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Posted by: grey101
I was talking about the slipspace technology and confused myself. Regardless, it doesn't explain the forerunner technology just by say "we did it". How in the world can they crack forerunner technology in under 30 years when it took 27 years for them to get shields? I also bring up the plasma pistol again yet somehow they can get forerunner slipspace drives?
That is bad writing.
You're right. I think Karen Traviss could have done a tad more explaining in Glasslands in that respect. Maybe research made leaps and bounds once scientists got going, or maybe it was very highly classified. I can't give you a definitive answer, as much as I'd like to, given the current information we have. As for the plasma pistol, they don't know how it works, but scientists do know how plasma behaves. It's just a matter of being able to incorporate the technology. Not only would you need a very large amount of energy to create the plasma, but you would need a magnetic field to contain it. Perhaps scientists had issues creating the magnetic field to contain the plasma? As for the charging issue, I don't recall reading anywhere that humans got access to a recharging station for plasma weaponry, though I assume that if they did, the recharging issue would be resolved. Returning to the Forerunner technology incorporation, I'm sure it was probably nothing highly advanced (in Forerunner terms), but nonetheless useful and, as stated earlier, probably very highly classified. With the Huragok taken from the Dyson sphere, however, we can assume more complex Forerunner technology would be incorporated into the Infinity, as well as the S-IV program, as these particular Huragok had no outside exposure to any other technology but Forerunner technology.
[Edited on 03.14.2012 12:47 PM PDT]