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Subject: Sharqoi - A massive, interstellar bomb?

I like to -blam!- -blam!- up. It's what I'm good at.

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  • 07.21.2011 8:38 PM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

The Covies don't have anythign that destructive.

  • 07.21.2011 8:40 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra
The Covies don't have anything that destructive.


This. The Forerunners probably did, but...

[Edited on 07.21.2011 8:45 PM PDT]

  • 07.21.2011 8:44 PM PDT

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

Interstellar bomb? Destroying multiple colonies at once?

You have no idea how idiotic that sounds.

The only thing that counters my theory is the sheer size of space. It's literally trillions and trillions of miles between planets, the bomb would have to be absurdly large to affect such a large radius.
...and relativity?

[Edited on 07.21.2011 9:00 PM PDT]

  • 07.21.2011 8:59 PM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

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Posted by: anton1792
Interstellar bomb? Destroying multiple colonies at once?

You have no idea how idiotic that sounds.

The only thing that counters my theory is the sheer size of space. It's literally trillions and trillions of miles between planets, the bomb would have to be absurdly large to affect such a large radius.
...and relativity?


Sounds better than throwing some alien race thing (that's probably no smarter than a Brute) at them.

No it doesn't, it's -blam!- stupid.

  • 07.21.2011 9:05 PM PDT


Sounds better than throwing some alien race thing (that's probably no smarter than a Brute) at them.


In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort.

It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another.

  • 07.21.2011 9:08 PM PDT

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

Posted by: orphan
Posted by: anton1792
Interstellar bomb? Destroying multiple colonies at once?

You have no idea how idiotic that sounds.

The only thing that counters my theory is the sheer size of space. It's literally trillions and trillions of miles between planets, the bomb would have to be absurdly large to affect such a large radius.
...and relativity?

Sounds better than throwing some alien race thing (that's probably no smarter than a Brute) at them.

No, it is really not. I study physics, and I just cringed when I read your post.

The most hypermassive stars going supernova cannot even do what you describe.

  • 07.21.2011 9:13 PM PDT

Wow, just wow!

My guess would be some sort of shock and awe tactic. Probably a large, heavily armed (yet cumbersome) ship. Maybe twice the size of a Supercarrier. But with no manueverability

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Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: orphan
Posted by: anton1792
Interstellar bomb? Destroying multiple colonies at once?

You have no idea how idiotic that sounds.

The only thing that counters my theory is the sheer size of space. It's literally trillions and trillions of miles between planets, the bomb would have to be absurdly large to affect such a large radius.
...and relativity?

Sounds better than throwing some alien race thing (that's probably no smarter than a Brute) at them.

No, it is really not. I study physics, and I just cringed when I read your post.

The most hypermassive stars going supernova cannot even do what you describe.


What about the hypothetical hypernova? Could that do what the OP suggested?

Note: I am not defending the OP.

[Edited on 07.21.2011 9:30 PM PDT]

  • 07.21.2011 9:29 PM PDT
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Deva Path


Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

That isn't in the covenants range

  • 07.21.2011 9:29 PM PDT

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

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Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: orphan
Posted by: anton1792
Interstellar bomb? Destroying multiple colonies at once?

You have no idea how idiotic that sounds.

The only thing that counters my theory is the sheer size of space. It's literally trillions and trillions of miles between planets, the bomb would have to be absurdly large to affect such a large radius.
...and relativity?

Sounds better than throwing some alien race thing (that's probably no smarter than a Brute) at them.

No, it is really not. I study physics, and I just cringed when I read your post.
The most hypermassive stars going supernova cannot even do what you describe.

What about the hypothetical hypernova? Could that do what the OP suggested?

There is not enough mass in any star to be able to cause a blast wave powerful enough to obliterate planets across the distance of several light years.

The threat comes from gamma rays stripping away the ozone layer. That is it. But relativity would mean that this supernova's energy front would take hundreds if not thousands of years to traverse interstellar space.

And the fact that the Covenant are no where near powerful enough to move hypergiants and trigger stellar collapse. As for a bomb, the amount of antimatter needed to achieve this would be ridiculous, which therefore rules out every other explosive ordinance. This is way out of the Covenant's league, with the Forerunners only barely capable of pulling it off themselves.

  • 07.21.2011 9:47 PM PDT
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What are you doing here?

They found Earth in Halo 2, and they didn't use it (if your suggestion even exists.)

  • 07.22.2011 12:16 AM PDT