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Subject: Can somebody please explain the Keyes loop?

"Shall we let the Flood consume our holy city? Turn High Charity into another of their wretched hives? No enemy has ever withstood our might. The Flood, too, shall fail."

-Prophet of Truth.

I'm going to be honest and say I really don't understand what happened here. All I know is the PoA somehow managed to destroy a supercarrier...

  • 01.05.2013 5:55 PM PDT

I find your question very hard to understand.
What loop? Define "here".

  • 01.05.2013 5:57 PM PDT

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I am the last of the primes.


Posted by: TallestSpark
I'm going to be honest and say I really don't understand what happened here. All I know is the PoA somehow managed to destroy a supercarrier...

No No No.

A UNSC Destroyer killed 2 frigates and 1 covie Destroyer, the ASSAULT Carrier then shat it self and ran for it's bros...

  • 01.05.2013 6:29 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

I am not sure if i remember it myself but i never found it that interesting.


I think keyes just let the plasma torpedoes lock on to the PoA and rushed at the ship letting the torpedoes hit it instead.

  • 01.05.2013 6:29 PM PDT

This will probably be easier than me trying to explain it.

  • 01.05.2013 6:30 PM PDT

"Shall we let the Flood consume our holy city? Turn High Charity into another of their wretched hives? No enemy has ever withstood our might. The Flood, too, shall fail."

-Prophet of Truth.


Posted by: ferrrari

Posted by: TallestSpark
I'm going to be honest and say I really don't understand what happened here. All I know is the PoA somehow managed to destroy a supercarrier...

No No No.

A UNSC Destroyer killed 2 frigates and 1 covie Destroyer, the ASSAULT Carrier then shat it self and ran for it's bros...


How did the destroyer do that? Was it the PoA?

  • 01.05.2013 6:30 PM PDT
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Read the Fall of Reach, it explains it very well what with it being the source of the original information.

[Edited on 01.05.2013 6:32 PM PST]

  • 01.05.2013 6:32 PM PDT

"There is no time for peace. No respite. No forgiveness. There is only WAR!"

(This is always how I attempted to explain it) it is literally a loop. You get trails of homing plasma to follow you, and head under a carrier with the plasma in tow. And being to pull up as soon as you clear the carrier, the plasma following at a distance continues to home in on your position and fails to see the carrier in the way. If youre lucky enough the carrier's shields are down, or weak enough to be susceptible to plasma.
Example

[Edited on 01.05.2013 6:34 PM PST]

  • 01.05.2013 6:32 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Breakdown of the Keyes Loop from Halsey's journal.

  • 01.05.2013 6:34 PM PDT

"Shall we let the Flood consume our holy city? Turn High Charity into another of their wretched hives? No enemy has ever withstood our might. The Flood, too, shall fail."

-Prophet of Truth.

Also how did the PoA destroy that one super carrier in the battle for Reach?

  • 01.05.2013 6:39 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.


Posted by: TallestSpark
Also how did the PoA destroy that one super carrier in the battle for Reach?


You mean the sniper ship? It used the upgraded MAC and 500 Archer missiles to bring down the ship's shields, then launched a Longsword with a Shiva nuke to blow it up.

  • 01.05.2013 6:44 PM PDT
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Captain Keyes did performed his legendary Keyes Loop aboard the Iroquois, not the Pillar of Autumn.

  • 01.05.2013 7:39 PM PDT