Halo Feats and Discussion Thread

[Papa Nier]

With all the expanded lore Master Chief's OBD profile has to be outdated, right?

OBD Wiki - Character Profile - Master Chief

Sir... finishing this fight. Name: John-117, simply known also as Master Chief, Chief, or John Origin: Halo Gender: Male Classification: Human

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I would have expected crazy feats similar to Star Wars EU with all the comics, books, animations, etc.

Here is a list of mostly all the games and other media

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[Papa Nier]

Master Chief dodges a plasma bolt:

Explosive needles bounced off the Chief's armor, detonating as they hit the ground. He saw the flash of a plasma bolt----side stepped----and heard the air crackle where he had stood a split second before.
Source: Halo: The Fall of Reach

Master Chief dodges point-blank stun round fire outside of his armor:

The last guard on the bunker turned to fire at John. Halsey gripped the edge of the chair. "He's at point-blank range! Even stun rounds can kill at that distance!"
As the guard's gun fired, John sidestepped. The stun rounds slashed through the air, a clean miss.
Source: Halo: The Fall of Reach

Chief Mendez tells Halsey that the Spartans' reaction times are almost impossible to chart and that they double during combat. Chief Mendez estimate it at twenty milliseconds without the adrenaline:

"What are their reaction times?"
"Almost impossible to chart. We estimate it at twenty milliseconds," Mendez replied. He shook his head, then added, "I believe it's significantly faster in combat situations when their adrenaline is pumping."
Source: Halo: The Fall of Reach

With help from Cortana, Master Chief times and deflects a Scorpion missile fired at him, managing to deflect it away from him at the very last second. Master Chief also survives being near ground zero of the explosion of a Skyhawk missile after he himself deflected it:

The Skyhawk was back and starting its run straight toward him.
Even with his augmented speed, even with the MJOLNIR armor----he'd never make it to the bell in time. He'd never make it alive.
He turned to face the incoming jet.
"I'll need your help, Cortana," he said.
"Anything," she whispered. The Master Chief heard nervousness in the AI's voice.
"Calculate the inbound velocity of a Scorpion missile. Factor in my reaction time and the jet's inbound speed and distance at launch, and tell me the instant I need to move to sidestep and deflect it with me left arm."
Cortana paused a heartbeat. "Calculations done. You did say 'deflect'"?
"Scorpion missiles have motion-tracking sensors and proximity detonators. I can't outrun it. And it won't miss. That leaves us very few options."
The Skyhawk dove.
"Get ready," Cortana said. "I hope you know what you're doing."
"Me, too."
Smoke appeared from the jet's left wingtip and fire and exhaust erupted as a missile streaked toward him.
The Master Chief saw the missile track back and forth, zeroing in on his coordinates. A shrill tone in his helmet warbled----the missile had a guidance lock on him. He chinned the a control and the sound died out. The missile was fast. Faster than he was ten times over.
"Now!" Cortana said.
They moved together. He shifted his muscles and the MJOLNIR----augmented by his link to Cortana----moved faster than he'd ever moved before. His leg tensed and pushed him aside; his left arm came up and crossed his chest.
The head of the missile was the only thing he saw. The air grew still and thickened.
He continued to move his hand, palm open in a slapping motion----as fast as he could will his flesh to accelerate.
The tip of the Scorpion missile passed a centimeter from his head.
He reached out----fingertips brushed the metal casing----
----and slapped it aside.
The Skyhawk jet screamed over his head.
The Scorpion missile detonated.
Pressure slammed through his body. The Master Chief flew six meters, spinning end over end, and landed flat on his back.
Source: Halo: The Fall of Reach

Spoiler: Halo: The Fall of Reach, Infiltration Issue #01/02

With his armor, Master Chief only has to think of moving and the armor does it for him, and at lightning-fast speeds:

"Listen carefully to me, John," Dr. Halsey said. "I just want you to think, and only think, about moving your arm up to chest level. Stay relaxed."
He willed his arm to move, and his hand and forearm sprang forward to chest level. The slightest motion translated his thought to motion at lightning speed. It had been so fast----if he hadn't been attached to his arm, he might have missed that it had happened at all.
The Spartans gasped.
Sam applauded. Even lightning-fast Kelly seemed impressed.
Source: Halo: The Fall of Reach

Master Chief is able to dodge laser weapons of the Forerunner Aggressor sentinels:

But the Chief knew how to deal with the mechanical killers, and proceeded to dodge their lasers as he destroyed one after another.
Source: Halo: The Flood

Master Chief intercepts and blocks a Covenant Beam Rifle shot after it’s fired from roughly 30 meters away, which is fires at Mach 10.6 or 10.7:

The concrete beneath the Spartan had turned to dust and gravel as he launched forward. Barely half a second had passed and he was already ten meters away. Palmer slung her weapon and tore off after him; Sullivan fell in directly behind her, running for all he was worth.

Palmer was pumping her arms and trying to control her breath as she trailed behind the Spartan. She looked up from her boots and saw that his hands were no longer empty—his right hand now held a massive hard-chromed M6D, and a spare magazine was in his left. Eight thunderclaps rang out so fast that they bled together into a single long roar. At that same moment a terrible cacophony erupted behind them as her squadmates opened fire on the building—its facade disappearing behind a cloud of pulverized concrete and shattered glass. Two of the Jackals that had been covering their approach had already fallen—bright purple blood fountaining out of huge ragged holes that she could pick out even at this distance.

With one hand at thirty meters and a dead run, two shots apiece, each a hit to the head or neck, what the holy hell are my guys even aiming at back there—shit. The Corporal’s mind raced, but her legs had begun to slack off. She saw another Jackal appear at the roof’s edge and there was a flash of purple light.

And then her view was blocked by a wall of green armor; there was a loud crack and a flash of golden light. The Spartan had spun to face her; she saw her own reflection in his visor for a fraction of a second, then he dipped slightly before popping into the air, sailing backward three and a half meters above the ground—smoke trailing from the inside of his right arm. Four more rapid-fire thunderclaps roared in her ears; the magazine dropped out of the Spartan’s M6D, his left hand slamming the fresh magazine up into the well and flicking to catch the empty one as it fell, the huge pistol now latched onto his right thigh, the empty magazine stowed, and his knees tucked up to his chest as he continued through the air over the Warthog.
Source: Halo: Evolutions: Essential Tales of the Halo Universe

Spoiler: Type-50 Sniper Rifle System

Another Spartan dodges beam rifle shots twice including one from point blank.

Spoiler: “Halo: Blood Line”

 

[Maddie]

UNSC Smallarms​

Pistols​

Rifles​

Shotguns​

Munitions​

For the Grenade it has 0.19 kilograms of "ComL" filling which is fictious.

IMX-104 is going to be used for grenades in the future, I can assume ComL is similar:

https://escholarship.org/content/qt65d3j743/qt65d3j743.pdf?t=p2ndou

d IMX-104 (53.0% NTO, 15.3% RDX, and 31.7% DNAN)

NTO https://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C556887&Mask=2
-877 kilojoules per mol (877 kilojoules per 130.06 grams)

RDX https://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C121824&Units=SI&Mask=7FF
-2120 kilojoules per mol (2120 kilojoules per 222.12 grams)

DNAN https://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?ID=C119277&Mask=2
-3425.4 kilojoules per mol (-3425.4 kilojoules per 198.134 grams)

0.19 kilograms

0.1007 kilograms NTO; 877 kilojoules per 130.06 grams * 0.1007 kilograms = 679,024.296 joules
0.02907 kilograms RDX; 2120 kilojoules per 222.12 grams * 0.02907 kilograms = 277,455.429 joules
0.06023 kilograms DNAN; -3425.4 kilojoules per 198.134 grams * 0.06023 kilograms = 1,041,274.3 joules

1,041,274.3 joules + 277,455.429 joules + 679,024.296 joules = 1.99775403 megajoules (2 megajoules)

Grenades are likely as powerful or superior to 2 megajoules in Halo

 

[Papa Nier]

According to 343 Guilty Spark, a single company of Prometheans (including the Didact) would have sorted out the conflict at Alpha Halo and the Didact would have been a deadlier threat than the Flood.

The Didact and another warrior rip apart the interior of framing, furniture and console supports from the inside of a Forerunner ship and use it to bash open a pair of stasis pods.

