A MAC isn't a single coil, a single coil weapon is a pulse gun

A MAC has mutliple coils running along the barrel each with their own capacitors

But those holes at the top aren't running the length of the ship if you notice, just that bit

Fireheart707:

actually, it is a Pheonix-Class modified colony ship, which i said earlier, can carry around 1,000+ marines and around 30 scorpions.

if i'm right. it's bigger than the Pillar of Autumn, making around 2 kilometers big........

i think.....

Fireheart707:

Velo:

and the PoA had a light mac gun, the size of a frigates

yes, true.

but where else(sorry, kinda blind at the moment) would the MAC guns be?

this ship is probably 3 kilometers long.

but that would interfere with SPARTAN-117 saying that he's never seen a ship that big.

is the left side the back?

toasterking93:

Fireheart707:

Velo:

and the PoA had a light mac gun, the size of a frigates

 are you sure? i thought the pillar of autumn had been re-fitted wih some kindof a more advanced mac gun. maybe not a supermac, but it was intened to be used for a very high stakes mission. i don't think they'd fit it with a "light mac gun"

it was a frigate MAC that could fire 3 rounds per charge. the 1st for wiping the shields, and the 2-3 for ahnihilating the unlucky Covenant ship.

Actualy, the entire point of it wasn't to kill a covie ship

It was meant to do precision damage to critical sections such as the reactor, engines or fire control to disable the ship and allow boarding, the ship would then be repaired and cortana would access the covenant's systems, find the location of the covenant homeworld/major planets and use the covenant ship to get there without being spotted, the spartans would then infiltrate depending on the situation, if unabel to infiltrate they'd probably use the marines + PoA as a distraction,  and capture a covenant leader, head back to earth in the covie ship and force the cease fire

The covie ship could also then be canibalised and the humans could possibly use the tech onboard

The MAC wasn't really altered, it's a misconception

The reactors, specialy designed rounds, and capacitors are what changed, not the MAC barrel or coils

The reason it was able to shoot 3 shots was because it used recyclers to dump wasted power from the coils back into the capacitors for the next round, it also probably had extra capacitors

And it had a prototype reactor that performed much better than most UNSC reactors, i cba with the details cause i can't remember most of em, but basicly the hotter you ran it, the cooler it got

The rounds were also lighter, not necisarily smaller, they weren't completely solid like normal MAC rounds, they have a depleted uranium/tungsten alloy shell and a core made of shards of tungsten alloy, like a marine's shredder round, it wouldn't go in and come out the other end of the ship, but it'd spread it's damage around non fataly to disable as many systems as possible

Velo:

The MAC wasn't really altered, it's a misconception

The reactors, specialy designed rounds, and capacitors are what changed, not the MAC barrel or coils

The reason it was able to shoot 3 shots was because it used recyclers to dump wasted power from the coils back into the capacitors for the next round, it also probably had extra capacitors.

Velo:

And it had a prototype reactor that performed much better than most UNSC reactors, i cba with the details cause i can't remember most of em, but basicly the hotter you ran it, the cooler it got

Velo:

The rounds were also lighter, not necisarily smaller, they weren't completely solid like normal MAC rounds, they have a depleted uranium/tungsten alloy shell and a core made of shards of tungsten alloy, like a marine's shredder round, it wouldn't go in and come out the other end of the ship, but it'd spread it's damage around non fataly to disable as many systems as possible

Special light round with a ferrous core with a shell of tungsten (carbide?) ^_^

UNSC AI #23:

Velo:

The MAC wasn't really altered, it's a misconception

The reactors, specialy designed rounds, and capacitors are what changed, not the MAC barrel or coils

The reason it was able to shoot 3 shots was because it used recyclers to dump wasted power from the coils back into the capacitors for the next round, it also probably had extra capacitors.

Magnetic Field Recyclers and Booster Capacitors ^_^

Velo:

And it had a prototype reactor that performed much better than most UNSC reactors, i cba with the details cause i can't remember most of em, but basicly the hotter you ran it, the cooler it got

optical slurry of laser-induced ions cooled to near absolute-zero ^_^

Velo:

The rounds were also lighter, not necisarily smaller, they weren't completely solid like normal MAC rounds, they have a depleted uranium/tungsten alloy shell and a core made of shards of tungsten alloy, like a marine's shredder round, it wouldn't go in and come out the other end of the ship, but it'd spread it's damage around non fataly to disable as many systems as possible

Special light round with a ferrous core with a shell of tungsten (carbide?) ^_^