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Posted by: Quantam
It would be a matter of how strong the shields are.
Personally I think that Super Macs are OP and would basically have been created to destroy anything.
If it penetrates the shields, it is a 100% confirmed kill. No chance.
And according to law of thermodynamics, if those ship's shields absorb all impact kinetic energy transferred from 3,000 ton slug at traveling of .4c would entirely vaporize entire ship.
So yes, Supercarrier would be destroyed in one hit from SMACs. There is various explicit details saying that impact of SMACs making various ships to shatter to fragments.
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't every single case of a MAC round not penetrating shields described as the round hitting shields, and bouncing away? I just remember them talking about MAC's hitting shields and being deflected, not hitting shields and stopping cold. I think the same description is used for the MJOLNIR shields?
I'm not quite understanding this "Oh, the shields absorbed the strike, therefore the ship goes ka-boom anyway." theory.
And again, the biggest ship we've seen is an assault carrier before. Super carriers we haven't seen against a super MAC, and frankly, going through one assault carrier and into another isn't going to go all the way through a super carrier (as shown by size difference)
I mean, we have examples of those rounds completely gutting CCS class ships, and maybe even assault carriers. But those are a completely different size range and league from the super carrier. It's like saying something can go through a Miranda class saucer in star trek, therefore it can go entirely through a borg cube.
edit: Yeah, Johnson's line about a super MAC like Cairo going through a covenant cap ships probably talks about CCS class ships.
Posted by: Nocbl2
The SMAC shoots at like a tenth of the speed of light, yes? That would probably break the shields, at least, and since the ship is so long, I don't think that the shields would be very concentrated. They'd be more spread out, so that way, they could resist fighters easily, not spend $$$ on better shields, and still function pretty well. After all, with the number of fighters it could carry, it would probably use automated drones as an actual, physical shield.
I'd agree with the shields... if it had the same power source as a smaller ship. But I think the super carrier has a big enough power supply to have good shields all around. It wouldn't need it's shields to resist fighters. That's what they have those massive bays for. Fighters to take on UNSC ones. And pulse laser fire is known to gut entire missile barrages.
edit2: I mean, the whole Shields absorbing energy thus the ship gets hotter sounds more like how Mass Effect ship 'shields' work, not covie shields(As I hear it). Cause... it sounds like if I hit MJOLNIR armor with a heavy enough force, and the shields absorb it, you are saying the guy in MJOLNIR's going to be vaporized anyway. Even if the shields absorb all the damage and still have power/aren't drained fully.
[Edited on 06.09.2012 6:37 PM PDT]