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The remaining stasis bubbles were in the final stages of depletion and decay. Sharp and I worked out means of forcing the issue. Warrior-Servants, exerting all their strength, can wreak real havoc—and we did just that. We grabbed for heavy, hard implements. Fortunately, the ship was old enough that its re-shaping capabilities were minimal, and it soon yielded pieces of interior framing, furniture, and console supports with sufficient mass to be swung with real effect.
We battered. Fully energized, a stasis bubble can resist almost any imaginable force. But weakened, they shimmered and radiated in the ultraviolet with each of our coordinated blows. We were desperate. And for once, we were in luck. The fields blackened, then popped with a burst of brilliant blue light.
Source: Halo: Silentium

The Forerunner’s stasis pods can survive the ship exploding.

“Can the stasis bubbles be re-energized?” I asked Sharp-by-Striking.
“The ship should be able to generate that much power. But why—” And then he understood. “The bubbles leave no sensor profiles. We could blow up the ship and still survive. They might not capture us … right away. Or even know we exist.”
Source: Halo: Silentium

After tanking assault rifle shots, the Didact kicks the ground, fracturing it and knocking Blue Team off balance.

Spoiler

Forerunner armor can adjust itself to adapt and become impervious to whatever is used against it. Can see it tank Scattershot blasts and Boltshots.

Spoiler

The Scattershot can vaporize.

Didact unarmored survives a blast from an anti-matter rifle that fires a “positron lightning” and is knocked out.

A rifle is delivered, a compact, slender fasces of plasma and microwave guides—extremely powerful. A control panel fits to my armor’s glove, adjusting quickly to my smaller finger-span. I examine its workings, request guidance; the monitor instructs my ancilla. My armor learns quickly. I barely pay attention.
...
The Didact stands alone before a partial readout of Requiem’s security. His armor lies folded in a repository, awaiting his attention.
...
I lift the weapon. My glove merges with the panel. We are one, armor, me, weapon. I can conceive of no better fate for him than long sojourn in the Domain, reacquaintance with ancestors, with our honor, our history.
Such as it may be. Away from this universe. Now he looks my way. Now he realizes.
I fire. The bolts wrap him in curls of positronic lightning. Wherever they touch, they paralyze, numb; they encircle his head last, and his eyes are fixed on me, expressing no surprise—expressing nothing.
After a moment of silent protest, he collapses to the floor. Even now, I wonder if he expected this, planned for it; ever the master at strategy, ever the genius at the finest of tactics.
Source: Halo: Silentium

Didact tanking a Forerunner Pulse Grenade going off on his chest that pushes him off and incapacitates him.

The Pulse Grenades generate ionization fields that collapses and vaporizes organic material. It seems like all Forerunner weapons vaporize organics in the same way.

Spoiler

After Halo 4 the Didact survives the Pulse Grenade crashes from orbit waking up uninjured.

Spoiler

The Didact tanks a Forerunner Monitor laser that only incapacitates him for a short time to teleport him away because of the Didact’s armor capabilities.

Spoiler

Monitors can vaporize Hunters who weighs 5 tons and are covered in heavy armor.

Spoiler

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[Papa Nier]

Here you have the Composer pieces of Forerunner technology that digitizes people.

What we brought for Lord of Admirals and his last warriors were the Composers. These large, ugly machines had originally been designed by Builders in a failed attempt to attain immunity against the Flood. Composers broadcast high-energy fields of entangled sympathies to gather victim mentalities—essences—and then translated them into machine data. In the original scheme, new bodies were constructed, and the subjects’ essences were imprinted over them—minus any trace of Flood patterns.
Source: Halo: Silentium

The Didact states that he is "immune" to the Composer

Here is the Didact chilling inside the Composer beam during the length of the last Halo 4 mission

The Didact falls straight into the Composer, still unaffected.

Here you have the Composer beam covering the city of New Phoenix, digitizing 6 million people within 90 seconds.

Spoiler: Halo: Escalation

The Didact gets severely injured by having six Composers detonating him at once.

Spoiler: Halo: Escalation

Master Chief states that the Didact was "contained", not killed, and is still a potential threat.

Spoiler: Halo: Escalation

The Didact is moving outside of Master Chief's sight.

The Didact pops up behind Blue Team out of nowhere.

Spoiler: Halo: Escalation

The Forerunner Armigers mass-produce combat drones that are bullet timers.

“Get behind me!” said Holt, and he began firing in the direction of the enemies. Lamb, however, did not retreat. He still had his weapon from their earlier battle against the creatures, and instead of hiding behind the Spartan, he stood next to him and opened fire. The handgun he used was surprisingly powerful, exploding with every round as he struggled to maintain its concussive jostling. Holt glanced briefly at him and, although Lamb couldn’t be certain, he thought he glimpsed silent approval in the Spartan’s helmet visor.
The blasts from their weapons collided with the oncoming combatants.
Lamb was worried that they would absorb the impact and continue forward with no problem. Instead the two closest spun their staves with lightning speed, remarkably blocking the incoming fire. But then the air around them seemed to bend again, and with a sudden snap of light they disappeared. The other two, however, persisted.
Source: Halo: Hunters in the Dark

The Forerunner Armigers move so fast that they need to slow down video footage to identify them.

And then the firefight had ensued, which Annabelle had to admit was clever. Captain Forge had certainly covered her bases and created an inventive escape plan. Getting shot clean through by a needler hadn’t been in the cards, but Apollo’s team leader had acted quickly. Unfortunately, they hadn’t been able to apprehend the salvagers as planned.
Then the mysterious gray blur streaked into view.
Annabelle rewound the feed and watched again.
Chills covered her arms. She slowed the feed.
It couldn’t be. Goose bumps spread like wildfire over her skin as she watched the footage again, this time slowing the speed even more. There. She paused on the moment the blur grabbed Rion Forge out of the air.
And she knew exactly what she was looking at.
The fact that a Forerunner armiger had suddenly appeared like the cavalry was an intense shock. The last time she’d seen one had been in video footage during her time on the Ark. She’d been fortunate enough to be safe inside the Mayhem at the time, but even on screen, the armigers on the Ark’s surface had been sentient, deadly, and menacing in appearance, with their floating parts and glowing eyes....
Source: Halo: Renegades

Here is a Young IsoDidact describing that the ship he is on is vaporized and struggling to repair itself for some time. Then, finally, a Forerunner Fighter Craft enters their ship, slices apart their fighter crafts and captures the crew in stasis.

“What will happen to us?” Chakas asked. “We’re not even supposed to be here.”
“They will punish,” Riser said.
I could not answer. I did not know.
A second ancilla appeared beside the ship’s. The two engaged in some sort of contest, not physical but conducted throughout all the ship’s systems. Their images merged, twisted geometrically about each other, then spiraled up and vanished.
“What’s that?” I asked.
“AI suppressors,” the Didact said. “Instant debriefing and transfer. Our ship has been stripped of knowledge and control.”
We were feeling the full strength of a Forerunner warship’s most modern weaponry, wrapped and stunned like a fly in a web. Close-in confinement fields flashed around the command center. We felt gravitation cease. At odd angles, the Didact, the humans, and I waited helplessly in semidarkness, blind to all outside activity. Our own ancillas fell silent under the AI suppressors beamed from outside.
Finally came total darkness. Minutes passed.
Riser was praying in an old human dialect not heard in ten thousand years. Its cadences sounded familiar to me. The Didact had once studied human languages.
Chakas was silent.
Slowly, my armor started to fail. My breath came hard and shallow. Something sparkled to my right. I tried to turn, but the armor had locked up and now held me immobile. An orange glare increased to unbearable brilliance, and I saw our bulkheads and control surfaces melt and collapse—while new walls of hard light fought to rise between us and the vacuum. Even under siege, stripped of nearly all higher functions, the Didact’s ship was valiantly trying to protect us.
Our world became a twisting, free-form struggle between destructor beams and new construction. I watched in numb fascination as the struggle ramped up to a pitch I could not track with my natural senses … and then slowly subsided.
Our ship was losing.
Half of what was left of the control center—abstract and angular and much smaller—fell away and vanished. I briefly saw the curved flank of a sleek Despair-class hunter-killer, glinting and flashing as it reflected the dying glow of our hull’s destruction. We drifted free. Our air rapidly staled, and we were surrounded by vacuum.
Into my narrowing point of view came three powerful, fully operational seekers—longer, sleeker, versions of the Didact’s old war sphinxes. They lacked the scowling features of the older machines—depersonalized, dark, fast.
One of them cut through the new-grown walls and circled behind us, then dropped aft, penetrating interior bulkheads, searching for other occupants. Through shredded layers of ship’s decking, I watched it release the war sphinxes—only to smash them like toys, slice them into sections, and then reduce those to sparking dust.
The sphinxes offered no resistance.
Another took the Didact in tow, bouncing in his armor like a child’s toy on a string as he was hauled from the dying ship into the depths of space.
The third lingered near me but took no action, as if awaiting instructions. Then, just as my vision shrank to a purplish cone and I thought I had taken my last breath, the seeker swept out its manipulators, seized my armor, and tugged me from the broken hull, not toward a flotilla of ships, but outward, around—and finally, down.
We were all being unceremoniously dragged to the surface of the San’Shyuum world.
Source: Halo: Cryptum

Here is the point of view of a human that the event happened faster than a thought or reflex, none of the details mentioned by the Forerunner.

