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Posted by: raganok99
Posted by: otterboyz
Posted by: raganok99
Posted by: Serantir
The reason there weren't Orbital MACs in the "Long Night of Solace" is because the MAC cannons would not have done much against a Covenant Supercarrier, and if they had directly engaged they would most likely have been destroyed, rendering them useless for later engagements. Plus Kat came up with her plan before higher command had much time to react; a plan that struck quickly and was relatively efficient in terms of manpower.
Read The Fall of Reach novel, please. After reading your post, you must be horribly misinformed.
Let me explain about SMAC platforms. It's nicknamed: "Big Stick" A.K.A Super-Magnetic Accelerator Cannon that fires 3,000 ton ferric hardened tungsten/depleted uranium slugs in 40% of light-speed, generating about 51.6 gigatons. That is enough to gut any UNSC and Covenant ships in a shot and still possess enough kinetic energy to gut any second ship if its in way of line of shot. Also Johnson said: "This MAC gun can punch through any covenant capital ships in a clean hole." and SMAC is even powerful enough to destroy supercarrier in one shot. You see a problem is that according to laws of thermodynamics, if those ship's shields would absorb all kinetic energy from SMAC's slug, it'd vaporize entire ship entirely.
If the angle at which the super carrier was, which was below the super macs, unless they were pointed at the planet for some idiotic reason instead of defending it, then the time for pointing the SMAC at the carrier would have resulted in that SMAC's destruction. Now, you could solve this by pointing multiple SMACS at it but still that would result in a lose of at least two SMACS, which the UNSC couldn't give up because the super mac cannons the only thing defending the planet from a fleet with good chances. they might of considered it but then kat's plan came up, and which would you rather have? and expected casualty rate of a few marines, sabers and a frigate or 2 ODPS essential to the defense of the planet?
Sorry, this Halo: Reach isn't exactly canon. (to my opinion) and they never got attacked until August 30th. And, there was 20 ODPs and 150 warships. Can you explain how this supercarrier somehow got inside of UNSC defenses without detected by massive numbers of sensor arrays and stations? Cloaking does not help since it doesn't completely mask the thermal signature. It's 27km long, for god's sake, that big ship means it has more energy to give off! I doubt that supercarrier can destroy the ODPS since ODPs are instantaneous one-kill shot to any ships, it means if ODPs detect supercarrier, then in five seconds, this ship is completely destroyed. There is irrefutable evidence that shows that NO any ships including covenant shown to survive against SMACs.
Dude, SMAC can rotate their guns to anywhere, it's 360 degree capable, since they have thrusters.
Uh here's my two cents... to the first part, to which nobody seems to remember, Kat says that the station would be online for about 2 weeks. This is after a few days(?) of the covies taking the station and since the whole area was offline all of the sensors and tech wouldn't have been running up to date. The covies had taken alot of precaution and I honestly think that they could sneak topside and sabotage the planet. In fact if it wasn't for NOBLE I think the planet would had been caught of guard.
To the second, and my own gripe (although I haven't read the book in awhile), the MACS I remember were placed together (or around the same areas) that plus like the other guy said, because of kat the higher ups had a better choice to take out the ship, I think that these choices are linked in that command knew the covies would flock in mass and tried to keep everything under raps just long enough for them to think.
[Edited on 06.07.2011 6:50 PM PDT]