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tbh there's very little individually notable about the Harvester's focus beam individually, given we now know it's distinctly a part of the same weapons lineage as the focus beams as per Enc22
(tbh there's very little individually notable about the Harvester's focus beam individually, given we now know it's distinctly a part of the same weapons lineage as the focus beams as per Enc22)
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{{Era|Post}}
#REDIRECT [[Focus cannon]]
{{Weapon Infobox
|image=[[File:Harvester_firing_mining_laser.png|300px]]
|manufacturer=[[Lodam Armory]]
|series=
|type=Vehicle-mounted excavation tool
|cost=
|variant=
|service=[[Post-Covenant War conflicts]]
|affiliation=[[Covenant remnants]]
|weight=
|length=
|ammotype=[[Plasma|Superheated plasma]]
|feed=
|operation=
|rate=Continuous
|velocity=
|range=Long range
}}
 
The '''plasma drill''', also called a '''mining laser''', is the sole armament of the [[Harvester]]s 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.
 
==Design==
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.
 
==Operational history==
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>
 
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>
 
==Trivia==
*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.
 
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo 4]]''
**''[[Spartan Ops]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Escalation]]''
*''[[Halo: Renegades]]''
 
==Sources==
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{{Covenant Weapons}}
[[Category:Covenant weapons]]