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Posted by: Paladin52
Glassing a planet doesn't kill everything and everyone. That's why MC went back after Halo: CE (in the book First Strike) to look for survivors.Erm.... yeah, that's actually exactly what it does. In the books, they make that painfully clear. It is a super-precise process that doesn't leave even centimeters of the planet unscathed. The land becomes boiling glass and fire storms. Anyone who survives the bombardment (unheard of, but hypothetical) is just going to die very shortly after from dehydration, burns, and possibly suffocation in an area where the oxygen has been burned away. Chief returned to Reach with illogical hope; a leader's hope. Even he knew that.
It'd be nice to learn of Buck's escape from Reach. It wouldn't surprise me if he was exfiltrated on a Prowler we didn't know of. ONI always has one more eye on the situation than you would think.