Editing Talk:M6 Spartan Laser

==Selene's Lance==

I would say that it's most definitely named after the Greek goddess. It's a common theme in the Halo Universe.[[User:The Ragin Pagan|The Ragin Pagan]] ([[User talk:The Ragin Pagan|talk]]) 23:25, 21 January 2018 (EST)

==Untitled==
There is no way I'm going to remember that name... --[[User:Dragonclaws|Dragonclaws]]<sup>([[User talk:Dragonclaws|talk]])</sup> 04:07, 2 February 2007 (UTC)

Keep the Weapon/Anti-Vehicle Model 6 Grindell/Galilean Nonlinear Rifle The same name people will get confused is it isnt called that.--[[User talk:Harmphrey|Harmphrey]] 04:23, 4 April 2009 (UTC)[[User:Harmphrey|Harmphrey<font color="red">'''Harmp'''</font><font color="black">'''hr'''</font><font color="gold">'''ey'''</font>]] 21:24 3 2009

:In my opinion in appears to be just a folder hierarchy that starts at '''Weapons''' then breaks down to '''Anti-Vehicle Weapons''' and then the actual weapon "folder", the '''Galileian Nonlinear Rifle (W/AV M6 G/GNR)'''. What other reason would there be for having "Weapon" in the title? -- [[User:Esemono|Esemono]] 04:34, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
::Maby thats what bungie listed it as before naming it? some companies do that. They give it names like 'item/carry/c320' or something like that. - Forerunner 15:37 - 2/2/07

You should ask Bungie that. Until you change their mind, we're keeping their name for their rifle. Troubleshooter 22:37 12 February 2007 (UTC)

At 98cm, This thing is definetly shoulder mounted, and looks like it weighs as much as a Rocket Launcher. - Forerunner 15:41 - 2/2/07


==Laser closed chamber==
Should I put in this image of the laser in its unused state?[[User:PX173|'''''PX''''']][[User_talk:PX173|''1'']]''7''[[Special:Contributions/PX173|''3'']] 06:17, 2 June 2009 (UTC) [[File:Closedlaser.JPG|thumb]]

:Made for Custom Edition, not an official source, so no.--<b>[[User Talk:-Ascension-|<font color="red">4</font>]][[User:-Ascension-|<font color="black">scen</font>]]</b> 06:41, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

::It isn't regarding the game, its regarding the laser, which is of course canon. [[User:PX173|'''''PX''''']][[User_talk:PX173|''1'']]''7''[[Special:Contributions/PX173|''3'']] 01:24, 3 June 2009 (UTC)

== Effectiveness against large vehicles ==

Someone put in the article without a source that the Spartan Laser doesn't kill wraiths in one hit. I am wondering if this was true for the beta or not, and any youtube links or bungie/egm posts that confirm the Spartan laser's effectiveness agaisnt Wraiths would be great.


I'm the one that changed that, and while I don't have any links to prove it, I know it's true, because I've been hit by the Spartan Laser while in a wraith on Valhalla and survived, the same is true of Scorpions. Even so, if the person with the laser manages to hit the cockpit (where the driver is) on the vehicle, then it will still expload in one hit, but again, for this it has to be a direct hit on the driver. ([[User:Jay Hus|Jay Hus]] 17:00, 29 October 2007 (UTC))

I would assume it was lag, or maybe a close miss. except for the Wraith, on campaign (ODST), I hit a Wraith in it's one point, between the turret and chassis, and it didn't count, it was crazy, but not one in a million. [[User talk:L33tmcphee|L33tmcphee]] 01:29, February 26, 2010 (UTC)

== Cost. ==

How do we know the cost?

It was in the artical on B.net about the Lazer.[[User:151.201.219.96|151.201.219.96]] 20:59, 18 May 2007 (UTC)Pwnage

== Halo CE? ==

I'm removing the little line at the bottom about the "inspiration" for the Spartan-Laser, because for the moment it is baseless speculation and/or rumour-mongering. if it turns out to be true (meaning if Bungie admits it) then please, by all means, put it back. besides, it was a poorly written sentence anyway, referring to the writer him/herself, and lowered the quality of the article. -- [[User:Specops306|SpecOps306]] 04:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

==Multiple Lasers==

That is a lens flare. Presumably to show that the laser flashes.

