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Subject: Why dont humans have better technology?

Ignorance is the gun pointed at the head of humanity.

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  • 12.25.2010 2:10 AM PDT

"Armour Lock gives the user a chance to survive the once unsurvivable."

"It doesn't matter how you play the game so long as it helps your team."

People thought in 1920 that in the year 2000 we will be living in space.

That's 80 years and not much has changed.

Still Maybe it's because they spent hundreds of years fighting each other.

It was only because of the covenant that the colonies joined together to fight alongside each other.

  • 12.25.2010 2:54 AM PDT
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ZedFish's Forerunner Rickroll.

Really, let's think about it, the sword was our weapon of choice- without major changes- for thousands of years. Five hundred is nothing.

Also, if I may be honest... I doubt that we'd colonise Mars before 2552. Seriously.
I don't even think we'd still be around then. We'd blow ourselves up before 2552, surely.

  • 12.25.2010 3:27 AM PDT

Im pretty handy with those assassinations.

the concept was to ground the Halo Universe in reality-or as close to it as possible. Bungie wanted to create an attachment with its fans to the characters. One of the reasons why the Halo franchise is so successful is its attention to detail and a back story that, even with its flaws, has some sort of technological realism. The idea of using magazine-fed weapons is a great idea and lets the players feel this is what it would be like in the future.

  • 12.25.2010 4:24 AM PDT
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

They didn't spend time on improng weapons if they colonised 800 of planets,terraformed most them ,building FTL drives,building a fleet,...

do you realise how much that would cost?

Humans in this era should look for ways to colonise planets instead of spending all their budget for pointless war.

Sometimes humans really are -blam!-tards.

  • 12.25.2010 4:46 AM PDT

1) We were trying to colonize and focus less on war; didn't work out so well.

2) While the ammo is the same, the mechanisms behind what pumps the ammo out may be improved (eg: assault rifle may fire faster/more efficiently then modern weapons)

  • 12.25.2010 5:12 AM PDT

It's a game...

  • 12.25.2010 5:17 AM PDT

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Posted by: Halo_Master247
That's 80 years and not much has changed.

Actually the world and warfare look completely different than they did 80 years ago.

In civilian likf we have computers, the internet, cell phones. These things could not have been imagined 80 years ago.

In warfare we have helicopters, unmanned drones, nuclear subs, stealth fighters, the atomic bomb, almost every soldier has a handheld automatic weapon and body armor.

The world today is completely different than the one 80 years ago.

  • 12.25.2010 6:11 AM PDT

If you look at this stuff....go to a park or something else active

Well, we humans didn't need better technology to fight against other humans...conventional weapons did just fine. Why waste the time, money, and resources developing some new weapon?

Better technology was not needed until we found a threat bigger than ourselves...

  • 12.25.2010 11:48 AM PDT

If you notice a lot of the technology is incredibly advanced. their war time technology is pitiful though. It's because they didn't need the wartime technology until the insurrection.

  • 12.25.2010 12:03 PM PDT

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It's safe to say that Humans had their own technology, while the covenant took borrowed a technology not developed by them, plus, humans created the Spartans MJOLNIR armor which some covies dare to admit, was way more technological than any forerunner relic they have ever modified.

Also people in the 80's thought we would be using flying cars by the 2000 and look at us, it is way far away we can achieve that.

So yeah I think the technology that Bungie shows in the year 2525 is very real to me.

  • 12.25.2010 12:23 PM PDT
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There are two possible reasons:

1. Humanity was in war constantly and they needed lots of weapons. You can't make lots of expensive high tech weapons because they're simply too expensive. Before UNSC was formed there was the interplanetary war. When UNSC was formed there was a small peace period then became insurrection and humanity was in war again. Then in the middle of insurrection came the Covenant.

There wasn't chance to get every soldier technically advanced gear. Of course there were some technological innovations like Spartan laser.

2. Humanity was more concerned about growing population in solar system and tried to solve the problem. In other words they were working on peace time technology like slipspace drives.

I believe the reason is combination of these two. As long as there is technology there is money and as long as there is money there are problems like budget and that kind of stuff. Plasma weaponry simply requires too much energy for it to be cost-effective.

We also shouldn't disregard weapon innovations like ship based MAC guns, orbital defense systems, Spartan projects, Spartan laser, NOVA bomb, M99 Stanchion gauss rifle and the list goes on. Weapons like MA5 assault rifle series, M6 sidearm series, BR55 Battle rifle, all different rocket launchers, all shotguns and sniper rifles were cheaper and quicker to produce. They also were reliable.

  • 12.25.2010 12:43 PM PDT

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Posted by: ken158
I do know that humans have intergalactic space travel available


Your argument fails in the first sentence. They do not have intergalactic space travel; they have interplanetary space travel. People don't realise how big a galaxy is, or how unimaginably huge the void between galaxies is.

It is doubtful that intergalactic travel will ever be available to us, since travelling at the speed of light is theoretically impossible.

  • 12.25.2010 1:15 PM PDT

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Posted by: tsassi2
There are two possible reasons:

1. Humanity was in war constantly and they needed lots of weapons. You can't make lots of expensive high tech weapons because they're simply too expensive. Before UNSC was formed there was the interplanetary war. When UNSC was formed there was a small peace period then became insurrection and humanity was in war again. Then in the middle of insurrection came the Covenant.

There wasn't chance to get every soldier technically advanced gear. Of course there were some technological innovations like Spartan laser.

2. Humanity was more concerned about growing population in solar system and tried to solve the problem. In other words they were working on peace time technology like slipspace drives.

