Forum:Covenant Industrial Capacity
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A user on Spacebattles.com recently made a series of calculations on Covenant industrial capability using High Charity as the reference. It gives a fascinating insight into how many ships the Covenant could have theoretically produced at peak capacity:
- High Charity was a mobile space station nearly 348 kilometers in Diameter constructed to serve as the capital of the Covenant when it was formed during the conclusion of the Sangheili-San'Shyuum war. This war ended sometime in 852 BCE and the San'Shyuum made High Charity its capital in 648 BCE. That means it took 204 years to complete the station.
- Onward to the calculations!
- Utilizing the formula volume of a sphere (4/3)pi(R)^3, I determined that High Charity was roughly 2.207e16 cubic meters in volume. However we must take into account that roughly half of the Station is nonexistent, so we will cut this number in half. So High Charity is roughly 1.103e16 cubic meters in volume.
- Now assuming a linear construction time of 204 years, the Covenant was able to assemble nearly 5.4e13 cubic meters of materials per year.
- With this type of Industrial Might, the Covenant should easily be able to build the following per year:
- 1) 45 CSO-Supercarriers
- or
- 2) 15,2554 CSS-class battle cruisers
- or
- 3) 6,822 CAS-class Assault carriers
- The lesson in this tale? DON'T FUCK WITH THE COVENANT!!
To summarise, even if the technological gap had been completely reduced, Humanity was absolutely boned when it encountered the Covenant. They would have been drowned in ships alone. It's really quite miraculous that they survived as long as they did.
(I do not claim authorship of these calcs or any had input into them whatsoever. I hate maths)
--The All-knowing Sith'ari (talk) 17:04, 24 February 2014 (EST)