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Posted by: raganok99
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Good point and that also is what I mean about using one Mac as a cookie cutter. Let's not forget that Macs are just huge planet crackers and would put a huge hole in anything.
Indeed, but MAC aren't exactly planet crackers, more like nuclear warheads instead of being actual nuclear warheads.
MACs arent like nukes. MAC round is powerful because it has lots of kinetic enrgy. When MAC is fired into an asteroid, it doesn't blow up (no big fireball). It just shatters.
That "as powerful as 64 kiloton nuke" means that nuke releases x amount of energy as heat and light and other things. MAC releases that energy as kinetic energy.
And I believe those frigates in Halo 3 fired their MACs in full power. Forerunner armor is just that strong.
That was in space, there is no friction which it allows MAC round to shatter or put a giant hole any objects like asteroid or Covenant ships.
And, MAC firing in atmosphere is different principle because you have to consider about friction. When it fired, it unleashed superheated (Fall of Reach described about a slug being red-hot as it fired) slug in 30,000m/s, it would cause nuclear blast because of friction. As if you said that MAC shatters on target, then means that Halo 3's cutscene shouldn't have that explosion at all, just a large spark effect caused by shattering the slugs.
Frankly, I don't think that Frigates at Halo 3 fired in full power.