“What will happen to us?” I asked.
“They will punish,” Riser said gloomily. “We’re not supposed to be here!”
I turned to my small companion, reached to touch the long, dry fingers of his outstretched hand, and shot an angry glance at Bornstellar, the young Manipular that Riser and I had guided to Djamonkin Crater. He would not meet my eyes.
Then, faster than thought or reflex, something cold and bright and awful carved up the distance between us, splitting us apart in blue-white silence. War sphinxes with passionless faces moved in and scooped us up in transparent bubbles. I saw the Didact and Bornstellar packed away in their own bubbles like trophies...
Source: Halo: Primoridium

The Didact can plug himself into the full sensory experience of thousands of his warriors, seeing through all their points of view in battle.

Soon, I was jittering and plunging my way through a great space battle, events moving far too quickly for me to make much sense of it. I had no idea where or when this was—I could not correlate these events with any historical record. Complicating the recovery was many hundreds of points of view, threading through and around the central events, chopping and intercutting—and a remarkably different perception of objective reality. As a Promethean, the Didact simply saw things differently.
Clearly, a thousand years ago, when entering battle, the Didact had plugged into the full sensory experience of thousands of his warriors … something I could barely imagine and certainly not control.
Source: Halo: Cryptum

The Didact enters a battle mode where time splits into several streams, where some objects move in fast mode while others, such as incoming fire and attack craft moving in slow motion allowing him to dodge them.

I found myself again taking control of the Falco. We accelerated out of the widening zone of battle, toward the portal, now a single huge violet radiance against the blackness of space.
Three of the seven fleeing Halos were lined up, also seeking entry. They, too, were being harried by cruisers and were now attacked by swarms from the second fortress. Sentinels from these installations mounted a vigorous defense, pushing back their attackers. The rings maintained their integrity.
Before we could reach the hellishly glowing webwork with its single yawning and badly distorted portal, the first Halo began its passage.
For me, under the influence of the Didact’s battle mode, time fragmented into several streams. I saw the movement of the installation in fast mode, but—in excruciating slow motion—directed the Falco to avoid bursts of plasma energy and disintegrating swift attack vessels. Part of me seemed to fight through many lifetimes, through clouds of fighters and debris, away from ever-increasing danger.
Source: Halo: Cryptum

 

[Papa Nier]

So the Sentinel Beam ammunition describes as a superheated negative charged ion particle beam.

Spoiler

A description of a particle-beam weapon and the speed of the beam, 299,792,458 m/s = Mach 874030.4897959

Particle-beam weapon - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

As I showed previously you have Master Chief dodging laser weapons of the Forerunner Aggressor sentinels:

But the Chief knew how to deal with the mechanical killers, and proceeded to dodge their lasers as he destroyed one after another.
Source: Halo: The Flood

Here are members of Fireteam Osiris, Palmer and Tanaka using Hardlight Shields to block Forerunner Sentinel beams. Afterwards, Palmer intercepts and uses herself as a human shield against Forerunner Sentinel beams and Tanaka fighting Sentinels in the air while evading their beams.

Spoiler

Sentinel beams disintegrate and incinerate whatever is left of their target.

Spoiler

Black Three from Black Team dodging Forerunner Sentinel beams and Hunter's plasma stream blast while in midair.

Spoiler

 

[Papa Nier]

Master Chief via John unarmored dodging point blank stun rounds from a 30mm cannon.

On top of the bunker, John was a blur of slashing motions. A second guard’s exosuit erupted in a fountain of hydraulic fluid and then collapsed under the armor’s weight.
The last guard on the bunker turned to fire at John. Halsey gripped the edge of her chair. “He’s at point-blank range! Even stun rounds can kill at that distance!”
As the guard’s gun fired, John sidestepped. The stun rounds slashed through the air, a clean miss. John grabbed the weapon’s armature—twisted—and with a screech of stressed metal, wrenched it free of the exoskeleton. He fired directly into the man’s chest and sent him tumbling off the bunker.
Source: Halo: The Fall of Reach

Master Chief tanking plasma fire from a Covenant Ghost.

A stream of plasma bolts came flying out of the fog, a couple glancing off the titanium shell of John’s Mjolnir at chest height. He threw himself to his belly, dropping below the plane of fire, and rolled left.
...
The vehicle was barely visible but swerving in his direction, not emerging from the fog so much as manifesting inside it like some kind of ghost. It was almost on him now, wide in the front and narrow in the back, with nothing beneath it but a shimmering cushion of emptiness. In its cockpit, hunched behind the vehicle’s winged chassis rode a huge Brute in deep-red armor.
Source: Halo: Silent Storm

Ghost plasma is stated to be 5000 degrees. Also, Gauss Cannon fires slugs that travel just under 40 mach.

Sullivan fired several bursts across the hood at the Elites until he noticed the barrel of the ALIM swivel into place directly above his head, then he quickly dropped down into the scorched seat and braced himself. Palmer lined up the lead Ghost and fired. The slug from the M68 left the muzzle at just under mach forty and penetrated the lead Ghost’s plasma containment vessel—after it had passed through the red Elite’s lower abdomen. The vehicle detonated and spiraled into the air, five-thousand-degree plasma erupting through its shattered armor. The Elite rider was almost entirely incinerated; what remained of its right arm, however, spiraled through the air alongside the wreckage of the vehicle. The other rider boosted out through the bluish flames and roared in pain as the flexible material of its armored suit bubbled and cracked.
Source: Halo: Evolutions - Palace Hotel

Master Chief tanked a nearby detonation of a 1 MT nuke, and MC had 30 seconds to sprint away. The event took place on the moon with minimal atmosphere and gravity.

“Soon,” Linda said. “What timer delay do you want?”
“Two seconds longer than you need to get clear,” John said. “This is going to be close.”
“Give us thirty seconds,” Fred said. “We’ll leave via escape pod.”
John approved. Because Seoba had only a trace atmosphere, the shockwave of a Fury one-megaton thermonuclear device would barely be noticeable from a half kilometer away, and both Spartan Mjolnir and ODST space-assault armor was already shielded from EMP. So they would need to worry only about the heat blast, which could be avoided by simply hiding behind something . . . the farther away, the better, of course.
...
John ignored him. “All personnel, take cover!” he said. “Fury-class tactical nuke detonation thirty seconds! Repeat, tactical nuke thirty seconds!”
...
John was already up and bounding down the run-out drift with Joshua and Anton when Crowther’s voice came over the command channel.
“What the hell was that?”
“Fred and Linda with Starry Night survivors,” John reported. “Be advised, self-destruct detonation in twenty-five seconds.”
...
John didn’t know quite what to make of the exchange with the two commanders, but he’d figure that out later—assuming he cleared the half-kilometer safety range before the Fury detonated.
...
Then John and his companions reached the bottom of the run-out drift, dropped into the blanket of sublimation fog, and started across the quarry floor at a sprint. He didn’t want to distract the squad by asking for a count-off, but his motion tracker showed five Spartans fleeing in the same direction. Counting the two with him and the two that had ridden the escape pod away with Fred, that was all but one of the squad right there. With luck, he wouldn’t lose any.
The gray silhouette of a wrecked Covenant hoverbike emerged from the fog ahead, and a moment later his onboard computer displayed a yellow five-second countdown on the HUD. Four, three . . . John and his companions leaped over the vehicle and crouched down behind it.
The count on his HUD reached one. His helmet speakers crackled with static, and the quarry grew as bright as a muzzle flash. The vehicle rocked ever so slightly, and the fog cleared, carried away on the shadow of a shockwave that Seoba’s trace atmosphere could support.
John rose, then looked back toward a billowing wall of steam where the run-out drift had been a moment before. He was happy to see the blocky shapes of several Spartans—first three, then four, then all five that he had seen on his HUD earlier—emerging from the cloud, stumbling and weaving, but still on their feet. Their Mjolnir was shielded from the EMP released by nuclear weapons, and the lack of atmosphere had protected them from any shockwave effects. But if they had been close enough to the detonation, their armor could have taken some heat damage—and if the shielding had been breached, the Spartans themselves might even have suffered some radiation poisoning.
Source: Halo: Silent Storm

Spartans can tank a direct hit of a Wraith's plasma mortar, which vaporizes everything in a 20-meter radius.

