What fascinated me the most, when first delving into Halo's books and expanded stories, is how real this feels. Like the technology is just within our grasp and we only have to reach out and take it. That's why I love this channel so much. It feels like you're laying the groundwork with your detailed breakdowns and MJOLNIR project and I'm so lucky to be here to see it.
after reading 30 halo books, it would not take a lot to convince me that someone has come back in time and sold the story, to ''prepare'', or most likely change events.
@@JoaoSoares-rs6ec tell that to the many Covenant CSO-Class Supercarriers that single handedly invaded and glassed hundreds of UNSC colonies during the Human/Covenant War. Not to mention that each ship holds a total of 90,000 - 110,000 Covenant troops.
Minor gripe with Halo writing: "Point Blank range" refers to a range so close to the shooter that there's no noticeable bullet drop. While this could be extrapolated to "the range at which one cannot possibly miss," the idea that a shot in vacuum would be more powerful the closer to the target you are is eroneous...at least for kinetic weapons. Assuming you're firing a solid object, it will have the same amount of energy at the gun muzzle as it will light seconds away because of the lack of air resistance. In atmosphere, a bullet slows down as it travels, and, as a result, we are used to the idea of guns loosing penetrating power with range. So long as you're shooting in vacuum and not fighting against gravity, the shot should not decrease in power. A MAC round fired at a Covie ship 50km away will have the same destructive force as a round fired at a ship 50 light seconds away.
I remember there was a single line in the first Halo book, that the armor on Covenant ships had a self repairing capability, similar to healing. But it was never mentioned again after that. I only remember this because it really stuck out as something that was cool and had never heard or seen anything else like it in any other sci-fi book or game I was enjoying at the time. It inspired me to include something simar in one of the books I was writing.
Nanolaminates seem to be a field of great opportunity once they are figured out. Imagine all the new possible permutations of physical and chemical properties that are just waiting to be documented and utilized.
So, nano laminate is basically spartan armor's multi-layer aspect (with the angled plate) on a micro scale. I think it'd be really cool if they could prototype a Mjolnir suit out of nanolaminate plating... imagine the survivability!
I think the Helioskrill (GEN 2) was made with nanolaminates because it was designed by some Sangheili creators. Some of the Mjolnir designs in Infinite have nanolaminate components, too. (I think.) Although given the gaps between the larger outer plates of the GEN 2, I wonder how much added protection it would actually provide.
This stuff is why shooting down a Covenant ship and having it crash into a inhabited planet would be apocalyptic... Not only do Covenant ships mass a absurd amount, they would hold together and ensure that a impact would be something like a dinosaur killer... I also remember seeing the description for a helmet that was built with sangheli assistance was that the visor on the helmet being made out of nano laminate would survive the rest of the helmet being disintegrated around it
@@TheDude50447 Well generally the orbital speed needed for a 300km orbit is 28000 km an hour so that's usually the speed that's going to be impacting at
@@Shinzon23 the impact speed would be less since as soon as in atmosphere it would slow down. Space shuttles used to slow down from their orbital speed purely by air friction iirc.
@@TheDude50447 True, but the shuttles usually aren't shot full of holes, or potentially in pieces from a Reactor cookoff. There's also that in order for aerobraking to work you need to be at a certain orientation to avoid either bouncing off the atmosphere, or burning up; this likely isn't happening since the Covenant ship is "dead"; she may still have crew onboard, but either her engines are shot out, or she's clearly out of control with noone at the helm.
@@OpticBeatz not quite, covenant ships have been known to survive plasma volleys, whit shields, but whit out them their ships survivability is bo different than unsc, but if unsc had better protection, not saying shields, but things like ablative armour, their survivability could go trough the roof. The point here is that we have seen covenant ships take heavy attacks and shrug it of like nothing, but whit out shields even a volley of missiles takes one out.
this is the first material I thought of when I was a kid and found out about atomic structure as a thing. I was thinking weaving solid state computing through those gaps.
Hi the Dauntless visor in Halo 5 has been stated that it's made with Sangheili High Tier Nanolaminate and the Helioskrill armor is made of Nanolaminate also.
