A month before the battle of Reach, UNSC finds another human civilization from warhammer 40k on the border of the explored space, which in exchange for certain concessions that UNSC is ready to support them in the war against the Covenant. All external enemies are removed in the first scenario.
Round 1: Severan Dominate.
Round 2: Olamic Quietude.
Round 3: Interex and client races.
Round 4: 47-16.
Round 5: Auretian Technocracy
Round 6: Faash.
Scenario two: all of the above civilizations after their war with the Imperium was described in the main book in which they were mentioned, but before they were completely destroyed.
Scenario three: all these civilizations at the peak of their power work together to stop the Covenant from advancing into their territory.
Scenario four: all of these civilizations at their peak enter into an alliance with UNSC in 2535.
In all scenarios, the Imperium loses interest in UNSC allies. The great schism does not occur. How much can the alliance slow down Covenant advancement? How will it affect the worldview of UNSC and their allies? What can come of this? Any interpretations and fantasies regarding this topic are allowed.
The UNSC takes this time to find everything more technologically advanced than they are, steal it with skills the Blood Ravens would admire, give it to ONI who promptly rip into it and reverse engineer it, become WAY too powerful, and suddenly find themselves able to steamroll like a crusade of Black Templars through a Tau gunline.
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> The UNSC takes this time to find everything more technologically advanced than they are, steal it with skills the Blood Ravens would admire, give it to ONI who promptly rip into it and reverse engineer it, become WAY too powerful, and suddenly find themselves able to steamroll like a crusade of Black Templars through a Tau gunline.
However, this is only about 200 new worlds. I don’t think the Covenant will have big problems in order to glassed every one of them. Perhaps this will give the UNSC ships some shields.
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> > The UNSC takes this time to find everything more technologically advanced than they are, steal it with skills the Blood Ravens would admire, give it to ONI who promptly rip into it and reverse engineer it, become WAY too powerful, and suddenly find themselves able to steamroll like a crusade of Black Templars through a Tau gunline.
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> However, this is only about 200 new worlds. I don’t think the Covenant will have big problems in order to glassed every one of them. Perhaps this will give the UNSC ships some shields.
The Covenant can barely glass one world fully. It took them 30 years to work their way through the UNSC. It’ll take a lot LONGER than that.
And yes, maybe shields. Plus everything else they can Blood Raven off stuff.
Reach disagrees:
This statement comes from a misunderstanding of the quote about how the Covenant ships work in battle. Also… Glassing of Jericho VII, Opening of TFoR
What we know about the scene:
> The Master Chief “watched [the planet] for an hour” from the Resolute’s bridge. During this time:
> “Three dozen Covenant ships—big ones, destroyers and cruisers—winked into view in the system. They were sleek, looking more like sharks than starcraft. Their lateral lines brightened with plasma—then discharged and rained fire down upon Jericho VII.”
> “The planet’s lakes, rivers, and oceans vaporized”
> “Fields and forests were glassy smooth and glowing red-hot in patches.”
> We also know that “By tomorrow, the atmosphere would boil away, too.”, but we don’t know the timeframe.
And:
> John could not quite understand what he was seeing on the planet below. From what he had been told about the Covenant’s method of orbital bombardment, the aliens could glass no more than a few square kilometres of ground at a time, but what he saw on Etalan was on a whole new level. It was as though the Covenant had punched through the planet’s crust into it’s mantle, creating a volcanic geyser that was going to burn away the last traces of humanity by flooding the entire world with molten stone. And if the aliens had that kind of power, if they were capable of cruelty of such a massive scale, Task Force Yama had to slow their invasion." - Halo: Silent Storm, Chapter 20, page 201
