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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact
Posted by: raganok99
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Edit: I can't be the only person who notices this blatent irony. "Star Wars is excluded, their numbers are bull-blam!- and overdone!" etc. Then those same people turn around and go "Oh this forerunner ship can easily destroy entire fleets of enemy ships (Star Wars, ME, galactica, whatever) even though we have jack squat numbers or information about what they are really armed with, what their defensive capabilities are, etc."
If you are saying I am trying to exclude SW, I'm not. And ME and Galactica have been trashed already. The second the words Forerunner had left my mouth, anyone who has a basic grasp of mathematics and has read Cryptum has already calculated that Forerunner cruiser cannons are so many OOM higher than BSG and ME.
Please post these calculations. Or frankly, it's no better then a foolish "Oh, we win cause Forerunners! We don't need no proof or anything."
I believe ROBERT jh calculated the firepower of Forerunner's weapons.
Here's his quote from page 7 or 8:
ROBERTO jh
Now we get technical. This is also where you're wrong. Using a very handy yield calculator, we had calculated the strength of the PoA's detonation on Halo 04. It was set somewhere between several hundred terratons (almost just beneath 1 peta) and 10 petatons, depending entirely on whether or not Cryptum retconned the Ring's size (from 10,000- to 30,000 km in diameter).
This is based off of the proportional width of the Ring. As seen in Halo 2's flashback, the explosion was 5 times the Ring's width.
This, however, made only a 5 kilometer crater in the Ring's adamantium armor, as per "The Flood" book. so about 900 terratons to 10 petatons depending on what the size was, only made a 5 kilometer dent in the Forerunner armor. And this didn't even destroy the Ring. What did was the Ring's own centrifuges turning on its self from getting knocked around and being partially damaged on one side.
In Cryptum, two Rings, these ones 30,000 kilometers in diameter, were destroyed by Forerunners hard light beams, cutting vast canyons into the adamantium surface, blowing mountains off the Ring and all. The Ring's were destroyed by pure brute force here, (the first one was anyway, the second went in the same manner as Halo 04).
And the ring was protected by waves of hard light and even that didn't stopped the weapons.
Autumns yield is absolute low end for the FR navy weapons,i hope the next FR book gives more details.