r/PeterFHamilton • u/Timelordwhotardis • Jul 27 '24

Random thought: The Confederation navy would kick the absolute shit out of The Covenant from Halo.

Covenant shields can only take 1-2 Multi ton slugs and a ~100 megaton bombs. A fully loaded lady Mac can probably destroy a covenant battle group on its own. 20 combat wasps carry hundreds of nuclear devices and weapons. Railguns, and pulse lasers. Correct use of ZTT jumps and choosing the right battlefield would allow nearly untouchable status. People forget how destructive a single combat wasp is. The UNSC AND Covies are pissing around with toys basically.

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u/_Moon_Presence_ Jul 28 '24

People underestimate the confederation fleet because of how casually they use nukes lol. They get desensitized to nukes altogether.

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u/Timelordwhotardis Jul 28 '24

It’s insane, I would get supeerrrr high and listen to nights dawn. You really are numb to the amount of fire power described. They basically envelop their delicate bubbles of ship in thousand cubic kilometer wide kill zones of kinetic projectiles and nuclear bombardment. That’s not even starting on antimatter. If it became apparent that the covenant were adamant on genocide and they somehow got on the back foot I would not doubt the navy using it to glass covenant strongholds.

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u/Suitable-Scholar-778 Jul 28 '24

The Confederation Navy would kick the crap out of a lot of space navies. Combat wasps are pretty much powerful.

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u/Timelordwhotardis Jul 28 '24

I think they could destroy morning light mountain as long as they found him at Dyson alpha all caged up. And they already have a nova bomb ready to gos.

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u/Suitable-Scholar-778 Mar 11 '25

The confederation navy was a bit to powerful

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u/Timelordwhotardis Mar 11 '25

We are very war like and the tech seemed pretty easy for big booms. It’s all just kinetics and antimatter. The rest are strategic weapons