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Posted by: Flaming Skullz
Well, Earth was much more important than Reach, and the simple fact that the UNSC thought that the covenant wasn't as close to reach as they thought. And most likely they put most of their attention towards their Spartans rather than their MAC stations.
Because Spartans can stop thousands upon thousands of ships from glassing a planet from orbit. Even then the IIs were for the most part completed save for MJOLNIR, and the IIIs were relatively cost effective compared to the IIs. Space defense was the real key to a good defense for the UNSC. It's baffling that the UNSC never bothered to reinforce Reach with space defenses as the war went on against their favor, yet the second it falls they're able to muster up 300 functioning platforms over the course of a mere month.
Now yes the Covenant did bypass several colonies and unexpectedly showed up at Reach, but it's just strange that their fortress world didn't receive the same treatment as Earth prior to its fall particularly because of its strategic value as the largest shipyard in UNSC space. Something far more tangible and important towards the war effort than the symbolic nature of humanities' home planet. Unless of course there were far more strategic resources available at Earth that were left unsaid.
[Edited on 05.03.2011 1:37 PM PDT]