Talk:Plasma torpedo

Copyright?
Hi all, I'm RelentlessRogue. I created this article on Wikipedia, and then copied it here. This is not a copyright violation because of GFDL and beacause I myself originally wrote it.

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RelentlessRogue 09:49, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

This should have plasma torpedoes from the end of the Piller of Autumn level, because they show them.--prophit of war 22:37, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Also, if you can't get close enough in the game, you can take the picture and zoom in when you get the picture on the computer. Come on, haven't you seen the final cutscene from the first level(and I repeat first level)? You can beat the first level right? Come on! This is by --prophit of war 15:11, 18 November 2006 (UTC) telling you how you should fix this problem with there being no pictures.

Pulse lasers
When your near the end of the first level of Halo Combat Evolved, you will notice bumblebee escape pods trying the escape the pillar of autunm, some of them being hit by bright blue light. If you think those are plasma torpedoes they are actually pulse lasers. Plasma torpedoes are much larger and range from amber to red. Read Halo Fall of Reach and it said that pulse lasers were bright blue laser used for pinpoint accuracy usually on escape pods and archer missiles. Plus, a prophet in Halo The Flood ordered the covenant ships not to fire any torpedoes otherwise, if fired, risked to damage haloUser:Halo3 00:46, 24 December 2006

Perhaps this picture should be removed?

i think so

I agree. I don't think the attacks in the PoA cutscene were plasma torpedoes, cause in the flood the prophet said not to target the human ship with plasma, for fear of hitting halo. These are either pulse lasers, or less likely, the cannons on Seraphs, which were confirmed by the flood to have attacked the PoA.

Spartan 501 06:13, 21 December 2007 (UTC)


 * They can't be pulse lasers; those are a beam of energy, while the Autumn was hit by blue/cyan bolts of some kind (as a side note, the pulse laser article says the beam is cyan when it appears to be purple). So it couldn't be plasma torpedoes (red) or a pulse laser (purple beam).  Also, plasma charges on Seraphs are Air-to-Ground focused pillars of plasma, so I don't think that's what hit the Autumn. My opinion?  They are point defense lasers, the colors of which we don't know of and are much more accurate than plasma torpedoes, meaning hitting the Halo is much less likely. Kyouraku-taichou 02:26, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

Kyouraku is right, but plasma torpedoes have a range of colors. -Dark Scion

Color
What color is a plasma torpedo? The reason I ask is because we have pictures of plasma torpedoes that clearly show a blue color (such as the one of the Assault Carrier). However, all the novels clearly indicate that plasma torpedoes are amber (that is, red) in color. Are the books incorrect, making torpedoes actually blue; are the books different from the novels in this respect; or are the blue plasma rounds not torpedoes? Kyouraku-taichou 02:32, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

i like to point out that the page says that a plasma torpedo can travel at half the speed of ligth while also saying that longswords or pelicans are able to evade them. this would be like trying to dodge laser fire.

First, many battles happen when combatants are many light-seconds away from each other (186,000 miles) and therefore would have time to be dodged by smaller ships.

as for the color, I suspect that the atmosphere alters the color of the torpedos to blue (just like what it does with some of the sun's light).

Plasma Torpedoes are slower then that
I'd like to point out that for the 150,000 kilometers per second quote, the ship in question was the Iroquois and had been accelerating towards the Covenant ships for seven minutes with its reactor at 150%. This means you need to account for how fast the Iroquois was going to get a proper figure.

Target Tracking Capabilities
Okay, um, I don't exactly get how a plasma torpedo is guided to its intended target by a magnetic field. I'm not the brightest guy around, so, to me, this really doesn't make sense in how it would work. This sentence: "The atoms that are on an appropriate trajectory between the Covenant starship and its target are then herded towards the mouth of the torpedo tube by magnetic pulses" also confuses me. Why would the plasma torpedo launcher need to herd those specific kind of atoms? Does an atom's trajectory even exist, and does it have to do something with its target tracking capabilities? Someone help me out here

Destructive Power
Does anyone have an estimation on the destructive power of plasma torpedoes? A friend has a theory that it's the same as a meteorite of similar size, given the fact that it can glass the ground on impact, as some meteors have been known for.

--Ace Sorou, June 20, 2009