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Subject: READ* Why The Fleet that attacked earth was small
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Let me simplify this -

1. In Halo 2 Cortana intercepts a Covenant transmission - the Prophet of Regret is apologizing to the other prophets for jumping the gun. He went to Earth with too small a flee tbecause the human presence there had not been foretold.

2. In the plot material from ilovebees.com there is a Forerunner artifact on Earth being studied by ONI. A rogue ship's AI and a group of Spartan 1.0s and 1.1s decide it needs to be deactivated because it's in a countdown sequence. When they manage to break in and deactivate the artifact it let off a very large energy pulse.

That energy pulse is most likely how Regret found Earth. Plus, if that sort of signal had been foretold, he would have jumped as soon as he saw it, not realizing that the artifact had been moved to Earth. that explains why only a very small fleet arrived at first.

  • 05.31.2006 9:44 PM PDT
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besides, i'm tired of seeing those topics about that fleet everywhere. R E A D T H E B O O K S ! ! ! ! ! ! in the First Strike, that fleet is composed of 500 ships( am I right on the number, idk i don'T have the book near). it also had one High charity looking station with it But, the point it the spartans got in it, duped Cortana and lured the covenant cruiser with the Hierophant so the blast would destroy them all, only about 15 ships made it. Of course that doesn't mean they expected to find us there but they still had a good strike force, in fact, bigger than the one that destroyed reach. The reason Hood asks, is that he tough that the covenant would gather more troops. in the book, we hear them getting ready( of course bungie f-ed up the space battle) but the fact is, the humans were well aware of this attack and expected something worse.the covies expected no resistance so they got no re inforcements

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I agree about the comment regarding First Strike. The novels answer many questions.

  • 06.01.2006 6:05 AM PDT

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