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Posted by: Havoc208
Why Didn't The Covenant Just Glass Earth?
For the same reasons the Covenant invaded Earth with such a small fleet.

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1. Earth is the Ark
2. They may damage the control room of the Ark in Africa
3. They only had a few ships


They glassed reach with what appeared to be around 50 ships I'd say. They could with 15 but it would take forever.


Dude, it was WAY more than 50 ships.......

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Posted by: Havoc208
Why Didn't The Covenant Just Glass Earth?
For the same reasons the Covenant invaded Earth with such a small fleet.


Looking for the Ark.

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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
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I don't know about your question but the imeadiate area in the teaser trailor IS already TRASHED ! like they alread plasma'd it but this is only hypothetic .

That's from when the Ship jumped over the Earth city in Halo 2..The Ruins of the Bridge is confirmed to be in the background.


Those rings are the remnants of the space elevator. If you think its the bridge I think you are an idiot.

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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Posted by: Hawkstorm
I don't know about your question but the imeadiate area in the teaser trailor IS already TRASHED ! like they alread plasma'd it but this is only hypothetic .

That's from when the Ship jumped over the Earth city in Halo 2..The Ruins of the Bridge is confirmed to be in the background.


Those rings are the remnants of the space elevator. If you think its the bridge I think you are an idiot.


It could very well be the bridge, or maybe it IS the elevator.

Either way, shut up.

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Posted by: thebob
Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Posted by: Hawkstorm
I don't know about your question but the imeadiate area in the teaser trailor IS already TRASHED ! like they alread plasma'd it but this is only hypothetic .

That's from when the Ship jumped over the Earth city in Halo 2..The Ruins of the Bridge is confirmed to be in the background.


Those rings are the remnants of the space elevator. If you think its the bridge I think you are an idiot.


It could very well be the bridge, or maybe it IS the elevator.

Either way, shut up.



Now ...now kids just calm down we know it is New Mombosa but what the debris in the background could be anything, the space elevator, the bridge we crossed in H2 another bridge we never seen, some big rings like the Arch on the Mississippi (can't recall the name) It doesn't really change anything other than what way the Cheif is facing.

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If you listened to Cortana, you would know that Regret, who was commanding the fleet that came to Earth, didn't know about that this was the human home planet. Regret led his fleet here looking for something. Now, if the Covenant glassed Earth, then he might damage that something. By the way the Covenant glassed Reach with well over a hundred ships, they came to Earth with fifty.

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I don't know but I want to feel like I'm fighting in a place which no longer has life because the covanant has destroyed it.

I'm tired of going to places in Halo 2 that have some stuff knocked over and things like that. It looks like a wild camp site, not a battle field.

I liked in Halo 2 trailer how when the mc dual wields there is mangled building parts that are black that look roasted.

I want to go some where in Halo 3 that has been badly damaged and there is still things being blown apart.

Like that super cool part in the trailer where the blue fire ball knocks half the bulding off and those jets come in and bomb it. Soooooooo cool, seriously Bugnie needs this in their game.

Not just in some "real time" trailer that usually isn't what is really in the game. They can do it, Bungie is the only studio that goes the extra mile in making a game more world like.

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I'm pretty sure that the Covenant came with around 500 ships to REACH. And only 15 to Earth..

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Posted by: Hawkstorm
I don't know about your question but the imeadiate area in the teaser trailor IS already TRASHED ! like they alread plasma'd it but this is only hypothetic .

That's from when the Ship jumped over the Earth city in Halo 2..The Ruins of the Bridge is confirmed to be in the background.


Those rings are the remnants of the space elevator. If you think its the bridge I think you are an idiot.

The rings are the things in the Foreground, not the giant thing in the back that looks like a Bridge.

And since it's already confirmed to be New Mombasa's remnants..I'm guessing it's the Bridge.

You're the idiot.

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Because they need the entire planet around maybe??? Or they don't care and are in too big of a rush.

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there after the Ark...thats why.

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Exactly what i was gonna say, they want the artifact/arc, maybe they didn't know exactly where it was, so it would have been dumb to just shoot anywhere/everywhere.

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cause they want something on earth, they still might, on reach they glassed everything except a certain spot on it !

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They didn't glass earth because humans are the reclaimers! There would be no way they could activate the halo's without them. And the structure/ark? probably needs reclaimers to activate also. P.S. Humans are reclaimers not forerunners.

[Edited on 5/13/2006]

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omg...medic man you just got here didnt you? :)

1. Glassing the planet, kills anything planet side

2. They were doing Guess-work til they found the arc

3. We dont even know how long thecovenant have been on Earth unchallenged

4. Is MC really gonna kill like a bizillion covs by HIMSELF?

5. Maybe if we pray the covs will love us and let us live on their planet.

6. What about the prophets? Truth is the last yes?

7. Galssing kills anything planet side... Once again, anything.

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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
I'm pretty sure that the Covenant came with around 500 ships to REACH. And only 15 to Earth..

Posted by: thebob
Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Posted by: Hawkstorm
I don't know about your question but the imeadiate area in the teaser trailor IS already TRASHED ! like they alread plasma'd it but this is only hypothetic .

That's from when the Ship jumped over the Earth city in Halo 2..The Ruins of the Bridge is confirmed to be in the background.


Those rings are the remnants of the space elevator. If you think its the bridge I think you are an idiot.

The rings are the things in the Foreground, not the giant thing in the back that looks like a Bridge.

