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:So just to clarify my point, seeing that a re-scan looks a little confusing to me!, what I'm saying that perhaps to carry over the same idea of orbital bombardment, but keep consistent with the calculated destruction given, that the Covenant are able to launch vast plasma blasts across planets in hours like previously thought, but perhaps that increasing the area of range reduces the power of the actual blast itself, hence why much of the landmass still seems to be intact. When they want to full on BURN something, then they resort to low-range glassing, where they can truly gurantee that the terrain beneath with burned to death. This seem to perhaps answer the question? [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 11:15, 28 October 2010 (EDT) | :So just to clarify my point, seeing that a re-scan looks a little confusing to me!, what I'm saying that perhaps to carry over the same idea of orbital bombardment, but keep consistent with the calculated destruction given, that the Covenant are able to launch vast plasma blasts across planets in hours like previously thought, but perhaps that increasing the area of range reduces the power of the actual blast itself, hence why much of the landmass still seems to be intact. When they want to full on BURN something, then they resort to low-range glassing, where they can truly gurantee that the terrain beneath with burned to death. This seem to perhaps answer the question? [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 11:15, 28 October 2010 (EDT) | ||
I always saw the data pads as under estimating the Covenant. Maybe the Covenant ships nee to push their reactors to the absolute limit and redirect all energy to glass.[[Special:Contributions/98.154.61.193|98.154.61.193]] 20:05, 28 October 2010 (EDT) | I always saw the data pads as under estimating the Covenant. Maybe the Covenant ships nee to push their reactors to the absolute limit and redirect all energy to glass.[[Special:Contributions/98.154.61.193|98.154.61.193]] 20:05, 28 October 2010 (EDT) | ||
== Plutonium? == | |||
A plasma is a gas that has been ionised, and Covenant plasma is superhot - that is all we know about the plasma used by the Covenant. My guess is that it's Plutonium-based plasma. This is because [[Wikipedia:Trinitite|Plutonium-based nuclear explosions leave behind a glassy residue]], just like the highly-radioactive element used in glassing. Further backing it up, Plutonium becomes a gas at 3228 °C - certainly enough to melt Titanium plating, which as a melting point of 1668 °C.-- [[User talk:Forerunner|Forerunner]] 11:48, 27 December 2010 (EST) | |||