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Subject: OK... The Assualt Rifle explanation, hopefully this is the last one

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Here's a good and easily understandable reason, in the Halo books it stated that the battle rifle and magnum were new advances in human tech for fighting against the covenant. its easy to understand that there would be plenty of old captured human weapons being studied on the Covenant capital ship. The chief needed a weapon and that's what he got. plus it does take awhile to restock an entire army with new weapons. happy now?

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  • 05.11.2006 9:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: spartanwingzero
Here's a good and easily understandable reason, in the Halo books it stated that the battle rifle and magnum were new advances in human tech for fighting against the covenant. its easy to understand that there would be plenty of old captured human weapons being studied on the Covenant capital ship. The chief needed a weapon and that's what he got. plus it does take awhile to restock an entire army with new weapons. happy now?


Yush, and remember that the BR is just a modded AR. Weapons can easily be reconfigured by replacing peices off the frame. Just like a silencer on a pistol, peices can be added to alter effectiveness for certain terrain and fighting quarters.

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Yush, and remember that the BR is just a modded AR. Weapons can easily be reconfigured by replacing peices off the frame. Just like a silencer on a pistol, peices can be added to alter effectiveness for certain terrain and fighting quarters.

The Battle Rifle is not a modified MA5B. Its a completely new weapon. It stands to reason that not every single Marine out there is instantly going to have this new weapon, and with Earth ravaged by the Covenant, it's pretty doubtful the Chief would be able to get his hands on the latest equipment, so he's making do with old stuff. And the Covenant wouldn't store the technology on their ships, the Engineers would take it apart, record it, and report back to whomever they do.

Perfectly plausible. If you remember the great journey level (I think that was the level) inside the building there were alot of human weapons like BRs and Shotguns.

There were human weapons there because the Marines had been there before the Arbiter, remember the Marine corpses, and human Flood? Not to mention the human supply crates.

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  • 05.11.2006 9:39 PM PDT
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Chief is on a Forerunner ship that the Covenant are using. The covenant would never defile a Forerunner ship with human weapons, so no, there would not be assault rifles on board.

  • 05.11.2006 9:39 PM PDT

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OK, if you look at the AR it is just P90 with a futurisctic twist, the BR is in a completely different weapons class, with burst fire, smaller clips, and different rounds . its alot different than changing a frame or muzzel attachment.

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  • 05.11.2006 9:44 PM PDT

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The BR isnt a modded AR55, Its a completely new gun.

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In the Halo universe, the Battle Rifle is not modeled after the FAMAS. They would not model it after a weapon more than 500 years old. A lot of bullpup rifles look similiar.

  • 05.11.2006 10:17 PM PDT
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Ummm... Well, if you want to talk about the books, then don't you remember (in the second one I think) where the Elite shoots that person in the head with a pistol, then throws it down, calling it a barbaric weapon. I'm not sure of the exact lines, but that was basically it. Also, in the Halo 2 limited edition instruction book, aren't there things about how all of the human things are primative? But...I guess maybe Engineers may have gotten some weapons, but that it MAJOR speculation.

  • 05.11.2006 10:19 PM PDT

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acutally i said earlier that technically the assualt rifle was a P90

  • 05.11.2006 10:51 PM PDT

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  • 05.11.2006 10:52 PM PDT