firey death. the reason the covenent are able to have shielding is because of there source of power is probably much smaller and more powerfull. (explains below)
plasma is superheated gas, not any specific gas but one that is really really really hot (really!). we have yet to be able to create plasma, but it exists through the combustion of stars. the covenent have the amount of energy released by a star in a handy dandy charge-upable gun. and these batterys are friggin tiny.
so in conclusion, i think we are on top of it all considering the advances of interstellar travel and huge ass guys in suits that deal out pain like no other.
*takes a deep breath and hits submit
OK...What are you talking about? The Master Cheifs suit uses a small fusion reactor to power itself, I'd say it weighs maybe 5-10 pounds, and I'm relativly sure it can withstand more than 2 pistol rounds (have you hade trouble killing the flood combat forms who carry pistols?) And his sheilds are better that the elites', and they can take about...more than 3 rounds. Also, I beleive that the reason Human ships don't have Sheilds is because the reverse enginered technology is so new, they may have not have time to refit ships with the enlarged versions of the sheild systems in Mjolnir armor. I'm not arguing with you about how plasma works and stuff, but you are way off on your 'sheild theory' as I will call it.