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| {{Status|Canon}}
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| {{Weapon infobox
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| |image=[[File:Harvester firing mining laser.png|300px]]
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| |manufacturer=[[Lodam Armory]]
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| |series=
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| |type=Vehicle-mounted excavation tool
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| |variant=
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| |service=[[Post-Covenant War conflicts]]
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| |affiliation=[[Covenant remnants]]
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| |weight=
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| |length=
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| |ammotype=[[Plasma|Superheated plasma]]
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| |feed=
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| |operation=
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| |rate=Continuous
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| |range=Long range
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| The '''plasma drill''', also called a '''mining laser''', is the sole armament of the [[Za'zayara-pattern Harvester|Harvesters]] used by the [[Covenant remnants|post-war Covenant]]. It is primarily used as an excavation tool for the purposes of recovering [[Forerunner]] artifacts, although it is also utilized as a weapon.
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| ==Design==
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| The plasma drill fires a single greenish-yellow energy beam, similar to that of a [[focus cannon]]. At full power, the beam is capable of drilling through multiple layers of solid rock.
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| ==Operational history==
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| During the [[Requiem Campaign]] in [[2558]], [[Fireteam Crimson]] used a captured Harvester's plasma drill to bore an entrance through a rock wall into the caverns where a hidden Forerunner structure contained one of [[Requiem slipspace artifacts|the artifacts]] [[interdiction web|trapping]] the {{UNSCShip|Infinity}} on [[Requiem]].<ref>'''Spartan Ops''', [[S1/Exodus/One Last Time|S1E10 ''One Last Time'']]</ref>
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| During the [[Battle of Aktis IV]], one of Jul 'Mdama's Harvesters used its plasma drill to destroy the caves where [[Sali 'Nyon]] and his followers were hiding. Another Harvester ambushed [[Sarah Palmer]] and nearly killed her with a blast from its plasma drill. Although Palmer survived, she was trapped in a crevice and unable to stop [[Catherine Halsey]] from escaping with the second half of the [[Janus Key]].<ref>'''Halo: Escalation''', ''Issue 16''</ref>
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| ==Trivia==
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| *After the plasma drill is used in ''[[S1/Exodus/One Last Time|One Last Time]]'' to bore a hole through the rock wall, steam can be seen rising around the hole as the player passes through it.
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| ==List of appearances==
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| *''[[Halo 4]]''
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| **''[[Spartan Ops]]'' {{1st}}
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| *''[[Halo: Escalation]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Renegades]]''
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| *''[[Halo: Shadows of Reach]]''
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| ==Sources==
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| {{Ref/Sources}}
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| {{Covenant heavy weapons}}
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| [[Category:Covenant weapons]]
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