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It’s actually a composite of various materials and methods, in three layers.
The outer layer is a thick shell of programmable matter, that reconfigures itself based on limited (four to six seconds) ‘look ahead’ into the timeline to absorb or negate damage. Against kinetic attacks it is a shock absorber, against anti-matter it generates a powerful magnetic repulsive field, against lasers it is reflective, etc.
The middle layer is hypercompressed wurtzite boron nitride interlaced with diamond nanotubes. This is energized in a hexagonical lattice by a variation of the kinetic barrier technology used by most species, although this version is point of impact.
The inner layer is a quarter-inch thin layer of phase stabilized neutronium, held in place by the tiniest bit of Godpower and the oversized mass effect core of the Reaper. This inner layer doesn’t cover the entire inside of the Reaper, only the critical areas, and accounts for a THIRD of the mass of the entire Reaper.
Really, only degenerate matter, strange matter, extremely high energy attacks via magnetohydrodynamic burst, or anti-particle weapons do any significant damage.
The hull material that breaks off (and is used in shepard’s sword) is the middle layer.
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I think its compressed bullshit – made with Godpower.
LMAO
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Interesting, thank you. I recall you also saying during one of the editing sessions that Grunt’s destabilized particle shotgun could actually dent reaper armor at close range – so this also give a better idea of that weapon’s power.
Like you suspected, Shepard’s sword inspired the question.Follow up question, would that neutronium layer act as a self-destruct if the reaper died and lost its hold on the godpower?
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The Great Reapers are unable to exist without minor exorcise of the Godpower. Even after they are ‘killed’, this influence remains, streaming backwards and forwards in time.
I could explain it with math, if anyone is REALLY that interested, but the simple way to put it is that the netronium layer was phase stablized for eternity, and only another act of Godpower would breach that.
To be more specific, the main damage the phase-destablization device (The Crucible) would do is negating all ongoing Godpower effects over the Reapers. That would result in an instant Bose-Einstein collapse too fast for the Reapers to react, and the neutronium would collapse and then destablize … violently.
The weird phenomena have to do with the arrow of time being messed up. Godpower is the cessation of natural law. It insults what we think we understand, makes time act like a color, distance like an echo. Minds and psyches without the capacity to grasp it instinctively reject it and replace it with something their mind can handle…or go quietly insane.
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Thank you.
That would result in an instant Bose-Einstein collapse too fast for the Reapers to react, and the neutronium would collapse and then destablize … violently.
Ouch. So like a massive number of Kyle torpedoes detonating inside the reaper, next to the critical parts.
Though I recall from fear unrelenting and a chapter of ATTWN that the crucible rings the space around the galaxy like a bell, which the Darkness notices.
So it sounds like the reapers are getting a combination of blown up by their own armor and eaten by the Darkness?Also sounds like the dead reaper mission, if that happens in the Premiseverse, is going to be really creepy.
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