- mojeda101
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It is known that in the 22nd century, Earth was deemed overpopulated, jump-starting the colonization programs of the time. The population of known human settlements preceding the Human-Covenant War would amount to 39 billion humans according to the UNSC and Halsey's records and estimates. After twenty seven years of war with the genocidal Covenant, Cortana's death count of approximately 23 billion, And counting human birth rates, that includes before during the Human-Covenant War birthrates, it would equal 20 billion survivors by the end of the war, with most of them located in the Sol System which included Earth , Mars, and the Jovian Moons. By the time Reach was recolonized, the population stood at 24 billion, with a third of the human population living in a extra-solar colony.
So with about 20 billion survivors. Could Earth have in fact have been evacuated and the populace sent to maybe other big colonies that haven't been attacked such as Forseti, Minster, Lenapi, Tribute, and Cygnus? These were all inner colonies, and all inner colonies tended to have hundreds of millions of people on them. Minister noted for having half a billion. Not to mention the Jovian moons.
If not, where could these 20 billion souls be?