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Subject: Did Reach blow up????
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In First Strike, Admiral Whitcomb tells you that the UNSC has created new "planet-killer" bombs that he had armed and would go off in 20 hours, it never tells you if Reach blew up or the Covenant took the bombs into space for study where they eventually blew up. If it did not blow up then maybe there might be a level on Reach in Halo 2, don't know why but maybe.....

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  • 07.15.2004 11:33 AM PDT

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You know what - That's a good question. And what of the Covenent Battle Fleet in orbit?

  • 07.15.2004 11:35 AM PDT
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Reach doesnt blow up it gets glassed the covenant fleet in orbit shoots Reach until it turns to glass.

  • 07.15.2004 11:39 AM PDT
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anyone thinking what i'm thinking?

(by the way, i'm thinking that maybe it will be part of the plot of halo2)

  • 07.15.2004 11:39 AM PDT
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u don't read the books, do you knightofdragons

  • 07.15.2004 11:40 AM PDT
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i do read the books i just said that cause i forgot to read the first post where he talked about the bombs. sorry

  • 07.15.2004 11:42 AM PDT
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This is a very good question because thet never went into depth about what happened after Chief left with the Admiral, possibly there could be a lvl at Reach but I doubt it because that Nova bomb would have probably destroyed that planet or the fleet around it but who knows.

  • 07.15.2004 11:42 AM PDT
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Posted by: mindofarock
anyone thinking what i'm thinking?

(by the way, i'm thinking that maybe it will be part of the plot of halo2)

HMMMMM That's very predicament (whatever that means)

  • 07.15.2004 11:43 AM PDT
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now im gonna go reread the fall of reach to figure that out lol

  • 07.15.2004 11:43 AM PDT
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it's not in tFoR. it's in First Strike

  • 07.15.2004 11:44 AM PDT

Good find!

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  • 07.15.2004 11:46 AM PDT
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i know the nova bombs have blown up but i dont quite know where. i know they blew up because they had like 7 hrs to go while still on reach and then it took the mc 11 hrs to walk to the unyielding hyruphants reacters. that is not including runing away from the banshees either.

  • 07.15.2004 11:46 AM PDT
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The part about reach being blown up or not isnt in TFOR?

  • 07.15.2004 11:58 AM PDT
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Posted by: KNIGHTOFDRAGONS
Posted by: mindofarock
anyone thinking what i'm thinking?

(by the way, i'm thinking that maybe it will be part of the plot of halo2)

HMMMMM That's very predicament (whatever that means)


lol predicament means a bad situation.

  • 07.15.2004 12:01 PM PDT
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[nitpick]The Nova wouldn't blow a planet up, it would simply crack the crust (accoding to Haverson). This would give it a yield of 1e9 megatons (probably more in the range of 1e10 or 1e11 megatons) which would cause a global extinction event where all complex forms of life are killed. The atmosphere would escape the planet and the planet would be rendered inhabitable.
To 'blow up' a planet, you would need roughly 5e16 megatons to barely overcome its gravity.[/nitpick]

  • 07.16.2004 5:51 AM PDT
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or place one of those several hundred kilometers below the crust. That would do a solid job of rending the planet into several parts.

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Posted by: KNIGHTOFDRAGONS
Reach doesnt blow up it gets glassed the covenant fleet in orbit shoots Reach until it turns to glass.
wow your retarded. the admiral dude said the planet was gonna blow up because of the planet killer bombs

  • 07.16.2004 6:04 AM PDT
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Posted by: mojonation1487
Posted by: KNIGHTOFDRAGONS
Reach doesnt blow up it gets glassed the covenant fleet in orbit shoots Reach until it turns to glass.
wow your retarded. the admiral dude said the planet was gonna blow up because of the planet killer bombs

In his defense, he did apologise for that.

  • 07.16.2004 6:06 AM PDT
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I know, watch the flaming, its not becoming.

  • 07.16.2004 6:07 AM PDT
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Posted by: DeathscytheV2
or place one of those several hundred kilometers bleow the crust.

This wouldn't blow the planet up either - it probably wouldn't even create global extinction event. Most likely it would be more of a mass extinction event (similar to the K-T event that killed the dinosaurs).
The main effect of the nova bomb or most any weapons that are on a planet killing level is the trillions of tons of ballistic ejecta that is hurled skyward in a hypervelocity plume that heats up the atmosphere beyond 1500K - which, in itself will cause total sterilization. Of course, once this ejecta (some of it which has even exited the atmosphere and gone into space) reenters the atmosphere, this will cause massive global firestorms.

With an underground detonation, the ballistic ejecta is minimized - this is why the U.S. resorted to underground detonations towards the end of their testing.

You would actually need 50 million Nova bombs to completely blow a planet up and even then it's expansion would be extremely slow...

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  • 07.16.2004 6:26 AM PDT
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hahaha, good,but I wasent talking about putting it in any old hole, I want one of those bad boys placed deep along a fault line, and I mean DEEP. if its deep enough and then you bury it after its placed the blast will have nowhere to go and the land WILL be forced apart. all it takes is the right spot. destroying a planet is easier than anyone thinks.(did you know it only takes one well placed ICBM and our planet will go into a state of nuclear winter therefore killing us all)

  • 07.16.2004 6:31 AM PDT
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Or you could always melt the polar ice caps...[insert evil grin here]

We think alike, Deathscythe.

  • 07.16.2004 6:34 AM PDT
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thats EXACTLY what I was thinking about, well thought. actually you dont even need a nuke for that, just a big bomb will do.(really really big)

  • 07.16.2004 6:37 AM PDT
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Your fault-line theory is interesting. I'm almost sure this would cause massive earthquakes, volcanos, tidal waves, etc.

I'll have to look into it some more. It would be interesting to know what would happen if you placed a Nova deep into a fault-line. Two good places; the San Andreas and the fault-line that runs along Japan. Of course there alot of other fault-lines in the Pacific as well...

  • 07.16.2004 6:45 AM PDT