There was no anti-infantry attack quite as horrifying as a plasma strike, which unleashed such a searing blast that anything inside the impact zone was flash-incinerated, while anything nearby by was merely knocked down and immolated. John had seen direct hits reduce concrete bunkers to swirling clouds of white-hot dust and near-misses leave men standing on smoking pegs of charred bone.
...
The artillery blanket continued to intensify and creep across the jungle slope toward John, flooding the right side of his faceplate with blinding strobe light. The plasma rounds were the least of his concerns. The Mjolnir armor he and his Spartans wore would protect them from anything short of a direct hit. Besides, once the Covenant had flattened the jungle, Blue Team wouldn’t have to wait for the bridging vehicles to enter a predetermined firing zone.
...
Plasma rounds incinerated everything within a twenty-meter radius of the strike, with an even larger secondary damage ring. The concussion wave alone increased the mortality risk of a maneuvering infantry soldier tenfold. Linda would be okay in her Mjolnir armor unless she happened to run directly under an incoming strike—but in a barrage this heavy, the chances of that happening were high.
Source: Halo: Oblivion

Master Chief tanking plasma rifle fire from a hundred Drones.

The plasma bolts kept coming, slashing through the moss curtains and walls of fronds at a steadily flattening angle, raising jets of smoke and mud all around, pinging off John’s Mjolnir in an ever-deepening scale that suggested shell failure was growing likely. Fred and Linda had already checked in at the LZ, but he and Kelly were still three hundred meters out and at least four minutes late, and if the Night Watch was gone, the two of them were done.
Maybe they shouldn’t have ducked back into the jungle after all. It had seemed like a good idea at the time, stumbling across the crater-pocked terrain on the reverse slope of Sarpesi Ridge with a hundred Drones gaining on them by the second.
Source: Halo: Oblivion

Master Chief tanks the detonation of a nearby Scorpion missile designed to take out tanks. He is launched six meters, and the missile itself created a two-meter deep crash.

He stopped. The automatic cannons were one thing—could the armor withstand air power like that? The SkyHawk had a quartet of 50mm cannons that made the chain-guns look like peashooters. They also had Scorpion missiles—designed to take out tanks.
...
The tip of the Scorpion missile passed a centimeter from his head.
He reached out—fingertips brushed the metal casing—
—and slapped it aside.
The SkyHawk jet screamed over his head.
The Scorpion missile detonated.
Pressure slammed though his body. The Master Chief flew six meters, spinning end over end, and landed flat on his back.
He blinked, and saw nothing but blackness. Was he dead? Had he lost?
The shield status bar in his heads-up display pulsed weakly. It was completely drained—then it blinked red and slowly started to refill. Blood was spattered across the inside of his helmet and he tasted copper.
He stood, his muscles screaming in protest.
“Run!” Cortana said. “Before they come back for a look.”
The Master Chief got up and ran. As he passed the spot where he had stood to face down the missile, he saw a two-meter-deep crater.
Source: Halo: The Fall of Reach

Master Chief tanks Hunter's fuel rod cannon without his energy shield breaking, and tank direct hits even when his shields are low on charge.

The Spartan swiveled around, and heard a warning tone as a Hunter’s weapon discharged. Burning energy smashed into him. The Shade shook under the force of the incoming fire as the Master Chief clenched his jaw and forced himself to bring the targeting reticle down onto the target. His shield bled energy and began to shriek a shrill alarm.
Source: Halo: The Flood

The skirmish took mere minutes. His shield indicator pulsed a warning yet again, and he paused at the top of the ravine to allow it time to recharge. His gun swept the area, and noted the circular structure that dominated a small depression at the top of the ravine.
His shield had just begun a recharge cycle, feeding off the armor’s capacious power plant, when the pair of Hunter aliens burst from cover and lobbed fire at his position.
The first blast struck him square in the chest and sent him tumbling backward. The second shot was stopped by a thick-trunked tree. A trickle of blood pooled in the corner of his left eye. He shook his head to clear his blurred vision and rolled to his left. A third shot kicked up a plume of soil where he had lain just seconds before.
Source: Halo: The Flood

Master Chief was unharmed by a nearby Wraith's plasma shot which killed three other soldiers who were further away from it than him,

As the walls of the tunnel reverberated with the sounds of the charging plasma mortar John dashed over to the rent in the tunnel wall—firing three more bursts from his battle rifle back at the advancing enemies as he went—then turned and disappeared into the breach. He had made it no more than thirteen meters when the mortar round slammed into the opening, sending a wall of concussion and heat that drove him to his knees and caused his shields to overload and drop. John got back to his feet, but Private Jemison, the second-to-last man to make it into the breach, was lying facedown in the now boiling muck—his organs ruptured and bones splintered from that same blast. Howls from the darkness told him that Jemison wasn’t the only casualty. He ran past Private First-Class Locke, whose split and blistered flesh and raw bone were visible through smoldering holes in his BDUs. He stepped over Private First-Class Galliard, who had been felled by a piece of rebar that entered just below the nape of his neck and exited through the bridge of his nose—the still-glowing chunk of steel protruded from the sewer wall ten yards farther ahead.
Source:Halo: Evolutions Volume II Essential Tales of the Halo Universe

Master Chief unfazed by this massive explosion

Spoiler: Halo: Uprising

Master Chief tanking plasma fire from six Hunters

Spoiler: Halo: Uprising

Master Chief tanking the detonation of a point-blank plasma grenade that vaporizes a Brute Chieftain and scorches close to a dozen nearby Grunts.

Spoiler: Halo: Uprising

Master Chief tanking lasers from 343 Guilty Spark, a Forerunner Monitor

Master Chief in Halo 4 tanking a slipspace rupture crash that creates a massive crater from the impact

Spoiler

Master Chief had his evolution accelerated a Forerunner by the name of the Librarian, giving him immunity to the Composer that digitizes organics.

 

[Maddie]

snip

Plasma Cannons on a ghost are stated to be 100-250 kilowatts, so Chief probably tanked a few hundred kilojoules to low megajoules of energy there

Chief can run 60 miles per hour, so in 30 seconds that is 804.672 meters from the epicenter of the nuclear explosion. Due to the explosion being on a moon it seems the actual blast is smaller, the shockwave only being 500 meters in radius. I will try to calc that. From a cursory look, that would mean the explosion functioned more like it was 12 kilotons on the moon (thanks to the atmosphere), and given Chief is 800 meters out, that would be within the 5 psi overpressure zone.

Plasma Pistol core power output is 100-150 Kv @ 2-3 dA, or 20-45 kilowatts. Plasma pistols fire at 360 rpm. They fired at him for four minutes, and there is 100. Assuming his shields weren't somewhat regenerating inbetween and they hit 100% accurately, he sustained 480,000,000 to 1,080,000,000 joules. However this is a highball because plasma pistols only contain 100 shots worth. A single shot is 3333.333-7500 joules, and 100 x 100 shots times that is 33,333,333.333 to 75,000,000 joules assuming 100% accuracy

The Scorpion Missile is based on a Hellfire Missile in design, size, and usage. I can base it on that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-114_Hellfire

It has 8 kilograms of octol

Octol is 70% TNT, 30% HMX

https://sgp.fas.org/othergov/doe/lanl/lib-www/books/epro.pdf

5.6 kilograms of TNT, 2.4 kilograms of HMX

((2.23092637 kilocalories per gram * 5.6 kilograms) + (0.0381556955 kilocalories per gram * 5.6 kilograms)) + ((3.59793951 kilocalories per gram * 2.4 kilograms) + (0.0537137322 kilocalories per gram * 2.4 kilograms)) = 89,833,941.6 joules

The missile is 1.6 meters Going by the angle it went in the comic, it had a trajectory that’d make most sense that it traveled around 2x its length from Chief going by eyeballing. I could do angular measurements but this is an okay eyeball. That’s 3.2 meters Chief is 218 centimeters tall in the armor and he weighs 451.3 kilograms with his armor on, but we can’t simply get a surface area from that as the number is extremely bloated from him being genetically engineered to be extremely densely muscled and plus his armor is made of titanium. Finding the ideal weight and using that for body surface area would make more sense.

https://www.calculator.net/ideal-we...htinch=2&cheightmeter=180&printit=0&x=49&y=39

223.5 lbs

https://www.calculator.net/body-surface-area-calculator.html

I get a surface area of 2.54 m^2, it sounds like he wasn’t consumed by the explosion and just hit from the back/front, so I will halve that to 1.77 m^2

4 * pi * (3.2 meters)^2 = 128.679635 m^2 (128.679635 m^2)/(1.77 m^2) = 72.7003588

89,833,941.6 joules/72.7003588 = 1,235,673.98 joules

I calced some of them

 

