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]