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Posted by: fsabran
Posted by: the real Janaka
Then why are you calling it dumb and unrealistic now, What, don't skimm, read.
I'm arguing that it's a gradual scale, that the more scientific fiction inconsistencies one adds, the more inconsistent the entire fiction becomes, and that it began relatively grounded. That it isn't dumb and unrealistic for a science fiction story/world, as ÿou say it is. I even took up an example of something that wasn't grounded (ugh, no pun intended) in the first game.im not going to argue about the individual points right now because i have other things to do, but i am going to say this, ME is more realistic, because the Codex writer at least try to stick somewhat to physics and actual military tactics.
[u]Thats why while the UNSC guns are equivalent to 1960's guns theirs are actulay advanced and also why their mass acelerators are not retarded,A sniper rifle that allows a human being to fire a round that's larger than a Barret, whilst standing, sixties tech. Just being capable of distributing recoil for it to work is an accomplishment of its own. That's science fiction too.
You're brushing through and dismissing everything far to quickly.
in counterpoint to the UNSC that instead of using light but fast rounds instead of ridicously slow (for space) and heavy MAC's, Then we have the SMAC's, thats proof of the UNSC's stupidity, with the power required to acelerate a 3000 ton round to 12000 Km/s they could have built a much more eficient microwave emiter that could have melted the covenant ships much faster than the SMAC's could destroy,This is only assumption. Sure, the tech required to build a gigantic microwave might be sound, but that doesn't say anything. Have you thought about the consequences of it, the possibilities, maintenence, construction cost, material, etc? Probably not. Just adding a random possibility to a universe/fiction without consequence doesn't really work.
And what's to say that would work on the Covenants shields? As far as humanity knows a mass accelerated object is harder to deflect or absorb than microwaves.
and the NOVA managed to somehow create a pressure wave in space, do you know how retarded that is, the whole reason why there isn't fire on space is because there is not enight oxygen and or other gases to suport it, yet somehow the NOVA "Herp Derp 9 nuclear warheads encased in Derp" bomb managed to create a Pressure wave, i repeat A PRESSURE WAVE! in space.Again; another thing you're dismissing because of a most obvious factor. What would you call an explosion in space? What happens if a bomb is detonated in space, does it simply not work casue there aren't any gases there? Do you even know what a NOVA is made of, what principle/s it relies on? For all we know, it could have been pressure waves becasue of internal matter that later transplanted onto the nearby planet and surrounding ships, objects.
The only things one can bring up in this kind of discussions are the elements that contradict each other, or elements that are thoroughly defined, yet work against itself/themselves.
oh, and the PoA being lighter than Air was calculated in the fall of reach for your information.I'll have to revisit this. Wonder why it was never mentioned on the countless Reach is not canon threads? ...