Posted by: walshypru
Now, it can't be denied that Reach bears an uncanny resemelance to the Planet shown in the Legendary ending of Halo 3. I reckon that the space 'rip' mationed by Cortana has sent them to Reach. The Plot of the Original Halo trilogy only lasts a couple of weeks, and it seems plausible that the planet is intact. Why the lights are on, in the legendary ending raises a few questions, but I'm gonna go ahead and hypothesise anyway.
I reckon that Master Chief will join his fellow Spartans in an epic battle to reclaim one of humanities most valubale colonies, and wipe the covenant threat out for good.
Feel free to point out any flaws, this was a bit rushed =)
Plausible, except for the fact that the entire planet was glassed except a small region surrounding Menachite Mountain, where ONI's CASTLE Base was, and the Forerunner ruins beneath that. Once the artifact in those ruins was recovered by the Spartans, they escaped the planet, leaving it under the control of the Covenant.
There are two possibilities here. One, it's still under Covenant control/abandoned and lifeless.
Two, it was completely obliterated by the prototype Nova bombs the UNSC had armed and left on the surface. We know that one of the bombs was taken by the Covenant, which wiped out an entire fleet and destroyed a good chunk of one of their colonies, but it was implied that there were multiple bombs, and since we only know of the Covenant taking one, it's possible that the remaining ones detonated and destroyed the planet and all Covenant forces in the area.
[Edited on 06.01.2009 2:33 PM PDT]