Perhaps the beam splits seconds after the first firing? You know, like it diffuses, this could cause the spalsh damage that Frankie was talking about.

:Actully, it's just one beam if you keep the Spartan Laser straight. If you are moving if you fire, the lasers will separate, i think. Please correct me if I'm wrong. --[[user:Blemo|<font color="#D3D3D3">B</font><font color="#A9A9A9">le</font><font color="#808080">mo</font>]] http://www.wikia.com/skins/common/progress-wheel.gif <small><sup>[[user talk:Blemo|<font color="#A9A9A9">TALK</font>]]</sup> • <sub> [http://halopedian.com/Special:Contributions/Blemo <font color="A9A9A9">CONTRIBUTIONS</font>]</sub></small> 06:50, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

In forge mode, there is a glitch where whenever you switch to monitor mode just before the laser fires, when you switch back occasionally three or more shots fire out rapidly.
[[User:Sgt. Raynor|Sgt. Raynor]] 13:29, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

It's just that Bungie couldn't/didn't create a continous beam for the laser. They programmed it to fire continous projectiles, but very fast so that you don't see the laser's "trails". It travels about as fast as a sniper rifle's bullet, but at a high rate of fire since there is no other projectile in Halo 3 that stays there for more than a second in the air. So Bungie had to make multiple beams for the laser.[[User:PX173|'''''PX''''']][[User_talk:PX173|''1'']]''7''[[Special:Contributions/PX173|''3'']] 02:12, 28 May 2009 (UTC)(forgot to sign,siged later than edit)

== kaboom ==

if its a rifle why dos'nt it look like a rifle and looks more like a rocket luncher
:Whoever you are, while your argument doesn't make any sense -- you are actually correct. A laser cannot possibly be a rifle. Rifle's get their name from special grooves in the barrel (called rifling). A laser generally doesn't have a barrel, much less rifling in that barrel. A laser has an emitter, not a barrel or action. Therefore it is, in fact, errantly named. [[User: ElFroCampeador|ElFroCampeador]] <sup>[[User talk:ElFroCampeador|<font color="red">TALK</font>]]</sup> [[File:Marine Corp CPL.JPG|20px]] 05:40, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

If we want to get technical I guess we can't say Plasma Rifle anymore, should we call it Plasma-based Rifle-esque Weapon?
[[User:Zuranamee|Zuranamee]] 1:52, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

:Covenant weapons have their own names pronounced in covenant toungues. And that includes the Beam Rifle, unless I'm missing something. And I presume Bungie made it a rifle because we couldn't make it a 'gun'(guns fire projectiles), a 'cannon'(used for siege, defense, also fire projectiles), or a launcher(WTF '''''laser launcher?!'''''). But still, it'd be more appropriate to replace rifle with laser.[[User:PX173|'''''PX''''']][[User_talk:PX173|''1'']]''7''[[Special:Contributions/PX173|''3'']] 02:14, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, while an energy weapon cannot be a rifle by definition, it can be a rifle by function. Rifles have several recognizable characteristics other than the rifling mechanism, such as size, accuracy, and use; all of which are in some way tied into the rifling mechanism.~~A.O.A~~ 15:01, May 30, 2010 (UTC)

== name origin.... ==

Did they call it the ''Spartan Laser'' in honor of the Master Chief and the other spartans or is it because only spartans are qualified(able) to use them?--[[User:0nyx Sp1k3r|0nyx Sp1k3r]] 21:49, 12 June 2007 (UTC)BLARG!!!

I'm guessing the latter, since Lasers were still experimental at the time.--[[File:Laser Kill.gif|20px]] ''<strong>[[User:Digipatd|<font color="Black">digipatd</font>]] | [[User talk:Digipatd|<font color="Black">talk</font>]] | [[User:Digipatd/Contacts|<font color="Black">contact</font>]] |  | [http://live.xbox.com/member/Digipatd <font color="Black">play</font>]</strong>'' 22:05, 6 August 2007 (UTC)


Sergeant Johnson was the first UNSC soldier to fire the 'Spartan Laser' It is believed that Johnson is a member of the first Spartan program (though it wasn't called the Spartan program at the time). ([[User:Jay Hus|Jay Hus]] 21:36, 29 October 2007 (UTC))

