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Posted by: grey101
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
To be frank, Grey is correct. The ships we've encountered(non-reapers/reaper-aligned) have used Kinetic barriers. These barriers offer no protection against plasma.
the mass relays themselves put mass effect at a disadvantage, along with he fact ships can not fight lengthy battles without discharging their cores.
A legitimate battle between the two wouldn't be far at all since mass effect is crippled since there would be no point in placing a mass relay in the haloverse.
Don't get me started on the hundreds of seraphs and dropships the covenant could also use to attack there forces.
Even if the battle would be in the ME universe then still the Covenant could cripple them,as Arrival has shown Mass Relays are not so indestructable as the codex previously claimed, Plasma Bombardment would destroy them, the Covenant jumps away and the Mass Relay blows up destroying the entire system it wass positioned in, cutting of all other systems that relied on it. With a speed of 912 Light Years per day the Covenant could move through the galaxy quite efficiently slowly glassing planet after planet, which is pretty much the same way how Reapers wipe out all species at the end of a cycle, especially if the Covenant accessed the data on the Citadel and got the locations of all known worlds. Because everybody would be cut off from each no actual counter offensive would be possible, it would be like the Human-Covenant war, but much worse and the Covenant fleet would suffer minimal losses.
On the ground it wouldn't be so bad, but the Covenant would always have superior numbers and vehicles (sadly not many vehicles were mentioned in ME's canon and we can't make up vehicles) and the only places where they actually might bother to go to ground would be planets with a human population because of thier Lumanaires, that's assuming they even would work with ME humans since the Forerunners haven't messed around with their DNA.
Now back ontopic,
Reaper weaponry would be pretty much only weapons that would have any kind of effect on Covenant shields from the ME universe besides Dreadnought main guns, however the Reapers are basically firing molten metal and Covenant armor is very resistant against heat which would lower the effectiveness. Meanwhile the Covenant would be one shotting the Reapers, especially if they are far away and can freely snipe the Reapers with energy lances before they can even fire and bigger Covenant ships have multiple energy lances and if the Reapers get closer Plasma Torpedoes will do the job just as well. The Reapers would be able to take on a small Covenant fleet or actually more of a battlegroup, but not a Covenant fleet, especially a fleet with multiple Supercarriers. If they encountered the High Charity defense fleet then the Reapers would be destroyed before they could stay "I AM THE VANGUARD OF YOUR DESTRUCTION!"
Also like it was said before, until its said otherwise the Reapers have kinetic barriers since nothing has indicated it might be something else, unless we might start speculating too then.