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Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
>.> The NOVA is NOT a planet-cracker. It's more like a extinction bomb. It won't destroy/split the planet behind it apart, but more or less just wipe all life off it's surface.
<.< What is with these people who take a concept and expand it far past any logical point?
When Admiral Whitcomb literally called it a planet cracker.
The reason the planet near-by the Covenant fleet wasn't destroyed was because it detonated to far away from it. It did shatter the local moon though, and torch a full quarter of the planet.
The local moon, with an estimated size of 2 km (which to me sounds waaaay to small for most moons) helped calculate the NOVA's strength at 1.2 petatons. Thats enough to crack a planet the size of earth open like an egg.
Then consider the fact most moons are actually larger then 2km (unless its an asteroid captured by gravity) and the numbers increase drastically.
1.2 peta... whaaaa?
Need to re-read the GOO book.
Or just type in NOVA bomb on Haalopedia.
You'll see the calculation there. Mind, two of the primary components of such a calculation--the moon's size and distance from the detonation point--are assumed, the size being the only one of the two I disagree with.