[Maddie]

As we can see in game the actual explosive blast for Wraiths are much smaller than 20 meters, so the 20 meters is simply the kill radius from the overpressure and heat

Within a 20 meter radius, organic matter is incinerated and bone is left as blackened and charred

https://www3.epa.gov/ttnchie1/mkb/documents/fthermal.pdf

Organic matter incinerates at 650 degrees celsius

We can get the volume of air heated from the blast by this:

Volume of a Hemisphere Calculator | Formula

Our volume of a hemisphere calculator is designed to answer the following questions: How can you find the volume of a hemisphere? What is the volume of a hemisphere formula?

www.omnicalculator.com

I get a volume of 16,755 m^3

Air is 1.225 kg/m^3

16,755 m^3 * 1.225 kg/m^3 = 20524.875 kg

Specific Heat Calculator

Find out how much heat is required to warm up a sample with the specific heat calculator.

www.omnicalculator.com

630 degree celsius temperature change given air at room temperature

= 13,085,839,305 joules

Chief is 13 meters from the epicenter of the explosion, or a hemisphere of 1061.9 square meters

1061.9 square meters/2.54 m^2 = 31,300,529.1 joules

 

[Maddie]

Hmmm the Beam Rifle feat isn't as ridiculous as I thought

Chief was ahead of her by 10 meters or so

mach 10.6 at 30 meters is 8.25127895 milliseconds

10 meters/8.25127895 milliseconds equals = mach 3.53333332, not hypersonic, just supersonic+

 

[Maddie]

The Master Chief heard metallic clacks around the tent.

“Analyzing sound pattern,” Cortana said. “Database match. Identified as—”

“As someone cycling the bolt of an MA5B assault rifle. I know. Standard-issue weapons for Orbital Drop Shock Troopers.”
...

The remaining gunner completed his turn and opened fire. A three-round burst ricocheted off the MJOLNIR armor’s energy shield. The shield’s recharge bar flickered a hairbreadth.

An MA5B burst only knocks a hairswidth of his shielding

Their rounds go at 905 m/s and weigh 10 grams, giving a KE of 4095.125

4095.125 * 3 = 12,285.375 joules

Assuming it knocked out either 1/10 or 1/100 of his shielding leads to 122,853.75 joules to 1,228,537.5 joules

Along either side of the course there was something new: three 30mm chain-guns mounted on tripods.
...
Two more grenades and the automated guns were out of commission. He noted that his shields had dropped by a quarter. He watched the status bar refill. He hadn’t even known he had taken hits. That was sloppy.

He takes hits from multiple 30 mm cannons

"Tanks shots from 30mm chainguns without even noticing he was being hit and without his energy shields breaking."

https://jpeoaa.army.mil › masPDF
Handbook - U.S. Army

30x113 mm bullets used in the real life M230 Chaingun weigh 343 grams and have a muzzle velocity of 805 m/s

= 111,136.2875 joules

3 chainguns

111,136.2875 joules * 3 = 333,408.8625 joules




http://www.watchframebyframe.com/watch/yt/1rug36eaWW4

17:72 to 19:08

1.36 seconds for Chief to throw a grenade

2.72 seconds

625 rpm * 2.72 seconds = 28 shots

333,408.8625 joules * 28 = 9,335,448.15 joules

10,335,674.7375 joules * 4 = 37,341,792.6 joules

“I just accessed SATCOM,” she said. “I’m using one of their satellites so I can get a better look at what’s happening down here. There’s a SkyHawk jump jet from Fairchild Field inbound.”

He stopped. The automatic cannons were one thing—could the armor withstand air power like that? The SkyHawk had a quartet of 50mm cannons that made the chain-guns look like peashooters. They also had Scorpion missiles—designed to take out tanks.

...

In the blink of an eye, the dot had wings and the Master Chief’s thermal sensors picked up a plume of jetwash. In seconds, the SkyHawk closed—then opened fire with its 50mm cannons.

He jumped.

The wooden poles splintered into pulp. They were mowed down like so many blades of grass.

The Master Chief rolled, ducked, and flattened himself on the earth. He caught a smattering of rounds and his shield bar dropped to half. Those rounds would have penetrated his old suit instantly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinmetall_BK-5
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_cm_KwK_39


835 m/s

A 50 mm shell is about 2.06 kilograms

= 718,142 Joules

3-5 rounds hit him I assume

2,154,426 to 3,590,710 joules

It only halved his shields

Max Shield Strength = 8,354,400 to 13,924,000 joules

 

[Papa Nier]

Thorne and Palmer use the Hardlight Shield to block and deflect Covenant Carbine and Plasma Rifle fire, as well an Energy Sword

Spoiler: Halo: Escalation

A soldier states they saw a Spartan using an Overshields to walk through a crossfire that would have dismantled a tank.

"Saw a Spartan with an Overshield walk through crossfire that would have dismantled a tank." — Private Dave Moriarty
Source: Halo: Spartan Assault

Kat-B320 using Armor Lock to tank Banshee cannon fire that blows up a Warhog.

Locke flips a 42.3-tonne Wraith tank from the shock wave of striking the ground near it.

Spartans can destroy Wraith tanks with a few punches.

Wraith armor is impervious to .50 cal DU anti-aircraft rounds and can tank their own mortars, which vaporize Titanium armor within 20 meters.

But there was an infantry screen to penetrate before they could dance with the tank, and both the LAAG gunner and the Marine in the passenger seat were forced to deal with a screen comprised of Elites, Jackals, and Grunts as the Chief slammed on the brakes, backed out of a crossfire, and turned to provide them with a better angle.
The M41 roared as it sent hundreds of rounds downrange, plucked Grunts like flowers, and hurled them back into the bloodied snow.
...
The gunner, who couldn’t possibly miss at that range, opened fire. There was an earsplitting roar as large-caliber rounds pounded the side of the tank. Some glanced off, others shattered, but none of them managed to penetrate the Wraith’s thick armor.
Source: Halo: The Flood

Parked in a clearing were Covenant vehicles, lined in three rows of four: mortar tanks. The tanks had two wide lateral fins, beneath which were armored anti-grav pods. They were extremely stable and fired one of the Covenant’s most powerful ground weapons: the energy mortar. Fred had seen them in action; they fired a shaped blast of plasma that obliterated everything within twenty meters of impact. Titanium battle plate, concrete, or flesh—it all vaporized.
Marines called these tanks “Wraiths” because you usually got one look at them before they made you one.
...
In unison the Spartans turned and fired at the far corner of the formation of tanks. Two blue-white blobs of liquid sun spat from the Wraiths and detonated. There was a dazzling light, an expansion of superheated white fire—and then there was glass-smooth ground and the smoldering skeletons of seven Wraith tanks.
More luck. If the tanks had been active, with hatches secured, they might have survived the first volley.
Source: Halo: The Flood

Kodiak and Holt tanking numerous Forerunner Sentinel beams.

Spoiler: Halo: Hunters in the Dark

Kodiak and Holt shrug off heavy Forerunner Monitor attacks and immediately recover.

Spoiler: Halo: Hunters in the Dark

Madsen tanking a direct Scattershot blast with his energy shield.

Spoiler

DeMarco tanks a direct airstrike and stays standing without his helmet while engulfed in flames.

Spoiler: Halo: Escalation

Fireteam Majestic tanking a spaceship exploding while inside.

Spoiler: Halo: Escalation

Tanaka flies straight through a Banshee aircraft that explodes in her face, and her energy shields are visibly active.

 

[Papa Nier]

Fireteam Osiris shrugs off a Forerunner Guardian blast that tears up the city, violently pushes aircraft out of the air, and causes earthquakes.

Spoiler: Halo: Legacy of Onyx

Fireteam Majestic evading automatic turret fire.

Spoiler: Halo: Escalation

Ray and Thorne evade fire from numerous Covenants with their Carbine Rifles and immediately blitzes them.

Spoiler: Halo: Escalation

Covenant Carbine rifles fire hypersonic (so Mach 5+) slugs.

Spoiler: Halo: Shadow of Intent

 

[Papa Nier]

Adriana from Gray team kills a pair of Elites with an energy sword, dodging plasma fire at close range and slamming into a Seraph fighter hard enough to dent it.

