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Subject: Covies invasion of earth question

Ok today while I was assassinating an elite i thought "did the covies just hit africa or other parts of earth?" does anyone know if the covies started attack say shanghai or new york?

[Edited on 11.25.2010 2:39 PM PST]

  • 11.25.2010 2:38 PM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

Probably everywhere. Australia got trashed. Cuba, Afghanistan, Antarctica, Cleveland (Implying coverage all across the Americas?). You are talking about a level of destruction capable of halving Earths population in a matter of hours, a population that was in the billions, and by the end only leaving 200 million survivors, according to the Encyclopaedia and Bestiarum.

  • 11.25.2010 2:55 PM PDT

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"Happiness is like glass, you might not always notice it but if you change your view and then that glass will sparkle when it reflects the light."

I think that most were concentrated near Africa and the ocean searching for Forerunner ruins. They also probably blew up major military bases and destroyed big cities. Which battle are you asking about anyway? Regret's fleet or Truth's fleet?

  • 11.25.2010 3:00 PM PDT

What a waste....

In the 'Giving back their bomb' cutscene, you can see the west coast of North America being glassed, and also the Pacific Ocean.

  • 11.25.2010 3:37 PM PDT

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During the initial attack by Regret's private little fleet, they just hit the Mombasa area. As the rest of the Covenant showed up, they started to attack other places. Those I can think of off the top of my head are Cleveland and Cuba.

[Edited on 11.25.2010 5:34 PM PST]

  • 11.25.2010 3:45 PM PDT

Yes, really

its my understanding that regret hit africa, centering around new mombassa, while truth hit africa as well as big cities/military installations.

  • 11.25.2010 4:24 PM PDT

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I would guess they attacked tether cities.

  • 11.25.2010 4:33 PM PDT

Signatures are for squares.

The documented locations attacked are:

-"Half of Africa"
-Antartica
-Cuba
-Cleveland
-Australia

Though Earths population was down to about 200,000 million. There was about 60 billion(Can't remember where I read that.) humans on Earth when Regret showed up.

  • 11.25.2010 4:49 PM PDT
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Various parts of canon have placed Covies all over the Earth, but the the games said that the Covenant only landed "here", being in Africa. Since the games trump everything else, I guess it was only Africa.

  • 11.25.2010 4:59 PM PDT

Signatures are for squares.

Posted by: scotsoe
Various parts of canon have placed Covies all over the Earth, but the the games said that the Covenant only landed "here", being in Africa. Since the games trump everything else, I guess it was only Africa.


Didn't that "they're only here" quote come from Lord Hood? AKA; Exaggerator of the UNSC?

  • 11.25.2010 5:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: scotsoe
Various parts of canon have placed Covies all over the Earth, but the the games said that the Covenant only landed "here", being in Africa. Since the games trump everything else, I guess it was only Africa.
That was only in the initial hours of the attack, quite some time had passed by the time Master Chief came back.

[Edited on 11.25.2010 5:03 PM PST]

  • 11.25.2010 5:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: privet caboose
Posted by: scotsoe
Various parts of canon have placed Covies all over the Earth, but the the games said that the Covenant only landed "here", being in Africa. Since the games trump everything else, I guess it was only Africa.


Didn't that "they're only here" quote come from Lord Hood? AKA; Exaggerator of the UNSC?
I'm not totally sure but I thought it was Miranda Keyes in Halo 3. Might be completely wrong though.

  • 11.25.2010 5:09 PM PDT
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Given the extremely low population of earth post Halo 3, it's safe to say that they attacked everywhere. Most likely every major population center and military installations were attacked, even if it was just a few plasma torpedoes from orbit.

Sure, it would take 30 years to literally glass earth, but it doesn't need to be literally glassed to kill 95% of the population.

They finish of the UNSC fleet, destroy the cities, then move everything to the ark portal.

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  • 11.25.2010 5:14 PM PDT

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Posted by: scotsoe
Posted by: privet caboose
Posted by: scotsoe
Various parts of canon have placed Covies all over the Earth, but the the games said that the Covenant only landed "here", being in Africa. Since the games trump everything else, I guess it was only Africa.


Didn't that "they're only here" quote come from Lord Hood? AKA; Exaggerator of the UNSC?
I'm not totally sure but I thought it was Miranda Keyes in Halo 3. Might be completely wrong though.


No you're right. She says it during the Crow's Nest cutscene along with informing her troops that the rally point when evacuating a base is "to war". The UNSC sure does know how to pick em.

  • 11.25.2010 5:25 PM PDT

Posted by: Jason W
I think that most were concentrated near Africa and the ocean searching for Forerunner ruins. They also probably blew up major military bases and destroyed big cities. Which battle are you asking about anyway? Regret's fleet or Truth's fleet?
Both i guess

  • 11.25.2010 5:37 PM PDT

On crows nest theres some consoles with maps that have dots over major cities, LA, washington, etc.

SO I'm guessing they obliterated most major population areas.


See the thing is...Halo has a great story, but it was poorly told.


On the humans side, they never pull the camera back and show up the grand scope of things. They never show us just how significant what were doing is on a global scale. They never show you how the covenant had been attacking earth for almost a month by the time MC got back, its population had been cut to nothing, and that you opening the hole for the unsc ships to get through was the only thing that relieved the unsc of that.

  • 11.25.2010 6:52 PM PDT