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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Okay, answer these things.
A: Dropships were launched to the poles. UNSC fired and destroyed a massive chunk of them.
B: Within 2-3 hours, those remaining dropships somehow regrouped completely and effectively(figured out what they had) anddeployed overwhelming forces successfully and destroyed the HEAVIEST guarded locations on Reach (High command, and the generators). *Note, phantoms and spirits. Meaning the heaviest armor support was wraith tanks, and not scarabs.*
C: UNSC Air Force did not do a thing to stop them, those skyhawks with 4 50mm cannons? Stayed landed at base apparently.
D: I've heard (from a book supporter no less) a spirit going max in atmosphere speed would take roughly 7 hours to travel from the pole to the equator.
Oh, and apparently there was no AA guns on Reach either.[/quote]
You forget one thing, there is possible that Covenant Fleet may fired more salvos of plasma torpedoes that skimmed past the defense fleet and hit numerous UNSC bases, potentially weakening their defensive capabilities severely. There was probably hundreds of troop transports with banshee escorts. Sure, UNSC may fought hard, but it was futile and you do know that Elites such as Zealot or higher class can command entire armies efficiently and able to take out the generator bases.
It would require some explanations on how dropships able to travel from somewhere else to the poles in a hour to few hours since somebody said it would take seven hours due to their maximum speed. It's possible that they sent corvettes in to cover the ground and able to deploy its forces closer to poles?
Uh, there is AA guns on Reach and like I said, it was more likely to be destroyed by strays of plasma torpedoes that went past the defense fleet. See my first post for this.
And some folks may made mistake on reading that remaining covenant fleet able to glass entire planet in a day, it meant that it was already lost in a day. In calculations, even with over 300 ships, it would require them 30 years to glass entire Reach. Also, they figured that they didn't need to glass much since glassing small area to large area can have devastating effects on biosphere and environment as well.
[Edited on 06.20.2011 6:46 PM PDT]