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Geomax wrote: 203.134.114.231 wrote: Okay I found a link of Mith from Spacebattles.com doing the Calcs for a Plasma Rifle.

Link-http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/halo-brutes-vs-star-wars-clone-troopers.235846/page-2

And this is what he says:

'''(At best? No. A bit higher. Covenant Plasma Rifles have an output of 100-150 kv at 2-3 amps, which gives us a minimum of 200 kilovolts and a maximum of 450 kilovolts per shot. That gives us:

At 100 kv; 200-300 kilojoules

At 150 kv; 300-450 kilojoules

The middle ground appears to be about 300 kilojoules. Assuming it takes say, a dozen shots to bring down an Elite's shields, 3.6 megajoules would probably be their limit before they break. And no, Clone rifles are not at 8 megajoules. That's just silly.)'''

That is incredibly powerful, and is pretty much Bolter range. You are talking about blasts as powerful as a modern hand grenade at arounf 400-800 Kilojoules...0oO My God! Actually, the Bibles page says 2-3 deciAmps so its only around 20-45kW. Bible as in what, the Encyclopedia and manual? With 343 policy of all calcs are cannon we would never know the true power of the Plasma Rifle, there are so many contradictions that what they say about 20-45 kW easily contradicts what has been shown in the novels.

This is why Halo cannon is horrendus, the worst example I could think of is Halo Reach where the Game itself contradict each other. Such are the example of the Datapads BS talking about how the Covies can't glass an 8-mile land in 10 seconds and yet within the next scene in Long Night of Solace we see Covie plasma torpedoes impacting at a force of like what 550 Megatons if we are being generous.

And Geomax, you thought that was bad? Aparently 343 said that both Halo Reach and Halo: The Fall of Reach happened at the same time, I mean lolwut? The only thing I could think of to fix this mess is that Halo Reach was just a excavation party while Halo: The Fall of Reach was where the actual Glassing of Reach happened. Meaning that of timeline Halo Reach came first while The Fall of Reach came second.