[Leeko]

I actually just finished rereading it a couple days ago, and I knew that would come up.
Though all they did with a pelican in space was use it as a decoy, aside from dodging through an asteroid field. And they used banshees to escape Unyielding Hierophant, nothing more.
Neither a pelican nor a banshee could never hold a candle to a seraph or a longsword.

[Scotty]

My only reason for bringing that up was that it can be used in a vacuum, and could therefore be used in any Halo mod.

Think transport, serving the function of an atmospheric insertion vehicle.  Hornets, not so much.

[Leeko]

I suppose Pelicans could the the objective of an escort mission.

[SpardaSon21]

Kinda hard as Halo has no sense of scale.  A Longsword interceptor is bigger than a jumbo jet and has more than enough interior room to hold a mine pod, a small armory, as well as an impromptu conference between several people.

[Scotty]

You could say that Sci-Fi writers have no sense of scale.

[Snail]

Kinda hard as Halo has no sense of scale.  A Longsword interceptor is bigger than a jumbo jet and has more than enough interior room to hold a mine pod, a small armory, as well as an impromptu conference between several people.

Well, why not? I mean, it's not like a space fighter is going to be the size of a prop plane.

You could say that Sci-Fi writers have no sense of scale.

You're not stealing my FREDding time, Scotty!

[SpardaSon21]

Well, a Longsword is bigger than a Pelican is what I mean by no sense of scale.  Kinda hard to escort something a fraction of your size.

[Snail]

Well, a Longsword is bigger than a Pelican is what I mean by no sense of scale.  Kinda hard to escort something a fraction of your size.

Well, the Longsword is a fighter, probably not meant for escorting Pelicans in the first place. That's more of a job for the Hornet...

The Longsword escorts half-a-k long Frigates.

[Leeko]

Hornets don't work properly in space, what with their reliance on lift from fans. And if you think a Longsword escorting a Pelican is a strange scale, you probably aren't recalling the closing cutscene to Cairo Station. Not only do Longswords swoop in and bomb open a hole in a Covenant carrier's shields for him, but a UNSC ship of some kind flies by to eat pulse laser fire for him.

[General Battuta]

That was probably an energy projector, not a pulse laser, and I kind of think that's ship's passage was more of an eyecandy/coincidence thing. Maybe. I'd never really thought about that being part of the plan before.

[Leeko]

The writer mentioned something about it in the special features of Halo 3 Legendary Edition, and if it was an energy projector (by which I believe you mean the flagship guns that they snipe other ships with) then it would have gone right through.

[General Battuta]

I think it does go right through.

[Leeko]

I ought to replay Halo 2... it's been a while. Just beat Halo:CE for my friend last night (who couldn't get past Two Betrayals). Amazing finale... always has been.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, I really think the Halo 1 singleplayer was the best.

[Snail]

Amazing finale... always has been.

Never was a fan of the Warthog run myself, to be honest...

[Colonol Dekker]

It's worth beating on legendary just for the marine elite hug

[Leeko]

Yeah... Bungie's little treat for devoted players.

[Aardwolf]

Well, in BSG they had basestars escorting the [smaller] resurrection ship... and nobody complained about that...

[SPARTAN-367]

Did I mention half the cast of Firefly is in ODST? 

Cool stuff

[Colonol Dekker]

Kaylee too? ohmygodiloveher!