It's most likely called the Spartan Laser because only a Spartan can lift and use the laser unassisted. Johnson is the only Marine to use the Laser, and he could be a possible Spartan I. You can give it to a Marine in The Covenant, but this is probably a programming oversight.[[User:Metaridley|Metaridley]] 15:54, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

ODSTs can use them.[[User talk:Papayaking|Papayaking]] 19:00, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

Maybe it's because both the SPARTANs and the Spartan Laser are very powerful [[User talk:Ketsumaye|Ketsumaye]] 01:49, December 2, 2009 (UTC)

you can give this to any random soldier fighting on Reach, [[User talk:Andrew-108|Andrew-108]] 15:31, September 19, 2010 (UTC)

I'm guessing it's simply because of how incredibly expensive they are they were for the most part only given to Spartans. [[Special:Contributions/98.154.60.146|98.154.60.146]] 00:28, 8 November 2010 (EST)

== Design ==

Anyone notice that it looks a lot like a FN P90 with heavy plating attached to it?

Sure, if you put about 75 lbs of metal on, maybe, if you cant see. H ow can you turn a tiny, almost handgun-like machine gun into a ''Spartan Laser?'' if anything it looks somewhat like a javelin ground to air shoulder fired rocket launcher without the targeting system. OK, maybe the handle bears some resemblance, but thats about it. [[User talk:L33tmcphee|L33tmcphee]] 22:10, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

== Counterpart? ==

I was thinking of what the counterpart to Spartan Laser is, because it isnt Fuel Rod or Rocket, they are counterweapons, but I need to know if anyone agrees with me that the Gravity Hammer is the counterpart, they both take out vehicles, neither are support weapons surprisingly, they are relatively harder to pick up compared to SMGs or other common weapons, gravity hammer might be one hit kill, and im guessing it is; the only major difference is one is short range and the other is long range, but they have the same gameplay aspect: slowly take out everything and dont stay out in the open, because if someone starts shooting at you first with while you have one of these weapons, you will not win, unless they suck at shooting.
--[[User:Paco 027|«ραcø»]][[User talk:Paco 027|º²7]]| 05:58, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Not every weapon needs a counter. [[user: HaloFighter92]]

I agree with HaloFighter, it's about time we got something really badass. [[User talk:L33tmcphee|L33tmcphee]] 22:13, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

== Origin ==
Should we add this? It would be only speculation, but where did the Laser come from? how would the UNSC develope it? I was thinking it was a result of the collection and study of Plasma Weapons the Spartans collected in Fall of Reach. Or, it may have been from a captured Sentinel or Sentinel "super beam" from Ghosts of Onyx, whose Beams were described as RED, and would kill in one hit and chop down trees with ease.

Well honestly its all very much speculation with little evidence so don't add it. Also i doubt it would be from sentinels, plasma and especially the onyx sentinel laser (as how would the UNSC of researched it? Nobody left the planet after the attack began and the only time anybody went there was during the time when the SPARTAN laser would of already been in use. --[[User:Ajax 013|Ajax 013]] 20:57, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Im guessing, after the elits joined the UNSC they taught us how to make a laser-based weapons and this was the result. the reason it has to charge up is becuase of our primitive knowledge of lasers. infact, the plasma rifle itself (A true covenant weapon) has a small charge rate. The only species that truly understands laser is the forerunner (i spelled that right, Right?) since the sentinel beam has no charge time. So im guessing the spartan laser was manufactured using covenant technology. My reason why is becuase it only shows in halo 3 (when the elites were part of UNSC) and the reasons above. [[User:PsychoThunder|PsychoThunder]]

So that means the UNSC reverse-reverse engineered it? Because the covenant reverse engineered forerunner stuff, and if the humans did that to covenant tech...[[User talk:Papayaking|Papayaking]] 19:04, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

It was around long before the Human-Separatist Alliance. It was in Halo Wars so that defeats that theory. I think the UNSC just developed it on its own. [[Special:Contributions/98.154.60.146|98.154.60.146]] 00:33, 8 November 2010 (EST)

==Spartan Laser WAV M6 GGNR==
Do you think we should rename this article '''Spartan Laser WAV M6 GGNR''' as seen in the Halo 3 Manual? --[[User:EliteSpartan|EliteSpartan]] 6:17 August 17, 2007

Why not but lets wait for the approval of the admins.
[[User:Spartan-007|Spartan-G007]]  <sup>[http://live.xbox.com/en-GB/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=SpartanG007 <font color=green>XBL gamertag:SpartanG007</font>] (currently have red ring of D3TH)</sup>

