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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Rag, care to post the sources for the Covenant slipspace speed, as well as the weapon yields?
I'm curious where you got them.
Firepower yield was calculated in the First strike where Ascendant Justice fired its plasma torpedo at 3km Asteroid, it MELTED through the asteroid in arc and caused massive uneven internal heat inside of asteroid, fragmenting it. (First Strike, page 308, re print issue)
All right, let's put this way:
First strike said asteroid is 3km, all right? Okay, convert that 3km to 3,000 meters in diameter.
And let's say that most of asteroid usually have three types of rocks:
Hard Granite, Nickel-Iron and Ice.
All right, here's calc's result for this:
Hard Granite: Melt energy: 20.8 gigatons
Nickel-Iron: Melt energy: 33.9 gigatons
Ice: Melt energy: 1.8 gigatons
Also in other part in First Strike, it proves that Covenant did indeed had firepower of Gt since it described:
(Fall of Reach, page 22-23, re print issue)
"The Chief watched for a hour and didn't move a muscle. The planet's lakes, rivers, and oceans vaporized. By tomorrow, the atmosphere would be boiled away too. Fields and forests were glassy smooth and glowing red-hot in patches.
and for slip space travel, it was stated in the Ghosts of Onyx, I think.
And, it was calculated on slip space traveling as well. It described Blue Team stole a covenant destroyer and it traveled in 38 light years per hour, calculating to be 912 light years PER DAY. (Ghosts of Onyx, page 221)
[Edited on 08.01.2011 5:03 PM PDT]