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Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
Posted by: Sunnycool77
I have read through the entire thread now and I still haven't seen a plausible explanation to the Supercarrier's undetected presence on Reach (in orbit). This is still the most glaring unrealistic element of Reach's plot.
This and the awkward decision to make the Fall of Reach a five-week affair, when five days would not only make more sense plot-wise, it would also make things much more tense and epic. No Halo game lasts as long as Reach does, when in fact - it could have been one of the shortest.
I love Bungie and I loved most of Reach's campaign, gameplay-wise, and even if the Fall of Reach did not exist, there are still too many things that don't make LOGICAL sense. Come on, slipspace monitors picking up an asteroid in slipspace? So massive it absorbs its own radiation? (How does that even work, using material the Covenant don't have on other ships?)
I want to find a solution, but all that comes up is massive oversights.
At some point in the process, someone screwed up bad.Slipspace monitors will pick up anything that is in slipspace. Be it a ship, UNSC or Covenant, an asteroid, a 'trash dump' from a UNSC ship or even a 'cloud of primordial hydrogen'. All taken from I think Lovell's chapter aboard Archimedes in TFOR.
However, at 27km long and maybe 5km wide, it looks very very odd as an asteroid. Only the laziest of monitors (which, following SOIV would not be the case - only top people were on Reach RSOs) would identify it as an asteroid. Alternatively, since the Covenant can send messages in slipspace, they could know about the monitors and jam them while in slipspace - or know that the probes were cycled, and move in-system between cycles, missing the sweep entirely.
As for cloaking its radiation upon slipspace exit - there's no alternative, to having a radiation-absorbing stealth package - or something I just realised, shields could absorb radiation. Shields, in my shield theory are in a 'relaxed' state, then become hyper-dense upon impact, repelling the damage. If a ship made all of its shield portions coalesce into the hyper-dense state, it could be dense enough to stop radiation penetrating from the ships hull through the shields - there it would decay (unlikely) or re-absorb into the ship.
Moved from another thread.
TFoR mentions asteroids ending up in slipspace?
What about Remote Outpost Fermion?
If the Covenant could do that, I imagine they would have.