Longswords are equipped with a variety of weapons, which can include point-defense laser systems (like the M39), missile launchers (such as the Archer missile pod), and sometimes even more exotic or experimental armaments. Their firepower varies based on their specific role and the combat loadout they've been configured for.
In the obsidian silence of High Charity’s ruined穹顶, a lone Sangheili named Rtas ‘Vadamum knelt before a shattered luminary. His clan’s keep on the edge of Sanghelios had fallen to the Jiralhanae months ago, but that was not why his mandibles trembled with cold fury. In his hands, he held not a plasma rifle or an energy sword, but a longsword—not the titanium-alloy blade of human aerospace fighters, but a true sword: a meter and a half of folded nanolaminate steel, its edge shimmering with a faint, stolen shimmer of Forerunner alloy. longsword halo