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Then Samus can do the same with the Galactic Federation if that was the case. Cortana is outside help, a star fleet is outside help, but bringing the gunship into battle is not. It isn't some hard AI, nor does it possess any other type of consciousness. It's a ship that can be commanded. It'd be about as equivalent as jumping into a jet and using it to wreak havoc on people with bullets and missiles.

But this isn't the case because it doesn't seem to be in Samus' character to use the gunship to drop explosives on individuals (though I've done this for fun), unless there are barriers in the way like the shield protecting the Leviathan, or destroying the wall made of maldium, or destroying those machines that jam frequencies. Sure, Samus could use it if she wanted to, so it isn't outside the realm of possibility, but I don't think Samus needs to go that extreme when she can destroy s**t on her own.

I left it at "if" because the Halo side could argue that Cortana didn't have much trouble hacking the Ascendant Justice, so a nine-meter starfighter "can't possibly" have enough Intel Inside to resist. (A separate discussion, beyond the scope of this one.)

As for Ghor: we don't know whether he tried or even considered trying. I'm leaning towards he couldn't unmerge (or couldn't justify unmerging) from his own armour after he succumbed to full Corruption.


UNSC vs. GFN would be another interesting discussion. However, John would not make such a call:

1. He prefers to not endanger fellow soldiers' lives when possible.
2. Since he'd reasonably know about the Power Suit's ability to assimilate technology - or else at least have access to the legends - he would not risk giving Samus any chance to use defeated Spartans' onboard computers, AIs, or network uplinks to assimilate UNSC defences and add them to her own.


She can't, actually. She can use the Dark and Light Beams to activate existing portals and rifts; but these are distinctive to the planet Aether. True teleports and at-will portal spawns are beyond her canon capability, though it's conceivable that she could eventually gain such powers at some point.

I'm not sure you need Cortana to summon the hard light shield, as shown in multiplayer as any character model you choose can utilize it

i think he was speaking outside of the dark burst which she isn't shown to be able to use it as controllable portal but as a worm hole that sends you lord knows where .

so it be a gable for her to just jump in and risk being sent to a planet where the air is pure acid or something like that

Actually, I was talking about the Dark Burst, and he directly stated the negative to what I was saying, therefore he was talking about what I was talking about and I was talking about the Dark Burst.

But but but *throws xbox controller at screen* Master Chief pwns noobs!!!! crying

Good argument.

But here's what I found: The Darkburst " opens a rift to a
dark dimension, pulling enemies to oblivion. ".

Last time i checked, Black Holes stretch you out, not throw you into dark dimensions. Idk If I said otherwise earlier (too lazy to backtrack) but I stand corrected now. Black holes (from what we know of them) don't pull you into dark dimensions, so that argument wouldn't be relevant because a portal doesn't need ANY dark hole properties to transport matter, seeming as they move matter in different ways, one breaking your molecules apart, the latter (black holes) stretching your molecules.

what IS relevant is that the DarkBurst fires a dimensional rift, which is more or less a portal "to oblivion" which doesn't specify a dark-aether-esque, light-aether-esque, or whatever-esque dimension, just "oblivion", as "dark dimension" could refer to a dimension of dark energy or one merely absent of light. whether or not it's a fast-moving ball of dark energy (from experience, the Darkburst moves very slowly, almost as slow as the Omega Cannon) doesn't really matter in this case. for all we know, dark energy is required to make a portal to oblivion.

that being said, yes, Samus can spawn portals (dimensional rifts, whatever you want to call it) at will. Are they black holes? No. Do black holes send you to oblivion or different dimensions? who knows but as far as we're concerned, no.

Edit*: Okay maybe not as slow as the Omega Cannon but not that fast :p

anyway

Portal, as defined in-game. It says portals are rifts. the seperate definition of rifts says it has to be energized to become a portal and transport matter. The Darkburst is a rift, or so the logbook says, which would mean it can't transport matter without bieng energized. Except it does move matter when you fire one in the Dark burst, which could mean that dimensional rift produced by the darkburst is automatically energized, since it's described as a dimensional (key word) rift that sends enemies to oblivion (counterkey word if that makes sense). Oblivion could simply mean extinction, to which they were simply killed. But the dimensional rift part suggests they were sent to an oblivion, a forgotten, void, "dark" place/dimension.

mind-boggling o.o

don't try it at home.