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What does this mean?

sorry for being ignorant, someone just give me an answer quickly and I'll lock the topic(once I find out how to)

  • 07.07.2004 8:14 PM PDT
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It means when the Covenant Shoot the planet with their plasma weapons from their ships, it essentially boils away the planet, now to why they call it glassing, because when it is done, the crust of the planet looks like glass

  • 07.07.2004 8:17 PM PDT
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Glassing means when the covenant use plasma weapons on the planet. the planet would burn from the heat and in a day the atmosphere would boil away...so basically its a giant ball of glass

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  • 07.07.2004 8:17 PM PDT

[color=white]It's a term from the books (in order they are: Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike) which means: when the Covenant strike a planet from orbit (presumably after they've gotten what they want from the surface) with plasma, they effectively burn the planet's surface until it resembles a beach that's been burned (sand + fire = glass).[/color]

  • 07.07.2004 8:18 PM PDT
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ok. glassing is bacically a bunch of covie ships bombarding a planit with plasma.melting rocks ond dirt into glass and turning anything bigger than a few centimeters into vapor.
guessing you've never read the books.

  • 07.07.2004 8:19 PM PDT
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Here is a more descriptive way of glassing. What the Covenant do is take their ships from orbit and fire their plasma weapons upon the surface. Depending on how many ships there are they may destroy everything within a matter of hours or a matter of days. They go in cirss-crossing flight patterns and they shoot every square inch of the plante leaving nothing untouched. First the oceans of a planet will boil away and the surface will be turn to molten slag. Following this the atmosphere boils away and all the fires pretty much go out leaving a nice, hot, glassy orb in space.

  • 07.07.2004 8:22 PM PDT
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OMG I doubt they shoot every square inch of the planet. Why is it that they don't glass earh-they want some artifact on it or something? I'm bouta go to the damn library and read these books....I hate bein in the dark. Are the books good?
Also, what is "slipspace"??

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  • 07.07.2004 8:27 PM PDT

[color=white]Yeah, they're good. They're not science fiction classics, but for what they are (entertaining, light reading based on a video game story), they're good.[/color]

  • 07.07.2004 8:29 PM PDT
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its some stuff they shoot...and it makes what ever planet they *glassed* look like -Quote on Quote- "Glass". :)

  • 07.07.2004 8:31 PM PDT
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slipspace is the equvialnt of hyperspace. its like a deminsoin where time, speed has no meaning. it is the way they do interstllular space travel.

  • 07.07.2004 8:45 PM PDT
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What did this come from? Is it from the halo book or in the Halo game

  • 07.07.2004 8:58 PM PDT
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Ok I didn't reply so I could let this post die, but someone just did so I just wanna thank azn banisher (whatever ur name is, sorry) but you don't have to say your welcome, just let this post die so as not to annoy people of spam.

  • 07.07.2004 9:04 PM PDT
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Please close this thread, I just wasted 5 minutes of my life reading the same thing that I already knew 10 times in a row... :(

  • 07.07.2004 9:39 PM PDT