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Posted by: Spartan1065
Posted by: anton1792
So then if it takes 15 seconds only for glassing but not necessarily burning of land then destroying the entire surface of a planet is much more feasible than previously thought. The Covenant could simply have glassed cities or key areas of the planet, farmland etc, and merely burned the rest of the surface saving time and energy. I find that the most plausible of the scenarios, at least when it comes to descriptions of the destruction of the entire surface of a planet, like in Halsey's description.
Starting wildfires in various locations would have the same effect as well. Only a few plasma hits would be required, and the smoke and ash would cause climate changes that would make it quite inhospitable. So yeah, large parts of the planet could be set on fire like that, but only areas of resistance would be likely to succumb to glassing.
It just looks like the old idea of glassing is largely moot now, where we once thought of every square inch being reduced to this glass substance with all the atmosphere and oceans boiled away.