So I was looking at the lore of some of the in-universe corporations that have designed and manufactured certain technologies, weapons, and vehicles we see in the game, more specifically at Hannibal Weapon Systems since their incredible variants of the Mantis, Scorpion, and now the Wasp, have made them much more popular and well-known. As it turns out, they also manufactured several spartan armor variants including my favorite, the GUNGNIR.
Now why am I bringing this up? Well looking at part of the description of the GUNGNIR armor on the Halo Wiki page,
> GUNGNIR armor was produced as part of Project GUNGNIR and is one of the few variants to be paired with a specific weapon or vehicle, in this case the Spartan Laser.
Among that, I had also come across this awesome piece of editing work. http://i.imgur.com/F2m0Yez.jpg (Yes, yes, I know, It’s Imgur…)
I did not make this, nor do I know who did (seriously though this is amazing looking, kudos to whoever made this if you see this thread), but as you can see, it’s the idea of a Hannibal variant of the Spartan Laser… which is not in the game.
The purpose of this thread? How awesome would it be to actually have a Hannibal Spartan Laser in the game!? The lore of the game itself is practically cheering the idea on; you have a Hannibal designed armor variant that specifically states it’s literally designed around the usage of the Spartan Laser… So don’t you think that Hannibal would also take it upon themselves to design some special variant of the Spartan Laser to go with that armor, like two pieces of a puzzle being fit together? I personally think it’d be awesome to see, and I can only imagine what kind of crazy, unpredictable ability it’d have, knowing how Hannibal is with their weaponry…
Thanks for your time and let me know what you think!
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> > More Hannibal stuff is always a good thing. Though what would a Hannibal SpLaser do?
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> stronger beam? faster charge? fires multiple beams in short bursts?
Seeing as how it’s a Hannibal variant, it has to be bordering the lines of “ridiculously OP”. Your multiple beam idea could work.
Since Hannibal weapons typically fire blue lasers, I imagine that their Spartan Laser would be like the P.R.L 412 from Resident Evil 4, Wii U version. Once charged, it would generate multiple lasers to hit every target in sight.
Assuming Hannibal Weapon Systems went nuts on the thing, I can expect this thing can give the Selene’s Lance a run for its money. I heard that blue lasers also imply a much higher beam intensity than red beams, resulting in a much higher degree of damage.
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Similar to the Hannibal Wasp beams? Or like shooting multiple beams at once?
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You should ask KingdomKeeper. He came up with the idea.
In response to those who are curious about what the actual properties of it would be, that’s obviously up to 343i to decide if it’s actually something they add to the game, but just to add my two cents to it…
I was thinking that it has around the same charge up time as the standard Splaser (maybe a tad shorter, but longer than Endgame or the Selene’s Lance) for balancing purposes, and yeah I can see the laser being blue since - as well as implying higher energy output as someone said - it’s kinda Hannibal’s shtick to make their stuff blue. It would basically be a charge-up pulse laser, as some of you brought up, which is great since it’s actually what I was thinking of as well! I was thinking something along the lines of it discharging around 6-8 pulses over the course of a full second, one pulse being enough to drop the shields of a spartan, if not kill them. It’d probably have to be among the highest-tier reqs, at least level 7.
Again I love that you guys are talking this over, keep it up!
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yes like the hannibal wasp multiple rapid fire beams
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…but then it would be more akin to the River of Light (the Tier-2 Incineration Cannon). It’s a cool idea, though it may not suit the Spartan Laser itself.
cool idea, it shoul have about the same charge up speed as the regular Spartan Laser maybe a bit shorter, as soon as its fully charged up it could release multiple laser blasts maybe each blast is as strong as Selene’s lance or the regular Spartan Laser, each charge up costs 25% or 33.3%, that Spartan Laser will surely pack a punch
I would think it would also add an EMP affect. So even if you don’t kill your target (or in the case of a Spartan you just miss by a small amount) you have them at a disadvantage for a second shot to charge (or again for Spartan swap to your secondary and finish them off).
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> I would think it would also add an EMP affect. So even if you don’t kill your target (or in the case of a Spartan you just miss by a small amount) you have them at a disadvantage for a second shot to charge (or again for Spartan swap to your secondary and finish them off).
