Originally Posted by Kahardrin

Unstable, no it isn't. As it can reach speeds of .5c maintain shape and still reduce ships to slag. what would happen is the turbolasers shots would punch through the Plasma Torpedo but wouldn’t blow it up or even slow it down, as Covenant Plasma Torpedoes are actually confined within a magnetic containment field. How else would they be able to direct their plasma shots into ships that try to dodge!



How... Tractor beams require LOS (Line of Sight), if a Slip Space Rupture were to be opened between the two ships that would effectively cut the beam, and drop the Tractor beam off the Covenant Ship. Also, as we’re on the subject of Slip Space Maneuvering the Covenant have an extreme advantage, as their ships would just pin-point jump behind the ISD’s into their blind spot and at point blank hull them with massive concentrated fire, then jump back into the safety of Slip Space.



As we have seen in the Halo Graphic Novel, Covenant Fleets have agricultural support ships and mobile HQ’s, they can in effect operate for an extended period of time (100+ yrs) out in the middle of nowhere. When they acquire the Empires technology they will also be able to reverse engineer it with surprising speed as the Covenant engineer is a savant when it comes to any technology, be it Covenant or alien in origin. I would expect them to be able to reproduce Imperial tech within 2 yrs on all of their fleets. This of course would make them many times faster than their new enemies, as using a Hyperspace engine within Slip Space would have no obstructions and reduced travel time. In effect this would allow Covenant ships to travel the void between galaxies in the time that it would take an ISD to travel across it’s own galaxy.



Easy... They would ambush small patrols. I can think of many different scenarios that the empire would leave themselves open to capture.
ie. Lone ship drifting in a space lain, an ISD investigates, tows it aboard (like in Ep 4), ship self destructs and takes out major systems... That would be one strategy, out of many in my book, even if that one doesn’t succeed.