In Response To: Re: Why didn't the Covenant just shoot the MAC's?? (gspawn)
: On topic: Unlike Covenant shielding, maybe MAC shielding (being as how a huge
: planetary generator is involved) requires an insane amount of damage to
: "crack". And instead of vanishing and waiting to be popped back
: up, the Earth system might constantly be in effect (shooting the shield
: detroys that part of the shield, but new shield force is travelling at the
: speed of light to replace it). Assuming any of this is true, the Covies
: need to focus on tying up the Human ships in battle in order to sneak a
: shot at the generators.
: Relative to Halo 2, maybe the Covenant didn't shoot at Earth's guns because
: they found a way to slip landing pods through the MAC shield system, but
: never found a way to successfully get plasma weapons to shoot through the
: shield. Ergo, shots from the carriers were worthless, but boarding parties
: with bombs could do the job in one shot without tying up a cruiser's guns
: at all. Once through, however, their boarding party could operate
: normally. Just a random idea.
: We don't even technically know if Earth's MAC guns were shielded, and if they
: weren't, the answer would be "because then we wouldn't have had a
: Cairo Station level if they did that".
: [on other notes]
: Tesla and other Earth scientists were big on broadcast power in the past.
: Theoretically, if we could just find some way to make it remotely
: effecient at all, it'd be a wonderful thing to have. Imagine if someone
: could pop up something like a cell phone tower and suddenly, nothing in
: your house never needed to be plugged into the wall ever again. That's
: broadcast power, baby.
: The Mjolnir suits are, technically, the products of project MJOLNIR. I don't
: think they ever technically got their own name (other than a revision
: number), as I think they really just got an association with the program.
: As in, they're the Project Mjolnir Personal Power Armor Mk.x, if you
: follow, and people just call them Mjolnir by themselves for short.
er..dude..earth tech doesnt HAVE shields on that scale to protect orbital MAC's...
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