Forum:UNSC battle cruiser with massive laser cannon

The new UNSC battle cruiser that has just been seen in the shine multiplayer level I have a few theories on. This is only a theory but I wonder since the UNSC has started to make energy weapons such as the spartan laser I am wondering if they designed this new ship so that it could support a massive version of the spartan laser. Sort of like our own energy projector but the power that it would need to charge and fire this weapon would need a ship of this size. It may also have dozens of supermac cannons as well but maybe because earth is getting a pounding at the moment the unsc may have been developing these new ships and there may be more then one so that if the covenant do conquer earth the unsc can send these ships in and totally obliterate the covenant. As the unsc would not want to nova bomb earth just to get rid of the covenant these ships might well serve that purpose. The theory for the massive laser cannon is because of the size of the ship. The fact of the matter is even though the spartan laser is our only energy weapon it is stronger then all covenant hand held energy weapons.

However with current human energy weapons technology the spartan laser can only be shot five times before recharging or discarding. Our battery technology is not as advanced as the covenants so a ship of this size may be needed to charge the laser that could literally blows holes through ships such as assualt carriers and even super carriers.

If it is armed with this weapons along with Super MACs and a number of NOVA bombs then the covenant is in for a nasty suprise. These ships would also probably armed with the standard mac cannon, archer missiles and shiva nukes and point defense miniguns.

This is all theory so please feel welcomed to add of critize in a constructive ways my theories thank.

Halo Fanatic Matt


 * ... Were you smokin' reefers or summat when you wrote that? We don't know that the Spartan Laser is the only UNSC energy weapon... also, of course you can't "nova bomb earth." Earth is the last human stronghold, so of course they wouldn't want to kill every single person there just to kill a couple ships that are still there. The Spartan Laser would NOT be a good weapon in space--even in the novels, they've blown holes through Covenant ships--a single hole like that isn't going to do that much damage. You can't put a Super MAC on a ship--a Super MAC is a space station, not a weapon. They already have ships with a MAC cannon, Archer missiles, and SHIVA nukes, so this wouldn't be any different. That would be VERY stupid to put miniguns on a space ship--you don't need point defense out there. Also, if they had Super MACs, as in MACannons that were better, they wouldn't also have the "standard mac cannon," so right now I think you're just putting random guns on a ship 'cause you think it looks cool. No offense, but you're just... weird.... o.O -- GPT ( talk )(eating) 17:01, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Several problems with this theory...
 * Unfeasible to use a ship-mounted Super MAC Cannon. Need *groundside* fusion generator to power it, too big to fit on a ~8000 meter warship.
 * Spartan Laser? Why that? Even on ground it's not extremely useful. Power source is extremely limited, and there are not supplies in the field to recharge its battery.
 * Point defense is useful against incoming starfighters, so that's OK. :-)
 * NOVA bombing Earth would destroy the last real UNSCDF stronghold...would take out several UNSC fleets and also most of UNSC CENTCOM & HIGHCOM.
 * Good initiative though. :-) Hope this critique helps!
 * Cheers,
 * Relen tless Recu sant 'o the Halopedia Team http://images.wikia.com/halofanon/images/a/ac/Fleet_Admiral.jpg TALK • SPEAK 18:30, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Comment: How can the UNSCDF develop a ship that quickly? The Battles for Earth have been raging for ~2 weeks...I'd think it'd be impossible to make a custom ship that quick. Au revoir! Cheers, Relen tless Recu sant 'o the Halopedia Team http://images.wikia.com/halofanon/images/a/ac/Fleet_Admiral.jpg TALK • SPEAK 18:32, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Time for some corrections suckers! The MAC guns aren't massively long as you seem to think GPT, only about 1500 km, similar length, if only slightly more than the Marathon cruiser, and the fusion generator for the ship would be massive, enough to power the vessel and a super MAC gun. Time for a correction for RR, i imagine its been in building for some time. ;] Ajax 013 10th of July, 20:24 GMT
 * Comment: "It may also have dozens of supermac cannons as well but maybe because earth is getting a pounding at the moment the unsc may have been developing these new ships and there may be more then one so that if the covenant do conquer earth the unsc can send these ships in and totally obliterate the covenant" <--read that Ajax ;-) Cheers, Relen tless Recu sant 'o the Halopedia Team http://images.wikia.com/halofanon/images/a/ac/Fleet_Admiral.jpg <font color="#A9A9A9">TALK • <font color="A9A9A9">SPEAK 20:40, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

I think it would be plausible for there to be scaled up Spartan lasers on the battle cruiser. I doubt that the UNSC managed to make the Spartan Laser without larger prototypes. Also a ship-board installation wouldn't have the problems of having only five shots, since the laser would powered by the ship's fusion reactor(s). The problem whether or not the UNSC did so.

Kregano 21:55, 10 July 2007 (UTC)