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Subject: Do wounds from plasma/energy weapons cauterize?

if someone was hit, their flesh would start to vaporise on impact and I imagine there would be little to no beeding becouse the intence heat would cauterise the wound.

  • 07.27.2011 4:43 AM PDT
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Read the Halo books if you want an actual account of the damage that the game does not show.

Read the Mona Lisa if you want to see the flood.

  • 07.27.2011 4:53 AM PDT

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Posted by: napleonBlwnaprt
I think that plasma weapons would be ineffective against flesh.

I mean, people get 3rd degree burns on 20-50% of their body, and unless it gets infected, are back on their feet in weeks.

I don't think so. We're not talking about a little spot of fire at, say, 900 degrees Celsius. Plasma could possibly spike at around 3.6 billion Celsius. This isn't a coffee spill, it'd vaporize whatever it touches, melting the flesh off your bones, causing horrific steam burns through heat conduction, carbonizing your skeleton, and bonding whatever is left of you to whatever you happen to be wearing or collapse onto.

Get back on your feet after that.

[Edited on 07.27.2011 7:23 AM PDT]

  • 07.27.2011 7:22 AM PDT


Posted by: MisterBraz

Posted by: napleonBlwnaprt


Yeah, weeks..

And this isn't third degree burns we're talking here, we're talking 4th degree and beyond.. plasma weapons used by the Covenant have been known to leave gaping wounds that incinerate bone and flesh, not burn them, and in the Cole Protocol, a plasma rifle fired up close was said to melt off an insurrectionist's leg. They're very effective against flesh.


Just imagining the pain of a Plasma Rifle melting your leg off; it frightens me on too many levels.

  • 07.27.2011 11:34 AM PDT

mmm, the feeling of a plasma grenade vaporizing my flesh, muscle and bone...

  • 07.27.2011 12:14 PM PDT

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