And since it's already confirmed to be New Mombasa's remnants..I'm guessing it's the Bridge.

You're the idiot.


The only objects I see are the ruins of the space elevator, I don't see any bridge.. Next, I think the Covenant didn't glass the planet for the reason of that the entire planet is the Arc. And the number of ships there is something we can't really calculate any more. Many more ships had to have been sent to Earth since the events of Halo 2, because as of the time of when the Chief left the earth, most of the Covenant fleet had been destroyed. Since the earth was in such dire straits at the end of Halo 2, A large amount of Covenant reinforcements must have come and started hammering on earth. And after they finished that all uninfected covenant ships would have been called to earth to aid in the Great Journey. I would put the number at the count of their entire remaining fleet not engaging the Elites, which there has been no indication of the status of. hmm.. just realized that Gravemind knows where earth is so we might see him at earth, since he probed the prophet of regrets mind and certainly has the means to get their now. ah well, different thread.

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Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
I'm pretty sure that the Covenant came with around 500 ships to REACH. And only 15 to Earth..

Posted by: thebob
Posted by: MLG Cheehwawa
Posted by: Hawkstorm
I don't know about your question but the imeadiate area in the teaser trailor IS already TRASHED ! like they alread plasma'd it but this is only hypothetic .

That's from when the Ship jumped over the Earth city in Halo 2..The Ruins of the Bridge is confirmed to be in the background.


Those rings are the remnants of the space elevator. If you think its the bridge I think you are an idiot.

The rings are the things in the Foreground, not the giant thing in the back that looks like a Bridge.

And since it's already confirmed to be New Mombasa's remnants..I'm guessing it's the Bridge.

You're the idiot.


The only objects I see are the ruins of the space elevator, I don't see any bridge.. Next, I think the Covenant didn't glass the planet for the reason of that the entire planet is the Arc. And the number of ships there is something we can't really calculate any more. Many more ships had to have been sent to Earth since the events of Halo 2, because as of the time of when the Chief left the earth, most of the Covenant fleet had been destroyed. Since the earth was in such dire straits at the end of Halo 2, A large amount of Covenant reinforcements must have come and started hammering on earth. And after they finished that all uninfected covenant ships would have been called to earth to aid in the Great Journey. I would put the number at the count of their entire remaining fleet not engaging the Elites, which there has been no indication of the status of. hmm.. just realized that Gravemind knows where earth is so we might see him at earth, since he probed the prophet of regrets mind and certainly has the means to get their now. ah well, different thread.

I think the time bending crystal lets Truth arrive just as the oher Prophet left by jumping in New Mombasa..

That would explain why the Admiral is so suprised to see you in space when you just went Earth- Side. lol.

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The process of glassing renders a planet unlivable, with no atmosphere. You can't just glass a specific region.

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the same reason they didnt glass reach, it has stuff the want on it, plain and simple on reach i was an artifact and on earth its an artifact not to meantion the covies need absolute controle over the orbits of earth to be able to glass the planet they cant do it in battle, but then again if theyve taken over then it would be an option but then it goes back to no one wanting ot blow up and artifact or more specifcly vaporize it.

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Well think about it. IF that is the ARK (note the "K"). They wouldnt want to risk harming it in any way.

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Posted by: MChammer2324
Posted by: Havoc208
Why did the Covenant even bother to fight the humans? Why not just glass the planet.

You may say that they didn't want to kill the arc. Well if that is the arc in New Mobassa, why not do what they did on Reach. On Reach they wanted the ONI base, they completely decimated the rest of the planet by glassing it, and rushed the ONI base with troops.

Why not just glass all of Earth, and storm the New Mombassa/The Arc?


I'm pretty sure someone else has corrected your misinterpreted thoughts and ideas, but I'd like to add my two pounds.

Correct my ignorant ass if I'm wrong, but wasn't it the UNSC that they attacked? Weren't the ONI the pirate like dudes who the spartans fought in the first book?


no the ONI is The Office of Naval Intelligence, the Spartans get thier commands form them, section 3 brass

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Posted by: RED PHEONIX
the same reason they didnt glass reach, it has stuff the want on it, plain and simple on reach i was an artifact and on earth its an artifact not to meantion the covies need absolute controle over the orbits of earth to be able to glass the planet they cant do it in battle, but then again if theyve taken over then it would be an option but then it goes back to no one wanting ot blow up and artifact or more specifcly vaporize it.


techlicaaly no, they were battling in sigma octanus IV and they just glassed it and ran, it was strange to the UNSC because they thought the covenant never run

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Posted by: RED PHEONIX
the same reason they didnt glass reach, it has stuff the want on it, plain and simple on reach i was an artifact and on earth its an artifact not to meantion the covies need absolute controle over the orbits of earth to be able to glass the planet they cant do it in battle, but then again if theyve taken over then it would be an option but then it goes back to no one wanting ot blow up and artifact or more specifcly vaporize it.

They did glass REACH..and you can glass part of a Planet and leave the rest. If they hated the French they could glass France. lol. I don't think they will glass Earth though..before the Ark is set of maybe news of the civil war will reach Earth and there will be another one in the ships..so Humans need to set it off and kill anything not touching Earth..

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Actually, they pummel Reach, as the planet was eventually rendered useless, they just went slowly. The act of glassing a planet burns the atmosphere off. Why would you want to glass what appears to be an extremely holy religious site. It just seems like common sense to me.

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