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Subject: Why was the Covenant on Reach for so long?

If the Covenant were glassing Reach at the end of the game, why was there a massive amount of troops still on the planet? On Lone Wolf you see some Banshees flying in the air, and craploads of Covenant soldiers, which should probably be pulling out and heading to another planet by know.

I know it was for game purposes, but if it were real life the Covenant shouldn't have been there that long. The place you are fighting in looks like it's been glassed already anyway, so there shouldn't have been any searching parties in the vicinity.

[Edited on 12.15.2010 2:23 PM PST]

  • 12.15.2010 2:22 PM PDT

I think it was so they could take out comms, and generally cause a ruckus because at the beginning, they took out the sat dish so Reach couldn't call anyone else.

  • 12.15.2010 2:32 PM PDT

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They were searching for Forerunner artifacts that were likely all over the planet. Not only under Castle Base and Sword Base.

  • 12.15.2010 2:39 PM PDT

hadn't they had started glassing though? And wasn't that team of Zealots one of many looking for artifacts in the beginning of the game? Halsey even said they sent advance teams to do that kind of work.

  • 12.15.2010 2:45 PM PDT


Posted by: Gruntpocalypto
hadn't they had started glassing though? And wasn't that team of Zealots one of many looking for artifacts in the beginning of the game? Halsey even said they sent advance teams to do that kind of work.


The Zealots were there for the dead Oni scientist's data. (Halsey's journal told me this)

  • 12.15.2010 3:09 PM PDT

but she said in-game that most of the time, the Covenant sent those teams of Zealots to scour for artifacts and data. It's likely that they sent a whole bunch down at once, all over the planet. (I'm not confirming it, just saying it's the most likely)

  • 12.15.2010 3:11 PM PDT

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probably looking for Forerunner artifacts or UNSC data or something.

  • 12.15.2010 7:06 PM PDT

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They don't glass entire planets, only parts of planets. There are still going to be covenant occupations.

  • 12.15.2010 7:29 PM PDT

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Posted by: Gruntpocalypto
but she said in-game that most of the time, the Covenant sent those teams of Zealots to scour for artifacts and data. It's likely that they sent a whole bunch down at once, all over the planet. (I'm not confirming it, just saying it's the most likely)


Yeah the Zealots are sent to recon and find the artifacts, that doesn't mean, they are going to extract them, they need to dig in, use machinery and stuff, plus before doing that, they need to wipe out humanity from the planet with out harming the artifacts, that's why they don't glass entirely Reach. They have to be carefull to not damage the artifacts that's why they send troops on the ground.

[Edited on 12.15.2010 9:42 PM PST]

  • 12.15.2010 9:41 PM PDT

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They were planning on assaulting the CASTLE base once you were out of the picture.

  • 12.15.2010 9:52 PM PDT

I just got to the Reach portion of "The Fall of Reach," so I don't really know.

I'm just going to go with everyone else and say that it's because they wanted to assault Castle Base.

  • 12.15.2010 9:54 PM PDT

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Posted by: Gruntpocalypto
hadn't they had started glassing though? And wasn't that team of Zealots one of many looking for artifacts in the beginning of the game? Halsey even said they sent advance teams to do that kind of work.


The Zealots were there for the dead Oni scientist's data. (Halsey's journal told me this)

  • 12.15.2010 11:30 PM PDT