- JDYeash937 MkII
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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: Primo84
Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
If it truly as 27km long, I don't think even an SMAC can knock it out.
It's about the same size as Unyielding Heirophant which had a shield strong enough to 'repel the collision of a small moon'.
**WARNING - SCIENCE**
We use Earth's moon as an example. It has an orbit speed of around 1022m/s and a mass of 7.3477x10^22kg.
If Heirophant was to place itself in the path of Luna's orbit, it would subject itself to an impact energy equivalent to 3.837x10^28J of energy - roughly equivalent to a 9,171 Petaton detonation of TNT - or 9 quintillion tonnes of TNT.
An SMAC has an impact force of between 5 and 50 gigatons of TNT (depends on your calculation). Even using the larger value for impact force, it would take well over 180 million SMAC rounds to do the same damage - and even then, it would still have shields, or at least hull.
In short, no, the UNSC cannot take it out, without the slipspace bomb method they used.While you make a valid point, the Unyielding Heirophant was a space station: a stationary object. Surely its only means of mobility would be through slipspace, allowing for a much bulkier shield system, as it is a sitting duck.
The supercarrier on the other hand, needs energy to power it's shielding, engines, and weaponry, so a more dynamic system would probably be in order, possibly resulting in something much weaker than the Heirophant's. It's total guesswork based on too many unknowns.
If you read further up this page, you see my recalculation using Deimos instead of Luna, which gives a much more reasonable figure for shield strength.
But actually, that's a fair point. Being a warship, and not a space station, it would have other things to power in addition to a shield - weapons, engines etc.
Although, Heirophant's shield system was powered by '512 1-terawatt' reactors, that were dedicated to powering its shield, so must have had other reactors for its slipspace drive, life support, lights etc.
Thus also stands to reason that the shield would be the same shield strength, due to ease of manufacture, application, and fits with the dogmatic approach the Covenant have to science and engineering.