Well the names are exactly the same, the only difference are a pair of /, probs just for ease of printing and to stop confusing newbies :P. --[[User:Ajax 013|Ajax 013]] 14:27, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Hey it is an abreviation. [[User:Clavix2|<font color="Black">Clavix2</font>]] [[File:Halo2emblem.ashx.jpeg|30px]] <sup> [[User talk:Clavix2|<font color="Red">TALK TO ME </font>]]</sup> <sup>[[Special:Contributions/Clavix2|<font color="Black">Things I done </font>]]</sup> 14:29, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

== Two Lasers ==

Does anyone else think that it is worth noting in the trivia section that the Spartan Laser given to you by Johnson in the battle against 343 is considered by the game to be different from other Spartan Lasers? What I mean is you can have a normal Spartan Laser (obtained by killing Johnson), and you can also pick up the infinite-charge one that he has in your second weapon slot. I have a screenshot but no Xbox Live, so that's moot. [[User:Jimberson|Fred]] 12:02, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

== Could we atleast move this to Galileian Nonlinear Rifle ==

The official name is too long I think we need to shorten it to Galilean Nonlinear Rifle. Do we really need to call articles by their full name. Also,according to the spell check, it's Gal'''ile'''an not Galil'''ei'''an-[[User:Darth Scott|Darth Scott]] 03:50, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

We call the weapons by their full name, Scott. That's the policy here.--[[User:Spartan781|'''<font color="LightGrey">Sp</font><font color="DarkGray">art</font><font color="Gray">an-</font><font color="Black">781</font>''']] [[File:Seaman.png|25px]] <sup>[[User talk:Spartan781|<font color="black" face="Arial">Comm</font>]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/Spartan781|<font color="black" face="Arial">CSV</font>]]</sub> 03:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
:Which policy HP:MOS doesn't say it.--[[User:Darth Scott|Darth Scott]] 02:50, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
::There was a policy about it somewhere, but I forgot where. Check with the admins. I know it's a new policy to call weapons by their full name/designation. --[[File:BR55HB SR Battle Rifle.jpg|50px]] [[User:Blemo|<span style="color: gray; font-family: CarolusRomanFont; font-size: 10pt;">'''Blemo'''</span>]] http://www.wikia.com/skins/common/progress-wheel.gif <small><sup>[[user talk:Blemo|<font color="#A9A9A9">TALK</font>]]</sup></small> • <sub><small> [[Special:Contributions/Blemo|<font color="#A9A9A9">CONTRIBUTIONS</font>]]</small></sub> • <sub><small><span class="plainlinks">[http://www.bungie.net/Stats/Halo3/Default.aspx?player=Blemo+23 <font color="#A9A9A9">SERVICE RECORD</font>]</span></small></sub> • <sub><small><font color="#A9A9A9"><span style="font-weight: light;" title="''Loser''. noun -- Anyone that is dumb enough to stare at a message on someone's signature for no apparent reason. You reading this pretty much proves the point.">MESSAGE</span></font></small></sub> 02:59, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

== Video-wiki ==

Hi, I started a video wiki to show this weapon in action... found some nice clips and added some pictures from the gallery. Does anyone have a good clip to upload? you are welcome to do so and to add it to the rough cut. Thx, [[User:BryanP|BryanP]] 15:16, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

== Effectiveness against Elephants ==

I've experienced first hand that the Laser is utterly worthless agains the pilot of an Elephant. I used three shots on an enemy that was annoying me by driving in circles, and the Laser would pierce the armor - only to do no damage to the driver.

This would be worth mentioning if it hasn't...right?[[User:KaDin|KaDin]] 00:11, 20 February 2008 (UTC)KaDin


== Nature of Beam Generation ===
"The ability of the Spartan Laser to destroy most vehicles may hint that it fires a directed energy chemical laser, an extremely powerful laser that uses chemical reactions to produce a controlled beam."

This line is nonsensical IMO a laser beam is a laser beam since no matter how you produce it the end product is the same thing a beam of light all lined up and flying in on direction. Its ability to destroy armored vehicles has nothing to do how it produces the beam only with the beams power output. The most powerful lasers of today ''are'' chemical lasers, but that’s mainly because of power and other technical limitations, and most laser envsioned as weapons are expected to be of the solid state or free electron type. This is because a gas or chemical laser just makes a very poor weapons as they require large amounts of highly volatile and toxic chemicals to function which are expended as the weapon fires.