The two Sangheili who’d turned a nearby corner looked up as she dropped onto them, the enemy shooting wildly into the air at where she had been a split second earlier.
She beheaded one of them with the energy sword. The other hit her with its shoulder, slamming them both into the hull of a decommissioned Seraph fighter. Adriana rolled out of the dent she’d made in the Seraph’s hull as the Elite tried to fire its weapon point-blank into her helmet. Melted alloy splashed back onto them both as the plasma bolt missed and hit the Seraph’s undercarriage just a centimeter to the right of where Adriana’s head had just been.
Adriana spun around the Sangheili and climbed up its back, grabbed its neck with her free hand, and forced it hard to the ground under her. The energy sword flashed as the alien hit the floor while she simultaneously impaled it. It wriggled, screaming as Adriana leaned all her weight into the sword, the weapon burning slowly through its chest and down into the deck plating.
Source: Halo: Envoy

Gray team pushing a Bumblebee 100 meters, which is a heavily armored drop pod that is larger and most likely heavier than the 66 tonne Scorpion tank.

“There’s a large pond a hundred meters ahead. Let’s push.” Mike grabbed the side of the airlock and dug his armored boots into the ground. Jai put his shoulder to it. Adriana silently slipped in between them and did the same.
The Bumblebee scraped first slowly, then slid at a decent clip, eventually tumbling like a boulder with each coordinated shove. They’d disregard the safety of causing more volatile damage to the craft just to get it underwater as soon as possible.
It was the first time they’d done something this synchronized when not under fire since Glyke, Jai thought. He missed it, working together without talking or planning. Just knowing what the team needed and doing it.
They finally managed to shove the Bumblebee over the banks and into the large pond, letting it roll down a steep runoff and plunge onto the surface. It burbled and smoked a little before it slipped most of the way under the water, effectively putting out the fire.
Source: Halo: Envoy

Spoiler: Vehicle Scale Chart

Spoiler: M808B Scorpion - 66 tons

"Usually the good Lord works in mysterious ways. But not today! This here is 66 tons of straight up, H-E-spewing dee-vine intervention! If God is love, then you can call me Cupid!" - Avery Johnson during the Battle of Mombasa on Legendary.
Source: Halo 2

Adriana from Gray team dodges plasma fire by moving out of the line of fire within a split second and blitzes an Elite.

The two Sangheili who’d turned a nearby corner looked up as she dropped onto them, the enemy shooting wildly into the air at where she had been a split second earlier.
She beheaded one of them with the energy sword.
Source: Halo: Envoy

Alice from Red team holds off a small Banished army, tanking numerous Banshee and Hunter fuel rod cannons and later escapes.

 

[Papa Nier]

Atriox tanks a gravity hammer swing from another Brute.

Spoiler

Atriox tanking several bursts of gunfire with no fucks given.

Atriox showed no reaction from being stabbed several times by Spartans. Later pulls the knife out.

Spoiler

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/DemandingPlayfulDromaeosaur-mobile.mp4

Tem'Bhetek the Prelate via enhanced San'Shyuum super-soldier evades fire from skilled Sangheili marksmen and is the fastest person Tul 'Juran had ever seen. Implied by the Half Jaw to be faster than brute Chieftains.

“We had their leader in our sights, but he moved too quickly—faster than anything I’ve ever seen. And then . . . he was gone.”
The Blademaster had marched up to join the Half-Jaw during the Scion’s tale and now said: “I’ve never heard of a Jiralhanae chieftain who could move like that. How large was his hammer?”
The Scion spat her words like bitter fruit. “Their leader was San’Shyuum.”
The Half-Jaw and Blademaster shared a surprised glance, and then listened, rapt, as Tul ‘Juran described what she had seen.
A San’Shyuum without a throne. A warrior in black armor who had evaded her keep’s finest marksman and disappeared into the smoke of the burning settlement.
Source: Halo: Fractures (Halo: Shadow of Intent)

Tem'Bhetek blitzed a group of Elites that ambushed him while evading and deflecting their gunfire.

The plasma fire had come from the aft side of the hangar. Six Sangheili had emerged at the top of a ramp leading to Shadow of Intent’s reactors. All of these warriors were lightly armored and carried only plasma pistols, and had likely been tasked with engineering duties rather than ship security. The Prelate went right for these unlucky first responders, half running, half gliding across the hangar, dodging their wild shots with quick lateral pulses from his anti-grav belt and swatting away accurate ones with his hardlight shield. In mere moments, the Prelate was across the hangar and up the ramp, a few paces from his foes.
Source: Halo: Fractures (Halo: Shadow of Intent)

Tem'Bhetek without warning deflects hypersonic projectiles from the Covenant Carbine that are not coming from his line of sight, and immediately identifies the shooter.

Uncannily quick, the Prelate raised his hardlight shield and deflected three shots from a Covenant carbine rifle. The bright green hypersonic slugs ricocheted with glassy pings, sparking radioactive fuel. A glance to his right and the Prelate identified the shooter: an Unggoy standing on the other side of the bay, at the top of a bow-side ramp. Two squads of Sangheili rangers were spilling down the ramp past the Unggoy.
Source: Halo: Fractures (Halo: Shadow of Intent)

Tem'Bhetek tanking three Covenant Carbine shots without his energy shields breaking.

he felt three sharp slaps between his shoulders, and he staggered forward onto a knee. The Prelate’s shields had kept the carbine’s radioactive slugs from penetrating his armor, and the chemicals in his bloodstream had dulled the pain.
Source: Halo: Fractures (Halo: Shadow of Intent)

Joseph Staten the writer of Halo: Shadow of Intent and Halo's original lead writer states that Prelates are powerful enough to beat Spartans in single combat.

Halo Community Update - Books, Browsers, and Big Team

Welcome back to a new installment of the Halo Community Update. It’s been an exciting and eventful past few weeks, and we’ve got a few things to catch up on. Let’s do just that. Since we last spoke, Anvil’s Legacy has dropped, Halo 5: Forge for Windows 10 is here, and the Halo App is your new...

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“After I combined this idea with another that’s been kicking around my head for years—What if there was a San’Shyuum powerful enough to best a Spartan in single combat?—my Odysseus had his antagonist. And things just kept rolling from there. I hope Shadow of Intent gives Halo fans deeper insight into familiar characters and places while also raising new and exciting possibilities for future stories. After all, for Rtas ‘Vadum, it’s still a long way home.” - Joseph Staten

 

[Papa Nier]

Hardlight tech might have potential in its durability.



It seems like some of the Hardlight technology was still intact after Master Chief set off the HAVOK Tactical Nuclear Weapon as Cortana was able to harness the tech at the end of Halo 4 to interact with Master Chief physically and teleport him away. The HAVOK nuke is a 30 megaton explosive.

This operation had to go off without a hitch. Blue Team’s mission was to draw out the Covenant rear guard and let Red Team slip through in the confusion. Red Team would then plant a HAVOK tactical nuke. When the next Covenant ship landed, dropped its shields, and started to unload its troops, they’d get a thirty-megaton surprise.
Source: Halo: The Fall of Reach

John carefully removed the bonding strips on the HAVOK tactical nuclear device and attached it to the wall of the sewer. The adhesive on the black half sphere stuck and hardened to the concrete. He slipped the detonator key into a thin slot on the unit’s face. There were no external indicators on the device; instead, a tiny screen winked on his heads-up display indicating the nuke was armed.

HAVOK ARMED, flashed across his HUD. AWAITING DETONATION SIGNAL.

The device—a clean thirty-megaton explosive—could only be detonated by a remote signal . . . a problem here in the sewers. Even the powerful communications package on a starship would be unable to penetrate the steel and concrete overhead.
Source: Halo: The Fall of Reach

 

[Papa Nier]

A high ranking Elite Half-Jaw can dodge point-blank Plasma Rifle fire.

Tem’Bhetek exhaled, released the last of his mental gates, and attacked the Half-Jaw with the full measure of his fury.
Shoving away his foe’s sword arm with the lance, the Prelate fired a point-blank burst with his rifle. But the Half-Jaw flowed with the lance and out of the line of fire, and then ducked under the Prelate’s arm and brought his blade around and down onto the Prelate’s armored neck.
Source: Halo: Fractures (Halo: Shadow of Intent)

Half-Jaw should scale to the Prelate, who can deflect hypersonic projectiles.

Uncannily quick, the Prelate raised his hardlight shield and deflected three shots from a Covenant carbine rifle. The bright green hypersonic slugs ricocheted with glassy pings, sparking radioactive fuel. A glance to his right and the Prelate identified the shooter: an Unggoy standing on the other side of the bay, at the top of a bow-side ramp. Two squads of Sangheili rangers were spilling down the ramp past the Unggoy.
Source: Halo: Fractures (Halo: Shadow of Intent)

Master Chief alongside three other Spartans with one injured and missing a limb pushing a 3x3x6 meter quartz monolith. That should weigh over 125 tonnes.

