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Subject: Obvious flaw with the Energy Sword's technology
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Posted by: chotato
smart, interesting, seems out of place.


Official fan of Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, (Problem with that?) Halo, and Bungie, also a total gaming junkie.

If you've ever read the books, you always hear of a Spartan being close to an ES getting burned badly. But if the Elites hold them in their hands, as well as attaching smaller versions to their wrists, how come they never get burned? MJOLNIR is much more advanced than an Elite's combat harness, so wouldn't it provide more protection?

Spartans also will hold them, yet they don't get burned? Its almost like holding it makes you immune to it.

[Edited on 01.15.2011 1:05 PM PST]

  • 01.14.2011 9:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: chickenlittle
Cheeto is the only one among you that doesn't suck.

Obviously the effects are different around the hilt of the blade so it won't do that. But you want the part of the sword you use to cut people in half to be that deadly.
If it's possible to shape plasma into a blade, I think it's possible that you could pick which parts of the blade you want to be deadly and not deadly.

  • 01.14.2011 9:43 PM PDT

I don't think they'd design their armor with no-way to shield themselves from the intense heat of their own weapons.

It's never mentioned. Also, everything about the energy-sword's tech is flawed because it's stretched science-fiction. They cannot be made in real-life. Just use your imagination and fill in the gaps.

  • 01.14.2011 9:44 PM PDT

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Posted by: chickenlittle
Cheeto is the only one among you that doesn't suck.

But it can be. Magnets, nothing can do what you do!
Posted by: Techno Greek
Also, everything about the energy-sword's tech is flawed because it's stretched science-fiction. They cannot be made in real-life. Just use your imagination and fill in the gaps.

  • 01.14.2011 9:48 PM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
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.

You really think they havent thought of something to prevent the user from getting burned from holding it?

Really?

  • 01.15.2011 3:35 AM PDT
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Posted by: chotato
smart, interesting, seems out of place.


Official fan of Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, (Problem with that?) Halo, and Bungie, also a total gaming junkie.

Flood also use ESs, and if you noticed, the user is always exposed to a small portion of the Sword.

  • 01.15.2011 6:06 AM PDT

Agreed But the covenent is one of the most technologically advanced races and one would think the would have made a sword that doesnt slice the person intended to use it

  • 01.15.2011 6:19 AM PDT

I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. ~ Mark Twain

Maybe the do get burned, it's a sort of ritual.

  • 01.15.2011 6:29 AM PDT

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Win.

It uses an electromagnetic shield in order to shape the plasma. EM fields are capable of protecting the metal walls of Tokomak[sp?]-type fusion reactors from tens of millions of degrees of heat. Thus, it protects the user's hand quite well.

Surely a better point to question is how people close to the blade feel heat at all, it should only do damage on contact.

  • 01.15.2011 6:31 AM PDT

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Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
It uses an electromagnetic shield in order to shape the plasma. EM fields are capable of protecting the metal walls of Tokomak[sp?]-type fusion reactors from tens of millions of degrees of heat. Thus, it protects the user's hand quite well.

Surely a better point to question is how people close to the blade feel heat at all, it should only do damage on contact.
I'm thinking that the magnetic envelope is much stronger around the hilt and along the inside of the blades, and that the "taper" of the outside edge is because of reduced containment field, perhaps allowing the radiation of heat that is mentioned.

  • 01.15.2011 6:46 AM PDT

Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
It uses an electromagnetic shield in order to shape the plasma. EM fields are capable of protecting the metal walls of Tokomak[sp?]-type fusion reactors from tens of millions of degrees of heat. Thus, it protects the user's hand quite well.

Surely a better point to question is how people close to the blade feel heat at all, it should only do damage on contact.


This, I don't recall any of the books stating that anyone feels intense heat next to it.

  • 01.15.2011 8:17 AM PDT

Maybe there's a cooling system of some sort built in the sword handle.

  • 01.15.2011 8:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: chickenlittle
Cheeto is the only one among you that doesn't suck.

I think in First Strike when he's fighting the shipmaster, the blade gets close to his shields and it flares them and raises the internal temperature. Not sure, I haven't read them in a while. But I do remember in one of the books someone saying something about the intense heat.
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Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
It uses an electromagnetic shield in order to shape the plasma. EM fields are capable of protecting the metal walls of Tokomak[sp?]-type fusion reactors from tens of millions of degrees of heat. Thus, it protects the user's hand quite well.

Surely a better point to question is how people close to the blade feel heat at all, it should only do damage on contact.


This, I don't recall any of the books stating that anyone feels intense heat next to it.

  • 01.15.2011 8:57 AM PDT

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Posted by: Cheeto666
But it can be. Magnets, nothing can do what you do!
Posted by: Techno Greek
Also, everything about the energy-sword's tech is flawed because it's stretched science-fiction. They cannot be made in real-life. Just use your imagination and fill in the gaps.


Exactly.

Nothing in halo canon is technically impossible, just unlikely or far beyond our capabilities.

  • 01.15.2011 9:03 AM PDT

Posted by: Cheeto666
I think in First Strike when he's fighting the shipmaster, the blade gets close to his shields and it flares them and raises the internal temperature. Not sure, I haven't read them in a while. But I do remember in one of the books someone saying something about the intense heat.
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Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
It uses an electromagnetic shield in order to shape the plasma. EM fields are capable of protecting the metal walls of Tokomak[sp?]-type fusion reactors from tens of millions of degrees of heat. Thus, it protects the user's hand quite well.

Surely a better point to question is how people close to the blade feel heat at all, it should only do damage on contact.


This, I don't recall any of the books stating that anyone feels intense heat next to it.


You are correct, perhaps it was overlooked or maybe the EM shield was purposefully made weaker at the tip for that specific reason.

  • 01.15.2011 12:22 PM PDT
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Posted by: chotato
smart, interesting, seems out of place.


Official fan of Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, (Problem with that?) Halo, and Bungie, also a total gaming junkie.


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Posted by: Cheeto666
I think in First Strike when he's fighting the shipmaster, the blade gets close to his shields and it flares them and raises the internal temperature. Not sure, I haven't read them in a while. But I do remember in one of the books someone saying something about the intense heat.
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Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
It uses an electromagnetic shield in order to shape the plasma. EM fields are capable of protecting the metal walls of Tokomak[sp?]-type fusion reactors from tens of millions of degrees of heat. Thus, it protects the user's hand quite well.

Surely a better point to question is how people close to the blade feel heat at all, it should only do damage on contact.


This, I don't recall any of the books stating that anyone feels intense heat next to it.


You are correct, perhaps it was overlooked or maybe the EM shield was purposefully made weaker at the tip for that specific reason.


I remember people saying how their skin cracked and boiled whenever they were close to it. Read the books 'gain, you obviously overlooked something.

  • 01.15.2011 1:04 PM PDT