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Poll: Who is your Favorite Character to Have Fought the Battle of Earth [closed]
| Master Chief Petty Officer John 117:
60%
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(3 Votes)
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| Sergeant Major Avery Johnson:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| Commander Miranda Keyes:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| The Arbiter (Thel Vadam):
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| Corporal Taylor "Dutch" Miles:
0%
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(0 Votes)
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| Grunts (we love them all):
20%
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(1 Votes)
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| Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck:
20%
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(1 Votes)
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Total Votes: 5
reviewing cutscenes and all other details i can gleen from Halo 2, Halo 3, Halo 3 ODST and all other post war universe canon left me with sort of an idea as to the overall all strength of both sides at the conclusion of the Battle of Earth.
analyzing numbers based on cutscenes and the Halo Wiki I've been able to pull together the following things.
On November 17th 2552 the relative strength of the Human-Elite alliance and the Covenant Loyalists were:
Covenant Loyalists had around 30 ships around the portal and made it to the Ark with that many (based on the Ark intro cutscene "they outnumber us three to one" three loyalist assault carriers are seen in the cutscene, leaving the remaining strength at about 27-30 CCS-class cruisers)
Humans: had "a handful of ships" i suspect that the UNSC had no more than 12 fully battle capable ships by the 17th while three Frigates made the strike on truths ship (Frigates being confirmed to be atmosphere rated.)
Elites: Fleet of Retribution had a confirmed strength of one Assault Carrier and nine CCS-class Crusiers. many fans have mistakenly thought that this is all the ships that the elites had in total, though i think that this is only a portion of the full fleet of Retribution. it is mentioned that the Covie civil war is going on throughout all of covie controlled space meaning the fleets of Elite and Brute commanders involved would have been reasonably large.
just to mention one other thing. I'd like to make a distinction between the numbers of ships involved in the Human-Covenant War and the Covenant Civil War. in other words the only part of the Covenant Fleet still fighting the Human-Covie war was the ships at earth, otherwise for classification purposes all other Covie ships (both elite and brute) are fighting their civil war.