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Posted by: Adragalus
Posted by: Sigma617
Posted by: Poy Poy
The only reason why the NOVA bomb was so powerful was because it was exploded inside the covenant ship.
The energy shielding keeping the explosion in, maginifying the power.
Detonating a nuke outside would have little to no effect on most covenant ships, and I doubt the covenant has any controlled planets around the Colonies that is worth using a NOVA bomb on.
No. The NOVA is a planet cracker. it's gonna destroy ANYTHING within a thousand miles of ground zero. No exceptions.Seconded. The shields only increase the power of an internal detonation in regards to the ship its exploding inside. The NOVA vaporized the ship it was in, and went on to, as stated, shatter a moon and scorch half of Joyous Exultation.
Poy, they are correct. Nova is basically planet cracker, it has nine nuclear warheads fused together, it can go mini-nova when it increases the yield by hundred. Basically, it can destroy entire fleets, shatter moons and scorch the planet if it was detonated in correct place. You claimed that NOVA would have no effect on ships, which it is completely false. Yield only slightly increases as it detonated INSIDE of the ship, ONLY SLIGHTLY.
And it was estimated about to be 1.2 peratons of TNT. Now, you see, most of covenant ships (frigates, destroyers, light cruisers and battle cruisers) cannot survive against mid level megatons of TNT firepower, however while super-cruiser, super battle-ship, assault carrier and super carrier can sustain against high level megatons to low level gigatons due to shielding strength increases as size gets bigger. So NOVA is plentiful enough to destroy entire fleets without any problems.
And, At end of the war, UNSC was running out high yield thermonuclear warheads and had few NOVA left, I think because Cortana requested for NOVA bomb at Delta Halo but it never got progressed.