Originally Posted by DarkLord

Hmmm... he has a point. I think one of the things that we need to do is decide on how the two armies meet. We don't even know how far apart the two races are. If they're clear across the Universe, then what's the chance that they would ever meet by accident? If the Covenant is so inferior to the Empire, why would the Empire even bother? However, I think for this we have to assume that they just DO decide to attack each other no matter the reason. But where does this take place at? The SW galaxy or the Halo galaxy? If it's in the Halo galaxy, then the Covenant might have a chance to use the Halo network. Or, the Empire might discover additional Forerunner artifacts and put the Halo network and/or other technologies to their use. Since we don't know much about the Forerunner, they could be equal to, or even superior to the Empire. Alternatively, if it's in the SW home galaxy, then the Covenant's defeat would likely be even faster due to the immobile planetary defenses that would be present.

5-6 months? At 10 million c they would only cross 0.036% of our Universe, hardly far, far away. Even at 100 million c they would only cross 0.36% of the Universe. Once again, not a large portion of our Universe. Why is it that the Empire has never left their own galaxy? They seem to have had everything quite well in hand. It seems to me that they are incredibly reluctant to risk their ships by traveling on unknown hyperspace 'routes' because of the inherent danger of accidentally traveling through a star or black hole or any of a number of galactic hazards. Those with slipspace drives seem to have no such hesitancies. Perhaps this is because it is much slower, but it could be that they aren't affected by galactic anomalies in the same way. The Forerunner ship is probably much, much faster than even the Covenant ships, and it seemed to have no problems making the jump.

Please read my last post, I would still like to know how the plasma works since my understanding of it is, according to Thrawn, severely limited. If anyone would like to fill me in on how these plasmas would react, and why they would explode, feel free.