New covenant or banished ships should be introduced into new Halo installments, to put the player in an intrigued and fearing state of wondering what advantages that ship has against the UNSC ships.
Halo is such a beautiful franchise with it's lore and technology being... Believable. All this for games about shooting purple aliens and space zombies
For kinetic rounds in space it doesnt really matter if its point blank. The velocity of impact is pretty much identical no matter the range. It only matters regarding accuracy.
You should've included in the video that one cutscene from Halo Wars where a Covenant Destroyer ship rubs against the Spirit of Fire shredding piece of away of the UNSC starship.
@@comentnine1574 Yeah, but it functions almost the same as the Nanolaminate in this vid. Kinda scary to think, really, that a special metal paint could have some of the properties of a full-blown layered alloy armor.
You know, it's things like this that I plan to go back to school to join in the process of trying to find ways to make materials like this... Thanks, 00, for being an inspiration.
SPI Armor with Nanolaminate Armor.....add a Plasma Furnace and I am not sure if that Combo would be nearly as effective as Mjolnir^^ (I mean the Headhunter Version of SPI...with Shields and Active Armor^^)
When you put it in this veiw installation 00. It makes complete sense that on 1 to 1 ship fight. The covenant would come out victorious more often than not. Just better ships and more of them makes an adversary like this that more deadly. The fight was already one sided and nothing could be done to match it till the fall of reach. Once more into the breach dear friends. What a ugly fight.
I know it would be difficult to infer the process by which the lamination would be performed, but I'd like to see you speculate on the manufacturing process
I really do wonder if Gen 3 MJOLNIR armor (or at least some premutations of it) have its plating constructed with Nanolaminate techniques. Would make for a very durable suit of power armor, that's for sure.
With your indepth knowledge of this. What is it thats currently stopping humans from making stuff like this and are we making stuff like this and for what?
Osmium substrate? Well, now that begs the question, short of advanced Forerunner materials, are there other materials that would make a better substrate? Would even the UNSC's Titanium A battleplate make a better substrate?
makign colour from a surface would require you to make the material porous, instead of armourlike. thats literally how colour works, you dont mkae it, you extract it. its a substance. light is The void. and colour is not of material makeup.
The covenant shields are the main advantage, but the covenant armour I don't think they are stronger than unsc armour, all covenant ships wen whitout shields have been penetrated by unsc ship mounted weapons, of course I'm not comparing the damage and penetrated by main mac guns our archer missiles, to smaller guns like the onager
That was more the shields’ doing than the armor’s. And it wasn’t the missiles or macs that took it out, (though they did a decent degree of damage) that would be Sam-134 with a manually deployed warhead.
The amount of normies and lore illiterates speading false info by way of saying things like "Covenant ships are glass cannons, they're shields are strong but armour is paper" is laughably hilarious. Yeah it turns out Covenant armor technology is a LOT more sturdier than most people give it credit for. If I had to point the finger where these people are going off by, it would probably the scene where the Infinity rams the cruiser. Even though there are MANY outside contributing facts as to why that happened like the weight and mass difference and speed.
The way I've always understood it is like this; Titanium Armor, on MJOLNIR for example, is much weaker than Nanolaminate, and cant deal with plasma very well. The energy shields reverse engineered by humanity on MJOLNIR are stronger than the Elites Personal Energy Shielding, making up for the disparity in armor toughness. This translates to ships as well. Covennant Ship hulls can deal with plasma weaponry really well, and their energy shields add to that protection. UNSC Titanium-A is much less capable against plasma weaponry, but when humanity reverse engineered ship shielding (Infinity), she could literally ram through Covenant ships in her path, because the Shielding was that much better. I believe the (Glass Houses) issue first cropped up as a consequence of Halo Wars gameplay demo, where they described Covenant bases like that. But that's a gameplay dynamic to adjust for the energy shielding feature. It isn't canon. It's gameplay.
@@Installation00Nanolaminate also seems to have inconsistent durability. As I believe there was one instance in a book of an elite battle harness tanking an entire AR clip before going down and another instance of an elite going down to half a clip.
