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Deva Path
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
We are all going to get banned aren't we?
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: Xd00999
I'm probably the minority here but, I think Bionicle can beat Halo in ground combat. They won't be too shabby in space either, with a pair (possibly more) of giant forty million feet tall robots.
@Onyx: Anton disproved that, remember? It takes the covenant 15 seconds too glass an acre which means they require 30 years to glass earth. The worlds in Bionicle are much, much bigger than earth.[/quote]
oh my god.....
This was disproven already by the map Condemned and the book Glasslands[/quote]
no it wasn't.
A book cover is artistic license and doesn't mean anything so you must be desperate if you are trying to use that.
And condemned is a MP map, again artistic license
here you can clearly see that the entire planet isn't "glassed" as you claim, only a few spots are which fits with all accounts.
Nobody ever stayed to see what really happens when the covenant bombard planets. The original FoR even states that only the poles were glassed and the rest of the planet was on fire not glassed and that is what you see on condemned.
Last time you brought this up anton went back and showed you what the original and the re-prints say, in which the planets are not fully glassed.
So a fully canon depiction is also somehow not a fully canon depiction?
How the hell does artistic license apply to the background image in a map? Was the Ark in the sky of Isolation in Halo 3 just artistic license as well? The image has no effect whatsoever on the map itself, so no liberties could have been taken for the sake of gameplay.
Here's something funny, in LNoS, we clearly see Reach already significantly on fire from space and the glassing hadn't even started yet. But of course the datapads are the superior canon.
And then we have The Return, not the Evolutions story but the motion comic, which has always shown a completely blasted planet. But I assume that never happened too, right?
All of the Covenant's firepower is determined by a bunch of AI's who had only one year of the most vague evidence possible to support them, and the assumption that we could fight them in space. They were operating under the correct thought process that if they did have that kind of power, resistance was hopeless. I don't know if you noticed or not, but it kind of was. We succesfull repelled the invasion of a planet only once through out the entire war, and any space engagement was won only through at least triple their numbers, and even then the losses were rediculous.
Halsey herself said it: "We cannot win this war, we can only survive it."
So do tell me how ten years and beyond of consistantly telling the audience the Covenant could immolate worlds is somehow debunked by the dellusions of some AI who had exactly zero first hand experience or intel on them and only a single year's worth of shoddy intel (because their assumption was made in 2526 fyi) from people who could never have seen a Covenant attack in full or otherwise would be dead?
Because we knew literally nothing about them at that time outside of their name and a hint at some of their motives.
so what your saying is Boarding action,wizard,prisoner,example, etc are canon? serously, when did MP maps become canon rob because i remember us being told not to pay attention to them. What about pit stop and boundless? they canon also?
Reach is on fire not glassed, you can clearly see the oceans and other side of the planet fine. The few places that WHERE glassed set off a firestorm that spread fire around the entire planet, that was stated by fred himself in the original fall of reach.
the planet was completely glassed yet it still had an atmosphere and a biosphere? right.. clearly the covenant don't "glass" planets, if you even understood the datapads you would know the AI's coined that term to make it seem more deadly.
vague evidence yet they must have seen a planet "glassed" in order to make up such assumption; they even talk about ditching the outer colonies to buy time; did you even read them?
Ten years of nothing rob. We see from halowars and the engagements surrounding harvest that the entire planet wasn't glassed despite it being claim.
And again, fred clearly states in TFoR that the planet was on fire not glassed.
now read this rob
Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: privet caboose
Anton, can you please provide me with the original page number in the first issue that says every square milimeter was glassed, and the page number in the rewrite where that line was removed?
Original: Page 105
"When the Covenant destroys a planet, they typically move their large warships closer and blanket the world with a series of crisscrossing orbits to ensure that every square millimetre of the surface is covered with plasma bombardments."
2010 Version: Page 130
"When the Covenant destroys a planet, they typically move their large warships closer and blanket the world with a series of crisscrossing orbits to ensure that nothing could ever survive on its surface."
Why change this rather inconspicuous line out of the entire book when it was seemingly no error and also in no contradiction with anything else in the "Old canon"?
Another change I noticed from one of Lt. Wagner's lines:
Original: Page 102
"Before I jumped to Slipspace, I witnessed the poles destroyed, and approximately two thirds of the planets surface was on fire."
2010 version: Page 128
"Before I jumped to Slipspace, I witnessed the poles destroyed, and a significant portion of the planet's surface was on fire."