Human grenades are generally simple affairs - explosive charges activated either by manual activation, proximity detection, or on precisely set timers to batter targets with shrapnel, flaming defoliant or an electromagnetic pulse, or confuse them with searing light and deafening thunder. Covenant systems, on the other hand, use a far more inefficient and complex method - the Type-1 Antipersonnel Grenade, known colloquially as the Plasma Grenade, flash-heats gases contained within the grenade, producing an extremely rapid explosion of superheated plasma, emiting a burst of radiation and electromagnetic energy in its wake. Such devices are devastating in their effects on human equipment - plasma grenades can be used as demolitions charges, melting through battleplate, irradiate the targets t