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Subject: Why isn't Earth Glassed?
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I was just wondering, the covenant must have got past the Orbital MAC guns to get phantoms etc. down to earth, so they arne't trying to disable their generators in the2003 demo. Why haven't they just glassed the planet?

There's only two reasons i can think of....

1. There summit important on halo, like another gravity/time bending crystal

2. MC has played havoc on one of the Covenant ships.

  • 06.12.2004 2:19 PM PDT
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Or there is a forerunner artifact within the area.

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or u touch urself at night

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i heard that there was one of those objects on earth that was on reach that the covenenant want so they cant glass the planet

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That is the time/gravity bending crystal i was talking about.

They're obvioulsy commiting almost everything to this last battle, they risked the 500 ship all closely packed and vulnerble at the Unyielding Heirophant (don't bug me about spelling) which all got destroyed 'cept a dozen.

There must be something on earth as wih that kind of power about to arrive, the MAC guns wouldn't stand up to much. they could glass the planet easily.

Hey ho... it's one of the many twists of Bungie's games.

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Earth isn't glasses because if ti was their would be no halo 2 and if they made a halo 2 with earth glassed a lot of people playing would not have a sense of importance when playing.

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That is the time/gravity bending crystal i was talking about.

They're obvioulsy commiting almost everything to this last battle, they risked the 500 ship all closely packed and vulnerble at the Unyielding Heirophant (don't bug me about spelling) which all got destroyed 'cept a dozen.

There must be something on earth as wih that kind of power about to arrive, the MAC guns wouldn't stand up to much. they could glass the planet easily.

Hey ho... it's one of the many twists of Bungie's games.

they didnt risk 500 ships...that wasnt even a quarter of the number of all the ships they have..they didnt seem to care that they lost that much

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or u touch urself at night


More like I touch yourself at night! bwahahaha, now that's what I call an old-skool burn! You'll be needing a skin-graft after that one. . . *reads what he wrote* wait a sec.

[Edited on 6/12/2004 2:30:09 PM]

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You read me wrong. I'm saying how they had those 500 (sure it was that many) all tightly packed and vulnerable at the meeting point. I know that only delayed the attack and didn't make much of a difference - that is my point, they have so much firepower thay could easily glass the planet.

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What the hell is glassed? Does the Covenant blow up the Earth or gas it what the hell? And is Earth the only Human planet left or is Reach still there? I never read the books so don't get mad and example to me people!!

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he he dw... i'm not as mean a some people here. I never quite got the concept of glassing myself despite reading the books. I think it's not burning the hwole planet, but melting the entire surface, so all the sand etc. turns into glass or summit.


Ok, i admit, i ain't got much of a clue but there we go, it's not good, put it that way lol.

  • 06.12.2004 2:36 PM PDT
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Glassing is using super-hot plasma to roast the planet's surface (it only leaves glass)

Reach has been glassed

Earth is the only/one of the few planets left. Other colonies might still be intact, but Eric Nylund has choosen not to mention them in any of his books if they are.

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Posted by: Scipio
Glassing is using super-hot plasma to roast the planet's surface (it only leaves glass)


Oh yeah.... god i amaze myself sometimes. Thanks for clearing that one up lol. Erm... what was i gonna say, oh yeah... there are a few colonies left, though not in the UNSC control, like for example, there was the one inside the asteroid, but almost certainly got destroyed after the <<insert covenant ship's name here>> - Gettysburg left, we just don't know though.

[Edited on 6/12/2004 2:41:25 PM]

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When the Covenant are going to glass the a Planet can the Humans do anything instead of leave or just stay and die. And does it take one or more Covenant Ships glass a planet?

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They use several ships to systematically criss cross the planet ensuring they cover every centimetre.

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Posted by: HTES
i heard that there was one of those objects on earth that was on reach that the covenenant want so they cant glass the planet


The 'object' is the FORERUNNER ARTIFACT, so, that would be the main reason for not glassing the planet!!!!!

  • 06.12.2004 3:22 PM PDT

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Reach I heard it was Glassed but the book is called "The Fall of Reach" and it shows Master cheif fighting so how the hell did he get off Reach before it was glassed and what Forerunner Artifact was on Reach and did they find it? And the Covenant are crazy bastards Halo would destory about 500,000 or whatever lightyears away so they will kill their own kind!!

  • 06.12.2004 3:27 PM PDT

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And destory like every planet and Forerunner Artifact but does it like kill life only like germs and mirco stuff too? And does it destory the Planets and other flying stuff in space so there will be no like planets. For example they set off Halo and Earth is in the range does it destory life only of everything?

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Yo snake calm down, go read the books... it's okay man. I think Earth gets partially glassed in Halo 2, maybe we loose a continent or two (just a thought)... but hey, we humans are so smart we probably make a plough for all that glass and till it into farmable land somehow...

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Posted by: Doom Sticks
we humans are so smart we probably make a plough for all that glass and till it into farmable land somehow...


That's if we survive

  • 06.12.2004 3:42 PM PDT

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I haven't read the Halo books yet and stuff but I want to read them but I like already know what happens so I just need the details.

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How could they glass the water, I mean it would be kind of hard to glass earth as our planet is like a huge percentage of water. And I dont think they could evaporate it easily...
BTW What are the orbital MAC guns?

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Orbital MAC guns are just big ass Magnetic Accelerator Cannons (rail guns) installed on asteriods orbiting the planet.

All of the posts on this thread just show how kick ass of a game Bungie has made when we think of humans 550 years from now as "we".

[Edited on 6/12/2004 5:22:25 PM]

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What makes you think Earth isn't glassed?

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I don't think the orbit MAC guns are on asteroids but are on man made platforms (materials probably taken from asteroids tho) in fairly tight orbits around the earth and at various Lagrange points.

Well I think earth is only partially glassed cause that's what they did to other planets that had Forerunner artifacts on them. And earth is probly chalk full of them because of the close relationship between humans and Forerunners (this is pretty much all extrapolation upon the book and the 343 GS's infamous line "a record of our lost time" (the Maw). But like I said I don't think we come out of the Covie attack spotless. We probly lose a whole lot of the earth's surface before they get what they came for and leave, or we kick their ass' outa here.

An ocean would be hard to evaporate, but i have a theory on the Covie glassing system. plasma is essentially super heated gas, therefor they need large stores of gas to glass a planet. Evaporated water provides this and perpetually fuels their Cruiser's Plasma weapons.

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