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Subject: What happened to Harvest?

After the Harvest Campaign, we retook Harvest and eventually pulled back to assist in the other battles in the war with the Covenant but what happened to it? Did it begin re-colonization? Was it abandoned? By 2531 All Covenant activity was destroyed, in all that time, did they just ignore Harvest for the rest of the war or what is the deal?

  • 04.12.2011 11:01 PM PDT

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I think Harvest was glassed beyond recovery, so, no need to keep a giant ball of glass I guess.

  • 04.12.2011 11:06 PM PDT

Posted by: RKOSNAKE
I think Harvest was glassed beyond recovery, so, no need to keep a giant ball of glass I guess.


Well it said on the Wiki that Harvest was severely glassed in all but its northern regions. So some sections still have value I assume.

  • 04.12.2011 11:08 PM PDT

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Well, Wars shows Harvest in a Nuclear-stylish winter although still habitable so you might be right.

Most likely than not they terraformed it again just like they did with Reach even though it could have taken more time for Harvest since only the Northern pole was spared.

  • 04.12.2011 11:17 PM PDT

Posted by: RKOSNAKE
Well, Wars shows Harvest in a Nuclear-stylish winter although still habitable so you might be right.

Most likely than not they terraformed it again just like they did with Reach even though it could have taken more time for Harvest since only the Northern pole was spared.


Add to the fact it's so far away, although what you said made no sense. All of Reach was glassed following the Battle and escape of the Spartans. Some of Harvest was spared, I believe it would take less time to terraform Harvest. Add to the fact that it's MUCH smaller.

Harvest Diameter - 4,000 km
Reach Diameter - 15,273 km

  • 04.12.2011 11:23 PM PDT

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Posted by: mojeda101
Posted by: RKOSNAKE
Well, Wars shows Harvest in a Nuclear-stylish winter although still habitable so you might be right.

Most likely than not they terraformed it again just like they did with Reach even though it could have taken more time for Harvest since only the Northern pole was spared.


Add to the fact it's so far away, although what you said made no sense. All of Reach was glassed following the Battle and escape of the Spartans. Some of Harvest was spared, I believe it would take less time to terraform Harvest. Add to the fact that it's MUCH smaller.

Harvest Diameter - 4,000 km
Reach Diameter - 15,273 km


Hmmm, my bad then, although it would still take them more time considering the fact that they would probably try to terraform Reach first and then go on to the other colonies.

  • 04.12.2011 11:33 PM PDT

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I believe if it had to come down to a straight choice the UNSC would try to recover Reach firstly.

Harvest may be so utterly battered (with some recoverable areas) that it may prove more wiser to locate another planet, or increase production on other plants

The sheer scale of the enormous task to rebuild the colonies would be a rather daunting task and no quick fix

  • 04.13.2011 1:27 AM PDT

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Harvest was glassed, but no completly. It was pushed into a nuclear winter, thus the extreme temperatures existing and decipted in HW.

I doubt the Covenant nor the UNSC ever returned to Harvest. If they did, expect only recon or scouting. Many years will have to pass before Harvest is fit for colonization again.

  • 04.13.2011 4:55 AM PDT
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Last time i remember after the UNSC took Harvest back for the second time the covenant left the system alone.

  • 04.13.2011 2:32 PM PDT

They Harvested it!!! :D

  • 04.13.2011 2:33 PM PDT

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Posted by: Buzz the Fuzz
They Harvested it!!! :D


Good shout! Well related to that, Harvest was called that for that very reason! To harvest produce and so on! It was lush in vegetation making it ideal to turn into a factory of food for the other colonies.

My question would be, would it be possible to return it to that state after a nuclear winter/ glassing? Coz if not, whats the point when it was on the very edge of Human space?

  • 04.13.2011 2:46 PM PDT


Posted by: RKOSNAKE
Well, Wars shows Harvest in a Nuclear-stylish winter although still habitable so you might be right.

Most likely than not they terraformed it again just like they did with Reach even though it could have taken more time for Harvest since only the Northern pole was spared.


I thought it was all covered in snow and stuff because you were in the northern reaches of Harvest in Halo Wars? And I don't remember seeing anything anywhere about what sort of shape the planet was in at the end.

I do know that the Data Pads state that it would take way too long to glass a whole planet for the Covenant to actually do it, and that it'd be almost impossible, even with all the Covenant resources devoted to that.

  • 04.13.2011 3:34 PM PDT

According to Halo: The Cole Protocol, Harvest and nearby Madrigal glassed around 2526-28. In the book, it clearly points towards the fact that Harvest must have been destroyed. By 2535, the Epsilon Indi system and some of it's neighbours are Covenant territories. Whether any parts of the planet survived, it is unknown. But its certain that even with terraforming, Harvest would never retain any strategic or economic value it previously possessed.

[Edited on 04.14.2011 11:25 AM PDT]

  • 04.14.2011 11:18 AM PDT

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Well I would assume that because of Harvest's primary purpose, farming, the vast majority of its arable land was glassed. As a few knowledgeable people have theorized in anton's thread the Covenant are selective in how they glass a planet. Most likely burning portions that are the most useful for its purpose.

  • 04.14.2011 11:22 AM PDT

The destructive process of bombarding the surface of a planet with plasma leaves the surface unable to recover to its former state without re-terraforming. During the glassing of a planet the Covenant focus on destroying the ecosystem of a planet, and will spend a considerable amount of time vaporizing any bodies of water the planet may possess, or at least reduces the remaining water to small, ash-choked pools.

Reach was re-colonised in 2589, 37 after its destruction. The planet was terraformed over those years. Whether the same happened to Harvest, it is unknown.

[Edited on 04.14.2011 11:39 AM PDT]

  • 04.14.2011 11:30 AM PDT
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Actually, the northern and southern poles of Reach were spared like Harvest do to the nature of Forerunner artifacts being located there.

Here's some interesting info on the aftermath of glassing.

[Edited on 04.14.2011 7:06 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2011 7:03 PM PDT