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Posted by: Vegerot
Posted by: grey101
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Sabres, logistically, should not exist. The UNSC could only power shields for a single person, which required a fusion generator in itself. This is stated in the novels.
And Reach was a military world. There shouldn't have been any "cities" of civilians to evacuate.
Reach wasn't always a military world but grew into one, even if it wasn't their has to be a place for familys to live and to have a population.
1. Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence (we use that line so many times every day on Halopedia it isn't even funny) (look it up on Google if you don't understand).
2.I don't know that much about the military, but don't they have "Military Bases", where the family of the person in the Military can come and live? If so, then that would explain the civilians, as they are the family of the Military personnel on Reach.For all intents and purposes, the entire planet is a giant military base and shipyard. Soldiers are flown to Reach via Slipspace. The only civilians I've heard of being there are possibly shipyard workers and "specialists" hired by the UNSC.
Saying that the soldiers' families need a place to live is like saying that the soldiers and specialists at Area 51 get to have their families live there.
Actually we have evidence of at least families of military members living on Reach in Halo Wars, or at least media tied to it. Captain Cutter's wife and daughter lived on Reach, so you can argue that "there are no civilians at all on Reach because it's a military planet" 'til you're blue in the face, but that won't change the facts that there are civilians living on Reach. And as someone else pointed out, I think it was DaeFaron, Reach was one of the UNSC's most important colonies, let me stress that COLONIES, just because it is the hub of the military does not mean that civilians do not live there.With the incomplete information we have, it is impossible to prove that it is true. It's what makes sense. You could have a massive military installation, complete with hundreds of thousands, to millions of personnel there. It's the main training and R&D grounds for the entire UNSC, in addition to ONI's headquarters. It's also major shipyard. It's far, far easier to maintain a secure environment when you keep the entire planet off-limits, instead of having to worry about threats a few kilometres away in a city. Again, I'll use the Area 51 analogy. There is a massive area around it that nobody is allowed near. This is because it is exclusively a military installation.
Here's an example, the D.C. area is basically the official headquarters of the U.S. military by nature of the Pentagon being there, and yet civilians live in the D.C. area too, just because something is the military hub of a government/nation does not mean that people not in the military don't live there as well.It's quite a different analogy. The D.C. area has always been one of the major population centres in the U.S., the millions of people are not going to be kicked out when the surrounding area don't have all that much room; whereas in the Halo universe, there are dozens of low populace planets to choose instead. There are also hundreds if not thousands of civilians who do contract and salary work at the Pentagon. Also, from what I've heard, the Pentagon doesn't have numerous rocket turrets, tanks, helicopters, artillery, etc. actively defending it.
Vegerot is completely right the absence of something is not evidence it is not there. Like in Halo 3 we only see Covenant forces concentrated in East Africa, but common sense would say that they probably didn't just focus on the area around Mombasa and the Artifact, because that would not be good strategy to just leave yourself open to attack like that, you'd send some ships out to weaken your adversary and whittle down his defenses while you get yourself entrenched.Absence of evidence is most certainly not evidence of absence. However, when something makes much more sense a certain way, that's usually the solution. All of I've seen and heard about the Mombasa thing indicates to me that Truth destroyed the defenses of Earth, then ignored the rest of the planet. This does not make sense, and he should have sent other ships to harass other defending elements of the human fleet so- Wait. That makes no sense either! The human fleets would have been hunted down and obliterated, yet they were not. Uh-oh! Still, the lack of attacks on other continents is also absence of evidence.