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Not sure if this question has been asked or not (still working my way through the thread).
What is so worth defending on Reach that the UNSC made it their military hub instead of Earth? Isn't the purpose of the military supposed to be to protect the civilian population? I thought that Earth would have the greatest population (populated first)--therefore it would have needed the greatest military presence.
Just throwing this out here--it's almost like the UNSC were trying to make the Covenant think that Reach was humanity's homeworld. If that's the case, then they would need a large civilian population as bait--no wonder ONI and the UNSC don't want anyone to know the true story of Reach.
Here's something I have a little difficulty with...how did the UNSC build 300 supermac cannons in only a few months (for defense of Earth)? If the UNSC had such building capabilities, then why weren't there more ships/supermac cannons at Reach?
If the UNSC doesn't have such capabilities...Reach is the hub of the UNSC, that means it has the larger military force, correct?
Earth was attacked by a series of major Covenant forces--it is possible that some waves were larger than the one sent to Reach, correct?
If so, then Earth was still able to survive long enough for Master Chief to complete his missions in Halo 2, get back to Earth on the Forerunner Keyship that was gathering Covenant forces, particapate in the battle and complete his mission on Halo 3.
If not, then why were the Covenant so stupid not to gather reinforcements???
Basically, (I can't remember the exact length of time) this means that Earth must have held out for weeks, if not months, against successive waves of Covenant forces that probably included some as large as the one sent to Reach.
Reach was attacked (if we can believe our information), by a scouting force, followed by a single massive Covenant fleet. If Earth held out for weeks, if not months, then how is it possible that Reach, the military stronghold of the UNSC, only lasted for one day?????????? HOW????
I've heard people say that maybe the Covenant "didn't want to glass Earth because they didn't want to harm the Ark," but what stops the Covenant from taking out Earth's fleet and glassing the area everywhere but the supposed Ark.
ONI squashing the information about the Covenant already being on Reach is a good idea...I mean, if they shut down the internet in an area, and stopped satellites from receiving phone calls from an area, and so on, then it would be very hard for the rest of the planet to know about the Covenant.
I also thought that the Spire(s) on the ground was how the Covenant supercarrier was "cloaked" (btw, it probably is cloaked, seeing as in real life anything that has a heat source that is greater than the temperature of space (-270 degrees Celsius) can be detected by passive sensors (remember, games are not always scientifically accurate):). Once one of the three were taken out, then --boom-- there goes that ship.
Anyway, that would have to be set up by Covenant ground forces on the planet atter the ship got there, so the Covenant would have to move quickly...
No, the UNSC would not have detected a ship coming out of slipspace. Remember, in the Fall of Reach, an ENTIRE COVENANT FLEET was mistaken as a "slipspace anomaly," eg. asteroid.
In Halo 2, the UNSC only detected that Covenant fleet because they weren't expecting any humans to be there.
The PoA landing on the planet...by this time, the space battle is probably all but lost (all space repair stations would have been destroyed), and Red Team would have already jumped. The PoA probably had massive battle damage. which I don't think we saw in Halo CE, or at the end of Reach.
The only reason it even managed to get off the planet was because of all those booster pods you see dropping away from the Autumn as it lifts off.
Landing on a planet to pick up an AI is probably a waste of resource. Landing on a planet to pick up an AI which contains "something on the revolutionary level of the conical bullet, or the invention of slipspace drive," is not a waste of resources. Any ideas on what that was, btw?
And while we're at it, did anyone read the extra info in the new editions of the books? Specifically the part about Cortana NOT talking about the Ark, or Halo 4B, as a way to stop the Flood? Any ideas on that?