"It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars, it will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses, more confident, far-seeing, capable, and prudent. For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness."-Carl Sagan
Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: I Nebula I
The Elites in Halo had armour that had a shielding system that was once it pops it stopped working.
Really? I don't remember that.
Posted by: I Nebula I
In Reach, 3 and 2 they recharge like Mjolnir.
And this blows a huge hole in Halsey's research with Jackal shield technology.
So why did the UNSC spend all that money and resources reverse engineering a Jackal shield when the could have capped a few Elites and innovated on that technology?
Because Covenant technology is compartmentalised, and whenever you try to open these compartments it self-destructs. No one could reverse-engineer anything Covenant in origin.
However, someone got lucky and found a damaged Jackal shield gauntlet that had one of the compartments exposed, but it did not self-destruct. That little nook is the only reason the UNSC got shields so early. It was the only opportunity they had.
Thanks Half-jaw