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Subject: What Happened to Reach?
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Im not sure if this is the right area to post, but it said Halo. So ok.
If you have read the Halo book, First Strike. In it you notice Admiral says they armed a Nova. It was set to explode in 24 hours i think, and thats all you hear of the Nova again?
I was wondering, did the Nova explode. and destroy the entire planet, like it was supposed to do in "theory?"

Please, post your ideas, or if u know, what happens.

  • 04.13.2006 12:48 PM PDT

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Dude I wondered this too. In fact I looked through the book again to see if i missed something.

  • 04.13.2006 2:05 PM PDT
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It doesn't say what happened in the books. I don't think the Covenant would attack if their homeworld had been blown up, so I assume it destroyed Reach and the fleet there.

  • 04.13.2006 4:22 PM PDT

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That's assuming that the Covenant have a single homeworld. I'd bet the nova went off on Reach. Or worse, an Engineer disarmed it and the Covenant is waiting to re-deploy it.

  • 04.13.2006 4:57 PM PDT

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The covies dont use human tech, even if its better, according to The Fall of Reach.


Just another hole in the plot.

  • 04.13.2006 9:00 PM PDT
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I havent read the book but ive always been told it got glassed. Now I know.

  • 04.14.2006 2:33 AM PDT

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Posted by: EAGLES5
The covies dont use human tech, even if its better, according to The Fall of Reach.


Just another hole in the plot.
Unless you're the arbiter, of course ;)

  • 04.14.2006 8:06 AM PDT
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it was glassed by the covenant

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  • 04.15.2006 12:58 PM PDT

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Yes we know it was glassed, but not the whole planet according to the books.


So Reach either blew up from the Nova or a covie fleet got taken out by it.

  • 04.15.2006 2:19 PM PDT
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Posted by: flamedude
Dude I wondered this too. In fact I looked through the book again to see if i missed something.


Same here Flame dude

  • 04.15.2006 4:56 PM PDT
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Carrots.

Reach was destroyed.
It doesn't say this in the books, but in Halo 2, if you have played it, you will most likeley hear Lord Hud say "The fleet that Destroyed reach was fifty times this size.
Basicly, reach was destroyed, as he says.

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that to lol

  • 04.15.2006 9:20 PM PDT
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  • 04.16.2006 5:43 PM PDT
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My friend that worksat bungie said that the next game was a halo game but it wasnt going to be about the aftermath of halo 2 so im guessing they are going back to reach esp. since it has been highly speculated that the Halo movie is going to be about reach.

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Woah i should have read some of the posts before i posted but i have an idea about the whole nova thing though i havent read the 3rd book but i have read abour reach so if the Nova bomb or whatever blew up on the covanant home world as i would assume that might bee the reason why the covanent homeworld looks like the death star in halo 2 when the covenant rush to the 2nd halo you know that big thing in the middle of the halo at the end of the game that looks like half a planet that they call the covanant capital also know as high charity.

  • 04.16.2006 9:35 PM PDT
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Carrots.

Uh... you're lieing, we know you don't have a friend at bungie, if you do, hes lieing.

  • 04.17.2006 7:10 AM PDT

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  • 04.17.2006 7:25 AM PDT
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My friend that worksat bungie said that the next game was a halo game but it wasnt going to be about the aftermath of halo 2 so im guessing they are going back to reach esp. since it has been highly speculated that the Halo movie is going to be about reach.


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  • 04.17.2006 2:46 PM PDT

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Im not sure if this is the right area to post, but it said Halo. So ok.
If you have read the Halo book, First Strike. In it you notice Admiral says they armed a Nova. It was set to explode in 24 hours i think, and thats all you hear of the Nova again?
I was wondering, did the Nova explode. and destroy the entire planet, like it was supposed to do in "theory?"


Pretty much you awnsered your own question. The books never specify. We can speculate, but that is all until one of the games/books/bungie reps tells us otherwise.

Best case scanario? The nova detonated, destroying millions of covenant and whatever was within 10000 miles of the Nova.

  • 04.17.2006 9:48 PM PDT
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It's quite possible that Reach blew up. But, it's a possibility that an Engineer took it back to the ship, and then that ship blew up, OR that it was disabled and improved upon. Remember, the Covenant are immitative, not innovative.

  • 04.18.2006 12:29 PM PDT
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firstly reach was destroyed
have u guys ever watched a war movie stuff like that needed 10 codes 2 deactivate it in 198sumit so in 2155 its gona be nearly inpossible ive u dont have the authority
secondly next project about reach... no way! i wouldnt make sence to all the ppl who havnt read the halo books and also if you read about all the trainin they do at the beginin the game would be rpg not fps

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  • 04.18.2006 1:30 PM PDT