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| :They can't be pulse lasers; those are a beam of energy, while the Autumn was hit by blue/cyan bolts of some kind (as a side note, the pulse laser article says the beam is cyan when it appears to be purple). So it couldn't be plasma torpedoes (red) or a pulse laser (purple beam). Also, plasma charges on Seraphs are Air-to-Ground focused pillars of plasma, so I don't think that's what hit the Autumn. My opinion? They are point defense lasers, the colors of which we don't know of and are much more accurate than plasma torpedoes, meaning hitting the Halo is much less likely. [[User:Kyouraku-taichou|Kyouraku-taichou]] 02:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC) | | :They can't be pulse lasers; those are a beam of energy, while the Autumn was hit by blue/cyan bolts of some kind (as a side note, the pulse laser article says the beam is cyan when it appears to be purple). So it couldn't be plasma torpedoes (red) or a pulse laser (purple beam). Also, plasma charges on Seraphs are Air-to-Ground focused pillars of plasma, so I don't think that's what hit the Autumn. My opinion? They are point defense lasers, the colors of which we don't know of and are much more accurate than plasma torpedoes, meaning hitting the Halo is much less likely. [[User:Kyouraku-taichou|Kyouraku-taichou]] 02:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC) |
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| Kyouraku is right, but plasma torpedoes have a range of colors. -Dark Scion
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| i like to point out that the page says that a plasma torpedo can travel at half the speed of ligth while also saying that longswords or pelicans are able to evade them. this would be like trying to dodge laser fire. | | i like to point out that the page says that a plasma torpedo can travel at half the speed of ligth while also saying that longswords or pelicans are able to evade them. this would be like trying to dodge laser fire. |
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| First, many battles happen when combatants are many light-seconds away from each other (186,000 miles) and therefore would have time to be dodged by smaller ships. | | First, many battles happen when combatents are many light-seconds away from each other (186,000 miles) and therefore would have time to be dogded by smaller ships. |
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| as for the color, I suspect that the atmosphere alters the color of the torpedos to blue (just like what it does with some of the sun's light). | | as for the color, I suspect that the atmosphere alters the color of the torpedos to blue (just like what it does with some of the sun's light). |
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| == Plasma Torpedoes are slower then that ==
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| I'd like to point out that for the 150,000 kilometers per second quote, the ship in question was the Iroquois and had been accelerating towards the Covenant ships for seven minutes with its reactor at 150%. This means you need to account for how fast the Iroquois was going to get a proper figure.
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| == Target Tracking Capabilities ==
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| Okay, um, I don't exactly get how a plasma torpedo is guided to its intended target by a magnetic field. I'm not the brightest guy around, so, to me, this really doesn't make sense in how it would work. This sentence: "The atoms that are on an appropriate trajectory between the Covenant starship and its target are then herded towards the mouth of the torpedo tube by magnetic pulses" also confuses me. Why would the plasma torpedo launcher need to herd those specific kind of atoms? Does an atom's trajectory even exist, and does it have to do something with its target tracking capabilities? Someone help me out here
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| == Destructive Power ==
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| Does anyone have an estimation on the destructive power of plasma torpedoes? A friend has a theory that it's the same as a meteorite of similar size, given the fact that it can glass the ground on impact, as some meteors have been known for.
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| --[[User:Ace Sorou|Ace Sorou]], June 20, 2009
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| == Corvette Plasma Cannons = Plasma Torpedos? ==
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| In Halo:Reach, the Corvette has banks of cannons that fire bolts of plasma. Are these plasma torpedo tubes?[[User talk:SPARTAN-347|SPARTAN-347]] 19:03, September 19, 2010 (UTC)
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| ::Torpedo suggests some level of guidance (unless you count that "dragon emanating from water" thing from China).-- '''[[User:Forerunner|<font color="blue">Fore</font>]]''[[User talk:Forerunner|<font color="green">run</font>]]''[[Special:Contributions/Forerunner|<font color="red">ner</font>]]''''' 19:13, September 19, 2010 (UTC)
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| :I think those are [[pulse laser turret]]s.- <font face="Century Gothic">[[User:Subtank|<font color="gold"><font color="#FF4F00">5</font>əb<font color="#FF4F00">'7</font>aŋk</font>]]<sup>([[User talk:Subtank|<font color="#FF4F00">7alk</font>]])</sup></font> 19:07, September 19, 2010 (UTC)
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| ::I'm pretty sure they're [[Plasma Turret (Starship)|plasma turrets]] since they fire visible bolts of plasma. They clearly aren't lasers; lasers would be thin beams that travel at the speed of light, which clearly isn't the case here.
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| ::On a related note, I think [[Plasma Turret (Starship)]] and Plasma Torpedoes are pretty much the same thing. It seems that plasma turrets can fire both guided or un-guided bolts of plasma. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 19:14, September 19, 2010 (UTC)
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