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@OP: Because that's what the Covenant have always done, as long as there are signs of human life they can detect or humans that they know of they'll stick around and try to destroy them, or send reinforcements if the first wave is destroyed. Considering that the Prophets lied and claimed humans were an abomination to the Forerunners, the Covies are going to try their hardest to kill every single human on every single human world that they find....and they probably at first mistook Reach as being humanities' homeworld.
Posted by: Ghost 4119
If you read the book "Fall of Reach." A group of Generation III Spartans find a forerunner relic buried under an Office of Naval Intelligence base, as they flee from covenant forces trying to break through. It was an highly radioactive object which could move within space and time by itself. It was taken off reach by the same group of Spartans. But, a marine who was taken with the Spartans and Doctor Halsey, committed suicide by throwing a grenade on the relic. But obviously, since the object was, to understate it, an anomaly. It amplified the explosion killing him. But the relic survived, using its ability to pass between space and time, to pass through the walls of the ship into the slipstream. Being lost to the covenant and humans alike forever.... this is why I do not currently have a girlfriend
I think you mean Spartan IIs, not IIIs. Fred, Kelly, Will, and all of them were from the first Spartan Program, Spartan II, not III. The only Spartan IIIs that we've actually had officially confirmed on Reach are Noble Team, except for Jorge who was a Spartan II. And actually the Slipspace Crystal was destroyed, it was broken into multiple different fragments, one of which Truth acquired. And actually the Marine had been with Chief on Halo and escaped from there, IIRC, not from Reach with Halsey and the Spartan IIs.
Posted by: Skillet98
This. Or at least, that's how Bungie explained it after revealing that Reach was actually just a planet of farmers and apparently had no real military presence at all.
Actually, I have to say, Reach's story is a mess. I don't like to think about it...
Oh great -_- back to this fething bollocks again *sigh* Ya know, I thought debates and troll hate comments about Reach were done here, but I guess I was mistaken :/
By your standards then I guess Earth must just have that one little, outdated military base buried in the deeps of Africa and New Mombasa and Voi must be the only cities and factories that are on the planet since that's all we ever see. And Earth apparently has no military at all except for a handful of Frigates and Marathon Cruisers and three SMAC platforms. Assuming that everything we see in the game is all that there is is a grossly erroneous and fallacious assumption to make. As the player we simply can't be absolutely everywhere or see every single thing at once, we're limited by where our character(s) is/are deployed to and by what is seen by him/her. Like the Arbiter for instance, we know he and his ships and R'tas Vadum were all at Alpha Halo....yet we never see them in Combat Evolved, that hardly means they don't exist or weren't there and the developers are trying to lie to us.