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Subject: Population of "Earth" BEFORE the invasion of Earth.
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Actually, this Earth didn't have 200 million left, dude. If it is, it wouldn't survive as civilization and back to the stone age. You see UNSC still stands after the war because it had 2 to 4 billion total left, due to remaining colonies that weren't glassed and lucky ones. I estimate about a dozen colonies with Earth are only remainders of UEG and UNSC.

Well, for remaining population on Earth is 200 million, where you did get source? Please do not use halo nation wiki, it is not acceptable source. Use Halo wiki or use book sources ONLY .

I would safely say that Earth probably had a billion left after the war. Before the war, 20 billion? I don't believe it, only reasonable, realistic would be 8 to 12 billion.

[Edited on 04.24.2011 10:03 AM PDT]

  • 04.24.2011 9:57 AM PDT

I got 200 million from other posters, who I guess got it from the Bestarium. I've never read or seen this Bestarium, but considering its nature I'm guessing its creators were given a lot of freedom in creating content, hence the survivor statistic.

Even a billion people left on Earth has Earth being a massively depopulated wasteland. Even if it only started with 8 billion, that means 7 in 8 people are dead. Whether these casualties are spread over the whole planet or concentrated into lifeless wastelands, it still means humanity's future looks bleak.

Like I said before: I think the majority of Earth was spared from Covenant glassing because the Covenant had so few ships and a specific objective in mind that wasn't the immediate annihilation of the humans.

I'm guessing when Lord Hood said the Elites had "glassed half a continent" he was exaggerating in anger. The Flood that infected Earth came from one ship, and didn't have time to infest more than one city. When the Shipmaster said he could have glassed the entire planet Earth, I think he was boasting.

In Halo: Reach the Covenant had thousands of ships, and it still took them several days to glass the whole planet.

[Edited on 04.24.2011 2:37 PM PDT]

  • 04.24.2011 2:30 PM PDT

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according from what im seeing 200 million on earth 400 million on another planet there could be up to 2 billion humans still living on the inner colonies unsc based. now consider the outer colonies which are small and nearly negligible and asteroids where the humans found refuge could be 100 to 500 million if the covies aren't finding every single humans to kill.

  • 04.24.2011 2:50 PM PDT

mojeda101: Bungie.net! What does the scouter say about Earth's population before the invasion?

Vegeta: It was OVER 9000!!!!

  • 04.24.2011 3:52 PM PDT

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mojeda101: Bungie.net! What does the scouter say about Earth's population before the invasion?

Vegeta: It was OVER 9000!!!!


I've never said such words!

Lol.

  • 04.24.2011 11:58 PM PDT

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I got 200 million from other posters, who I guess got it from the Bestarium. I've never read or seen this Bestarium, but considering its nature I'm guessing its creators were given a lot of freedom in creating content, hence the survivor statistic.

Even a billion people left on Earth has Earth being a massively depopulated wasteland. Even if it only started with 8 billion, that means 7 in 8 people are dead. Whether these casualties are spread over the whole planet or concentrated into lifeless wastelands, it still means humanity's future looks bleak.

Like I said before: I think the majority of Earth was spared from Covenant glassing because the Covenant had so few ships and a specific objective in mind that wasn't the immediate annihilation of the humans.

I'm guessing when Lord Hood said the Elites had "glassed half a continent" he was exaggerating in anger. The Flood that infected Earth came from one ship, and didn't have time to infest more than one city. When the Shipmaster said he could have glassed the entire planet Earth, I think he was boasting.

In Halo: Reach the Covenant had thousands of ships, and it still took them several days to glass the whole planet.


Wasn't thousands of ships. Only 341.
The Covenant invaded Earth with a sole purpose of finding the Ark.
Regrets fleet broke through the orbital defense and crushed Home fleet while Truth's fleet cleaned up the mess and began glassing the planet.

Battles all over the world. Hell even Australia was whipped clean off the face of the Earth along with battles in Cleveland and New Mombasa.

  • 04.25.2011 12:01 AM PDT

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I don't even see how the earth could sustain 20 billion highly sentient beings such as humans. We require about 1.5x as much energy as other animals do compared to their size because we use our brains so much which drains lots of energy. I don't see how this could work. Even if everyone ate low trophic diets being purely vegetarian, we couldn't do it easily. Humans would have to practically terraform half of Africa into a vegetable farm just to keep everyone alive with food. In terms of water, I would assume someone found out a way to rapidly filter sea water by then. I mean hell they have warp drives, filtering out salt and microbes shouldn't be that hard. But the food...If Mars was supplying food to earth(which it wasn't if I recall) then it could easily work.

  • 04.25.2011 2:13 AM PDT

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