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[[File:H4-MP-NeedlerShard-Flight-02.jpg|thumb|300px|right|A blamite needle shard fired from a T-33 Needler.]]

'''Blamite''' is a crystalline, high-explosive material used in the ammunition of [[Type-31 needle rifle]]s, [[Type-33 Needler]]s, [[Type-56 Needler]]s, and [[heavy needle cannon]]s.<ref>[http://halo.bungie.net/projects/halo3/content.aspx?link=bungiepodcasttime '''Bungie.net''': ''The Bungie Podcast: 1/27/2010''] (Sage Merrill at 36:40: ''"It is the equivalent on the Covenant side of the DMR. It is their sort of medium-range, repression rifle. As with all the blamite weapons, it does supercombine."'') ([https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bungie-podcast/id260716482 '''audio podcast'''])</ref> The crystals are mined from veins found throughout the interior of [[Suban]], one of [[Sanghelios]]' two [[natural satellite]]s.<ref name="mine">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 128''</ref><ref name="universe">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/weapons/needler '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Needler'']</ref>

Blamite is one of the few unique ammunition types in Covenant arsenal. When used as ammunition, blamite is capable of two types of damage to a target; ''penetration'', damage caused by the needles impacting flesh and entering it; and the usually-resulting ''supercombine'', the combined explosion of multiple (usually [[seven]]) needles wedged in the body. A crystalline projectile can cause fatal damage to its victim—a single shard can cause internal bleeding or strike a vital organ, with untreated wounds resulting in death. The resulting detonation of the shard upon penetration also spreads micro-shrapnel throughout the victim. Depending on the impact area and angle, several crystalline shards can cause amputation of limbs, and impacts to the chest are in most cases fatal; the supercombine properties can easily crack ribs, damage the lungs or heart, and cause severe flesh damage that can be very difficult and often impossible to repair. If enough rounds impact and detonate simultaneously, the unfortunate target can quite literally be blown apart.

While used exclusively in needle rifles and Needlers, the needles behave differently in both weapons when fired upon. Needles fired from a Needler appear to have some sort of "identify-friend/foe" function, as they will track on hostile targets but not allies of the wielder. Needles fired from a needle rifle lack this function, behaving more like traditional projectiles, but are much faster and require fewer embedded rounds to cause a lethal supercombine. The [[energy cutlass]], a melee weapon used predominantly by [[Kig-Yar]], uses a blamite shard as the blade. When thrust into a soft target, the blade will explode violently similar to a Needler shard.<ref>'''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]''', ''page 130''</ref>

Blamite was used by the [[Sangheili]] in their early weapon designs, prior to the establishment of the [[Covenant]] in [[852 BCE]]. [[Suban]] is the only known location of blamite veins, and some believed that the [[moon]] is the only world where the crystals exist. Although the crystals had been studied and documented for thousands of years by the Covenant, the properties of blamite remain perplexing to all. However, it is believe that the [[San'Shyuum]] may have covertly created highly specialized publications on blamite and its properties, but any such documents would have likely been destroyed alongside [[High Charity]] and its vast records complexes in [[2552]].<ref name="universe"/> Due to the vast size of the Covenant Empire, hundreds of carefully curated storage facilities were employed across dozens of systems to serve as local waystations for [[Covenant fleet]]s seeking to restock their stores, blamite being among the stocks of these facilities. Following the [[Human-Covenant War]], these facilities were often raided by numerous factions and blamite became a relatively attainable material. Subanese miners, while primarily serving the [[Swords of Sanghelios]], have also supplied other factions and species—willing to pay the [[gekz]]—with blamite, regardless of affilation.<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-crown-jul '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Crown Jul'']</ref>

