Most media tends to say only the major population centers and important sites to the UNSC were glassed into oblivion but then again the cover of the reprint of The Fall of Reach and the Halo:Reach map Condemned seem to show Reach being COMPLETELY glassed as in the whole planet is molten glass. Were these two examples just exaggerations?
Nah, I really think most of Reach got glassed (but no entirely) as Halo: Reach and The Fall of Reach say.
After all, 343I’d have corrected that in TFoR 2010 if it was going to get retconned or something…
In the original Fall of Reach book(not sure about the remake) it says that the entire planet is covered in molten glass but after Cortana zooms in to the planets surface they find one small patch of in tact land remaining.
> In the original Fall of Reach book(not sure about the remake) it says that the entire planet is covered in molten glass but after Cortana zooms in to the planets surface they find one small patch of in tact land remaining.
That makes no sense considering it would take the Covenant over 500 ships and 30 years to glass the entire planet.
> > In the original Fall of Reach book(not sure about the remake) it says that the entire planet is covered in molten glass but after Cortana zooms in to the planets surface they find one small patch of in tact land remaining.
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> That makes no sense considering it would take the Covenant over 500 ships and 30 years to glass the entire planet.
There are some parts in the books that say the covenant would go laps crisscrossing as they glass the entire planet. Have the new books and other new media changed this?
I think I remember everything except the Mountain Ranges in Reach were glassed. Breakpoint is set in the said mountains after Reach was glassed so this could be solid proof…
> > > In the original Fall of Reach book(not sure about the remake) it says that the entire planet is covered in molten glass but after Cortana zooms in to the planets surface they find one small patch of in tact land remaining.
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> > That makes no sense considering it would take the Covenant over 500 ships and 30 years to glass the entire planet.
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> There are some parts in the books that say the covenant would go laps crisscrossing as they glass the entire planet. Have the new books and other new media changed this?
I believe so. Unless it was a crisscross using small areas a few hundred miles between them around the planet. It seems the Covenant glass major population centers and important sites not entire planets.
> I think I remember everything except the Mountain Ranges in Reach were glassed. Breakpoint is set in the said mountains after Reach was glassed so this could be solid proof…
umm, breakpoint is in the excavation site where halsey’s lab is
Prior to Halo: Reach, we’ve been told that the Covenant entirely melt the surface of the planets. The descriptions are always of boiling oceans and shattered glass terrains with fiery tornadoes, ect. In Reach’s hidden stuff, a group of A.I. claimed that this wasn’t feasible with the technology that the Covenant possessed.
To this, I say… we may never get a straight answer. If you say “we have two, and that’s the problem,” consider that our sources are all simply perspectives. The A.I. do not have direct access to Covenant tech. And most accounts of glassing otherwise are from people that are in awe of the event. It is possible that neither sets of information are correct, either from lack of important data or from the fallibility of human memory.
That said, the amount of Reach that was glassed was of consequence in First Strike. Master Chief observed a section of Reach that was not glassed, and it was important to them because, upon inspection, it was the only area that wasn’t. Therefore, at least half the planet was entirely glassed except for one tiny spot. Probably, anyway. I could be missing something.
Oh I was slightly wrong , I just remembered what the original books said the covenant do when they glass a planet. They would normally have several ships that do laps, crisscrossing each other until every last millimeter of surface was covered in glass.