- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: gman762mm
Posted by: Hikaru 119
I doubt a super weapon. Probably another one of those damn rocks that the Covenant keep on finding. Maybe even some cavern like that within Reach.
As for going off the planet and just glassing it. They've already begun doing so. Watch the Halo 2 Announcement Trailer. That is a glassing. My best bet is actually they failed in the attempt to glass the planet/ wipe out our Fleet in system and were forced groundside where we will fight them off. But that is just a guess.
umm just medium-small sized explosion on that planet arent glassing, glassing is what happened with Harvest, The whole planet turned to red,molten.etc, glassing is entirely obliterating that planet, not just a bunch of explsions that arent big enough to destroy even a quarter of the planet
Glassing is a long task that is not done in a matter of seconds buddy. Learn to read better. Geez. Even inside The Fall of Reach, IN THE FREAKING PROLOGUE, they accurately described how a planet is glassed. They also did again inside First Strike. If a planet just went up inside one explosion, then things would be different and Reach wouldn't have had part of it spared.
A glassing takes several days depending on how many ships you have.
The whole planet of Harvest may have turned to molten slag and such, but it was not within a matter of seconds. The Covenant use their ship based weapons to glass a planet. I repeat Ship class. If your idea ona ship class weapon is one that wipes a planet out that quickly, then why the hell are our hips taking a salvo or two before they go up in flames? Please explain that one.
I recommend carefully re-reading those two books I mentioned because it will make you more knowledgable on Halo then you already are.
[Edited on 6/28/2004 2:31:35 PM]