Posted by: MegaMuffin16
Posted by: mr _super sauce
I never said it was a GOOD explanation. and I did decide to take a point from myself. im down to 1 more. but i still think its possible because the citizens from reach die, so they only had to hide it from people who didnt witness it, which is alot easier. If they didnt see it, they wouldnt know about it in the first place, right? but w/eIt's just not logical. People could see the orbital platforms from the surface, why couldn't they see Covenant ships, 27 kilometers long, beneath the grid? Eyesight tells us that something closer to the surface would be easier to see. So, no one noticed the 300 Covenant ships flying around Reach until August 30, over a
week and a half later?
The people who saw it all perished on reach. Maybe a few trade companies learned about it from thier trade ships, but didnt release the information. The UNSC were hoping they could win, but after they realized what was going to happen, they gave up and let the media free. Again, though, this is just a bad thoery I just made up, although I am going to defend it.