I’m a big fan of the Halo universe but I know very little about the books as I haven’t read any of them. All I know is from the Halo games. I have a friend that was talking about a promethian tank called the War Sphinx that was able to destroy entire continents. What I want to know is could this be incorporated into the next Halo game? Could Cortana use this as a threat equal to or greater than the Guardians? Are there any War Sphinx left? If not does Cortana have the resources available to create her own or improve ones that might already exist?
EDIT: I do remember seeing some concept art for a War Sphinx that 343 was planning on adding in Halo 5… So I suppose that could hint that they want to add it into the Halo games somehow
War Sphinxes are most likely still around in the current timeline. After the Human-Forerunner war, Sphinxes were replaced by the Seeker, a superior vehicle. I could see Cortana trying to use Sphinxes and Seekers against those who oppose her.
Concept art: here
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> War Sphinxes are most likely still around in the current timeline. After the Human-Forerunner war, Sphinxes were replaced by the Seeker, a superior vehicle. I could see Cortana trying to use Sphinxes and Seekers against those who oppose her.
> Concept art: here
If she does, we can kiss the Infinity and her ten escorts goodbye.
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> Would be pretty neat. But how big are they? How many are left? They won’t prove a huge threat unless they have large numbers
20 meter in length and 10 meters in height.
Unknown how many are exactly left (though I would wager thousands at least based on the Forerunner’s insane industry capabilities) but a single one was capable of ripping apart continents and throwing them at whoever they wanted to in addition being able to wiping out entire Forerunner cities by themselves. They also possess the ability to go toe to toe with Ancient Human ships and rag doll them provided there was enough of them. Now scaling off a single Forerunner drone thousands of year older than the War Sphinx, the War Sphinx should have speeds around 14,000 km/s with weapons in the megaton to gigaton range (based off their city destroying capabilities for the weapon firepower).
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> Unknown how many are exactly left (though I would wager thousands at least based on the Forerunner’s insane industry capabilities) but a single one was capable of ripping apart continents and throwing them at whoever they wanted to in addition being able to wiping out entire Forerunner cities by themselves. They also possess the ability to go toe to toe with Ancient Human ships and rag doll them provided there was enough of them. Now scaling off a single Forerunner drone thousands of year older than the War Sphinx, the War Sphinx should have speeds around 14,000 km/s with weapons in the megaton to gigaton range (based off their city destroying capabilities for the weapon firepower).
Why the hell would a War Sphinx be capable of travelling at a percentage of the speed of light? I don’t care just how Forerunner the damn thing is, it would never, ever, in any universe, be capable of travelling at that speed.
It was not stated that the War Sphinx has the power to destroy Forerunner cities. It was stated it could level cities. It meant Human cities. That still doesn’t mean megaton or gigaton level. A UNSC frigate could easily level a city. In order to ragdoll Ancient Human ships they would have needed tens of thousands of War Sphinxes.
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> > Unknown how many are exactly left (though I would wager thousands at least based on the Forerunner’s insane industry capabilities) but a single one was capable of ripping apart continents and throwing them at whoever they wanted to in addition being able to wiping out entire Forerunner cities by themselves. They also possess the ability to go toe to toe with Ancient Human ships and rag doll them provided there was enough of them. Now scaling off a single Forerunner drone thousands of year older than the War Sphinx, the War Sphinx should have speeds around 14,000 km/s with weapons in the megaton to gigaton range (based off their city destroying capabilities for the weapon firepower).
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> Why the hell would a War Sphinx be capable of travelling at a percentage of the speed of light? I don’t care just how Forerunner the damn thing is, it would never, ever, in any universe, be capable of travelling at that speed.
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> It was not stated that the War Sphinx has the power to destroy Forerunner cities. It was stated it could level cities. It meant Human cities. That still doesn’t mean megaton or gigaton level. A UNSC frigate could easily level a city. In order to ragdoll Ancient Human ships they would have needed tens of thousands of War Sphinxes.
And yet simple drones, thousands of years older that the Sphinx at that, are capable of that speed. With occupants inside of them…
Which matches Silentium having Forerunner warships (so Harriers, Cruisers, Dreadnoughts, Fortresses, etc) move at 1/3 of the speed of light with just their basic engines. And from the Halo 3 Terminals and the same scene in Silentium, we know that they can achieve even faster velocities than that in combat.
But going through Cryptum, you’re right about the firepower and possibly rag dolling numbers going by how a single Warrior Servant is expected to control one million attack craft by himself.
