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Subject: Why does the trailer show bombs detonating on the planet.

It's weird that in the trailer is shows what looks to be nukes going off on the planet surface. If the planet in the trailer is being nuked it points to human enemies, the covenant win the space battle and go on to glass the human planet. If anyone could offer a better explanation other than human enemies please share.

  • 07.26.2009 8:00 PM PDT

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Large plasma bombardments may just look explosive, or the Brutes policed nukes on Reach as they attempted to do on Earth (they were stopped by Fred, Will, and Linda) and used them on the planet while the Elites glassed the world.

  • 07.26.2009 8:04 PM PDT

Its a bit hard to see the planets surface if you have covenant ships in the way that are glassing the planet with lasers, so plasma explosions from orbital bombing is much better for creating an exciting trailer?

I'm not sure what I'm saying, but I don't think those are nukes.

  • 07.26.2009 8:04 PM PDT

it could be the UNSC is nuking areas they lost control of to stop covie advances

  • 07.26.2009 8:17 PM PDT

Posted by: critical ghost1
it could be the UNSC is nuking areas they lost control of to stop covie advances

That's a good answer one of the people in the trailer does say they still have people down there.

  • 07.26.2009 8:22 PM PDT
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Excuse me for not knowing any technical terms, however after I watched the trailer again I saw that before an explosion there was this, I don't know, big ball of plasma or something, coming down fast. I mean really fast. It was hard to notice, I can't remember if any of the other explosions had the similar event however.

  • 07.26.2009 8:52 PM PDT