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Yes I'm fairly young. No, that doesn't mean I'm automatically dumber than you or have less life experience, thats just generally the case. I am not your general case.
Posted by: That Atheist
Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
Weaponry hasn't been explored far enough in the Halo universe to know what the Forerunner could do to the Empire but we do know the Forerunner fell to the Flood and the Empire could easily expel the vermin before it was too late.[/quote]
You just derped. HARD. A single Promethean can slag entire continents with a single shot. And that's one person in a Forerunner battlesuit. When a small contingent of Forerunner marines destroy planets... Stormtroopers are going to fall faster than they can be produced. I'm waiting for Cryptum 2/3 to explain HOW the Forerunners lost to the Flood.[/quote]
I'm just sorry, but I call that bull-blam!- and if it's true, then forerunners get thrown out of the window because they are being used as "lulzIwin!1!1!1"[/quote]
LOL. Read Cryptum. It explains everything. The Forerunners are peaceful...until they're provoked. Then everything goes to hell. Cryptum took the Forerunners and threw them up the technological ladder to the level of the Culture.
Hell, they could build a TARDIS if they wanted to.
Forerunner infantry weapons can not slag continents. I think the author meant that the weapons wielded by the two races (forerunner and human) were so powerful that continuous combat of the period of several hours pretty much destroyed the continents surface.
That scene from Cryptum where the Forerunners do this was simply to put down a rebellion, not to fight a war. It was finished in a few hours. The battle was fought with fighter craft, aerial artillery turrets and infantry (supposedly). The entire planet was ravaged beyond recognition.
Now consider this. The Stardestroyer.net calculaor puts the detonation of the PoA at about 10 petatons based on the depiction in Halo 2. The Flood book states the Ring was hardly damaged at all by the explosion, that only a 5 kilometer crater was gouged. The Ring was destroyed by the centrifuges getting thrown of balance, resulting on the internal stress of this massive structure ripping itself apart.
In Cryptum, a Ring is shot by a Forerunner fortress with only a few shots, where deep canyon like gouges are torn into the side, resulting in the Ring becoming obliterated. This happens twice.
Yes but you have to remember that those were not the same rings featured in the Halo games, they were prototypes and if Forerunner weapons and equipment evolve the way we think they do, then the second set of rings would be far more powerful. Also, ten petatons would destroy a Jupiter sized planet. Theres no need for a weapon of that magnitude, as even if the forerunners could hypothetically create shields to withstand such an impact, the force of the impact alone would vaporise the ship underneath the shield.
Also, the planet Charum Hakkor was not destroyed in battle but instead by the firing of one of the original Halo rings on low power. The planet was heavily damaged by the combination of Human and Forerunner weapons, yes, but it was not destroyed an rendered uninhabitable.
Haqlo was never fired on Hakkor.....or even built yet.
I'm talking about the battle of the Prophet homeworld.
See the Forerunners hated with all their hearts anyone who dared offend them. Their weapons were constructed to fit the role of extermination. Which is why they're so -blam!- ing powerful.
Edit: have to go for now.
First of all, don't you remember the point in the book were Didact and Born are talking about the firing off the Halo on Charum Hakkor?
And I didn't realize you meant the San Shyuum battle. Yes that was a primarily infantry battle but the Forerunners were not able to defeat the Prophets until the firing of the Halo ring, so they mustn't have been able to do that much damage, not to mention equipping an infantry unit with a weapon the power of which you are stating is silly, as all it would do is lead to the biggest friendly fire incident in history.