The room contained display cases of mineral specimens. There were sulfur crystals, raw emeralds, and rubies. There was a monolith of unpolished pink quartz in the center of the room, three meters wide and six tall.
...
“Quick,” the Master Chief said. He slung his rifle and moved to the back of the quartz monolith. “Push!”
Kelly and Fred leaned their weight against the stone and grunted with effort. The slab moved a tiny bit.
James sprinted forward, slammed into the stone, put his shoulder alongside theirs … and pushed. His left arm had been burned away from the elbow down, but he didn’t even whimper.
The monolith moved; it inched toward the hole … then tilted and went over. It landed with a dull thud and a crunching noise.
Source: Halo: The Fall of Reach

Spoiler: 125.28 tonnes

Linda uppercuts a Ghost and its Grunt rider in the air then lifts the Ghost and dunks it onto the Grunt killing it.

Spoiler: Halo: Lone Wolf

Spartans running through a large boulder.

Fred tanks a fuel rod shot though would have destroyed a dropship.

One Hunter eased its fuel-rod cannon around the edge of its impenetrable shields—green energized rounds glowing with deadly radiation—and fired.
Fred jumped from cover, his MJOLNIR armor ablaze as if it was burning phosphorus.
The Hunter hit him dead center in his chest, a blast that would have destroyed their dropship. His energy shields flared brighter, failed, and Fred crumpled to the floor, his armor smoking.
Source: Halo: Ghost of Onyx

Linda tanks a massive explosion from a landmine without damage.

Spoiler: Halo: Lone Wolf

Spartans surviving close range artillery strikes

An invisible wall of pressure slammed into Veta from the side, lifting her off her feet and hurling her a half dozen meters down the adit. She landed in the mud and slid another few meters on her belly. Her ears ached with speaker pop, her HUD flickered, and her faceplate was covered in orange slime.
She lay motionless, trying to catch her breath and wondering whether she had been hit by a mauler blast or run over by mine equipment. It dawned on her slowly that she was more surprised than hurt, that her armor was intact and her only pain was from muscles knotting in shock. She checked her hands and found she was still holding her MA5K—combat training was good for something—then rolled to her knees and swiped at the mud caked across her faceplate.
...
“It was almost certainly a gelignite packet,” Damon said. “Gelignite is a stable form of blasting gelatin often used in small quantities to clear oversize boulders from stopes or ore passes. It seems reasonable to assume that someone found a blasting magazine and used a packet to improvise a grenade.”
“That felt a hell of a lot more powerful than a grenade,” Fred said.
“I am certain it did,” Damon said. “The adit focuses the pressure waves, so any uncontrolled explosion strikes with a force far in excess of normal. Had that blast been as powerful as an artillery shell, the only survivors would be the ones wearing Mjolnir.”
Source: Halo: Retribution

A random Spartan destroying Wraiths in hand to hand combat.

 

[Papa Nier]

Halo - High Charity arrives

It's been ages since I played Halo, but there's a bunch of calc worthy feats in the series. After seeing it argued how the Flood couldn't penetrate the defences of a certain magical castle, I thought back to one of their notable feats. 0:15...

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Halo - Magnetic Accelerator Cannon

The MAC—Magnetic Accelerator Cannon—was the Commonwealth’s main weapon. It fired a super-dense ferric tungsten shell. The tremendous mass and velocity of the projectile obliterated most ships on impact. Unlike the Archer missiles, a MAC round was...

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Calc Requests, Part 25

From my Calc Request Blog. 1. Wakfu explosion (Wakfu, requested by TTGL) I can't calc the power of the explosion since it looks more like a glowing burst of light that progressively envelops the planet than an actual damaging explosion, but...

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Halo - A Spartan Will Rise (Part One)

So.. Basically, gonna be doing a series of blogs covering the various aspects of the series, be it infantry, weapons, ship-to-ship combat, etc. As far as I can tell, Halo doesn't actually have any blogs, despite the fact that it's not...

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Halo - A Spartan Will Rise (Part Two)

Continuing from the previous entry. We're still not finished with shield strength. As I said, there were a few other comparable feats to the one covered prior. Or at least, feats that would scale to the MJOLNIR's shields due to absorbing...

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Halo - A Spartan Will Rise (Part Three)

Continued from the previous entries. Alright, so we're finally done with shield strength. ..Unfortunately, gonna have to reference the values again to get a number for Spartan physical strength. Why? Because there's a scene in Ghosts of...

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[Papa Nier]

They create these high dimensional bridges called Star Road

Star road

Star roads, also known as unbending filaments, were neural physics-based megastructures created by the Precursors.

www.halopedia.org

These Star Roads are used to link their star systems, and they can also move them.

We were overtaken by the vast weave of reawakened star roads, spinning and churning like serpents in a huge nest— the graceful and haunting structures of our deep past now made fell and horrifying. The tangle looped around Uthera, deftly avoiding intersecting the planet. Then, incredibly, the planet itself began to crack and shrink, as if squeezed by a huge fist. The resulting shift in our orbit thrust us farther into the mass. An entire planet was being destroyed— just to draw us closer. “This is the way Precursors moved stars,” Maker whispered.
Source: Halo: Silentium

The Star Roads are stated to be unbreakable, even by Forerunner standards.

....Dreamers and makers whose minds transcended many realms, they seeded uncountable worlds with the building blocks of life, built cyclopean laboratories made of crystallized reality, forged roads through alternate dimensions to link their great works, and then began a grand experiment to create and uplift new sentient species...
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Before they vanished, the Precursors reshaped the galaxy with tools of metal, flesh, and energy that were linked across space and time using neural physics... They sailed between worlds in vessels guided by knowledge engines, but also waled on the star roads, bridges of unbreakable filaments that wove in and out of the deepest layers of slipspace.
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Eldest of the sapient minds of the Milky Way. They had infinite forms, many voices, and singular purpose. The realms they grew and the life they crafted continue on, though they themselves have sunk into unreachable depths.
Source: Halo: Warfleet

The Precursors are said to hold over 100 billion years worth of knowledge and are stated to originate from a time before stars.

The Gravemind tells us something impossible to understand— that most of what has been gathered comes from before there were stars. We do not believe in such a time, but the Mind insists … The life-patterns and living wisdom of a hundred billion years.
Source: Halo: Silentium

The Star Roads are but shadows of the true structures in real space. Furthermore, the Star Roads are stated to be made of strange matter, which means that the pressure applied to Star Roads constantly holding them together is equal to or exceeds those found inside neutron stars. Star Roads are also stated to exist in "unreality".

Untouchable and perpetual filament of neurophysical energy woven between dimensions by the Precursors. Their shadows in realspace took the appearance of multi-kilometer-thick filaments of strange matter. Rendered inert with the passing of the Precursors, the Gravemind reactivated the star roads to transport plague fleets, moved filaments to crush Forerunner fortifications, and dredged up forgotten artifacts anchored in the deepest layers of unreality to cleanse entire star clusters of life the star roads splintered when Halo fired.
Source: Halo: Warfleet

Strange matter - Wikipedia

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The author of the Forerunner Saga books, Greg Bear, confirmed that the Precursors could simply combine thought and matter to create Neural Physics objects.

Hey Greg! I had some questions regarding Neural Physics, and the Flood's ability to interact with it. I'm super fascinated with this stuff, and its been eating away at me for some time, so I'm glad I found this discussion board.

In the Forerunner trilogy, we see the Flood use what I assume to be nearly every facet of it there is. However, I was wondering if the Flood had the ability to create objects as well? It was noted that they took control of the Star Roads, but also that they were able to use it for superluminal travel. Were the Flood able to use Neural Physics to the same degree as the Precursors, or less so?

My other question is with regards to how Neural Physics based objects are brought into existence. It was said that the basic beliefs/principles were that the mind was connected to inert matter (I think,) and that the universe was a living "thing". To me this implies that they (Precursors,) simply brought these Neural Physics objects into existence with their minds, but I was wondering if you could shed some light as to your intentions there?
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Excellent questions! To dig out the answers I'll have to resort to a brief survey of science fictional ideas, including my own in other novels, such as HEADS and MOVING MARS, which exploit a far-out theory of physics that combines information theory with particle theory, making up "particle-bit structure."

Precursors (so to speak) to these notions may be found in CITY AND THE STARS, by Arthur C. Clarke, where inhabitants of a city a billion years in the future can materialize anything they want through a kind of city-wide transporter system just by thinking. Interestingly, a similar idea is taken to extremes in the film FORBIDDEN PLANET, where the subconscious minds of the Krell take over such abilities and destroy their civilization. Wonder if Sir Arthur was irritated by this homage/ swipe? At any rate, FP added substantially to the mythos.
Source: Greg Bear Discussion Board

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The Precursors are stated to have created and moved galaxies.