The Spartan Laser has a “battery” and can be recharged, but no mention is made of replacing gases only recharging the battery. This makes it MUCH more likely in my view that it’s some form of free electronic or solid state laser which uses some type of permanent lasing material and electricity to produce the coherent light beam. With modern power generation a laser of the M6’s power and compact size is unlikely, but we also can’t produce nuclear bombs that crack moons or engines that produce enough thrust to allow something bigger then a Nimitz class aircraft carrier to fly in the atmosphere so such issues are likely of less concern to the UNSC.

If no one objects I intend to remove it as largely baseless speculation. (and not replace it with my own as neither adds anything to the article and I merely wanted to explain why I think it's wrong.)
[[User:TK3997|TK3997]] 19:00, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm pretty sure that it uses [[Wikipedia:Q-switching|Q-switching]]. Interestingly, the Galilean in the name does not refer to Gallileo. It refers to Galilee, a town in what is now Isreal where jesus lived for thirty years. '''[[User:Specops306|<font color=purple>Specops306</font>]]''', '''''[[User talk:Specops306|<font color=blue>Kora</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/Specops306|<font color=purple>'Morhek</font>]]''''' 01:09, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm curious, where do you figure the Galilean in the name refers to the town? Usually, when Bungie makes references, it tends to make some sense. So a town... [[User:XRoadToDawnX|XRoadToDawnX]] 02:20, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Bungie include a number of biblical references in their games, so i'd imagine that is one of them. -- <b>[[Halopedia:Administrators|<font color=blue>Administrator</font>]] [[User:Specops306|<font color=blue>Specops306</font>]] - ''[[User Talk:Specops306|<font color=purple>Qur'a 'Morhek</font>]]'' <sup>''[[halofanon:Operation: HOT GATES|<u><font color=blue>Honour Light Your Way!</font></u>]]''</sup></b> 03:10, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

== 'Nonlinear rifle' ==

Anyone have any idea what "nonlinear rifle" could mean in this context? What's more linear than a laser? --[[User:Andrew Nagy|Andrew Nagy]] 00:37, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

:It's a misnomer.<div style="font-variant:small-caps"><b>[[User:Smoke.|<font color="#666666">Smoke</font>]]</b></div>04:26, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

== 343 Guilty Spark ==

I have adjusted this page time and again, and the laser is the ONLY WEAPON that can harm 343 guilty spark in the final level of halo 3. I have tried it on every difficulty and every possible scenario. i have opened up with the rocket launcher and done nothing. i have waited on johnson to blast spark and crack his casing then hit him with the launcher. I have hit spark at every single stage of his health on every single difficulty. ONLY THE SPARTAN LASER WILL KILL HIM!
-SuperMac
:I have killed him with the rocket launcher. --[[User:Lt. Commander|<font color="Black">'''Lieutenant''' </font>]][[User talk:Lt. Commander|<font color="Silver">Commander</font>]]''' 03:04, 21 July 2008 (UTC)'''

Pics or it didn't happen.

Firing 105 battle rifle shots will crack his shell, but you probably cant find more ammo for it, so you can only damage 343.[[User:PsychoThunder]]

Both Rockets and Fuel Rods can damage him. I pounded on him with both and it only took one Splaser shot to kill him after. [[Special:Contributions/98.154.60.146|98.154.60.146]] 00:38, 8 November 2010 (EST)

==Someone survived 4 shots==

I have read that some people have survived 2 shots however we were playing on custom games when someone reported surviving 4 shots from a spartan laser! [[User:Kig]]

It's true, if you brush past someone with a Laser without hitting them directly, it will only lower their shields. [[Special:Contributions/82.47.154.99|82.47.154.99]] 15:43, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

== More than 2x scope ==

If you use the scope on a battle rifle than switch to the scope of the spartan laser you see the spartan laser has a longer scope range than the 2x zoom of the battle rifle.