What fascinated me the most, when first delving into Halo's books and expanded stories, is how real this feels. Like the technology is just within our grasp and we only have to reach out and take it. That's why I love this channel so much. It feels like you're laying the groundwork with your detailed breakdowns and MJOLNIR project and I'm so lucky to be here to see it.
That was an original idea Bungie had for halo to extent
after reading 30 halo books, it would not take a lot to convince me that someone has come back in time and sold the story, to ''prepare'', or most likely change events.
@@rianmacdonald9454 like our man 00 says, we DO exist in the Halo universe. So I can accept that
Nano laminate technology already exists, but it is still primitive, we can create metal polamer nano laminate
Yay! Not only are Covenant ships faster than ours, but they also have stronger armor!
They didn’t have quite the strongest _plot_ armor, however.
Not that strong
@@JoaoSoares-rs6ec tell that to the many Covenant CSO-Class Supercarriers that single handedly invaded and glassed hundreds of UNSC colonies during the Human/Covenant War.
Not to mention that each ship holds a total of 90,000 - 110,000 Covenant troops.
@@madness0169 they have shields, the comment refers to the armour, the armour isn't much stronger than the unsc,
@@JoaoSoares-rs6ec What part of 0:51 to 1:11 did you skip?
Minor gripe with Halo writing: "Point Blank range" refers to a range so close to the shooter that there's no noticeable bullet drop. While this could be extrapolated to "the range at which one cannot possibly miss," the idea that a shot in vacuum would be more powerful the closer to the target you are is eroneous...at least for kinetic weapons. Assuming you're firing a solid object, it will have the same amount of energy at the gun muzzle as it will light seconds away because of the lack of air resistance.
In atmosphere, a bullet slows down as it travels, and, as a result, we are used to the idea of guns loosing penetrating power with range. So long as you're shooting in vacuum and not fighting against gravity, the shot should not decrease in power. A MAC round fired at a Covie ship 50km away will have the same destructive force as a round fired at a ship 50 light seconds away.
I remember there was a single line in the first Halo book, that the armor on Covenant ships had a self repairing capability, similar to healing. But it was never mentioned again after that. I only remember this because it really stuck out as something that was cool and had never heard or seen anything else like it in any other sci-fi book or game I was enjoying at the time. It inspired me to include something simar in one of the books I was writing.
I’m pretty sure the Prelits armor also self repaired
Nanolaminates seem to be a field of great opportunity once they are figured out. Imagine all the new possible permutations of physical and chemical properties that are just waiting to be documented and utilized.
So, nano laminate is basically spartan armor's multi-layer aspect (with the angled plate) on a micro scale.
I think it'd be really cool if they could prototype a Mjolnir suit out of nanolaminate plating... imagine the survivability!
I think the Helioskrill (GEN 2) was made with nanolaminates because it was designed by some Sangheili creators. Some of the Mjolnir designs in Infinite have nanolaminate components, too. (I think.)
Although given the gaps between the larger outer plates of the GEN 2, I wonder how much added protection it would actually provide.
@@Alligator81 It was a Sangheili artisan, I believe. But yeah, it does sound really cool
This stuff is why shooting down a Covenant ship and having it crash into a inhabited planet would be apocalyptic...
Not only do Covenant ships mass a absurd amount, they would hold together and ensure that a impact would be something like a dinosaur killer...
I also remember seeing the description for a helmet that was built with sangheli assistance was that the visor on the helmet being made out of nano laminate would survive the rest of the helmet being disintegrated around it
why not make the whole thing from nanolaminate
That depends very much on the speed of impact.
@@TheDude50447 Well generally the orbital speed needed for a 300km orbit is 28000 km an hour so that's usually the speed that's going to be impacting at
@@Shinzon23 the impact speed would be less since as soon as in atmosphere it would slow down. Space shuttles used to slow down from their orbital speed purely by air friction iirc.
@@TheDude50447 True, but the shuttles usually aren't shot full of holes, or potentially in pieces from a Reactor cookoff.
There's also that in order for aerobraking to work you need to be at a certain orientation to avoid either bouncing off the atmosphere, or burning up; this likely isn't happening since the Covenant ship is "dead"; she may still have crew onboard, but either her engines are shot out, or she's clearly out of control with noone at the helm.
