- MickelPickel
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Posted by: grey101
Posted by: Ruby of the Blue
UNSC Infinity
concept art doesn't mean a thing. If you even read Glasslands you would know the Infinity isn't ready whatsoever.
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"It's a project called Infinity," BB said. "To be exact, Infinity is a warship - a very, very expensive prototype, because she's been fitted with every scrap of Forerunner technology we've picked apart during the course of the war, and now she'll benefit from the tech Halsey found in the sphere. Unfortunately, the Woodentop Navy needed to know about her because even ONI couldn't hide anything that big in the budget, but it's still known to only a handful of very senior officers."
He got a smile out of Osman with Woodentop Navy. It was what he called any branch of the senior service that wasn't ONI. "So how about all those yappy shipyard workers and technicians, then?" she asked.
"There's not much yapping they can do when they've been permanently deployed in the Oort Cloud with full comms lockdown for the past few years," BB said. "Would you like to see the schematics?"
He flashed up the deck-by-deck blueprint on the screen to her left. She rested her elbows on the console and leaned forward, lips slowly parting as the full wonder of Infinity began to sink in.
"Ooh," She hovered on the edge of a smile. "And all that wonderful kit Halsey's found." Then the smile iced over again. "Is that really why she went to Onyx then? Did we misjudge her?"
"Oh, good grief, no. She didn't really know anything about Infinity, believe me. She would only have tried to take over the project. No, the crazy hijacker act was just that. Crazy. Not a cover for anything."
Osman's gaze went back to the blue-prints again. "Who's going to have command?"
"Andrew Del Rio's been driving her for a few years. It's not easy to find competent commanders who can drop off the grid unnoticed for that long. And we've had some Spartan Fours out there for a while too. But with the slipspace navigtion refinement, I think Infinity's going to be ready for the trials a lot sooner than expected."
Minus the slipspace navigation technology recovered from Onyx, it is basically ready to start making trial flights. And, paired with the rate at which the UNSC has recovered so far from the War, this could easily be within the next few years. I'm rather positive that "isn't ready whatsoever" would not be a phrase to describe the UNSC Infinity.
Draw what conclusions you want from this short (and only for that matter) text on the UNSC Infinity. But your idea of where the UNSC Infinity is in its production cycle is a gross overstatement.
[Edited on 12.16.2011 9:20 PM PST]