OK, I know the beam goes on almost forever (right?) but still, what are you going to do, snipe a moving target with that from across the field? i think not, the great thing about any sniper rifle is it can shoot at a seconds notice, but the Laser, try 3 or 4 if you're quick, and it could give away a good sniping position virtually saying "Herez i iz,c0me an kill meh!" I know the sniper leaves a vapor trail, but its better than a big red glow. so, I don't really think that the Spartan Laser is a good sniping weapons, except ''maybe'' against a large vehicle like an <strike>elephant</strike>, scorp. et. [[User talk:L33tmcphee|L33tmcphee]] 22:22, December 13, 2009 (UTC)

I snipe with the Spartan Laser on Sandtrap almost every time I play. I sit up on one of the huge dunes and kill every vehicle I see. Then Kill anyone who gets close to me with a BR. [[Special:Contributions/98.154.60.146|98.154.60.146]] 00:40, 8 November 2010 (EST)

== Spartan Laser ==

This weapon is awesome. Great Work!

==laser==
is it spartan laser because only spartans are strong enough to hold and fire the weapon without help or being blown back b recoil? maybe?

That can't be the reason, as the weapon is only a little heavier than two loaded M249's(M249 loaded ~ 20 lbs.; an average Marine [in reality] is usually packing well over a hundred pounds during long-term autonomous field operations) and LASERS DO NOT RECOIL. THEY'RE NOT FIRING A PHYSICAL OBJECT FOR F*CK'S SAKE!!! WHY DID BUNGIE MAKE IT RECOIL???

It isn't recoil, its just the shock that it releases that mae it seem to move backwards. It seems to recoil just because the wielder's anatomy makes it difficult to take the laser's backfire. A recoil doesn't come from projectile, it comes from HEAT.

Ever fired a real gun? Even a B.B. gun? Maybe a paintball gun? All of those have recoil. Recoil does not come from heat. Recoil is the equal and opposite reaction of a controlled explosion propelling a projectile from a weapon. [[User talk:Griever0311|Griever0311]] 11:25, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

OMG, Bungie is a ''video game designer, not'' some milsim gaming sort of a thing, they don't go over things like that, and the main reason is probably people like you, who spend there life trying to find ways to criticize people who make a good game. And, I bet if Bungie took away recoil, people would probably find some way to complain about that to, just leave those 7-lovers alone, god. [[User talk:L33tmcphee|L33tmcphee]] 22:32, December 13, 2009 (UTC)


*Holy Shit, Halo isn't a military simulator?  Thank God that means that Bungie can add whatever the hell they want! Not true.  The laws of physics apply to Bungie as well. I'm not sure about you guys, but I enjoy video games with some realism, even Sci-Fi.--[[User talk:Caboose&#39;s Brother|Caboose&#39;s Brother]] 21:17, 20 February 2011 (EST)

== Spartan Laser in Diorama==
I have found not one, but two spartan lasers in the believe diorama. One is held by a marine, the other is lying on the ground. Check out these pictures, I need conformation. 
[[File:Dioramaspartanlaser.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:Dioramaspartanlaser2.jpg|thumb]]

:Yep those are Spartan Lasers alight but they seem kind of undersized as in Halo 3 they are supposed to be shoulder-mounted but the soldier is carrying it like an [[Assault Rifle]]. But yeah they are Spartan Lasers--[[User talk:Ashing shot|ASEC]] 06:12, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

==Template==
Fixed the weapon info in article, it was, rather whacky. looks fine now. Also moved the quote template below the weapon template cause i know on another wiki having the quote above an infobox can cause unusual things. [[File:VINCENT-SIG.png]] 02:22, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

== Nonlinear? ==

Just out of curiosity, why do you think the rifle is called nonlinear? The line of fire seems pretty linear to me. [[User talk:No One Special|No One Special]] 15:33, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

It's called that because Bungie didn't read the primer on how give military weapons realistic nomenclature, correct operation, or true-to-form function. This weapon would realistically be called a linear anti-armor directed energy weapon, much like the RAVEN device is an explosive-disruptive DEW. Non-linear calls to mind one of several sonic-based crowd-suppression DEWs currently under trials and development. [[User talk:Griever0311|Griever0311]] 05:43, 2 April 2009 (UTC) US MARINE

:Actually, a "line" in geometric terms is exactly the same as the laser except for one difference, a line in geometry does have a beginning or an end. The laser has both of these.  Ghost sangheili}}
::Actually a line in geometry goes on forever. A line ''segment'' has a beginning and end. Also, a laser beam has both, the beginning is where the laser beam emerges from the laser an