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For a planet roughly the size of Reach, how long would it take a fleet to totally glass it?

Anyone have a rough estimate?

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  • 01.16.2011 9:23 AM PDT
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Over 30 years with 2000 ships.

  • 01.16.2011 9:24 AM PDT

but the heat and radiation'd kill everything much faster

  • 01.16.2011 9:25 AM PDT

Is it just me or does it sound like a How long does it take for .... do unscrew a lightbulb?
XD
it depends
when a planet is being glassed the ship glassing it would be vulnerable to attach from both land and space
but a whole planet would take about 15 days

  • 01.16.2011 9:37 AM PDT
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A Covenant ship can glass 1 acre in 15 seconds. Reach is bigger than Earth. I'll give it a diameter of 15,000 km. Estimating the shape as a sphere, that's a surface area of ~700,000,000 km^2, or ~170,000,000,000 acres. Tthe time should be 81,000/[number of ships in the fleet] years.

Of course, this all depends on your definition of 'glass.' You could kill the population, destroy any cities, and seriously mess with the environment with much less time. You don't need to completely burn every square centimeter of the surface with plasma to cause a lot of damage.


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  • 01.16.2011 9:38 AM PDT

it would take 12.
do not "ask 12 what?"
just the number 12.
the aliens near reach are so uncivilised, thety havent come up with the concept of time yet...

  • 01.16.2011 9:39 AM PDT

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This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
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The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Depends on the size of the fleet.

But even then, it takes a long time.

  • 01.16.2011 9:41 AM PDT

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In general, the time it would take to glass a planet depends on both the size of the planet in question and the number of ships the Covenant has available.

For a planet the size of Reach (slightly larger than Earth), probably around 8-12 hours for the number of ships the Covenant had (way more than the number of ships they used when Earth was first attacked).



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  • 01.16.2011 9:50 AM PDT

Seriously Oak, Ive been doing this -blam!- for 16 years, gimmie my Friggen starter Pokemon and dont call me till im the champion! ¬_¬

How many ships? How big is the planet? what is its distance to the nearest star? how thick is the planets crust? Whats in the planets atmosphere? Is it inhabited? Are their defences blocking the fleet? Is MC giving the covenant back a bomb? What type of ships are involved within the fleet? Is the planet a large ball of glass already?

But in a serious sense, i guess ill say "It Depends" :P

  • 01.16.2011 9:53 AM PDT
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The Assembly of the Data Pads reckoned that to glass every inch of the surface, it would take upwards of 30 years.

Of course, the Covenant don't need to do that. They can simply glass major population centers, and the resulting effects (dust flying into the air, mostly) will destroy the biosphere.

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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

The covenant can glass planets with energy projectors and plasma torpedos.The torpedos are far more effective for glassing larger area

See the poa level in Halo Reach when you see a massive mushroom cloud in the distance.It's at least 30 km high when comparing it's size with the mountain.

Then in the package you see a large molten pool of magma.

Plasma torps>>>glassing beams

  • 01.16.2011 10:51 AM PDT

I think the Assembly got it wrong. The ending of Reach proves that it does not take 30 years to glass with 2000 ships.

Not counting losses (which were substantial) the Covenant had 700 ships at Reach, but incinerated the entire planet's surface within one day.

So it seems the AIs were wrong.

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  • 01.16.2011 11:13 AM PDT

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

It depends on so many things. Surface area, percentage of surface area by land and water, Ocean depths etc. On average, using a fleet of 2000 warships (Likely CCS or larger, as they are the ones described to carry the firepower) it would take 30 years to glass Earth.

They cannot boil off entire oceans, atmospheres and reduce an entire planet's crust to molten slag and glass in any period of time within a Human lifespan. To do so in the first place would require more than 256 times more energy than the Sun produces every second. That energy dispensed in a week, a few days or however long a time frame it was originally described to be gives a slightly ridiculous wattage and an even more ridiculous mass of fuel required.

Opog says everything needed really. Total glassing is not really required. Targeting cities, military bases, grain belts and kicking up enough dust to smog up the atmosphere would suffice.

Posted by: opogjijijp
A Covenant ship can glass 1 acre in 15 seconds. Reach is bigger than Earth. I'll give it a diameter of 15,000 km. Estimating the shape as a sphere, that's a surface area of ~700,000,000 km^2, or ~170,000,000,000 acres. Tthe time should be 81,000/[number of ships in the fleet] years.

Of course, this all depends on your definition of 'glass.' You could kill the population, destroy any cities, and seriously mess with the environment with much less time. You don't need to completely burn every square centimeter of the surface with plasma to cause a lot of damage.

  • 01.16.2011 11:56 AM PDT

and also, according to halo evolutions volume 2 " the return", the covenant burn a glyph into the planet. the glyph is so large, it can kill most of a planet, the other ships in the fleet then cross the whole planet, not to turn it's surface to glass ( contrary to truth's threat on earth: "we will burn your planet 'till it's surface is but GLASS!!")
the patterns scorched on the planet kill it by throwing up dust and burning all life,and it also describes that the glassing beam sends out a shockwave ( similar to a nuke) that causes a lot of damage.
ALso, the craters/canyons, whatever created by the beams do not leave a smooth glass like surface, The Return also says that ihe surface was like shattered glass.

  • 01.16.2011 12:33 PM PDT

Reach wasnt glassed, it was just burnt badly because if it was we wouldn't see that nice green view with the snow capped mountain behind noble sixs helmet. The planet recovered yay!!!!!!

  • 01.16.2011 12:39 PM PDT

Depends, are they using plasma torpedoes or energy projectors? Plasma torpedoes can glass 1 acre every 10 seconds, energy projectors can glass 15 acres per second, 150 times faster. So I would estimate about a year given 2000 ships with plasma torpedoes were estimated to be able to glass earth in 30 years.

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I think the Assembly got it wrong. The ending of Reach proves that it does not take 30 years to glass with 2000 ships.

Halo: Reach seems to show that the Assembly is accurate. There is nothing resembling the more literal glassing that is often assumed. Targeted areas of destruction and the resulting firestorms, yes. But nothing like every square centimeter of the surface burned with plasma, the oceans vaporized, and the atmosphere boiled off.

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Thanks Guys!

Great Responses!

  • 01.16.2011 7:47 PM PDT
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never heard the covy completely glassing a planet.

  • 01.16.2011 8:17 PM PDT

Just to make things clear:

-The Covenant does "glass" entire planets relatively quickly.

-However, they can't turn an entire planet's surface into glass in less than a year.

The "glassing" practiced by the covenant isn't turning the entire surface into glass. They just bombard the planet, burning the entire surface, killing all life. However, only some areas are hit hard enough to turn them into glass.

  • 01.16.2011 9:05 PM PDT
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Hey

over 9000!!! years....

  • 01.16.2011 9:25 PM PDT

Halo is one of the most important part of my life.

Interesting

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