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:I've always believed that Thel meant he pursued the ''Autumn'' with all ships under his command that were not already engaged, not that he withdrew the entire fleet to chase one vessel. Remember that elements of the ''Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity'' were sent Installation 04's ruins prior to ''High Charity'''s arrival. The ships John was reffering to, or at least most of them, were not from the ''Fleet of Particular Justice''. Thus, we can't determine the size of the fleet based on that statement. --[[User talk:Braidenvl|"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have." -Thomas Jefferson]] 14:21, 17 November 2010 (EST) | :I've always believed that Thel meant he pursued the ''Autumn'' with all ships under his command that were not already engaged, not that he withdrew the entire fleet to chase one vessel. Remember that elements of the ''Second Fleet of Homogeneous Clarity'' were sent Installation 04's ruins prior to ''High Charity'''s arrival. The ships John was reffering to, or at least most of them, were not from the ''Fleet of Particular Justice''. Thus, we can't determine the size of the fleet based on that statement. --[[User talk:Braidenvl|"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have." -Thomas Jefferson]] 14:21, 17 November 2010 (EST) | ||
== Why did the ships take refuge behind Threshold? == | |||
Master Chief overloaded the engines of the Pillar of Autumn, meaning there was presumably some nuclear sort of blast that was powerful enough to destroy Installation 04. Why would all the Covenant ships need to hide from it? I was just reading Halo: The Fall of Reach, and there it states that even less powerful Covenant ships can take a direct nuke hit, and the extent of the damage is only to lose energy shielding. My point is, if the overloading of ship engines was so powerful it would threaten an entire fleet, why did the UNSC not simply blow up their ships occasionally to destroy Covenant ships? I have a similar query about the Slipspace Drive used as a makeshift bomb in Halo: Reach. It is stated in the game that the drive is essentially the hardest piece of tech to get one's hands on (presumably because it is ridiculously expensive), but surely if it was powerful enough to destroy one of the Covenant's most powerful ships, the UNSC could manufacture or research some sort of 'Slipspace bomb'? | |||
Back to the original question, I guess you could say that Thel 'Vadamee did not want to risk any damage whatsoever to his ships, so as a good leader had them shielded from the blast... My actual point here is the article states that ''Thel 'Vadamee ordered all ships to take refuge behind Threshold to avoid being destroyed'', but if a long distance nuclear blast is good enough to destroy an entire Covenant fleet, why don't the UNSC do this more often? |
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