I believe the reason is combination of these two. As long as there is technology there is money and as long as there is money there are problems like budget and that kind of stuff. Plasma weaponry simply requires too much energy for it to be cost-effective.

We also shouldn't disregard weapon innovations like ship based MAC guns, orbital defense systems, Spartan projects, Spartan laser, NOVA bomb, M99 Stanchion gauss rifle and the list goes on. Weapons like MA5 assault rifle series, M6 sidearm series, BR55 Battle rifle, all different rocket launchers, all shotguns and sniper rifles were cheaper and quicker to produce. They also were reliable.


Also the Shaw-Fujikawa drive, the Tiara from Harvest, the Cryo sleep technology, the smart and dumb AI's! the space elevators, cars that has automated drive, and they obey at voice command. goes on and on!

[Edited on 12.25.2010 1:26 PM PST]

  • 12.25.2010 1:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: MasterSin

Posted by: tsassi2
There are two possible reasons:

1. Humanity was in war constantly and they needed lots of weapons. You can't make lots of expensive high tech weapons because they're simply too expensive. Before UNSC was formed there was the interplanetary war. When UNSC was formed there was a small peace period then became insurrection and humanity was in war again. Then in the middle of insurrection came the Covenant.

There wasn't chance to get every soldier technically advanced gear. Of course there were some technological innovations like Spartan laser.

2. Humanity was more concerned about growing population in solar system and tried to solve the problem. In other words they were working on peace time technology like slipspace drives.

I believe the reason is combination of these two. As long as there is technology there is money and as long as there is money there are problems like budget and that kind of stuff. Plasma weaponry simply requires too much energy for it to be cost-effective.

We also shouldn't disregard weapon innovations like ship based MAC guns, orbital defense systems, Spartan projects, Spartan laser, NOVA bomb, M99 Stanchion gauss rifle and the list goes on. Weapons like MA5 assault rifle series, M6 sidearm series, BR55 Battle rifle, all different rocket launchers, all shotguns and sniper rifles were cheaper and quicker to produce. They also were reliable.


Also the Shaw-Fujikawa drive, the Tiara from Harvest, the Cryo sleep technology, the smart and dumb AI's! the space elevators, cars that has automatique drive, and they obey at voice command. goes on and on!

I had those in mind but I was mainly talking about weapon technology.

  • 12.25.2010 1:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: ken158
I do know that humans have intergalactic space travel available


Your argument fails in the first sentence. They do not have intergalactic space travel; they have interplanetary space travel. People don't realise how big a galaxy is, or how unimaginably huge the void between galaxies is.

It is doubtful that intergalactic travel will ever be available to us, since travelling at the speed of light is theoretically impossible.


Well sir, that's all it, theoretically, so is not 100% your statement, so there is a chance to be possible.

  • 12.25.2010 1:30 PM PDT

If you cannot lead by example , intimidate.

Why F with something when it works perfectly fine? Also its simple and easy to mass produce.

  • 12.25.2010 2:10 PM PDT


Posted by: xHSx SnEaKy
Why F with something when it works perfectly fine? Also its simple and easy to mass produce.


Hey why don't we use Cannonballs instead of Advanced "fancy" shells? There cheap and work fine right?

You lot are foregetting that they use caseless rounds in
a SMG yet the UNSC hasn't used caseless rounds in their other firearms.

This kind of "if it aint broke dont fix it" is a load of bull sometimes, isn't the UNSC the same organisation thinking that putting a guass gun on a poorly designed Jeep but not putting a good sized guass cannon on a tank?

  • 12.25.2010 2:58 PM PDT
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A walking contradiction.

Humans are always far-fetched with their ideals and views of what the future might be. There were tons of long-forgotten technologies that existed in the 14th-16th century that have only been rediscovered in the 20th-21st century. Talk about 400-600 years of technological gap.

  • 12.25.2010 3:12 PM PDT


Posted by: MasterSin
It's safe to say that Humans had their own technology, while the covenant took borrowed a technology not developed by them, plus, humans created the Spartans MJOLNIR armor which some covies dare to admit, was way more technological than any forerunner relic they have ever modified.

Also people in the 80's thought we would be using flying cars by the 2000 and look at us, it is way far away we can achieve that.

So yeah I think the technology that Bungie shows in the year 2525 is very real to me.
The first flying car was made "road legal" a year ago. I had to do a report on it, so don't come saying that there is no such thing as flying cars.

  • 12.25.2010 3:30 PM PDT
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The caseless cartridge is the next evolutionary step in firearms. today we have have the HK G11 which is the size of a large rifle in halo they have M7 caseless SMG. which is no bigger than a hand gun

and really the covenant use projectile weapons as well, the carbine fire 8.7x60mm fuel rod projectiles. and the carbine is one of the most effective weapon in there small arms arsenal

  • 12.25.2010 3:40 PM PDT

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This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Humanity was mainly focusing on colonization efforts for the time being. But even then, some of the tech they developed is still impressive.

Anyways, if the bullets and all that work perfectly, why change it?

  • 12.25.2010 3:55 PM PDT

Wake me when the jews are gone.

i tryed to say this once but they called me a troll! they all called me a troll!(cries)

  • 12.25.2010 6:34 PM PDT

I am a monument to all your sins

if it ain't broke dont fix it. modern guns are quite efficient at killing humans. Instead of spending money to advance a device that already works fine, they chose to spend money on developing FTL drives and terraforming technology for colonization.

  • 12.25.2010 7:27 PM PDT

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