User talk:Sniperz/New York-class Frigate

NCF for:
 * Having a plasma based mac cannon. If it had this, then if would be another type of weapon, not a MAC.
 * Having Plasma missiles and energy shield. How would this technology get integrated into a UNSC warship? Especially less then 20 years after the conclusion of the Human-Covenant War.
 * "Cheap way to patrol and defend trade routes and their own empire"...Energy shield tech would not be cheap, and warships are not cheap either. With Shields, Frigates are not 'throw-away' ships like HCW frigates. And there is no need for trade routes with the existence of 'Slipspace' faster-then-light travel.