I _was_ going to mention ModuMetal's nanolamination technique, but hey, Installation00 already has that covered. Cool stuff!
I love the Covenant and Banished ships. It goes to show how the UNSC has been overpowered by ships from both factions. 👍❤️
Humanity greatest achievements taken down in 4 minutes 🤣
There advantage is mostly to shields, if unsc had similar survivability, there wouldn't be much superiority
@@JoaoSoares-rs6ec except that plasma absolutely devastates shielding in one hit, so there’d still be superiority
@@OpticBeatz not quite, covenant ships have been known to survive plasma volleys, whit shields, but whit out them their ships survivability is bo different than unsc, but if unsc had better protection, not saying shields, but things like ablative armour, their survivability could go trough the roof.
The point here is that we have seen covenant ships take heavy attacks and shrug it of like nothing, but whit out shields even a volley of missiles takes one out.
this is the first material I thought of when I was a kid and found out about atomic structure as a thing. I was thinking weaving solid state computing through those gaps.
Titanium does not actually melt in most any circumstances, it evaporates as does tungsten
Am I the only one who pictures Covenant armor foundries being little more than big 'farms' of chemical tanks 'growing' armor plating?
We already are capable of this IRL. See also; ModuMetal.
Man I love it when people show Halo Legends' sound track some recognition. Great video too btw!
Yeah I caught that last part too.
Hi the Dauntless visor in Halo 5 has been stated that it's made with Sangheili High Tier Nanolaminate and the Helioskrill armor is made of Nanolaminate also.
New covenant or banished ships should be introduced into new Halo installments, to put the player in an intrigued and fearing state of wondering what advantages that ship has against the UNSC ships.
Halo is such a beautiful franchise with it's lore and technology being... Believable. All this for games about shooting purple aliens and space zombies
For kinetic rounds in space it doesnt really matter if its point blank. The velocity of impact is pretty much identical no matter the range. It only matters regarding accuracy.
It kinda sounds like they've figured out a way to mass-produce high-entropy alloys if you ask me
Best halo channel by far. Love how u approach the lore bro
You should've included in the video that one cutscene from Halo Wars where a Covenant Destroyer ship rubs against the Spirit of Fire shredding piece of away of the UNSC starship.
Just watched Izumi halo cinematic scenes compilation, so I'm here for everything else
Nanolaminate armor is also pretty prominently featured in the 2015 series 'Iron Blooded Orphans'.
That’s more of paint really if memory serves.
@@comentnine1574 Yeah, but it functions almost the same as the Nanolaminate in this vid. Kinda scary to think, really, that a special metal paint could have some of the properties of a full-blown layered alloy armor.
You know, it's things like this that I plan to go back to school to join in the process of trying to find ways to make materials like this... Thanks, 00, for being an inspiration.
Thank you, Installation00!!!!
SPI Armor with Nanolaminate Armor.....add a Plasma Furnace and I am not sure if that Combo would be nearly as effective as Mjolnir^^ (I mean the Headhunter Version of SPI...with Shields and Active Armor^^)
I love these videos and Halo lore as it's pretty realistic. Had no idea Osmium exists. Not many uses for it atm
Now that explain why almost all of covenants armour plating had a honeycomb patterns on it.
love listening to your voice explain sci-fi stuff. but can we agree that Halo music as bgm is still the best ever?
When you put it in this veiw installation 00. It makes complete sense that on 1 to 1 ship fight. The covenant would come out victorious more often than not. Just better ships and more of them makes an adversary like this that more deadly. The fight was already one sided and nothing could be done to match it till the fall of reach. Once more into the breach dear friends. What a ugly fight.
I know it would be difficult to infer the process by which the lamination would be performed, but I'd like to see you speculate on the manufacturing process
My question is why the unsc stuck with titanium, and not something much stronger like an alloy, tungsten, or some sort of tungsten alloy
Tungsten is brittle, iirc.
@@Josua070 And Heavy
@@nobleman9393 Exacta.
The weight of the metal places a big factor.
OMG!!!! I even watched it to hear you, once again, say nanolaminate!!! 🤣
I really do wonder if Gen 3 MJOLNIR armor (or at least some premutations of it) have its plating constructed with Nanolaminate techniques. Would make for a very durable suit of power armor, that's for sure.
