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Posted by: Dedworth Mean
Quick question fellas! Found myself watching Halo Legends again the other night (I dont know why, it sucks) and on the making of and such they discuss the timeline for noobs! So on the DVD they state that Harvest was glassed following the arrival of the Covenant!
How does this fit in with
a) Contact Harvest - the novel
b) Halo Wars - where it states it took them 5 YEARS to "get Harvest back" (why would you when its been glassed?)
c) The general timeline that says Harvest was glassed upon first contact!
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A) Contact Harvest basically ends before word officially gets back to the UNSC as to what occurred there. What little of the civilian and militia population evacuated before the planet got glassed. When the scout force assigned to figure what happened to Harvest and why it went dark finally arrived the planet was already glassed.
B) Quite frankly I'm puzzled by this too just because Harvest wouldn't be a viable planet to sustain and protect once they secured it. We know that in reality from the Reach data pads that "glassing" does not mean that a planet is necessarily completely uninhabitable, but rather that its associated with sheer devastation that is unimaginable with current human conventional/unconventional weapons. We can see in the cutscene that, even after the five year campaign, all of Harvest still isn't burning. You can also relate this to Reach and how it was reclaimed despite being glassed. Of course that took who knows how long. It's also possible the battle was simply for morale purposes and/or thinking that Harvest would be the place to stop the alien threat right then and there before it spread. Who knows really in regards to this.
C)When all is said and done it still is. First contact is made. Population retreats. Scout forces find parts of Harvest "glassed". The old description of the entire planet being a smoldering ruin no longer holds any weight and has been rectonned. No single Covenant ship can completely glass a planet in the timespan it took for UNSC scout forces to deploy there, but for all intents and purposes the sheer devastation caused still means that Harvest is still considered glassed to some extent by the time Cole mobilizes.