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Posted by: spurkis
Who says the Reapers are all equipped with primitive kinetic barriers? Sovereign's protection is only labeled as "shields".
May I add, Reaper armor is powerful enough to atleast survive being in the outskirts of a Supernova (Reapers and Mass Relays have the same material). Is a volley of plasma torpedoes better than a supernova?
Posted by: Buzz the Fuzz
In Mass Effect 3 it is likely that we're going to defeat the Reapers, and the Covenant has superior tech to the Mass Effect universe, sooooooo.....
Every fleet of every Mass Effect species > Covenant fleet strength/size.
Is a sub-kiloton missile more powerful then a Supernova? Because that killed Sovereign.
And we have gone through the whole "well what if Reapers have different shield tech." There's two flaws with that.
First, its a conjecture, not an established fact, so unless you want to start assuming things (I can assume things too, you know) this is unquantifiable, border-line fanboy logic. And second, all of the Citadel's technology comes from the Reapers; are kinetic barriers somehow exempt?
Now to say every fleet in ME is superior to the Covenant is raging fanboy logic, truly. ME ships have only one advantage: they're fast (mostly). This won't help much when all of the Covenant's weaponry is both A) energy based, and B) either tracks you until it hits something, or fires at the speed of light.
So lets see: the Destiny Ascension--most powerful ship, possibly in the galaxy, said in-game to be fully capable of destroying ay ship in the Alliance fleet with one round--has a maximum damage output of 32 kilotons. When the maximum power output of the weakest ship in the UNSC fleet--the Frigate--is 62 kilotons. And a CCS Class Covenant Cruiser has been calculated to hit a few megatons per plasma torpedo.
And I haven't gotten to the lightspeed weaponry. A Covenant Energy Lance (an energy projector fired in space for space combat) gutted the UNSC Musashi from 100,000 km away, then aimed, fired again and sliced through 5 UNSC ships with a single burst, all in a time-frame before the Pillar of Autumn could respond and attack it.
Now most Covenant ships have an energy lance. A Supercarrier has been estimated to have around 7, and Assault Carrier's have multiple as well, but I'm not sure how many.
None of this would really be deflected by a kinetic barrier, would it?