[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Maul Marauder [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] blue3232 Seriously, the blast radius would be huge. A several ton projectile, hitting the ground at up to 40% light speed would do tremendous damage. The crater would be ENORMOUS.[/quote] Have you played Halo Wars? It would be like that.[/quote] That was for game play balance. Bungie isn't Ensemble, they wouldn't throw away common sense based on canon, just to have a cool new feature. The "Cleansing Beam" also would be way more powerful than it is in Halo Wars. It would glass the entire battlefield, incinerating everything in the vicinity. So, have you played Halo 3? When the UNSC shoots the Dreadnought, which is HUGE, it is engulfed in flames. Also, when Covenant glasses all of New Mombasa in a few Plasma Blasts. So, don't bring an RTS, where everything is compromised for balance, into a conversation about an FPS, where everything is put into thought. So, to OP, original idea. I like it. It just isn't realistic. Maybe a Shortsword Bomber sweep, but that would still do tremendous damage.