So we never saw an Guardian fire any weapon besides an EMP, and if you look at one there are no weapons to see.
Could it be that the effect of the Guardians is entirely psychic, that they just bring fear?
They were said to be capable of policing entire star systems, so yea, pretty damn dangerous.
I’d imagine that they’re basically Halo’s equivalent to reapers.
Counting that it killed probably thousands (probably more) by just teleporting, I assume it’s pretty tough.
That’s actually what I was thinking. It seems the only life-threatening destruction they can cause is when they create a slipspace portal.
EW said you need one for a solar system.
Dont really know whats the most populated solar system so… 1 Guardian can hold of a few planets worth of defense?
I think the destruction caused by slipspace portal is just a side effect and not an ability/tactic. In the final scenes, a single Guardian
creates a pulse that effortlessly shuts down all communication, power, etc for an entire planet as well as all orbiting platforms and ships. If a single Guardian can police an entire solar system, I think we haven’t even begun to see what they’re capable of.
I think they might be Planet-Breakers: capable of lifting up chunks of a planet’s crust and sending it crashing down. That was the forerunner’s own unique method of planetary bombardment, which is a step up from Glassing on the scale of awesomeness.
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> I think they might be Planet-Breakers: capable of lifting up chunks of a planet’s crust and sending it crashing down. That was the forerunner’s own unique method of planetary bombardment, which is a step up from Glassing on the scale of awesomeness.
They pulled an Ultron? Didn’t know that.
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> Counting that it killed probably thousands (probably more) by just teleporting, I assume it’s pretty tough.
Don’t forget how many it killed by EMPS.
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> So we never saw an Guardian fire any weapon besides an EMP, and if you look at one there are no weapons to see.
> Could it be that the effect of the Guardians is entirely psychic, that they just bring fear?
The effect could be entirely physic because who would like to be up against a massive gigantic robot thing that teleports and has a massive EMP
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> I’d imagine that they’re basically Halo’s equivalent to reapers.
First thing I thought to be honest.
Ships have life-support systems that run on power, and a ship can easily crash into a planet without power, or just wander space for 10 billion years, then crashing into a planet.
I imagine all it’s attacks are radial effects. I don’t think it would be capable of destroying multiple planets at once, but instead affect them in a crippling way.
I’d highly doubt that one single Guardian could police an entire solar system. They are large, but they only compare in size to a medium sized starship, like Forward Unto Dawn. It would be interesting to see how they do this.
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> I’d highly doubt that one single Guardian could police an entire solar system. They are large, but they only compare in size to a medium sized starship, like Forward Unto Dawn. It would be interesting to see how they do this.
Only comparable to the Dawn?
The Guardian was much taller and wider than Infinity, just not longer. The Dawn is the size of just one of the dozens of floating pieces that make up a Guardian.
Infinity fled at the first sight of a Guardian. They definitely think they’re a threat.
The Guardian disabled an entire planet in a matter of seconds…
Just thing Guardians have been killing players in MP who wander out of bounds since Halo CE.
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> I’d highly doubt that one single Guardian could police an entire solar system. They are large, but they only compare in size to a medium sized starship, like Forward Unto Dawn. It would be interesting to see how they do this.
If it can EMP an entire planet, it can contend with fleets of FuD’s. It’d just EMP them and let them suffocate without life support.
That said, I got the feeling most species the forerunners ‘policed’ weren’t allowed to leave their star systems. It’s unlikely the forerunners would let them develope to a similar tier as ‘modern humanity’ in the haloverse…
It is strange to think about, though. Almost all equipment in the Halo series runs on some form of electricity. Even small arms weapons use electricity. They can still fire without an electric charge, as seen in Halo: Nightfall, but the most powerful defenses we have seen from Halo Games in the past, ships, automated defense turrets and towers, missiles and mac guns, they all use electricity to function. And as Lasky mentioned in Halo 4, without functioning guns, the Infinity is just a big paperweight. So all of the other Guardians’ abilities don’t really matter a whole lot. By simply employing an EMP weapon against a technologically advanced civilization, there’s really nothing any of the species can do without their technology, whether it be defensive or offensive.
And as a quick side note, imagine for a moment that in the Mass Effect series, the Reapers had possessed EMP capabilities similar to those that the Guardians have displayed. The combined fleet assault on Earth at the end of Mass Effect 3 would have been dead in the water in seconds. Against a technologically advanced civilization such as the UNSC or the Covenant, a long-range EMP is really all you would need to secure your dominance.