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Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?
Posted By: jbrockDate: 7/12/05 9:01 p.m.

In Response To: Installation 05-Still remotely functional? (oBlade)

: In the first cutscene of H2, two (damaged) fragments of Alpha Halo can be
: seen, even still rotating as if the rest of the installation were there,
: either because the Covenant corrected it's spin after they arrived (it is
: a relic and what not), or it corrected itself, etc.

: Assuming the control room is still intact (and the main firing mechanisms),
: it should still be able to fire. After all, the Forerunner wouldn't want
: such an expensive structure to be destroyed by anyone/any Flood with a
: hydrogen bomb. Seeing how it could sustain it's orbit and rotation very
: well for upwards of 100,000 years, I'm sure any ring is capable of
: recovering from an explosion even of that magnitude.

: Now, I'm going to go make sure those fragments are orbiting Threshold in the
: cutscene.

Well, okay, maybe. Except....it wasn't really so much a hydrogen bomb as it was three massive fusion generators as well as their laser cooling systems. Hold all that within the Halcyon-class, nigh-indestructible hull of the PoA for a nanosecond or so (backed, of course, by the operational--if failing--electromagnetic coils), that has got to be a massive amount of energy concentrated in a relativle small area. The only thin I don't understand is why the explosion simply cut one even section from the ring and sent it spiraling inwards, instead of blowing two ends outwards, snapping the ring into many many "shards."


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Installation 05-Still remotely functional?oBlade 6/4/05 7:14 p.m.
     Re: Installation 04-Still remotely functional?Zak Anderson 6/4/05 8:22 p.m.
           Re: Installation 04-Still remotely functional?UrsusArctos 6/4/05 8:58 p.m.
                 Re: Installation 04-Still remotely functional?reagan64 6/4/05 9:07 p.m.
                       Re: Installation 04-Still remotely functional?deadmonkey 6/4/05 9:12 p.m.
           Re: Installation 04-Still remotely functional?Jinno 6/4/05 11:04 p.m.
                 Re: Installation 04-Still remotely functional?Lil' Floodling 6/5/05 1:59 p.m.
                       Re: Installation 04-Still remotely functional?scorpionxx7 6/5/05 2:47 p.m.
                             Re: Installation 04-Still remotely functional?Aurora007 6/5/05 6:48 p.m.
                                   Re: Installation 04-Still remotely functional?Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 6/5/05 8:54 p.m.
           LaGrange PointInteractive Civilian 6/5/05 8:18 p.m.
                 Re: LaGrange PointEchoes 6/5/05 8:34 p.m.
                       Re: LaGrange PointStephen L. (SoundEffect) 6/5/05 9:05 p.m.
                       Re: LaGrange PointInteractive Civilian 6/6/05 1:21 a.m.
                             Re: LaGrange PointZak Anderson 6/6/05 2:39 a.m.
                                   Re: LaGrange PointDenizen VI 6/7/05 5:53 p.m.
                             Re: LaGrange PointStephen L. (SoundEffect) 6/6/05 7:51 p.m.
     Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?Jumbothemidget3 6/4/05 9:21 p.m.
           Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?deadmonkey 6/4/05 9:34 p.m.
                 Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?Milhouse 6/5/05 11:48 a.m.
                       Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?deadmonkey 6/5/05 12:00 p.m.
                       Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?MC vince 6/8/05 5:22 p.m.
     Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?Peptuck 6/4/05 9:50 p.m.
           Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?Watcher dude 6/5/05 12:38 p.m.
                 Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?Tarzan 6/5/05 2:57 p.m.
                 Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?Zethereight 6/5/05 3:46 p.m.
     Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?gg1978 6/5/05 9:54 p.m.
     Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?Brodingo 6/5/05 10:02 p.m.
           Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?Peptuck 6/5/05 10:30 p.m.
                 Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?light sword 6/26/05 4:23 a.m.
                       Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?Peptuck 7/12/05 10:22 p.m.
     Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?jbrock 7/12/05 9:01 p.m.
           Re: Installation 05-Still remotely functional?Guardian [cheaptrickfan09] 7/12/05 10:14 p.m.



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