- ROBERTO jh
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Posted by: Black Hole 000
Prove to me that a Contender Class AI is more powerful than my ipod touch. Assumptions are what make up science fiction. A Reaper is the pinnicle of AI. I never said i thought the Reapers would slaughter the Forerunners, I said they wouldn't. Read slower. The Covies primary weapon is plasma, there are laser, but it is mostly plasma. Also a halo is about 16000 km across, and that blast was not 1/16 its size.
We cannot gauge the strength of that blast accurately because the in game graphics of the time sucked so bad the Halo Ring's size was an illusion.
Anyway, I'm more concerned about This Ring
We see a pock-marked, crater blasted surface, with craters coming at to about kilotons, megatons, and in one case, maybe gigatons. According to the read out however, Halo Istallation 06 is perfectly intact and ready to fire, meaning out of ALL of these impacts, it did literally no structural damage to the Ring at all.
Yet in the same designed Ring (but bigger) Forerunner ships tore the Ring apart with a few shots.
Plus the always persistant fact a Halo Ring blast would destroy the organic components of a Reaper.
Oh yeah, almost forgot: when I say a Covenant Assault Carriers plasma torpedoes are likely in the petatons, I base this around a similar calculation regarding a Star Wars weapon, where an estimated 20 meter in diameter asteroid was vaporized. This act was calced at about a terraton of energy (which was later debunked by its own canon, which in turn was later debunked by the rest of the movie series). Either way, this calculation stands as mathematically correct.
Now, if vaporizing a 20 meter asteroid=a terraton, consider what doing the exact same thing to a 3 kilometer asteroid would equal. I'm not a math guy, so I wouldn't know exactley, but it seems quite obvious, really.
Edit: Can your Ipod touch control a a fleet of several million ships?
[Edited on 04.29.2011 5:29 PM PDT]