I believe that the frigates that are stored in the Infinity are stored facing downwards in the underside of the ship, but I’m not sure if it’s just my imagination or if that’s actually how it actually works and I’m wondering if someone can confirm it or tell me otherwise
Just watched the Halo: Infinity scene where the Infinity deploys the frigates, looks they are stored with the bow of the ship facing downward (relative to the Infinity).
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> Just watched the Halo: Infinity scene where the Infinity deploys the frigates, looks they are stored with the bow of the ship facing downward (relative to the Infinity).
Okay thanks
That’s the way it looked to me as well. Like giant ODST pods. It makes sense from a rapid deployment standpoint.
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> That’s the way it looked to me as well. Like giant ODST pods. It makes sense from a rapid deployment standpoint.
True and it makes sense since keeping them horizontal would make things a lot more complicated, and would take more space, although it could’ve been easier if they were ambushed/surprised with the ships not deployed since the ships would already be facing forward, so attacks would be quicker.
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> > That’s the way it looked to me as well. Like giant ODST pods. It makes sense from a rapid deployment standpoint.
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> True and it makes sense since keeping them horizontal would make things a lot more complicated, and would take more space, although it could’ve been easier if they were ambushed/surprised with the ships not deployed since the ships would already be facing forward, so attacks would be quicker.
I could rationalize their positioning as being perpendicular to Infinity’s travel direction as being a way to make target selection by the enemy a nightmare. Parallel courses and they could just fill space with projectiles and target density would take of most of the problem for them.
I would be interested to know what the staffing protocol is on those ships, though. For example, are they fully staffed and running engines hot but not engaged after every transition back to real-space? Do they maintain a 10% or 25%, for example, ratio of fully-staffed and ready-alert vessels continually to account for unexpected needs? It seems to me that not doing this would delay response since there would be a potential bottleneck of people who are on Infinity having to re-board their designated subordinate ship.
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> > > That’s the way it looked to me as well. Like giant ODST pods. It makes sense from a rapid deployment standpoint.
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> > True and it makes sense since keeping them horizontal would make things a lot more complicated, and would take more space, although it could’ve been easier if they were ambushed/surprised with the ships not deployed since the ships would already be facing forward, so attacks would be quicker.
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> I could rationalize their positioning as being perpendicular to Infinity’s travel direction as being a way to make target selection by the enemy a nightmare. Parallel courses and they could just fill space with projectiles and target density would take of most of the problem for them.
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> I would be interested to know what the staffing protocol is on those ships, though. For example, are they fully staffed and running engines hot but not engaged after every transition back to real-space? Do they maintain a 10% or 25%, for example, ratio of fully-staffed and ready-alert vessels continually to account for unexpected needs? It seems to me that not doing this would delay response since there would be a potential bottleneck of people who are on Infinity having to re-board their designated subordinate ship.
i would guess that they would live on board their designated ships for that last reason, and since i believe those stalwarts are also modified like the infinity, maybe their engines can power up quite fast to full speed so maybe they can sit with their engines off 'til they need them.
The artificial gravity issues of traveling back and forth between these ships is mindblowing - there are so many weird things we don’t think of when it comes to space travel. If you haven’t seen/read it I recommend The Expanse by James S.A. Corey and is on SyFy, it is extremely good about these kinds of scientific aspects of space life
It makes sense and I noticed that as well.
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> Just watched the Halo: Infinity scene where the Infinity deploys the frigates, looks they are stored with the bow of the ship facing downward (relative to the Infinity).
Which was epic. Oh our ship doesn’t drop pods it drops frigates lol.
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> > Just watched the Halo: Infinity scene where the Infinity deploys the frigates, looks they are stored with the bow of the ship facing downward (relative to the Infinity).
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> Which was epic. Oh our ship doesn’t drop pods it drops frigates lol.
the new and improved helljumpers lmao
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> > > Just watched the Halo: Infinity scene where the Infinity deploys the frigates, looks they are stored with the bow of the ship facing downward (relative to the Infinity).
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> > Which was epic. Oh our ship doesn’t drop pods it drops frigates lol.
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> the new and improved helljumpers lmao
It drops those too.
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> The artificial gravity issues of traveling back and forth between these ships is mindblowing - there are so many weird things we don’t think of when it comes to space travel. If you haven’t seen/read it I recommend The Expanse by James S.A. Corey and is on SyFy, it is extremely good about these kinds of scientific aspects of space life
This is the UNSC Infinity, friend. Its got Forerunner AG generators. Or, more likely, the frigates dont have AG until they’re underway.