Talk:Magnetic Accelerator Cannon: Difference between revisions
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Firstly, I would encourage separating [http://www.halopedia.org/index.php?title=Magnetic_Accelerator_Cannon&curid=832&diff=1155568&oldid=1154043 the bulk of this edit] as a note at the bottom of the page. Secondly, we don't know that the UNSC hasn't simply found found some way to offset the effect. This is five hundred and forty years in the future, in a fictional universe, and it would hardly be [[Ross-Ziegler Blip|the most]] [[Neural physics|outlandish]] [[Geas|scientific]] [[Mind transfer|claim]] in this universe. -- [[User:Morhek|<b><font color=indigo>Qura 'Morhek</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>The Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>of Morheka</sup></font></i></u>]] 01:50, 19 December 2015 (EST) | Firstly, I would encourage separating [http://www.halopedia.org/index.php?title=Magnetic_Accelerator_Cannon&curid=832&diff=1155568&oldid=1154043 the bulk of this edit] as a note at the bottom of the page. Secondly, we don't know that the UNSC hasn't simply found found some way to offset the effect. This is five hundred and forty years in the future, in a fictional universe, and it would hardly be [[Ross-Ziegler Blip|the most]] [[Neural physics|outlandish]] [[Geas|scientific]] [[Mind transfer|claim]] in this universe. -- [[User:Morhek|<b><font color=indigo>Qura 'Morhek</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>The Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>of Morheka</sup></font></i></u>]] 01:50, 19 December 2015 (EST) | ||
:Hi. I made that edit. Three things: | |||
*One, it ''is'' in a note at the bottom of the page. | |||
*Two, none of the tech displayed by the UNSC would allow us to logically infer that they can somehow ignore hypervelocity physics. You can't offset the effect; this would require them to be literally magic, with the ability to alter the laws of physics on the spot, a la the prime Flood. Either that or UNSC coilguns actually use eezo from Mass Effect and encase each slug in a mass effect field of blue space magic, which is also never suggested anywhere; we know how MACs work, they're just coilguns which fire tungsten slugs. Even if they could somehow make their slugs behave like non-hypervelocity projectiles, which they can't, all that would do is ''decrease'' effectiveness, not increase it; a squash, vaporization, and "explosion" causes more damage than a clean penetration. | |||
*Three, it's not just the lack of hypervelocity impacts that suggests a velocity significantly lower than 30 km/s; TFOR:TAS, Halo 2: Anniversary, and Halo Reach, among others, all contain scenes of MACs being fired with velocities of only a few km/s at most, and Halo: First Strike even refers to a typical MAC slug as "supersonic" (between Mach 1 and Mach 5). This can all be handily explained away by one simple extrapolation that fits with bot what we see and what we're told about how the MAC actually operates. | |||
--[[Special:Contributions/68.107.65.53|68.107.65.53]] 21:52, 19 December 2015 (EST) | |||