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So she can probably process about the amount of information represented by the total combination count in only a couple of seconds. To put this amount of information in persepective if it took Cortana a trillion years to crack the combination, and she got lucky and did it after only accounting for a millionth of the potential combinations(and it did not modulate at any point) she'd be able to simulate the position, vector and other properties of every atom in our universe(assuming there are 10^90 atoms, and each required a magabit a second to simulate) 2.2*10^38,410 times. To put that in more recognisable numbers It's simulating so many trillions of universes, that even stacking the orders of magnitude end on end(a trillion trillion being 10^24) you'd need to repeat the word trillion about 3,200 times to account for all the orders of magnitude
Did you miss this part or something? Thats A LOT of calculating going on right there.
And in your fanboy rant, hypocrisy got the best of you and you have yet to do the same thing for the Reapers what you accuse us of not doing. The burden of information is on you, and only you, as you are the Reaper defender here. So until you can prove that Reapers somehow have more processing power then Medicant Bias (who could calculate, citing the above, every maneuver, strategy, defensive/offensive deployment and tactic possible and then place plans in order to counter every one of them, effectively rendering resistance impossible) I call bull -blam!- on everything you say about them. All you've said so far is "Reapers>Covenant" whilst apparently ignoring the comparatively overpowered nature of the Covenant's weapons relative to those used against Reapers in Mass Effect.
As I told you above, if the shot that incampacitated the Reaper in Mass Effect 3 was a plasma torpedo fired from a CCS class cruiser, the 10-30 megaton blast would have shattered the Reaper like glass, fire stormed the Normandy on account of proximity, vaporized Shepard and his crew and effectively obliterated the entire base and surrounding area. THAT is a 30 megaton blast
If the explosive was even a kiloton, the above would have happened, just with less vaporization and more firestorms. Shepard and co. would still be free floating molecules however. Therefore, a Frigate MAC (32 kilotons more then the most powerful weapon the Citidel fleet can muster) could gut a Reaper. Plasma and energy weaponry utilized by the Covenant would pretty much bypass kinetic shielding and attack only the armor.
And before you pull the age old ME defender argument of "what if they use something other then kinetic barriers?" prove it.
you've misread what I've said, I never once said a reaper AI can rival anything on the level of a contender or metarch class forerunner AI, I know that an AI on the level of mendicant bias is unstoppable, it has the ability to distinguish contradicting commands.
what I DID say was that a reaper AI can rival any UNSC or covenant AI, including cortana.
I'm not going to bother re-writing why, I've already done it twice, just re-read.
as for calling me a fanboy, if anything I'm a halo fanboy, but I'm not blinded by ignorance, I know when something is utterly unstoppable, just as I know the Chief isn't invincible to EVERYTHING.
I did some more research on the final scene of ME1.
what I found was that sovereign was supposed to be able to communicate with the keepers remotely to unlock the citadel, but due to the efforts of the Protheans 50,000 years before they were able to devise a way of distorting the message slightly, enough for the keepers to not unlock the citadel properly.
it is because of this sovereign had to take control of Saren to unlock it manually, when sovereign saw Saren wouldn't be able to do it, he charged through the homefleet to try and unlock the citadel as quickly as possible, during this sovereign managed to destroy a small portion of the homefleet, sovereigns long range weapons were disabled shortly after that and he was stunned when Saren was killed, for the entire time he was under constant fire from the homefleet, when he was stunned the entire homefleet focussed what they had on him eventually knocking out his shields.
after some more focussed fire he was rendered weak enough for the normandy's final blow.
coz you seem to be good at calculating stuff, why not calculate an estimate of how much firepower was used on sovereign in the final cutscene and base shield strengths around that, so far you keep only giving the power of the final blow and saying that is a reapers strength including shields.
on your final point about a MAC round gutting a reaper, I think you'll find the kinetic shield would render the shot utterly useless, IF it got past the mass effect field around the reaper
if that last line about "what if they use something other then kinetic barriers?" did you mean the reapers?
because they do use kinetic barriers, FAR superior ones to that the alliance use.