- jack0fhearts
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"Where ere thou hast been, here or in yon world manifest? Canst thou tell what is, or what was, or what is to come? No thing shall last. Yet there are some things that will never change. History is written in blood, yet are battles really lost on the battlefield? Canst thou tell me where thou comest, and where thou goest, and what is, or what was, or what will be? For everything remains, AS IT NEVER WAS."
Posted by: RKOSNAKE
1.- We don't even know if that was only the energy built up for the glassing beam or if that's the actual power of the beam, either way it didn't hit them directly.
We can get a pretty good idea. As soon as they notice Covenant retreating Kat says "Radiation flare! Big! Forty million roentgens!
" Now, having the actual spelling of "roentgens" I was able to look up what it is and it's lethality. It's a unit of measurement for exposure to ionizing radiation. 500 roentgens over five hours is lethal for a human. We then are able to know that it's ionizing radiation because "Atomic excitement scrambled the signal. Ninety million now!" Ninety million. That's 180,000 times the lethal dose for humans. Noble team should have been dead, even if the glassing beam was a half-mile away. Yet it was close enough to blast out the window, knock Noble team down, and temporarily blind Kat. What's more, Kat Jun and Carter were all without their helmets at the moment of the blast, yet they didn't die.
What's more, with the "we don't knows," do you know what type of radiation is put out from slipspace? Or if any radiation is put out from the FTL drive itself? Yeah, me neither. We have no real notion of how the FTL drives actually work. For all we know it uses an electronic impulse to rip a hole in the "fabric" of space. In which case Jorge would be shielded within the Ardent Prayer, and would have to only worry about EMP at worst. But then again, MJOLNIR is well shielded against EMP. This little unknown is further compounded by John's situation, of which I'll touch on with the next post.
2.- Problem is, he was wearing a helmet and he wasn't in the same room as the slispace engine.
I can only assume you mean John here, in which case your observations are irrelevant. Yes, John was wearing a helmet. But how do you know Jorge didn't put his back on? It's not like it was gone forever, it was only on the floor. I find it very hard to believe that with his Spartan II training and conditioning that he would just "give up." Even still, the nature of John's location complicates the paralleling survivability of the two Spartans.
While John wasn't right next to the FTL drive, he was directly exposed to slipspace. He was also directly exposed to the initial wave of Installation 04B. By all accounts, both of these would be far more lethal than the simple activation of a slipstream portal, yet we know for a fact that John survived. So why not Jorge?
3.- Again, they were not next to it when it happened, you seem to not notice that Jorge was literally in the center of the slipspace wake, without a helmet.
Already addressed.
Also, they cannot cure all kinds of cancer and there has been instances were radiation kills them too, like, i don't know...that one time in Mamore when a terrorist set off a nuke in the middle of the city, killing two million people, with another 8.3 million injured and many more expected to die due to cancers and radiation poisoning for many generations.
Cancer they can cure quite easily, according to Midnight in the Heart of Midlothian. Remember Baird? The ODST was told he had cancer, and that it was easily treatable within an hour. It's almost like the common cold any more. Hell, Baird didn't even know what cancer was.
However, on radiation poisoning, the snippet from Halsey's Journal on the events of Mamore didn't expand on any radiation poisoning specifically. It only said that there was radiation sent into the atmosphere and corruption of crops. I can only assume that the poisoning came from Glasslands, of which we know Traviss didn't pay the best attention to minor canonical details (i.e. a Spartan punching Halsey so hard that it shook her arm, and only gave Halsey a bloody nose.) It's possible that those 8.3 million people suffered further than necessary because of a complete lack of resources. Or it's possible that Traviss yet again created a problem that wasn't there. Several other canonical points (New Mombasa, John-117, Noble Team in New Alexandria,) show this to be next to a non-issue.