Covenant Bomb
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- "Sir? Permission to leave the station."
- — John 117
- "For what purpose, Master Chief?"
- — Lord Hood
- "To give the Covenant back their bomb."
- — John 117
Covenant Bomb
The Covenant Bomb was a type of large tactical ordnance. They were the counterpart to the UNSC's tactical Nuclear weapons.
History
These bombs were used during the Battle of Earth to assault the Orbital Defense Platforms. There were several boarding parties which consisted of many Elites, Grunts, and Drones. The Boarding parties delivered the ordnance and destroyed Athens Station and Malta Station. The bomb that was on Cairo Station was secured by John-117 and Cortana. The Spartan performed a micro-gravity maneuver to deliver the device to a Covenant Assault Carrier with shields down and a 'hole' created by a pair of Longswords. The chief entered the hole and detonated the bomb in the core resulting the destruction of the assault carrier.[1]
Appearance
The Covenant bomb's appearance is of a long bulbous shape with many spikes protruding from it. It has a central control hub located at the top of the bomb. Since this bomb seems to be for space use it is possible that the spikes on the side are used for shrapnel when the bomb explodes to create holes in a ship to aloow oxygen to escape, this is unlikely however sice it does a fine job wtih just the explosion.
Trivia
- Jason Jones of Bungie referred to the bomb as the "Giant Covenant Space Pickle".
- When the bomb is reactivated by John-117 it takes 7 seconds to explode.
- It appears in Halo Zero, a fan-made 2D Halo game made for the PC.
- The bomb only appears in Halo 2.
- It is possible that it uses Antimatter and is the Antimatter Charge Cortana refers to.
- The bomb's appearance looks like a present-day naval mine (sea mine)
- The bomb was not originally going to be included in Halo 2, instead there would be a level were the Master Chief would board the Covenant Assault Carrier and destroy it from within, but due to deadlines, it was cut and Bungie decided to add the bomb.
Gallery
John-117 removing a bomb from Cairo Station.
John-117 delivering a bomb to a Covenant Assault Carrier.
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Athens Station is destroyed by a bomb during the opening stages of the Battle of Earth.
