- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Well, prolly what they did at Reach, destoried one or two MAC guns and sliped Regret's ship in that area.
But Reach was the main defense and military base in all of the UNSE. It would be extremely hard to try and get ships to fall back and protect Earth after a hit like that, especially without the main place where ships were manufactured. Chance are most of their ships were at Reach, and when they were destoried, the UNSE had very, very few ships. Not to mention the Covenant knew the location of Earth at least 5 days after Reach was destoried. With so very few ships left, and the covenant attacking before they could make more ships/MAC guns to protect Earth, they had almost no defenses. It would be simple to do it, considering there is prolly less ships at Earth than Reach.
But whats ironic is that the Admiral(forgot his name, the one giving out awards to MC, Keyes, and Jhonson) stated the force that destoried Reach was 50 times that size. You think that wouldn't be enough for the Covenant to get to Earth. However, the Admiral might have been exaggerating, but still...