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Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: Pocket Syndrome
If we were to look at Reach as cannon at all, the gun itself wouldn't have caused the explosion. Perhaps the idea was that it caused some kind of critical damage to the cruiser's weapon systems as it was preparing to glass the planet, resulting in an inability to halt or redirect the energy surge. The Covenant seem as if they are so trusting in their technology that they rely on very few fail-safes.
Reach is completely canon, nothing non-canon about it, aside from some bits that are obviously just gameplay. Like marines taking as much plasma or needles from Needlers/Needle Rifles as they do.
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I think that's probably what the Onager did. And the Covenant definitely seem like they have very few safety features on their technology. They're very overconfident, and it shows.
For the people questioning why the Onager would completely destroy the Phantoms attacking, think about it. The Onager is nearly as big as the Phantoms themselves, whatever it is it fires would destroy a Phantom easily.
If it didn't cause the phantom to explode, there would be a massive hole going through it, which would force a crash that could end with an explosion.
As we said earlier in the topic though, Covenant ship hulls seem rather weak, noting my example in contact harvest. The Harvest Mass Driver was able to, in a single shot, nearly completely disable the Brute ship.