- Plasma Prestige
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- Intrepid Legendary Member
Expressing my strong liberal views without shame. Favorite quotes below:
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"One starts to live when he can live outside himself."
- Albert Einstein
The Halo Universe features a lot of cool technology from both the Covenant and human side of things. The humans have super soldiers, as well as advanced exoskeletons that allow them to increase their agility and strength five-fold. The Covenant have plasma weaponry, and pinpoint slipspace capabilities.
But when you analyze the technology of the humans further, you come to realize that a lot of the "new" technology isn't that far off. Halo is set in the 26th century. It seems to me that our technology would be leaps and bounds further ahead in the 26th century than what the UNSC have shown. This is assuming that our technological advancement is steady.
Now, there are things that we probably aren't going to accomplish anytime soon, such as faster than light travel. But there are many aspects that are plausible soon. It seems that the ballistics weapons of the Universe aren't too much more advanced than current weaponry today. As for guided energy weapons, those exist today. Although we don't have plasma rifles to issue to our soldiers due to practicality issues, they exist nonetheless whereas humanity didn't really seem to have a grasp on that technology in the canon.
For example, we have a general idea of how to create something along the lines of a force field which will deflect bullets. Using plasma for our energy weapons and shielding systems is already a big research field.
Of course, I am making this analysis on the one critical presumption that the humanity in the Halo Universe is based off the same humanity we know of, and not totally made up to fit an entirely new system of constraints in regard to advancement. However, seeing as Halo is science fiction, I think that making this assumption is fair and safe enough.
What do you think? Did the Halo Universe accurately describe our species' advancement in the future based on the rate of advancement for the past several hundred years, or did fall short, or go too far? What other examples of technology do you think is still plausible within the next hundred or so years that is present in the Halo Universe in the 26th century?