- EldritchWarlord
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- Exalted Legendary Member
Wherever you roam
so far from home
you'll be safe from peril
life threatening and terrible
if you avoid David Powel
and keep track of your towel.
It's not like the glass in your window but it's still glass. It would actually mostly be black glass and obsidian, so it would be all dark and shiny.
However, the planet would soon be in the grips of a mild nuclear winter, less sunlight would reach the surface because of clouds of ash thrown up by convection currents during the glassing process. On a planet with a significant amount of water (which pretty much any human habitable world would be) the actual glass would soon be covered in ash and snow.
Luckily for the UNSC the ash will soon settle to the ground and the planet would return to it's original climate more or less, carbon monoxide and dioxide would be much more abundant and oxygen would be rarer though. Which isn't so bad, the ashy covering is very fertile so small plants will grow very well on the surface. Within a few decades the planet will once again have a thriving Earth-based ecosystem as it did before the Covenant glassed it, providing that the UNSC supports terraforming efforts on the destroyed colonies.
Some planets such as Reach and Harvest would return to normal even more quickly as parts of their surfaces were left untouched by the Covenant on account of Forerunner ruins.
[Edited on 11.10.2009 10:41 AM PST]