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Posted by: anish panchalin
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Posted by: Rider Luke
I wouldn't say it could take down an entire fleet.
Considering Reach's Covenant firepower estimates (probably kiloton level firepower) and Cryptum's showing (IIRC one calculation I saw put it teraton per shot and makes ICS Star Destroyers look weak). I'd say it'd take it.
Actually, in Cryptum, we never actually get a showing of Fortress class firepower. We see Forerunner cruisers (of which four can fit inside a 1km long ship) open up on a Halo ring (which is where the teraton figure comes from), but the Fortress doesn't fire. Seeing as how the older models of Fortresses are 50km long (and the modern ones are 100km long)... well, if firepower scales, you're looking at DAKKA that makes the IoM feel inferior.
So yeah, I feel sorry for the Covenant fleet that engages a Fortress.
Later in the book a Fortress did destoyed a ring on it's own.
Well obviously a fortress could easily destroy a halo ring guarded only by sentinels (and possibly enforcers, if the monitor of the ring orders the ring to construct them).
Onyx sentinels on the other hand, vs a fortress I'd like to see, seeing as they're learning and adaptive and have very strong shields, at least strong enough to be impenetrable to UNSC weapons like rocket launchers (as shown in ghosts of onyx)
... You don't know much do you?
Specialized sentinels designed for ship combat and hard light shields. Not to mention the firepower it would take to destroy a ring three times the size of the modern halos.
Oh yeah, those sentinels, some of them sacrificied themselves/deflected the shots from the cruisers that carved canyon-like gouges across the halo.
[Edited on 10.07.2011 8:56 AM PDT]