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Could someone tell me exactly what glassing a planet is? Please tell me everything you know about glassing. Also, in Halo 2, is Earth the only place we have left?

  • 08.04.2004 12:40 PM PDT
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Glassing is what the humans call the Plasma bombardments by Covenant Cruisers. When the Covenant have what they want from a planet, or when they just want to end all life their, they bomb the surface in a exact criss-crossing pattern with huge plasma bolts, literally turning the surface to glass.

Also, there are a few small human colonies left other than Earth at the end of First Strike, however, it is assumed that once the Covies found Earth's location, they skipped the others and went right to it.

[Edited on 8/4/2004 12:44:22 PM]

  • 08.04.2004 12:43 PM PDT
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well said!

  • 08.04.2004 12:44 PM PDT
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Oh. I just wondered if the covenant were glassing Earth in the announcement trailer, but now I don't think so. So how do the Covenant find Earth?

  • 08.04.2004 12:45 PM PDT
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Posted by: tommccain
Oh. I just wondered if the covenant were glassing Earth in the announcement trailer, but now I don't think so. So how do the Covenant find Earth?


Read the books

  • 08.04.2004 12:46 PM PDT
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The above pretty much nailed it. Glassing refers to the process of turning rock and sand into glass through intense heat. For instance when the bombing of afganistan was taking place, some of the desert regions were turn to sheets of glass.

so if you glass a planet....well..

  • 08.04.2004 12:47 PM PDT
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yea, man you should read the books, they explain everything you want to know and so much more.

  • 08.04.2004 12:50 PM PDT