How could a small nuclear warhead the size of a propane tank have enough force to completely destroy an incredibly big forerunner vessel? I can see it being enough to destroy the composer, but that ship was atleast 50km tall. Did it just set off a chain reaction that caused the whole thing to blow up?
Even a small nuclear warhead in today’s world has a devastating range. I could only image that a warhead in the future would be even more powerful.
Bomb power, bomb size, and chain reactions throughout the ship aside, a gigantic blast within the core of a ship would (at the very least) completely destabilize the rest of the ship’s structural integrity.
Think of as the same way as the movie Armageddon, and as Viper said, blowing a nuke even of todays standards inside the core of a object would cause a chain reaction that would wreck the entirety of it.
I doubt that little canister is the actual bomb. I’ve more of the mindset that it was just the trigger mechanism not the bomb itself.
However, this is based in the future, so maybe it is the bomb. Remember, technology gets smaller and more powerful as time passes, you can’t honestly believe that in the 26th century that Nukes can’t be smaller and the even more powerful than they are now. On top of that, theoretically, a FUSION nuke would be morepowerfull than current FISION nuke that we have now. Also potentially smaller.
> I doubt that little canister is the actual bomb. I’ve more of the mindset that it was just the trigger mechanism not the bomb itself.
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> However, this is based in the future, so maybe it is the bomb. Remember, technology gets smaller and more powerful as time passes, you can’t honestly believe that in the 26th century that Nukes can’t be smaller and the even more powerful than they are now. On top of that, theoretically, <mark>a FUSION nuke would be morepowerfull than current FISION nuke that we have now. Also potentially smaller</mark>.
Ohh the grammar…
A fusion bomb is not a nuke, it is simply a bomb but i guess in slang it is a “nuke”
AND it’s FISSION, not FISION.
30 megaton nuclear device.
Much of the Didact’s ship is Hard-Light, if the nuke destroys the actual physical machines projecting and creating the Hard-Light structures they will disappear. That’s also why the Debris field is so comparitively small. The actual Physical structure of the ship is not as massive as it appears to be. Forerunner ships are largely hard light and force fields.
I’d imagine that the shields as well contained the blast and boosted the damage done by a lot. That’s what the UNSC often did to the Covenant.
Well, it was under the shields, and when it hit the composer it would likely have released all of the energy inside of it, increasing the size of the explosion and the power.
A nukes a nuke buddy, especially if it blows up point blank near some weird forerunner stuff
> I doubt that little canister is the actual bomb. I’ve more of the mindset that it was just the trigger mechanism not the bomb itself.
Chief would go trough an entire Promethean army just to get a trigger mechanism to the Didact and the Composer?
Yeah, right.
> Much of the Didact’s ship is Hard-Light, if the nuke destroys the actual physical machines projecting and creating the Hard-Light structures they will disappear. That’s also why the Debris field is so comparitively small. The actual Physical structure of the ship is not as massive as it appears to be. Forerunner ships are largely hard light and force fields.
However, this begs the question of how did cortana’s hard-light ‘cube’ around chief work?
Bomb was still attached to the longsword…you know the vehicle he crashed INTO to Didacts ship with?
My thinking is he left the payload attached to the longsword and took the trigger with him. He didn’t just go in there to blow it up.
Seems a more viable reason as to why he survived the blast. More based on reality than many on here who think Cortana teleported him the INSTANT he blew the bomb (which would have been in his hands if that thing WAS the payload).
Ehhh I dunno bout all that.
Maybe she put Chief in a slipspace bubble?
> Bomb was still attached to the longsword…you know the vehicle he crashed INTO to Didacts ship with?
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> My thinking is he left the payload attached to the longsword and took the trigger with him. He didn’t just go in there to blow it up, he went to get Cortana as well.
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> Seems a more viable reason as to why he survived the blast. More based on reality than many on here who think Cortana teleported him the INSTANT he blew the bomb (which would have been in his hands if that thing WAS the payload).
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> Ehhh I dunno bout all that.
Uh, Cortana wasn’t in the didact’s ship until he stuck her in the system once he was already in with the bomb.
Corrected, excuse me its 2 am.
I dunno bout the whole slip space and the bomb being in his hands, the second he pushed that thing he gets pulled into slip space to avoid a bomb IN HIS HANDS? Ehhhhhh I dunno.
> Bomb was still attached to the longsword…you know the vehicle he crashed INTO to Didacts ship with?
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> My thinking is he left the payload attached to the longsword and took the trigger with him. He didn’t just go in there to blow it up.
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> Seems a more viable reason as to why he survived the blast. More based on reality than many on here who think Cortana teleported him the INSTANT he blew the bomb (which would have been in his hands if that thing WAS the payload).
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> Ehhh I dunno bout all that.
“We’ll have to deploy it manually. How and where?”
The Chief took the bomb out of the rocket that would have been used to propel the bomb to its destination. On the Master Chief’s heads-up display, it even reads that he is carrying a nuclear device. He didn’t just take a trigger mechanism with him.
How does chief go to the bathroom in his suit?
The world may never know the answers to all these questions.
Besides, it’s a nuke, and as popular culture has taught us, nukes fix everything.