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Posted by: dibbs089
Posted by: KillerDie666
How big is a spire?, 300 feet tall maybe?, if it's disassembled can it fit inside a 1000 foot long ship? Going by the altimeter in the Falcon on Spire, it is around 520 feet tall (base is 75 ft above ground level, the top is registering at 595 ft).
Drummer0702 and I also tried going by the gravity calculation x=1/2at^2 (x=height, a=acceration due to gravity=34.776 t=time=4.1). Acceleration was measured by the constant for Earth (32.2) multiplied by the gravity of Reach (1.08 times the gravity of Earth). Time was measured by jumping off of the top of the spire (out of bounds) and landing on the ground.
So, x=(1/2)(34.776)(4.1)^2, x=292.29. However, it is obvious that for gameplay reasons, gravity on Reach (during multiplayer at least) is not correct. The altimeter provides a much better estimate at 520 ft.
well if its 520 feet it can be made to fit inside of a 1000 foot long ship, especially if it was disassembled and re-assembled on the surface. Am I close to correct or completeley wrong here? haha :)
Orphius_Rex: We go inside most of that ship in LNoS, and it's not that big on the inside, if you look. The hangar is about the size of a half a football field, so to fit a 300 ft spire inside a 1000 ft ship doesn't work, as you have to account for the engines, crew cabins, that huge bridge/control room, mess halls, Fighter/Transport storage etc plus the shield generators, and the thickness of the hull/decks, with all of that inside, the corvette is far too small to fit the 300 ft spire inside.
Also, I know it doesn't say anywhere that the Corvette CANNOT carry a spire, using simple logic, we can estimate that the internal structure would not be big enough for one spire.
HOWEVER, if the spires are formed of modular parts, then one busy Phantom could ferry them back and forth, and most likely go undetected. If the covenant can cloak a SuperCarrier and an elite, surely they can cloak a Phantom and parts of a spire.
Both theories are not mutually exclusive, yet neither are right or wrong.
Do you understand, or have I been a bit confusing?
I understand what you are saying but the fact is we did not see the entire ship from the inside and have no idea how much storage space there actually is, for all we know the whole bottom three decks could be one big storage room. I'm just trying to say that if there was enough storage space, a spire could be made to fit inside of a Corvette if the spire was disassembled.
[Edited on 10.14.2010 2:58 PM PDT]