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Posted by: MegaMuffin16
I have a few questions about the Battle of Earth.
Where is the UNSC capital? I know it's located on Earth but what city is it in?The HIGHCOM Hive is in Sydney[FS pg.98] but Australia was damaged severely during the battle [Uprising #1] and Hood was leading the battle from Cairo and the Dawn.
In Halo 2, was Regret's ship the only ship that touched down on Earth? When Regret escaped New Mombasa, were there any ships left?Regret's carrier was the only ship to make it to the surface and left alone. However, a Brute-controlled fleet arrived to Mombasa just ~twelve hours later.
In Halo 3: ODST, did the ships that came out of slipspace in the morning only start to dig around New Mombasa, or did they begin to invade the whole planet?The battle was far from over, so the UNSC would not have let them dig without interfering. Presumably another fleet engaged the UNSC ships in orbit.
What cities were officially glassed (completely or partially)?Casualties from the orbital bombardment were extreme [H3 Crow's Nest opening], leaving only 200 million humans alive [H3 bestiarium]. A lot of damage was done, but it wasn't nearly as thorough as usual. The word "glassing" is in jeopardy after Reach, so no semantics about that. But the big cities were probably mostly ruin.
How much of a timespan is there between the end of Halo 2 and the start of Halo 3?14 days in the Arby side, 9 days in the Chief side.
How many UNSC Ships were on Earth at the start of Halo 2? And at the start of Halo 3?Harper's fleet was 75 ships, and then there were the 300 MACs. And considering that the fleets were able to fight the Covenant for weeks and even spare a battle group for Onyx, there were likely hundreds of ships, of course reinforced by anything the UNSC could pull back from other colonies.
Did the entire Covenant Loyalist fleet follow Truth the Earth at the end of Halo 2?Of the High Charity fleet, a large part did remain behind to fight the Elites and Flood. It is not known if any left; the travel time would be two weeks but slipspace was a huge mess on November 3rd. Many other loyalist (brute-controlled) fleets were already at Earth.
When Truth went through the slipspace portal in Halo 3, did all the Covenant Loyalists on Earth follow or did some stay behind on Earth?"All Brute Cruisers all falling back to truth's ship", says the radio on The Storm. I don't think any stayed; even if they did, the elites would have cleaned them up.
[Edited on 11.18.2010 7:40 AM PST]