can glassed planets grow plant life and what not again after theyve been glassed
Probably not until hundreds of thousands of years have passed. (Unless you terraform) It’s much like a nuclear disaster, think Chernobyl, except around 10,000 times worse and on a planet-wide scale.
It depends on how thoroughly the planet was glassed. Take Reach for example. It wasn’t glassed as thoroughly as most planets would be. In fact, by 2589, it was ready for re-colonization.
However, most planets were much more severely glassed, and probably won’t be habitable for a several centuries, even a few millenia. Even if the UNSC were to terraform the glassed planets, it would likely be a century or two before these planets are habitable again.
Only if it’s reterraformed, and even then it takes a very long time…centuries even.
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I suppose it depends on what you mean by uninhabitable. There have been several Planets that were glassed but people could still basically live there without environmental suites and what not. Harvest, Kholo and New Llanelli for example were badly glassed but it had a breathable atmosphere capable of supporting Human, Kig-Yar and Sangheili life. I would think if it can support Humans and similar Covenant races it would be able to support other indigenous lifeforms and therefor wouldn’t require thousands of years to heal.
> I suppose it depends on what you mean by uninhabitable. There have been several Planets that were glassed but people could still basically live there without environmental suites and what not. Harvest, Kholo and New Llanelli for example were badly glassed but it had a breathable atmosphere capable of supporting Human, Kig-Yar and Sangheili life. I would think if it can support Humans and similar Covenant races it would be able to support other indigenous lifeforms and therefor wouldn’t require thousands of years to heal.
It would depend on if there is anything left to support life. Oxygen, or rather a breathable atmosphere, is only 1 component. You need water, nutrient rich soil to support planet life, other things I can’t think of right now.
> > I suppose it depends on what you mean by uninhabitable. There have been several Planets that were glassed but people could still basically live there without environmental suites and what not. Harvest, Kholo and New Llanelli for example were badly glassed but it had a breathable atmosphere capable of supporting Human, Kig-Yar and Sangheili life. I would think if it can support Humans and similar Covenant races it would be able to support other indigenous lifeforms and therefor wouldn’t require thousands of years to heal.
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> It would depend on if there is anything left to support life. Oxygen, or rather a breathable atmosphere, is only 1 component. You need water, nutrient rich soil to support planet life, other things I can’t think of right now.
Naturally but the fact there is Oxygen it would seem there should still be antiquate amounts of Water to sustain the Plant life which then supplies said Oxygen.
> > > I suppose it depends on what you mean by uninhabitable. There have been several Planets that were glassed but people could still basically live there without environmental suites and what not. Harvest, Kholo and New Llanelli for example were badly glassed but it had a breathable atmosphere capable of supporting Human, Kig-Yar and Sangheili life. I would think if it can support Humans and similar Covenant races it would be able to support other indigenous lifeforms and therefor wouldn’t require thousands of years to heal.
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> > It would depend on if there is anything left to support life. Oxygen, or rather a breathable atmosphere, is only 1 component. You need water, nutrient rich soil to support planet life, other things I can’t think of right now.
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> Naturally but the fact there is Oxygen it would seem there should still be antiquate amounts of Water to sustain the Plant life which then supplies said Oxygen.
Arguable. However, if there were enough oxygen and a low enough population (like the small excavation team on Kholo or the 1 person left alive on New Llanelli), the issue of replenishing oxygen would be non-existent for a long time.
A better question is how in the hell did that one dude survive on New Llanelli for 7 years. That would support the possibility of remaining plant life, at least on that planet.
Again, I’ll go back to “it depends on how severe the glassing was.”