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On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll lookA corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.Win.
Posted by: OrderedComa
How do you brake quotes into little manageable chunks like that?There's no button to do it, you just put /quote tags at the end of a paragraph, and quote tags at the beginning of the next. When replying, quote my post, and you will see the quote and /quote tags liberally strung about.
I actually just finished reading it Thursday, and I didn't ever see anything in there that said it fell in 2 hours, the space battle was still going on when the Autumn left. I haven't read any of the other books yet, I'm working on the Flood currently.Well, RSO Fermion detects the Covenant Fleet at 0447. They are still in slipspace, and the battle won't start for a while yet. At 0637 hours, 117 and 58 are picked up by PoA. It is noted that the Covenant Fleet are 'mopping up' by destroying crippled UNSC vessels, and those still capable of fleeing are doing so. At 0647 hours, the PoA jumps to slipspace.
The battle actually lasted much less than two hours, probably closer to 60, 90 minutes.
Is it in one of the other books? I don't recall seeing that they can identify single Covenant ships anywhere in TFoR.Halfway down page 137, it states how the mass calculated by the slipspace probe from Sigma Octanus IV "did not match any known Covenant ship profiles".
How would space with about a gajillion Covie ships be safer than on the ground in a ship breaking yard in the middle of nowhere, and where it'd be easy to hide?Room to manoeuvre, evade, return fire with the main cannon, and also you could generally run, if you felt like it. Failing that, hide behind another planet.
Being on the ground at the Aszod breaking yards gave them none of these options. On the ground with engines cold, and their primary (and only effective) weapon would not have been able to hit a single target.
Pillar of Autumn is armed with many 50mm autocannons designed to take out enemy single ships. Shielded Seraphs and boarding craft. In the ending/credits cutscene, they look more like 250mm guns. Why did PoA not try and keep the pressure off you whilst on the gun, and destroy the Banshees and Seraphs themselves? Would have been far smarter, and also preserved some of the (presumably) few Mass Driver slugs for gutting the Cruiser.
That's an interesting theory, the TotS Zealot is the only other one in the game other than the guys on Winter Contingency if I remember correctly.I can't think of any others seen during the campaign - apparently, some people think that the left-handed Elite at the very end of Lone Wolf might be another Zealot. A Zealot also is actually seen, attempting to kill 6
[Edited on 11.15.2010 2:48 AM PST]