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Subject: how do they work?

hod does the armor ability's work?

I think sprint and evade doesn't count as armor ability... because even normal humans can do them.

  • 07.05.2011 10:50 AM PDT

Sprint-overrides safety measures in the armor (overridden by Kat

Armor lock- increases armor shield strength

Jet pack- its a jet pack

Overshild- a different version of the bubble shild, not sure how it works (based on covie tech)

Invisibility- bends the light around user (based on covie tech)

Evade-idk


  • 07.05.2011 11:01 AM PDT


Posted by: sonic pieman
Sprint-overrides safety measures in the armor (overridden by Kat

Armor lock- increases armor shield strength

Jet pack- its a jet pack

Overshild- a different version of the bubble shild, not sure how it works (based on covie tech)

Invisibility- bends the light around user (based on covie tech)

Evade-idk





no... i didn't mean what they do... i mean how do they work...

What the jetpack uses as fuel, and how it can recharge infinite times...

What hapens when you activate the armor lock(what sistems are active and why it looks like exceeded shield...

And so one...

Basicialy i van't to know on enginery level of them...

And how they were made and tested...

  • 07.05.2011 11:04 AM PDT

They aren't canon.

  • 07.05.2011 11:14 AM PDT


Posted by: HAAH WAAW
They aren't canon.


no, rilly?

  • 07.05.2011 11:20 AM PDT

'life is a stare down with death himself'

their isn't enough of an explanation to give a detailed response to you, OP. at least, not from an engineers perspective.
(but the jetpack uses a fusion engine as a power source, that's one of the few plausible ways it could function like that.)

  • 07.05.2011 11:23 AM PDT


Posted by: sa7anicBarracuda
their isn't enough of an explanation to give a detailed response to you, OP. at least, not from an engineers perspective.
(but the jetpack uses a fusion engine as a power source, that's one of the few plausible ways it could function like that.)


ok, i admit it, im a stupid halo fan, i hawen't readed any of the books... can anybodey tell me in witch book they explain armor ability's?

Yeah i realize my grammar sucks... but try to get something out of it

  • 07.05.2011 11:31 AM PDT

Am I supposed to write something funny here?


Posted by: AnubissWarior
no... i didn't mean what they do... i mean how do they work...

What the jetpack uses as fuel, and how it can recharge infinite times...

What hapens when you activate the armor lock(what sistems are active and why it looks like exceeded shield...

And so one...

Basicialy i van't to know on enginery level of them...

And how they were made and tested...

Jet pack: Probably has fusion generator. (As said above)

Armor lock: Diverts diverts nearly all power to shields, probably. (That's why you can't move, also it being indestructible is probably gameplay thing)

Sprint: As said above, overrides safety things, puts suit into overdrive.

Active camo: Standard active camo. Bends light or something. (As said above)

Dropshield: Something similar to bubble shield and regenator.

Evade: I guess this one is "non-canon".

[Edited on 07.05.2011 11:34 AM PDT]

  • 07.05.2011 11:33 AM PDT

Jetpack probably doesn't use "fuel" instead uses a charge of some sort.

Armor lock simply pumps all power into the shields, hence the shields becoming stronger and 'flaring out'. The discharge from the overload causing the EMP (my thoughts).

  • 07.05.2011 11:35 AM PDT
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  • 07.05.2011 7:41 PM PDT


Posted by: Dustin 6047
Dropshield is when the Spartan slams down an orb (not in Reach, but in Halo 3) and the orb captures a spherical wall of hydrogen in the air (3m radius) which it somehow converts into plasma strong enough to reflect vast amounts of bullets. The orb also spews healing horomones in the air that the Spartan breaths to grow strength and heal wounds.

All of that is a fat guess.
Very, Very impressive theory! Although it would have made more sense if it was displayed as a Gassy Hue and didn't have the design.

  • 07.05.2011 7:43 PM PDT


Posted by: mojeda101

Posted by: Dustin 6047
Dropshield is when the Spartan slams down an orb (not in Reach, but in Halo 3) and the orb captures a spherical wall of hydrogen in the air (3m radius) which it somehow converts into plasma strong enough to reflect vast amounts of bullets. The orb also spews healing horomones in the air that the Spartan breaths to grow strength and heal wounds.

All of that is a fat guess.
Very, Very impressive theory! Although it would have made more sense if it was displayed as a Gassy Hue and didn't have the design.


The weird part is how Spartans can walk through the wall of the dropshield without being vaporized, and also how the plasma is confined to about an inch radius...

Maybe the dropshield itself emits an electromagnetic field that rips the electrons from the hydrogen around it and also heats them via laser to around 1000000 Kelvin, making them into a plasma, and then holds them in place by attracting the positive ions slightly, not allowing them to disperse like a gas would...

And maybe the SPARTANs' suit emits a positive electric field, which would repel most of the plasma ions away from the SPARTAN's body, which, when combined with strong metal armor (Tungsten maybe?) and a good cooling system, would allow him to pass through with minimal damage.

But then grenades, guns, civilians, and pretty much anything except an armored SPARTAN would never be able to go through...

IDK, Physics is my specialty, someone follow up on the biology part with the hormones...

[Edited on 07.05.2011 8:27 PM PDT]

  • 07.05.2011 8:22 PM PDT

I DO have time to bleed...i just dont want to.

the dropsheald is a granade that he throws on the grownd and it explodes and makes a bubble.

  • 07.06.2011 6:49 AM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Jetpack probably doesn't use "fuel" instead uses a charge of some sort.

It could take in air from it surroundings and, using the energy from the suits fusion pack, expel the gases as a high energy plasma. It might use room temperature superconductors to help negate the wearers weight as well. Seeing none of this stuff would really run out all that quickly, it would explain how it can be used as many times as you like. Space would be a problem though...No air. It might just use the wast products from the fusion pack.

Covenant "jetpacks" probably use "antigravity", aka pure magic.

  • 07.06.2011 7:28 AM PDT