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originally posted in:Halo Archive
6/13/2014 9:18:41 AM
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This one is easy: the Covenant learned from their mistakes at Reach. They managed to destroy a number of stations, and either avoid them completely by exiting out of slipspace below their orbit, or "blow past them" like the Assault Carriers did in Halo 2.
The ODP's yield, at its highest, is 50 Gigatons, if you ignore the Teraton yield and likely mistake in the Halo Encyclopedia.
The Mantle's Approach is 3 times the length of a Forerunner Fortress Class battleship. Go figure.
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Here's my take on the whole Mantle's Approach thing. It had incredibly strong shields and good armor, but a very squishy interior. I heard somewhere that up to two thirds of the ship were hardlight, to allow for variable geometry, such as that displayed when the Didact very quickly reattached the composer, and then the various moving pieces during and after the trench run. So, it would be extremely hard to get past it's outer defenses, (I'm pretty sure the Infinity was only able to penetrate the armor around the composer because Chief disabled a localized shield generator over a section of relatively weak armor plating, considering that the entire section of ship was just recently added/reconfigured around the composer). So once the nuke detonated, it blew the surroundings to smithereens, but also probably disabled most of the systems ship wide, including most of the hardlight (or maybe that energy was what Cortana used to shield Chief from the blast?). The remaining parts of the ship just kind of fell apart
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Still holes. I could accept that explanation if ships jumped directly into Low Orbit, but they didn't. They should have been vaporized. 50 Gigatons would still kick everything's ass. I know how big the Mantle's Approach is. Why did a low yield mining charge wreck it?
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Edited by Quantum: 6/13/2014 9:58:04 AM1. Referring to the small fleet? They didn't take out the defenses, the later Brute led fleet did. They could have used a microslipspace jump... but we can't see shit from the Cairo anyway. 2. 50 Gigatons is overkill, it could be 1 Gigaton but it wouldn't make a difference if the rounds missed :P. 3. Cortana specifically stated that the nuke would not stop the Composer unless the Internal Shield was taken down. This small mining charge was an excavation grade 30MT Havoc nuke.
