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Subject: UNSC self detonation, Covenant?

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Ok, a UNSC frigate is disable after a UNSC - Covenant battle, a group of 5 Covenant CSS cruisers get close enough and the UNSC frigate self detonates catching the 5 Covenant warships in the explotion.

How many Covenant class CSS do you think will survive?

  • 04.15.2011 9:18 PM PDT

There's a number of factors to think about: how close are the CCS, does the frigate have any nukes on board that could increase the effect, etc...

  • 04.15.2011 9:27 PM PDT

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Posted by: Omanisat
There's a number of factors to think about: how close are the CCS, does the frigate have any nukes on board that could increase the effect, etc...


Yeah, the frigate didn't have the chance to shoot any of it's nukes added with the explotion reaction of the ship itself like in the middle of the formation who were getting ready to bombard it with some plasma torpedos, but before that the ship exploded first.

  • 04.15.2011 9:31 PM PDT

Then the most important factor is distance. If they are as close to the frigate as they would be to an exploding nuclear missile, then at the very least they would lose thir shileds, and probably suffer severe damage. Further out the actual physical damage would be less, but they would still have to contend with the radiation and the EMP, which might be as deadly as the actual blast.

  • 04.15.2011 9:36 PM PDT
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Seeing as a nuke only manages to disable a Covenant ship's shields, I'd imagine the reactors on a starship going critical would do almost nothing because Covies aren't going to be in direct contact with said frigate when it explodes. This would be different if the frigate rammed a Covie ship of course.

  • 04.16.2011 1:00 AM PDT

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All the Cruisers would loose their shields, maybe afew would take some serious damage but I doubt that the explosion from a frigate is enough to destroy a Battlecruiser. A Corvette group or a lone CCS maybe, but 5? Doubt it.

  • 04.16.2011 3:24 AM PDT

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Posted by: Zephryon
= I'd imagine the reactors on a starship going critical would do almost nothing because Covies aren't going to be in direct

Ye say that to the covie fleet that was over alpha halo when the poa went boom... Well you can try to tell them, but most of them are dead...

  • 04.16.2011 9:14 AM PDT


Posted by: ferrrari

Posted by: Zephryon
= I'd imagine the reactors on a starship going critical would do almost nothing because Covies aren't going to be in direct

Ye say that to the covie fleet that was over alpha halo when the poa went boom... Well you can try to tell them, but most of them are dead...


Ahem, major difference. The Covenant fleet was close to halo, and did not know it was going to explode. The explosion from the PoA most likely didn't harm any of the ships, and instead it was the shear amount of debris which destroyed them.

We are also talking most likely the debris striking the ship would = the size of the ship or greater.

A single frigate going critical/activating a self destruct+nukes might not be enough to even overpower the 5 CSS class battlecruiser's shields. If the explosion did take out the shields, there is no guarantee it would even harm the hull.

  • 04.16.2011 10:39 AM PDT

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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron

Posted by: ferrrari

Posted by: Zephryon
= I'd imagine the reactors on a starship going critical would do almost nothing because Covies aren't going to be in direct

Ye say that to the covie fleet that was over alpha halo when the poa went boom... Well you can try to tell them, but most of them are dead...


Ahem, major difference. The Covenant fleet was close to halo, and did not know it was going to explode. The explosion from the PoA most likely didn't harm any of the ships, and instead it was the shear amount of debris which destroyed them.

We are also talking most likely the debris striking the ship would = the size of the ship or greater.

A single frigate going critical/activating a self destruct+nukes might not be enough to even overpower the 5 CSS class battlecruiser's shields. If the explosion did take out the shields, there is no guarantee it would even harm the hull.


Not necesarily the 5 cruisers but if 5 cruisers were close enough maybe 2 or 3 would be destroyed for sure?

  • 04.16.2011 3:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron

Posted by: ferrrari

Posted by: Zephryon
= I'd imagine the reactors on a starship going critical would do almost nothing because Covies aren't going to be in direct

Ye say that to the covie fleet that was over alpha halo when the poa went boom... Well you can try to tell them, but most of them are dead...


Ahem, major difference. The Covenant fleet was close to halo, and did not know it was going to explode. The explosion from the PoA most likely didn't harm any of the ships, and instead it was the shear amount of debris which destroyed them.

We are also talking most likely the debris striking the ship would = the size of the ship or greater.

A single frigate going critical/activating a self destruct+nukes might not be enough to even overpower the 5 CSS class battlecruiser's shields. If the explosion did take out the shields, there is no guarantee it would even harm the hull.

Halo 2 when your inside high charity, Cortant propses making the dawns reactors go critcal like the Poa, in which she says both high charity and delta halo would be destroyed...

  • 04.16.2011 5:59 PM PDT


Posted by: Sigma617
Posted by: ferrrari
Halo 2 when your inside high charity, Cortant propses making the dawns reactors go critcal like the Poa, in which she says both high charity and delta halo would be destroyed...


You do Realize the Clad was only a catalyst? If Cortana was lucky and if the Clad was close enough to High Charity's own reactors, then the overload might trip High Charity's reactors and create a massive explosion. That would create a large amount of debris that would possibly impact Installation 05 and cause severe damage.

A frigate reactor alone doesn't explode so violently as say a Marathon or Halycon class does.


This, the frigate would cause damage to the inside of high charity, hopefully enough to cause the reactors to go critical. After that you'd have high charity exploding, the debris destroying most of the fleet around it as well as damaging the halo.

  • 04.17.2011 1:18 AM PDT