- anton1792
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"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum
The Unyielding Heirophant has 1000 12 terawatt reactors, giving a total power output of 12 petawatts.
According to Atomic Rocket's boom table, glassing planets like what was described in the old canon is quite a feat.
Covenant ships do not have shields anywhere near the strength of the UH nor do they have reactor complexes the size of UH's, and taking into consideration that Cortana describes them as being a similar model to the UH's reactors, I think that Covenant vessels would not be able to generate nearly as much energy as that.
About 19'000 years for one UH power level ship to glass Reach's continents only to a molten state. It halves each time for every ship, so by the time we get to 700 UH like ships, the time is extremely small (Assuming I did my math right!). Taking into consideration however that Covenant ships cannot produce that much energy, we might get into the time frames described by the novels (Days etc). This is all going off of the "old" canon.
It sounds slightly silly though. With those wattages the Covenant should be able to vaporise UNSC fleets instantly and have shields that are extremely resilient.
The "new" canon seems to be retconning this glassing concept. This thread stands primary on what the newer canon appears to be telling us. (Like Reach, Assembly AI, Evolutions)
EDIT: I made a mistake in Paragraph 4. Correction below.
Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: Mutoid Log
Posted by: anton1792
About 19'000 years for one UH power level ship to glass Reach to a molten state. It halves each time for every ship, so by the time we get to 700 UH like ships, the time is extremely small (Assuming I did my math right!).You did not. If you have 100 ships and you add 1 more ship, the time taken doesn't halve. You've gotta divide by 700, that's 27 years.
Aye, woops. Don't know what I was thinking of.
[Edited on 04.02.2011 1:56 PM PDT]