"That's the power the Precursors once had...isn't it? They shaped and moved galaxies!"
Source: Halo: Silentium

The Precursors have intergalactic travel capabilities and could artificially accelerate the evolution and development of life.

As the [Forerunners] had no examples of civilizations with technological accomplishment greater than their own—with the exception of the Precursors—this is a theoretical ceiling. They can travel intergalactically and accelerate evolution of intelligent life. These may be creatures of legend.
Source: Bestiarum

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The Gravemind, an intelligent Flood, could make the AI Cortana feel pain and gain the sense of smell. Some sort of reality-warping maybe, or high control and understanding of technology or space-time.

That’s not just an analysis of air composition. I haven’t got the right sensors on this station. And . . . I can really smell it. I shouldn’t be able to smell, not like an organic, not this sense of . . .

Smell.

It was something she‘d never experienced before, even though she knew exactly what it was. She could run diagnostic tests on air samples if she had a link to filters and a gas chromatograph. But that just told her what was in the air in stark chemical terms, and that wasn‘t the same as what she was experiencing now. This was emotional and unfathomable. The smell tugged at memories. It was a flesh-and-blood thing. She felt the world as if she was in another body, anorganic body.

Cortana scooped up a handful of decaying leaves—some clammy, some paper-dry skeletal lace, some recently fallen ones still springy with sap—and with them the clear memory of being someone else. It was a second of heady disorientation. For a moment, a welter of glorious new information about a world of stilt-cities, creatures she‘d never seen before, and lives she'd never lived poured into her. She devoured it. So much language and culture, never seen by humankind before.
Source: Halo: Human Weakness

The Star Roads are stated to have sub-light speeds of around 0.33c.

“Unknown construct approaching at one-third light-speed,” it said. “Instructions!” Sharp still refused to believe. The expanded gray circle outlined an irregular ball of coiling and twisting star roads, Precursor artifacts that had been around for as long as any Forerunner could remember— unchanging, unresponsive. Revered by both Forerunners and humans as the remnants of our Creation. “It’s going to arrive here about the same time as those ships,” Maker said. “Can we outrun it?” I asked. “No,” she said.
Source: Halo: Silentium

The Star Roads could easily destroy entire star systems.

I have watched nine star systems sliced to dust and glowing rubble by star roads— and they used to trace such pretty curves between our worlds.
Source: Halo: Silentium

The Precursor AI, Abbadon, could disintegrate fully armored Forerunners at will.

I shall make you suffer. And you have taught me how best to do that.” “Our armor,” Trial said. “That’s how it knew about the crawlers.” And our presence at the trial, Bornstellar thought sickly. And the deadbolt key . . . “I shall make you suffer,” it said again, “and I shall be remade.” It lifted its arms, spread its wide, violet, graceful wings. Beside Bornstellar, Voices lifted his rifle, and then crumbled to indigo dust. Finder cried out in horror, and then he too was gone. The celestial figure turned its gaze upon Bornstellar. He braced himself, but Abaddon seemed to make a decision. Its eerily beautiful face twisted in pain.
Source: Halo: Fractures: Extraordinary Tales from the Halo Canon

It is stated the Gravemind as the Primordial had brought entire galaxies to an end. Whether this means eradicating entire galaxies or outright destroying them remains unclear.

“This we were told by the Gravemind, the greatest of them, who has consumed ten thousand planets and brought entire galaxies to an end. This we were told…”
Source: Halo: Silentium

The Precursors Star Roads can shut down Forerunner ship weaponry and shields.

"...Suppression fields of enormous power appear to be magnified by local star roads, which are taking on new and startling configurations."
"Our weapons are no longer usable."
"Hundreds of infected ships have attempted to blast or cut into our own. With protective fields suppressed, we may not be able to withstand them much longer."
Source: Halo: Silentium

The conversation between the Didact and the Last Precursor, the Primordial, seems to imply the Precursors could come back from death in new biological forms or their previous forms were but avatars of their higher dimensional selves.

“It was long ago decided. Forerunners will never bear the Mantle.”

“Decided how?”

“Through long study. The decision is final. Humans will replace you. Humans will be tested next.”

Was the Primordial giving me a message of hope? Doom for our enemies . . . ascendency and triumph for humanity?

“Is that to be our punishment?” the Didact asked, his tone subdued—dangerous.

“It is the way of those who seek out the truth of the Mantle. Humans will rise again in arrogance and defiance. The Flood will return when they are ripe—and bring them unity.”

“But most humans are immune,” the Didact said. Then he seemed to understand, and lowered his great head between his shoulders like a bull about to charge. “Can the Flood choose to infect, or not to infect?”

The wide, flat head canted to one side, as if savoring some demonic irony.

“No immunity. Judgment. Timing.”

“Then why turn Mendicant Bias against its creators, and encourage the Master Builder to torture humans? Why allow this cruelty? Are you the fount of all misery?” the Didact cried out.

The Captive’s strange, ticking voice continued. “Misery is sweetness,” it said, as if confiding a secret. “Forerunners will fail as you have failed before. Humans will rise. Whether they will also fail has not been decided.”

“How can you control any of this? You’re stuck here—the last of your kind!”

“The last of this kind.”

But the Captive still managed to speak.

“We are the Flood. There is no difference. Until all space and time are rolled up and life is crushed in the folds . . . no end to war, grief, or pain. In a hundred and one thousand centuries . . . unity again, and wisdom. Until then—sweetness.”
Source: Halo: Primodium

This is evident of the Precursors having innumerable different forms in the past.

"The Precursors lived in many shapes, flesh and spirit, primitive and advanced, spacefaring and locked to their worlds... Evolved over and over again, died away, were reborn, explored, and seeded many galaxies... This I was told. I understand little."
Source: Halo: Silentium

Halo: Warfleet states they have infinite forms. It also states that the Star Roads wove in and out of the deepest layers of Slipspace.

....Dreamers and makers whose minds transcended many realms, they seeded uncountable worlds with the building blocks of life, built cyclopean laboratories made of crystallized reality, forged roads through alternate dimensions to link their great works, and then began a grand experiment to create and uplift new sentient species...
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Before they vanished, the Precursors reshaped the galaxy with tools of metal, flesh, and energy that were linked across space and time using neural physics... They sailed between worlds in vessels guided by knowledge engines, but also waled on the star roads, bridges of unbreakable filaments that wove in and out of the deepest layers of slipspace.
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Eldest of the sapient minds of the Milky Way. They had infinite forms, many voices, and singular purpose. The realms they grew and the life they crafted continue on, though they themselves have sunk into unreachable depths.
Source: Halo: Warfleet

Cortana states that Slipspace is 11 dimensional.

Had it seen what she had done? Had it understood what she'd just accomplished? And if so, why declare it a "heresy"? True, manipulating eighty-eight stochastic variables in eleven-dimensional space-time was not child's play... but it was possible that the other AI would be able to follow her calculations.
Source: Halo: First Strike

The Precursors mastery over Slipspace is further established by their ability to place Forerunner vessels in other universes while the vessels are in Slipspace.

We've entered orbit around an unexploited gas giant and are using it as a shield. All feasible orbital solutions for leaving this system are blockaded.… "We are surrounded by over a thousand Forerunner vessels of all classes."
"More alarming, we cannot open slipspace portals; three of our ships have ‘echoed’ from attempted transits and show powerful causality mutations. Some clearly were caught between our continuum and incomplete, inefficient universes."
Source: Halo: Silentium

The Precursors FTL technology works by having the vessels travel through multiple different universes, if not the multiverse.

The Falchion is informed of a high density of enemy vessels arriving through neural physics transmission. they materialize slowly, characteristic of Precursor transit, shedding multiverse residues at a rate that makes them temporarily vulnerable to the Falchion's immediate response.
Source: Halo: Silentium

 

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The layout and specs of the UNSC Infinity ship.

Spoiler: UNSC Infinity Layout & Specifications

Spartan-IV’s augmentations using the technological development of Spartan-I and Spartan-III programs melded with the best qualities of Spartan-II's education program.

Spoiler: Spartan-IV's augmentations

Spartan-IV's physical fitness and training. They can lift Warthogs, bend steel, and shatter concrete. They only need two hours of sleep a day, can jump several meters, run 40km/h via 24.9 mph and survive in space for five minutes without armor. They are trained in several fighting styles, such as Aikido, Jiu-Jutsu, and Krav-Maga. They have enhanced muscle memory by learning new fighting techniques by observing. They are trained in UNSC weapons, Covenant weapons, Forerunner weapons, and Brute weapons.

Spoiler: Spartan-IV's physical fitness and training

Spartan's can improve their combat training with War Games simulations. It seems to imply that War Games is Multiplayer Mode.

Spoiler: War Games