originally posted in:Halo Archive
Seeing as the covenant had never heard of nuclear weapons, I'm surprised humanity didn't use that to its advantage. In the cannon they always mention how the UNSC constantly ran out of nukes. This is bullshit. If we were fighting a technologically superior enemy we would mine every moon of ever planet in every solar system we controlled for uranium and helium 3. We would throw fusion and fission bombs at the covenant and ass ra pe them. Shit, 500 years in the future we would probably have antimatter weapons.
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It's an Aliens-esque military sci fi. Anachronisms are bound to be present.
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The covenant used antimatter bombs and the humans weren't constantly warring so nukes weren't in large supply. even then the Innies stole most of them in which the UNSC stole them back.
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Where exactly is it stated that the covenant use AM? And what I'm saying is that the UNSC would devote insane amounts of resources to MAKING nukes, I don't care if they didn't have any at the beginning of the war, 5 years in we would producing thousands per DAY!
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[i]"I'd guess an antimatter charge!" -Cutscene, Pillar of Autumn, Halo CE[/i]
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In what context was this AM charge referred to? I don't doubt that it's an actually cutscene quote, but how was this AM used?
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The Autumn was destroying CCS-Class Battlecruisers. They couldn't return fire due to fear of damaging Halo. So one of the boarding parties was sent with an antimatter charge to destroy the MAC, something they were successful in doing.
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So you're saying an AM charge was set off in the autumn and it only destroyed the MAC?
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Yup. It's just a small scale weapon. If you want to see a large scale one, look at the bomb they brought aboard Cairo Station.
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Must have been hard to keep track of, if it didn't destroy the entire ship it must have contained about 1 microgram of antimatter. The bomb that destroyed the Cairo would only have needed to be the size of a marble, not a giant spiked thing the size of a car.
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>Implying you can store Antimatter in any container >Implying failsafes are not required
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All you would need would be superconducting magnets. Combine those with the nanotech that the covies must surely have and you get a pinhead sized antimatter bomb.
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>Implying Covenant Dogma won't get in the way >Implying the Covenant make full use of the technology they have access to
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The fck do you find this shit^^^
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Edited by Lord of Admirals: 2/27/2014 12:18:16 AM[url=http://lmgtfy.com/?q=implying+gif]Google.[/url]
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Lol. Are you still applying our world's rules to a fictional ones's?