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Subject: Im confused about the storyline
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It says in like the first cutscene of halo 2:

"They called it pillar of autumn..." "Why was it not destroied with the rest of their fleet?" "It fled, while we set fire to their planet..."

Now im pretty sure the Pillar of autumn left before the covenant ever got down to Reach and before they glassed it, right?

[Edited on 10.18.2009 11:49 AM PDT]

  • 10.18.2009 11:48 AM PDT

No, it stuck around, the fled after Master Chief destroyed a navigational computer core on a sattelite and returned to the ship.

They left just as they were starting to plasma bomb reach.

  • 10.18.2009 11:49 AM PDT

What Hylebos said.

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  • 10.18.2009 11:49 AM PDT
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I thought they glassed reach.

  • 10.18.2009 11:51 AM PDT
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nuchys my friend.

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  • 10.18.2009 11:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: raqaz1
I thought they glassed reach.
they did

  • 10.18.2009 11:52 AM PDT
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He said they plasma bombed it.

  • 10.18.2009 11:54 AM PDT
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Posted by: raqaz1
He said they plasma bombed it.
maybe they did both!

  • 10.18.2009 12:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: raqaz1
He said they plasma bombed it.
Plasma Bomb = Glass.

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Why is it referred to as "glassing"..? Truth mentioned in Halo 3 the words "..until the surface of your planet is but glass.", or something along those lines.

Where does the term come from?

  • 10.18.2009 12:11 PM PDT
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Why is it referred to as "glassing"..? Truth mentioned in Halo 3 the words "..until the surface of your planet is but glass.", or something along those lines.

Where does the term come from?
because, and this is just a total guess, they level everything down to the same elevation and the surface is smooth and even like glass? maybe idk.

  • 10.18.2009 12:16 PM PDT
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it doese'nt look nextgen , looks good but not nextgen
If by next-gen you mean crappy, dark and colorless, I agree. It doesnt look next-gen at all.

The elements in the ground when melted (high temperature from plasma) and cooled turns glass like. Start a bonfire on the beach. You will notice that under the fire some sand particles will turn glass-like.

  • 10.18.2009 12:38 PM PDT
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The elements in the ground when melted (high temperature from plasma) and cooled turns glass like. Start a bonfire on the beach. You will notice that under the fire some sand particles will turn glass-like.
well thats because sand is used to make glass and mirrors.

  • 10.18.2009 12:42 PM PDT

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Posted by: BTE
The elements in the ground when melted (high temperature from plasma) and cooled turns glass like. Start a bonfire on the beach. You will notice that under the fire some sand particles will turn glass-like.
well thats because sand is used to make glass and mirrors.
You missed the point. What he's saying is the plasma the Covenant bombards the surface with is so hot that it turns everything on the surface to a smooth glass-like material.

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  • 10.18.2009 1:10 PM PDT

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Posted by: Prenim
Why is it referred to as "glassing"..? Truth mentioned in Halo 3 the words "..until the surface of your planet is but glass.", or something along those lines.

Where does the term come from?

The plasma ultra-heats the planet to glass.

  • 10.18.2009 1:12 PM PDT