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I also like House Stark and winter, hurr.
Posted by: hotshot revan II
As the cruise's fusion drives went crutical,a compact sun blossomed on the surface of Halo.It's thermonuclear sphere carved a five kilometer crater into the superdense ring material and sent powerful pressure waves rippling throughout the structure.Both up and down spin of the explosion,the fireball flattened and sterilized the surface terrain.Within moments,the yellow-white core had consumed all of the available fuel,collapsed upon itself,and winked out.
Still spinnig,but unable to withstand the forces exerted on this weak ponit,the ring structure slowly tore itself apart.Huge chucks of debris tumbled end over end out into space,as a five-hundred-kilometer long sections of the ring's world hull sliced through an even longer curve of brilliantly engineered metal,earth and water and produced a cascade of eerily silent explosion.
Then you should watch the Halo CE cutscene where there was a fireball larger then the width of the ring.Roughly around 1000 km(assuming all rings are 30000 km,because of Cryptums retcon)
This is easily above 200 teraton,this didn't even destroyed the ring all it did was creating a 5 km crater into the dense material.The only reason why the ring was destroyed is because it ripped itself apart .
The Forerunner navy weapons destroyed a ring with sheer strenght alone,unlike the autumn relying on the spinnig ring and it's new weak point.
Halo cryptum pg 129
The first fortress's fighters moved in,surrounding one of the primed Halos and engaging its sentinels.Simultaneously,four cruisers sent white-hot beams to points around the targeted installation.Setninels intercepted some of those beams,partially deflecting them but also absorbing and sacrificing.Other beams struck home,carving canyonlike gouges across the mottled inner surface and blowing blue-white plumed of debris and plasma from the edges.The interior spokes began to shimmer and fade.The Halo could not hold together against this onslaught.It bent inward,wobbled.Fascinated,i watched as hge sections of the ring twisted like ribbon,giving away to destructive nodes of resonance,then rippled in sinus waves and separated with agonizing majesty.
Halo Cryptum pg 320
Even before it had emerged halfway,the fortress began to loose clouds of fighters-at this distancenthey resembled a puff of pollen from a flower-and fire it's weapons in a sequential radiance.The inner curve of the Halo,even protected by waves of hard light,could not stand up long to this assault from within it's own radius.
The fortress's commanders and ancillas must have known they were dooming themself as well as the Halo.The installation began a spectacular disintegrative sequence.The visible half of the ring bent in opposite directions,then shattered into five great arc.
If a single Forerunner ship can do that to a massive ring 30000 km in diameter,then what do you think it will do to the smaller Necron ships.
Necron ship's energy usage could kinda be demonstrated by one moment at nightbringer: Few necron ships were close to star, and the star just simply died. This happened because every second necron ship was close to the star,they took so large amounts of energy that star's life was decreased by hundred thousand years every second. Just letting you know, if youre interested.
Why arent people taking Fall of Damnos in mind? Oh yeah, you dont know about it.
Necron's ability to make other race's techonology useless would pretty much mean, that forerunner techonology would stop working. For example, everything close to Void dragon's ''prison'' on mars stopped functioning. Same happened to imperium on Damnos when scarabs appeared. Why shouldnt it work on forerunners also, nothing is against such idea.
With necron technology, it shouldnt be problem to make forerunner technology useless.
And hey, I want to throw in C'tans. Star gods, propably first sentient beings in existance of galaxy. Madness created by Outsider, techonogical problems created by Void dragon, assasinations and decieving made by Deciever and simply destruction and fear created by Nightbringer could bring Forerunner empire down.
And wait, since we are allowed to bring things that dont exist anymore at in haloverse or 40k's world, I bring in more C'tans.
Since forerunner's have no weaponry that would effectively harm C'tans, their defeat shouldnt come as large surprise.
And hey, I want to throw in chaos! Im not counting necrons and chaos together. Only one chaos god, Tzeentch, against forerunners.
Let me quote one thing:
The Maze of Tzeentch is Tzeentch's realm within the Warp. This maze is woven from the raw fabric of magic, threaded upon deceit and conspiracy. Of all the landscapes of the Warp, this domain is by far the most bizarre and incomprehensible. The Maze's presence is felt across all of the Daemonic realms. Interchanging, shifting avenues made of pure crystals of every colour crisscross Tzeentch's realm. Hidden pathways built from lies and schemes lead out from the maze and infiltrate the dominions of other gods, binding together the fractious Realms of Chaos. The maze itself has no Daemonic defenders. Its own illusory passages are enough of a barrier to any intruder not possessed of the strongest mind imaginable. Its glittering corridors reflect not only light but also hope, misery, dreams and nightmares. The labyrinth does not merely reflect but also distorts, pulling apart hope and purpose turning them into insanity and despair. Driven by Tzeentch's unconscious schemes, the labyrinth constantly moves and rearranges. Those lost within the maze's reaches will wander for eternity with their minds shattered, their dreams broken upon the wheel of their own failed ambition. At the centre of the maze, hidden from those who have not the insane insight to find it, stands the Impossible Fortress. The architecture of the bastion is constantly replaced by new and ever more maddening spires, gates and walls. doors and other entrance points yawn open like starving mouths, before clamping for eternity moments later, barring all access. Within the Fortress time and space does not exist at all and gravity shifts and changes, or disappears all together. Lights of every colour, some even unknown in the real universe, springs from the shifting walls. For mortals, who are so locked in their physical ways, the fortress is impenetrable. Men are driven insane, while their bodies might implode or be pulled apart by the forces unleashed by Tzeentch's passing thoughts. Even immortal daemons cannot easily endure the twisted horror of the Impossible Fortress and only the Lords of Change can safely navigate its corridors, and tread the secret paths that lead to the inner sanctum of the fortress, the Hidden Library, where Tzeentch, the puppet master himself resides, eternally plotting.
Yea, I guess you will accept too that Forerunners would fall to Tzeentch alone. If this isnt enough, let me quote few things about Khorne and Nurgle.
[Edited on 05.01.2011 1:25 PM PDT]