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Subject: Onager taking out the BattleCruiser at the end of Reach
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-Did the energy forming underneath destroy the ship? If not, what happened to that energy?

[Edited on 07.13.2012 7:14 PM PDT]

  • 07.13.2012 7:13 PM PDT
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Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

The energy probably exploded. IIRC, we don't see what happens immediately after we shoot the ship. There are a few seconds of black screen with the sound of the ship going up. Probably contributed to the destruction.

  • 07.13.2012 7:20 PM PDT

Same thing that happened in Independence Day, I'd reckon.

  • 07.13.2012 8:22 PM PDT

Straight from the wandering mind of Watson 203

Eveything below is my speculation on what happened.
The slug impacted onto the energy projector of the CCS-class battlecruiser and will have severely damaged it and probably destroyed or shutdown systems involved in the maintenance and/or operation of it. Becuase of the failure of these systems the plasma the energy projector built up will have been dissapated in an uncontrolled manner to all surrounding areas, i.e the battlecruiser. The subsequent plasma damage caused will have shutdown or destroyed more systems and possibly caused an EMP too. The resulting damage will have been too much for the battlecruiser to cope with, thus it loses control and crashes into Reach's surface.

  • 07.15.2012 5:59 AM PDT