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Posted by: opogjijijp
Would SMACs do any good against this thing? Think of the shields it must have, the firepower and the hull thickness. It might be an explanation for the lack of UNSC ships and ODPs in the area.
I was thinking the same thing. At over 5x the size of an assuakt carrier, it would 25x the surface area and 125x the volume. That's 25x the amount of surface area the mount weapons systems, and 125 times the amount of volume to carry internal weapons systems, as well as 125x the space for plasma and power generation.
Regret's two assault carriers destroyed quite a few ships in there push through earth defenses(I think I counted close to two dozen destroyed in the Halo 2 cutscene alone), and even then, all the forces at Earth only managed to take down one. Assaulting a ship with potentially 125 times more energy available to it could be very hard, which may be why the fleet at Reach hung back and waited for reinforcements.
It would provide a sensible reason for why the fleet didn't immediately attack. If they believed they didn't have the firepower needed it makes more sense to wait until you have more firepower before attacking such a huge target.
25km+ Covenant ships doesn't seem out of the question either. Considering they have such large structures as High Charity they should certainly be capable of producing ships at this size. Although I agree that it's not surprising that we haven't encountered them before as ships this large would take an incredible amount of resources and manpower to create.
Also in the game is the Super Carrier cloaking itself or is it being cloaked by the units on the ground? If it is cloaking itself perhaps the huge size of the ship could go some way to explaining that. A ship of that magnitude would obviously need massive amounts of energy and perhaps some of that energy could be used for cloaking, although the size of the ship would of course make cloaking difficult (also sorry about any details here are incorrect, I seem to have forgotten what exactly happened here in Reach).
Posted by: opogjijijp
Posted by: Bungie2
Using my Halo Encyclopedia, the Covenant Supercarrier was 5,354m (17,570 ft) across. oh and opog, the Encyclopedia is Bungie canon, the cutscene must have made it seem inflated.
~B2
The encyclopedia is wrong in many places, and either way Games > books and newer > older. I'd trust scaling based on the actual game a lot more than a number in the encyclopedia.
Like opog has said, games will always outrank other sources of canon because they are the official channel. Newer pulbished work also trumps any older material. In this case, Halo: Reach is, at this moment, the primary source for canon.
Posted by: Gzalzi
lol @ people linking Halowiki to opog.
=)
[Edited on 09.26.2010 3:37 PM PDT]