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|velocity=''c'' (299,792,458 m/s)<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 373'' (2010 reissue)</ref> | |velocity=''c'' (299,792,458 m/s)<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''page 373'' (2010 reissue)</ref> | ||
|range=100,000 kilometers<ref name="for">'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 320''</ref> | |range=100,000 kilometers<ref name="for">'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 320''</ref> | ||
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{{Article Quote|The titanic vessel [[Jacob Keyes|Keyes]] had seen before was back. It fired its brilliant blue-white beam - a lance across space - that struck the destroyer ''[[UNSC Herodotus|Herodotus]]'', one hundred thousand kilometers distant. The beam cut clean through the ship, stem to stern, bisecting her.<ref name="for"/>}} | {{Article Quote|The titanic vessel [[Jacob Keyes|Keyes]] had seen before was back. It fired its brilliant blue-white beam - a lance across space - that struck the destroyer ''[[UNSC Herodotus|Herodotus]]'', one hundred thousand kilometers distant. The beam cut clean through the ship, stem to stern, bisecting her.<ref name="for"/>}} | ||
An '''energy projector''', also known as a '''cleansing beam''',<ref>'''Halo Wars'''</ref><ref name="EVG">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page ???''</ref> '''plasma lance''',<ref name="FB"/> or '''ventral beam''' due to its most common placement on warships,<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata'''</ref> is a [[Covenant]] weapon used exclusively by large [[capital ship]]s. It fires a thin beam of the energized matter known as [[plasma]],<ref name="FB"/> capable of destroying ships effortlessly at long range<ref name="for"/> and "[[glassing]]" planets, systematically rendering them sterile and incapable of sustaining life. | An '''energy projector''', also known as a '''cleansing beam''',<ref>'''Halo Wars'''</ref><ref name="EVG">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page ???''</ref> '''plasma lance''',<ref name="FB"/> or '''ventral beam''' due to its most common placement on warships,<ref>'''Halo: Mortal Dictata'''</ref> is a [[Covenant]] weapon used exclusively by large [[capital ship]]s. It fires a thin beam of the energized matter known as [[plasma]],<ref name="FB"/> capable of destroying ships effortlessly at long range<ref name="for"/> and "[[glassing]]" planets, systematically rendering them sterile and incapable of sustaining life. | ||