- PLUT0NIUM 235
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- Honorable Member
it wasn't a S-MAC platform, how can it be? that is a 3,000 ton projectile travelling at something like 120 kilometres/second (120,000 metres/second), also why does every person assume that S-MAC platforms have a 'low power setting', what would be the purposes of an orbital defence platform firing a 'low power' shot since that would just be the waste of a perfectly good shot!
cannot understand for a second why such a platform would ever, ever consider firing a shot at anything other than maximum charge since their purpose is to defence planets from approaching ships, and you cannot do that by firing 'weak' shots at them, why would you want to? also S-MAC platforms are 'anti-ship' platforms, it is never mentioned or even assumed that they turn around and shoot ground targets, since that would be mental unless you want a substantial hole in the ground!
so to further conclude the shot would have either came from A) an orbiting Frigate, Destroyer or Cruiser (Frigate more than likely due to the fact we seen nothing else on Reach!) or B) some form of 'ground support' platform, pointing planet-side for attacking large formations of enemy forces that managed to penetrate the orbital defence network, either way the round isn't travelling all that fast, the Corvette appears to possess no shielding (Long Night of Solace, no shields are seen) and not all that tough. in Long Night of Solace the Savannah fired nothing more than point defence guns at the Corvette, willing to say if she turned and unleashed her teeth that would be one shattered Corvette.