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Subject: How powerful is a Spartan Laser?
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In terms of canon. I know in the books Covenant plasma weapons are absolutely devastating, so how does the Spartan Laser compare?

  • 07.26.2011 4:46 AM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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canon wise we wouldn't know because it has never been in a book or anything.

Same for the Gauss weaponry.

  • 07.26.2011 4:54 AM PDT

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Posted by: grey101
canon wise we wouldn't know because it has never been in a book or anything.

Same for the Gauss weaponry.
Johnson used an M99 Stanchion Gauss rifle in Contact Harvest. It penetrated several layers of concrete and gibbed a soft target.

Anyways, I would assume the Spartan Laser is as effective canonically as it is in-game. That is, pretty much anything caught in its beam dies.

  • 07.26.2011 6:58 AM PDT
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Watch Halo Legends the Package ,then you will see it.

It's damn powerful in that episode.

  • 07.26.2011 7:15 AM PDT

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Posted by: hotshot revan II
Watch Halo Legends the Package ,then you will see it.

It's damn powerful in that episode.
Could Halo Legends be considered Canon..?

  • 07.26.2011 7:19 AM PDT

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Posted by: grey101
canon wise we wouldn't know because it has never been in a book or anything.

Same for the Gauss weaponry.
Johnson used an M99 Stanchion Gauss rifle in Contact Harvest. It penetrated several layers of concrete and gibbed a soft target.

Anyways, I would assume the Spartan Laser is as effective canonically as it is in-game. That is, pretty much anything caught in its beam dies.
To expand, the M99 in Harvest went through both walls and about 7 floors of an office building, flew half a click to a diner, gibbed a guy to a horrifying extent, and buried itself several yards under the asphalt.

The Gauss cannon on the M12G also appeared in a book, in the short story Palace Hotel from Evolutions. There it's described as completely vaporizing most targets, and causing a Ghost to disintegrate into plasma and shrapnel in one hit.

As for the Splaser, it doesn't say, but it's a one-bolt, enormously powerful beam. I'd say it would immediately destroy most non-superhardened targets, e.g. Scorpions or Wraiths.

  • 07.26.2011 7:23 AM PDT


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Posted by: hotshot revan II
Watch Halo Legends the Package ,then you will see it.

It's damn powerful in that episode.
Could Halo Legends be considered Canon..?

I would believe it is. I'm pretty sure that almost all stuff that shows on Waypoint is canon.

  • 07.26.2011 7:27 AM PDT


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Posted by: Schlick15
Posted by: hotshot revan II
Watch Halo Legends the Package ,then you will see it.

It's damn powerful in that episode.
Could Halo Legends be considered Canon..?

I would believe it is. I'm pretty sure that almost all stuff that shows on Waypoint is canon.

This. They wouldn't show something non-canon.

  • 07.26.2011 7:29 AM PDT

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No they said only the first one with Cortana talking was Canon

  • 07.26.2011 7:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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No they said only the first one with Cortana talking was Canon


No they didn't idiot, all of them are canon save for " odd one out".

  • 07.26.2011 7:42 AM PDT
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Posted by: grey101

Posted by: windtalker006
No they said only the first one with Cortana talking was Canon


No they didn't idiot, all of them are canon save for " odd one out".

No need to be insulting.

Anyway. Interesting. And wow! Didn't know Gauss weaponry was that powerful! :o

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  • 07.26.2011 7:53 AM PDT

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Its as powerful as it is in the game, as in deadly powerful, one shot on soft targets up to two on armoured targets.

  • 07.26.2011 8:18 AM PDT