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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: Agustus
What I don't understand is that the Covenant have the resources to build things like this, plus thousands of ships, and yet in Halo Wars Regret is complaining about not having enough ships.
I don't want to know what he considers "alot" to be. Regret was not a good tactician. He preferred to rush in, but was all too aware of the outcome of such strategies.
He feared the humans for what we are, tenacious under pressure - and rightly feared that sending the entire Covenant fleet could be an extremely risky move. With a 27km Supercarrier in every fleet - we'd get owned, every battle.
Besides, over the period of the war, the Covenant turned whole moons into planetary shipyards (K7-49), and probably used those to build Supercarriers.
HOW IT MANAGED TO AVOID DETECTION: It was so vast, and so massive in tonnage, that it would have appeared in slipspace monitors to be a very large asteroid. In TFOR, Lovell thinks how even Covenant ships don't get over 20,000 tonnes (absolute BS, but let's roll with it for now - imagine how much a ship 27km long weighs).
When it exits slipspace - could it be so vast, that its size actually allows it to absorb its own radiation? Either that, or it is made with the Covenant equivalent of the plates of an F117.
EDIT 2:Posted by: opogjijijp
If it really is 27km long, then Regret's Carrier (at least in ODST) is actually a similar Supercarrier.
If you watch the scene when his carrier jumps, in ODST, you can see the In Amber Clad moving very close to it - using this scaling image that you gave us, it certainly looks that way.
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/In_Amber_Clad Go to the Galley at the bottom to see IAC move to Regret's Carrier.
I'm not certain, but it looks closer to the 5.whatever km size of the assault carrier. Wish there was a better angle and image size though. Wonder if it's possible to get out there in theater...I'm booting up ODST as I type to see. Granted, scaled to everything else, it looks 5km long, but IAC looks so small compared. I'll add my findings.
NVM, it can't be done in ODST Theatre - you don't even get to rewatch Prepare To Drop in it (why am I so naive?). Still, Regret's Carrier looks 5km in-scale to the scenery of New Mombasa, IAC does not.
Just realised. If RC is 53-hundred metres long, and IAC is 5 hundred metres long - it could well be correctly in scale. Still looks a bit on the small side.
[Edited on 09.26.2010 11:51 PM PDT]