With your indepth knowledge of this. What is it thats currently stopping humans from making stuff like this and are we making stuff like this and for what?
We _already are_ making nanolaminate.
The company Modumetal uses electric-acid baths to grow such nanolaminate alloys.
I would like to see the unsc use nanolaminite
Why osmium and not iridium? Regardless, nice summary of nanostructured functionally graded material
Great video.
Osmium substrate? Well, now that begs the question, short of advanced Forerunner materials, are there other materials that would make a better substrate? Would even the UNSC's Titanium A battleplate make a better substrate?
makign colour from a surface would require you to make the material porous, instead of armourlike. thats literally how colour works, you dont mkae it, you extract it. its a substance. light is The void. and colour is not of material makeup.
Amazes me UNSC didn't apply technique. Nano laminate, implies they augment material on nanoscopic level. Which they possess....
2200's should have it be available. I wonder it's due to the colonisation program.
@@Joshua_N-A Titanium A Armor is augmented on atomic level.
so what's more durable Spartan MJOLNIR OR Sangheili combat harness ?
So, Titanium-A3 Nanolaminate Armor (basic think of how Modern Composite Armor like Chobham Armor) is possible?
Was hoping this was on the ship
Please do “assembly forges” next :)
Hey installation00 do you know any books that are like material/composites encyclopedias???
Hey 00, I got a question for you. Let's say UNSC let's you build a ship class to fight the covenant, how do you outfit it and what do you build?
Great video
Probably my favorite covenant ship design
What armour do the Brutes, Grunts, Kig Yar, Huragok, and Prelates use if only Elites use nanolaminate?
Even if it’s super lightweight and capable, elite armor will eventually yield to good ol’ 5.56
can you meke video about forerunners materials? please
7:17 try saying that five times fast
The covenant shields are the main advantage, but the covenant armour I don't think they are stronger than unsc armour, all covenant ships wen whitout shields have been penetrated by unsc ship mounted weapons, of course I'm not comparing the damage and penetrated by main mac guns our archer missiles, to smaller guns like the onager
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Wasn't like the first ship they went toe to toe with tanked a nuke and had to be shot with 3 or two mac rounds in the fall of reach?
That was more the shields’ doing than the armor’s. And it wasn’t the missiles or macs that took it out, (though they did a decent degree of damage) that would be Sam-134 with a manually deployed warhead.
The shields tanked a few MACs and ordnance before the nuke. The shields were likely weaken before the bomb hit the hull.
@@humbleherald2163 I was more referring to when they blew a hole in the ship leaving it ded in the water
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The amount of normies and lore illiterates speading false info by way of saying things like "Covenant ships are glass cannons, they're shields are strong but armour is paper" is laughably hilarious.
Yeah it turns out Covenant armor technology is a LOT more sturdier than most people give it credit for.
If I had to point the finger where these people are going off by, it would probably the scene where the Infinity rams the cruiser. Even though there are MANY outside contributing facts as to why that happened like the weight and mass difference and speed.
The way I've always understood it is like this;
Titanium Armor, on MJOLNIR for example, is much weaker than Nanolaminate, and cant deal with plasma very well.
The energy shields reverse engineered by humanity on MJOLNIR are stronger than the Elites Personal Energy Shielding, making up for the disparity in armor toughness.
This translates to ships as well. Covennant Ship hulls can deal with plasma weaponry really well, and their energy shields add to that protection.
UNSC Titanium-A is much less capable against plasma weaponry, but when humanity reverse engineered ship shielding (Infinity), she could literally ram through Covenant ships in her path, because the Shielding was that much better.
I believe the (Glass Houses) issue first cropped up as a consequence of Halo Wars gameplay demo, where they described Covenant bases like that. But that's a gameplay dynamic to adjust for the energy shielding feature. It isn't canon. It's gameplay.
@@Installation00Nanolaminate also seems to have inconsistent durability. As I believe there was one instance in a book of an elite battle harness tanking an entire AR clip before going down and another instance of an elite going down to half a clip.
Most likely due to how nanolaminate is made