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Why did the covenant want to take Reach so bad?? Am I missing some important detail or just thinking about this one too hard?

  • 09.28.2012 3:02 PM PDT

I have been here longer than you

That is all.

Actual Join date.

November 17th 1999.

It was the Secondary base of operations for all UNSC forces...It was there repair HUB, it was there secondary Ship building planet...

...yea.

  • 09.28.2012 3:18 PM PDT

Posted by: AngryBrute1
Oh yeah, since somebody does not believe what YOU believe; that makes us vapid...
I cannot grasp that what you call "Something happened to nothing, and that nothing became something, and it was smaller than than a period."

Because they make ships and ammo and stuff there.

  • 09.28.2012 3:21 PM PDT

Posted by: WAKAxTrollxWAKA
It was the Secondary base of operations for all UNSC forces...It was there repair HUB, it was there secondary Ship building planet...

...yea.
Basically this. But, as we know, they weren't successful going forward because of some guy named Master Chief.

  • 09.28.2012 3:22 PM PDT
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^ I'd say they were pretty successful. Until the end of Halo 3 anyway.

  • 09.28.2012 3:53 PM PDT
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I understand nothing because my life is a conspiracy.

Forerunner tech.

  • 09.28.2012 3:57 PM PDT

Skillet was here and referred to himself in the third person.


Posted by: lime013
Forerunner tech.


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...

  • 09.29.2012 4:03 AM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Reach was the last line and major defense the UNSC had before the Covenant could reach Earth.

It was a major stronghold that produced, equipped and trained hundreds of thousands of troops and perhaps the main shipyard the UNSC had.

  • 09.29.2012 4:32 AM PDT

Survive until the red dawn rises, when we have spilled the blood of our enemies.

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

  • 09.29.2012 8:29 AM PDT

Survive until the red dawn rises, when we have spilled the blood of our enemies.

whoops posted twice :p

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  • 09.29.2012 8:30 AM PDT

Survive until the red dawn rises, when we have spilled the blood of our enemies.

just saying, the only reason that Covenant attack planets is for forerunner technology or the fact Humans exist on the planet.

  • 09.29.2012 8:34 AM PDT
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Covenant want to wipe out all human life. Humans live on Reach. What is there to miss?

However, their reasons are obviously a little more detailed than how I said it.

  • 09.29.2012 8:47 AM PDT

If there were only Humans on the planet and no Forerunner relics, architecture etc. The Covenant would simply Glass the planet; Humans exterminated. Job done.

  • 10.01.2012 4:03 AM PDT

Minimal Casualties, Maximum Effectiveness.

Spartans are born there.

  • 10.01.2012 5:24 AM PDT

@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.

  • 10.01.2012 3:58 PM PDT

Survive until the red dawn rises, when we have spilled the blood of our enemies.

oh sorry, my bad. I was mixing up the storyline of Ghosts of Onyx and Fall of Reach, bad idea, sorry. Oh and by the way, there was a mention of the Spartan I's, but apparently, they were just genetically altered clones which lived in agony until they died a few months after their creation. So officially the spartan II program was the first, but technically it was the second program.

  • 10.03.2012 10:26 PM PDT

Survive until the red dawn rises, when we have spilled the blood of our enemies.


Posted by: MasterVegeta SP
Spartans are born there.


Just saying, spartans are not born, they're made.

  • 10.03.2012 10:27 PM PDT

If i remember correctly it had to do with the three Prophets figuring out that Humans were Reclaimers and thus needed to destroy them to protect their religion and Reach just happened to have Humans on it so yea commence making a planet a giant space marble.

  • 10.04.2012 12:52 AM PDT

In memory of those fallen in the defense of Earth and her colonies.

March 3, 2553

Read FoR.

There was a precursor artifact there.

  • 10.04.2012 1:38 AM PDT

Survive until the red dawn rises, when we have spilled the blood of our enemies.


Posted by: cameo_cream
Read FoR.

There was a precursor artifact there.


Exactly, does no one else but me and this person remember that there was an artefact? geez >.>

  • 10.04.2012 2:01 AM PDT

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There was a Forerunner crystal on Reach.

  • 10.04.2012 4:19 AM PDT

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I think they recover a Forerunner artifact, I read that in either Fall of Reach or First Strike. Even without that though, Reach was a big Naval hub so they had every reason to attack it.

  • 10.04.2012 4:41 AM PDT


Posted by: cameo_cream
Read FoR.

There was a precursor artifact there.


It was never said to be Precursor; that's just a theory, since it seemed far beyond anything we've seen of even the Forerunners before or since, and the Menachite complex it was housed in was described almost like a temple.

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  • 10.04.2012 5:25 AM PDT

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Reach had lots of oil so they wanted to get there and do some drilling.

  • 10.04.2012 5:49 AM PDT

Survive until the red dawn rises, when we have spilled the blood of our enemies.


Posted by: Make117
Reach had lots of oil so they wanted to get there and do some drilling.


Something is telling me that you just trolled us good sir

  • 10.04.2012 6:28 AM PDT

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