G-Tech Corporation wrote:The Ecumene wrote:Oh so scary, you can blow up a planet thanks to a huge, slow object, not like we can't blow up stars with a flotilla. Oh, and it is not like we can't kill all life in a 25,000 light year radius.
Now if you didn't have that twisted smiley, maybe I wouldn't have said that, so thus I must say....I am not sorry...okay well maybe a little.....fine, sorry for sounding like an ass.
Psh. Death Stars are fun. We make them to act as big shiny distractions from our actual fleets. We don't call them Death Stars though- that's just silly.
Still not enough Dakka, and it is just wasteful.
"The Sharpened Shield is roughly 300 million km in diameter with a G2 type star slightly smaller than Sol at the core, with a volume of roughly 7 septillion km^3 she boasted a habitable surface area of 255 quadrillion km^2 (some 550 million times the surface area of Earth). Assuming the Shield has a paltry 2 km thick shell the overall volume of the structure would equal 282 quadrillion km^3 of material (which assuming it had a density of iron would weigh more than the sun itself); even if Didact began construction of the project immediately following the end of the Human-Forerunner war and it continued up until his exile in an 8,000 year time period as a lower limit the Forerunners would have to assemble 1,120,716 cubic kilometers of material per second. To put it into accepted SW-vs-ST parlance, that's the equivalent of manufacturing the second Death Star every five minutes, non-stop, for nearly eight thousand years - or stripping away an Earth sized planet every nine days. And despite this gargantuan effort the Shield wasn't the only of of its kind, many more were built and hidden across the galaxy - and to add insult to injury not only was this a secret project, it was swept under the rug by Faber because he preferred the Halo Array."
Though thats something of our predecessors, we commonly do similar stuff here and there. That is a much better thing to do then build a bunch of stupid balls that only have the fire power to destroy a planet, our Fortress Class vessels can do that themselves, and they are much more efficient. The shell was made with minimal resources in a short amount of time.
Death Stars, what a waste, well for primitives they are fine, or maybe even for decoration.