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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.
Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.
Posted by: SC Matt Klassen
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Posted by: superiorarsenal
Not from Factpile, unless I missed it in the 46 or so pages of FR vs GE. If so, then I'LL staighten them out. I mean, simply using the kinetic energy formula would show how powerful a multi-kilometer chunck of ultra-dense metal moving at a high speed really is. I mean, the chunk that blew installation 04 apart crossed the 10,000km gap in less than 10 seconds, meaning faster than 1,000 kilometers per second. So if we give this even a very low estimate of a mass of 30,000,000 kilograms*For the piece that hit the fortesss):
0.5 x 30,000,000 x 1,000,000^2
15,000,000,000,000,000,000 Joules which is about
3,600,000,000 tons which is
3.6 Gigatons
This is with a TINY estimate of the weight of the piece.
Despite seeming rather low it actually seems to fit well with the rest of the universe, in my opinion. IIRC, covenant firepower was retconned from Gts to Mts. Having defense abilities in the Gt range still allows the Forerunners to stand head and shoulders above everything else without being to crazy.
It does seem low compared to their offensive power allegedly being in the Tts but we may have overestimated. The source for the Tts of power comes from the final battle at the capital. Maybe the Fortress outputs several Tts of firepower as a whole but each individual gun only outputs a few Gts. Because remember, it was a whole fortress and accompanying ships firing at a single Halo and not a single weapon.
The teraton event was calculated by the Fortresses' picket cruisers (small enough that one could land in a football field) opening fire on the ring to destroy it like it was wrecked in Halo CE.
This is a picket cruiser.
Scaling up from that makes Fortresses [REDACTED]-huge death machines.
There were Fortress class vessels firing upon the Halos as well. Not just picket cruisers. In addition there was a massive amount of picket cruisers firing at the Halo, well over a few thousand. You are also assuming the fact that firepower scales linearly. You are assuming quite a bit.
Halo Cryptum page 314
"The first fortress's fighters moved in, surrounding one of the primed Halos and engaging it's sentinels. Simultaneously, four cruisers sent white-hot beams to points around the targeted installation. Sentinels intercepted some of those beams, partially deflecting them but also absorbing and sacrificing. Other beams struck home, carving canyon-like gouges across the mottled inner surface and blowing blue-white plumes of debris and plasma from the edges."
Cue destruction as shown in Halo CE.
Four cruisers. Not thousands. And this time the Fortress certainly didn't fire it's weapons.
Of course, we get pretty loopy calcs from the Sentinels as well. Being able to deflect capship weaponry (albeit for a very limited time and resulting in destruction for the Sentinel) and engage spacefighters in combat...
Man, the Sentinels on 04/05 were nerfed to hell.
Thinking about the fighters, not cruisers. My bad. Of course this does not mean that the firepower scales linearly. The Fortress could have the exact same weapons only more of them, for example. Of course "canyon-like gouges" is not a very definite form of measurement in calculating firepower. That could mean any number of things.
As for the sentinels it could be those larger ones we saw in Halo 2 or even the odd Strato-Sentinel.