- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Lions attacking Grunts make me warm and fuzzy inside.
Being the story nerd I am, when the Covenant glassed Reach, the only area left intact was the area surrounding the Forerunner relic there. So, it makes a good deal of sense for the Covenant to be focused on Eastern Africa (Zanzibar and New Mombasa) IF there is a Forerunner installation in the area. Otherwise, they would've just glassed Earth after detroying our military capabilities and kept moving along.
At the end of the 2003 E3 demo, the brief conversation between Cortana and the Chief points out that a Covenant cruiser nearby is there objective (this conversation is cut off by the arrival of the sword elites for those with poor memories), so it could also just be that the Covenant crashed in that area, like the cruiser that crashed on the level 'Keyes' in the first game.