With the Covenant's demise, Sangheili artisan-armorers garnered renewed interests in discovering the properties of blamite. Many pre-Covenant design patterns incorporating blamite have been uncovered to assist in the research. [[Human]] scientists had also began to express interest in the crystals, especially in regards to exploiting the energy-storage properties of blamite.<ref name="universe"/> [[UNSC]] and Sangheili researchers have since collaborated in an attempt to discover the properties and functions of blamite in [[Kolaar Manufactorum]] on [[Sanghelios]]. However, the results yielded from the research was listed as inaccessible by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].<ref>[https://forums.halowaypoint.com/yaf_postsm2969311_Catalog-Interaction.aspx#post2969311 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Catalog Interaction'' (post 2969311)]</ref> [[AMG Transport Dynamics]] Motorsport Manager [[Erik Burch]] proposed the creation of an [[M12 Warthog]] [[Project HOGSTICKER|variant]] which would have made use of a pair of experimental blamite afterburners, but the project was canceled by AMG's Special Projects Director [[Tyse Jenkins]] as he found Bursch's idea too outlandish.<ref name="needle me this">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-needle-me-this '''Halo Waypoint''' - ''Canon Fodder: Needle Me This'']</ref>

The ''[[Blood of Suban]]'' variant of the [[Type-57B carbine]] fires carefully carved Subanese crystal shards capable of penetrating armor and sympathetically detonating in lethal 'supercombine' explosions.<ref name="Armory Amore">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-armory-amore '''Halo Waypoint''' - ''Canon Fodder: Armory Amore'']</ref> The [[M12 Warthog LRV#Variants|Sword Needler Warthog]] features a [[M343A2 chaingun]] that fires blamite and is one of several innovations stemming from cooperation between the UNSC and the Swords of Sanghelios.<ref name="TAS">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/community/blog-posts/canon-fodder-tales-stingers '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Tales & Stingers'']</ref> [[Unggoy]] [[Goblin]]s are armed with a double-barreled heavy needle cannon capable of dealing significant damage to vehicles and fie a barrages of blamite that can target up to eight different hostiles.<ref name="buzz">[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-buzz-generating '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Canon Fodder - Buzz Generating'']</ref>

*The name "blamite" originates from [[Bungie]]'s method of censoring swearing on their forums, which replaces objectionable words with ''-blam!-''.<ref>[http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=13382 '''Bungie.net''', ''Legendary Map: Avalanche'']</ref>

File:Needlers and Ammo.jpg|T-33 Needlers and their needles in a [[Flood containment facility]].

File:Needler Sentinel.jpg|An [[Aggressor Sentinel]] firing blamite during the [[Battle of Installation 05]] in ''[[Halo 2]]''.

File:Needler Shard.jpg|A needle in ''[[Halo 3]]''.

File:HaloReach - KatFallen01.png|[[Kat-B320]] is killed by a T-31 needle rifle's blamite during the [[Siege of New Alexandria]] in ''[[Halo: Reach]]''.

File:FUD - MehaffeyDeath.jpg|[[Kennedy Mehaffey]] is killed by blamite during the [[Battle of Circinius IV]] in ''[[Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn]]''.

File:H4-MP-NeedlerShard-Flight-01.jpg|A needle in ''[[Halo 4]]''.

File:H2ANeedler.jpg|A [[Mark VI]]-clad Spartan firing blamite from a T-33 Needler on [[Shrine]] in ''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''.

File:H5G-Blamite.png|A blamite needle shard fired from a T-56D Needler.

File:H5G-TOTL.png|A [[NOBLE-class Mjolnir|NOBLE]]-clad [[Spartan-IV]] firing blamite from a ''[[Talon of the Lost]]'' on [[March on Stormbreak]].

File:H5G-BOSblamite.png|A [[CINDER-class Mjolnir|Cinder]]-clad Spartan-IV firing blamite from a ''[[Blood of Suban]]'' on [[Attack on Sanctum]].

File:H5G-M343A2blamite.png|A Sword Needle Warthog's M343A2 chaingun fires blamite on [[Raid on Apex 7]].

File:H5G-Heavyblamite.jpg|Blamite from a heavy Needler sticking out of a [[FOTUS-class Mjolnir|FOTUS]]-clad Spartan-IV on [[Empire]].

File:H5G-HeavyNeedlerblamite.png|A Goblin's heavy needle cannon firing blamite.

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