- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Why shouldn't they have been allowed to shoot you? Holograms are normally made from light, but they don't have to be. It may be possible and make more sense, in the far future, to create holograms based off low energy plasmas. A simple spike through the matrix and voila, it's spitting high energy plasma.
Seems to me those holodrones weren't standard issue though. I'm guessin they're fairly unique and aren't a covenant technology. I think instead they were Forerunner artifacts in the same way I think Tartarus' force staff was. I see them as devices that the Covenant haven't been able to duplicate or mass produce and thus are given only to thire most "trusted" aides.