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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
... I've already read the battle of Earth pages.
I'm wanting discussion, as the sources conflict or are unclear in parts.
Basically Glasslands paints a picture implying that anything useful to humans, such as a major metropolis, was destroyed, with the Covenant invasion throughout the whole planet, basically attacking as many cities and UNSC bases as possible.
Australia was badly hit, too.
The death toll is in the billions, although the UNSC has the infrastructure to sustain itself.
There are many, many humans in the Sol Systems as a whole, I believe one figure that is unconfirmed was 23 billion.
The Sol System contain probably the last major colonies, so the population was probably in the 20 or so billion...
In 2511, Dr. Halsey and UNSC estimated the universal human population to be around 39 billion, of which many were unrecorded by colonial infrastructure.[31] In October 2552, Cortana said that humanity suffered 23 billion casualties throughout the course of the Human-Covenant War, putting the surviving human population around 16 billion.[32] However, the actual population may be larger as it doesn't take into account the population growth from 2511 to 2525, or the population growth from 2552 to 2553 that was overshadowed by the comparatively larger number of deaths.
What this tells me is that ONI/UNSC thought ahead, they knew they would find Earth eventually, so they removed most of the major factories from Earth and Mars. That will explain the new tech in Halo 4 which is not from Misriah Armory, and the UNSC Infinity.
The industrial complex was probably moved out, similar to Stalin's URAL strategy in WW2.
It also puts into light the UNSC Infinity, in one Halo piece of fiction which I cannot remember, one person was quoted saying that somewhere, the UNSC/ONI have built a ship, which in the case Earth is destroyed, can start over in a new colony.
This was a long time ago, I think it may be referring to the Infinity, which probably has colony creation abilities, if the Dignitary isn't lying.
[Edited on 06.24.2012 2:02 AM PDT]