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Subject: Covenant Ships

I was going to post this in the Reach forum, but it is technically a question about the whole canon, not just Reach's and, honestly, it would have been buried by 50 Armor Lock threads in under a minute and I would somewhat like a response.

I was playing Firefight on Corvette earlier and some Grunt blood splattered on the wall. Just like with bulletholes and explosion scortch marks, I watched it simply dissolve away a moment later as the wall reformed back to its normal state. It got me thinking about that feature of bulletholes et al simply dissolving into walls in Halo after a short time and how funny that looked on say, stone or metal. But as I was thinking about that, it made me wonder, what are the walls in Covenant ships, and the hulls too for that matter, made of? The closest human material in appearance I can think of is just plastic, but surely that's not it, not just because it isn't strong enough, but also because it isn't alien enough for something like the Covenant.

What do you suppose Covenant ships, both externally and internally, are made of? Has it ever been discussed in the books?

  • 12.02.2010 11:37 PM PDT

I think it's an alloy, and it kind of looks like it may have been grown in place like an engineered crystal...

  • 12.03.2010 1:17 AM PDT

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forunner stuffs probably

  • 12.03.2010 3:59 AM PDT

its an alloy, likely like our own metal alloys but made with different elements, hence the difference in colour, though some anodized metals have a purplish hue so its not so hard to believe. plus in one of the books, ghosts of onyx i believe when the spartan IIIs are taking out the shipyard it is mentioned that the ships are 'cast', so im guessing they are literally that, giant parts of them are cast rather than human ships which are made from very small parts, plates, etc. also helps to explain the smooth flowing lines of covenant ships and they impressive hull integrity, since a single solid piece of metal is generally superior to several smaller pieces joined together.

  • 12.03.2010 2:51 PM PDT

They have a strong "skeleton" of sorts, and the hull's core consists of a hexagonal metal structure. What they put on top of that is unknown

  • 12.03.2010 3:08 PM PDT