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Subject: So exactly what is reach?

Dont even bother trying to send a invitation to your Clan/ Group/ Whatever your trying to offer me. Its a waste of your time and i will not accept.

i know, searchbar.
but either im not good at looking or not much is there.

so it would be appreciated if you could quickly give me a bit of info or a link to a bungie page

  • 09.15.2009 9:56 AM PDT

Remember,
It is easy to be male
it is another thing to be a man.

Reach is a FPS set around the time or on Reach during the battle of Reach.
That is pretty much all 'we' know as a community.

  • 09.15.2009 9:58 AM PDT
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it's a game.
we know officially it :
has a brand new high quality engine
is a prequel to H1
is a fps
is bungie's biggest project.
has been in development for 3 years.

that's all.

[Edited on 09.15.2009 10:19 AM PDT]

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Summary-
Located in the Epsilon Eridani system in FLEETCOM Sector One, the planet Reach was one of the most important headquarters for the UNSC and the main supplier of military and civilian spacecraft. HIGHCOM, FLEETCOM and the UNSC Marine Corps had headquarters on Reach, as well as many primary ONI bases, which included CASTLE Base.

After the Battle of Reach, the planet was completely uninhabited and mostly glassed. When UNSC forces finally abandoned the planet, a small Covenant occupation fleet remained in the system.

History-
UNSC PowerhouseOriginally colonized for its rich titanium deposits, Reach had mines throughout it running thousands of meters deep. ONI's secret CASTLE base was located in one of these mines underneath Menachite Mountain. ONI commandeered the mine after it breached a secret area beneath Reach's surface containing a Forerunner artifact that was highly desired by the Covenant. The fact that this artifact was so valuable to them is perhaps the main reason anyone survived the aftermath of the Battle of Reach at all, as the Covenant were afraid of destroying it. This facility was also the birthplace of the legendary SPARTAN-II Program.

Despite its position as the UNSC's largest naval base, strategic headquarters, and second-largest population center, the Epsilon Eridani system was wracked by Insurrectionist activity throughout the early 26th Century. Reach's sister planet, Tribute, was one of the fronts for the UNSC's anti-terrorist campaign, Operation: TREBUCHET. In 2525, mere months prior to the outbreak of the Human-Covenant War, Reach was the site of a major terrorist bombing against the luxury liner National Holiday. A taxi filled with explosives was crashed into the liner, resulting in the deaths of all hand's.

The Fall of Reach-
The Pillar of Autumn escapes Reach.Reach's darkest hour was near the close of the Human-Covenant War in 2552. The Covenant discovered the location of Reach from a Forerunner artifact recovered during the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV. That artifact disclosed its locality, as Reach was the location of yet another artifact. Coincidentally the Human presence on Reach was revealed when the destroyer Iroquois returned to Reach ensuing the battle, unaware that a Covenant spy drone was attached to her hull near the engines. As such the Covenant were aware of the defender's strength prior to the assault.[1]

The UNSC had formulated a plan to end the war. A platoon of SPARTAN-IIs would hijack a Covenant ship, head to their home planet, kidnap the Covenant leadership, and use them to broker a truce with the Covenant. The Spartans were aboard the UNSC Pillar of Autumn with Captain Keyes and his crew. They were just about to leave for their mission when a signal ordered their immediate recall to Reach to defend the planet against a massive Covenant attack. Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 ordered the majority of the SPARTANs to the planet's surface to protect the generators for the Orbital Defense Platforms while he and two other Spartans boarded Reach Station Gamma to secure an unprotected NAV database aboard the ONI corvette Circumference.

The battle was a disaster for the numerically-inferior UNSC fleet, despite the Super MAC Guns resulting in the planet's destruction by plasma bombardment. CASTLE base was destroyed after the planet's fall and the Covenant began searching for a Forerunner crystal. UNSC forces finally abandoned the planet during the Raid of Reach, a few weeks later.

Defenses-
Orbiting around Reach were twenty Orbital Defense Platforms (ODP), equipped with heavy MAC Guns also known as "big sticks". In addition, there were also about 100 to 150 warships stationed in the Epsilon Eridani System at any time. The ODPs were destroyed during the Invasion of Reach, or were disabled by ground troops by destroying their power source. Despite their huge numbers, the fleet of warships was destroyed by an even larger Covenant fleet.

Anything else?

[Edited on 09.15.2009 10:01 AM PDT]

  • 09.15.2009 10:00 AM PDT

Remember,
It is easy to be male
it is another thing to be a man.

Posted by: Frisky Cole

Surely a link to halopedia would have been easier?
And i think he meant the game not the planet.

  • 09.15.2009 10:03 AM PDT
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no i think copy and paste is sooo much easier and your probally right but the thing is get ODST and just play the beta and find out

  • 09.15.2009 10:05 AM PDT
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Posted by: Frisky Cole
no i think copy and paste is sooo much easier and your probally right but the thing is get ODST and just play the beta and find out


you know the beta doesnt start on the 22nd ................................. riiiiiiiiiiiiight?

  • 09.15.2009 10:08 AM PDT

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Posted by: z0rgy
is a sequel to H1
that's all.

I thought it was a prequel?

  • 09.15.2009 10:15 AM PDT
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yes it is XD fixed.

  • 09.15.2009 10:19 AM PDT

Ugh...

First on a BWU.. yeah, I'm cool.

ODST;MYTHIC Screenshot winner! One of the first to get their hands on the mythic map pack.

Don't listen to any of these guys, Reach is a planet in the Halo universe. ;)

  • 09.15.2009 10:23 AM PDT

I'm 23, I have a house, dog, girlfriend, job and I have no interest in any fanboyism so if you're thinking about sending me a childish PM, don't be surprised when I don't call back.

Posted by: POKEY CLYDE
Don't listen to any of these guys, Reach is a planet in the Halo universe. ;)


These guys have just said that.

  • 09.15.2009 10:30 AM PDT