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Glassing a planet even partially requires an enormous investment in time and resources, sometimes taking several days and necessitating the use of hundreds of Covenant warships that could have been used for other purposes.<ref name="Return">''[[Halo: Evolutions]]'', "[[The Return]]", ''Motion Comic Adaptation''</ref> If population centers are numerous and spread out across a planet, even a fleet of over one hundred warships may need more than two weeks to eradicate the local population via glassing. This was the case with the [[Fleet of Inexorable Obedience]]'s [[Attack on Etalan|attack]] on [[Etalan]], prompting [[Nizat 'Kvarosee|the]] [[fleetmaster]] to find an alternate way of destroying the world's inhabitants.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS9|HSS|Chapter=9}} Incompletely glassed planets can still retain living biospheres complete with standing structures and vegetation, as is observed on [[Kholo]].{{Ref/Reuse|Return}} | Glassing a planet even partially requires an enormous investment in time and resources, sometimes taking several days and necessitating the use of hundreds of Covenant warships that could have been used for other purposes.<ref name="Return">''[[Halo: Evolutions]]'', "[[The Return]]", ''Motion Comic Adaptation''</ref> If population centers are numerous and spread out across a planet, even a fleet of over one hundred warships may need more than two weeks to eradicate the local population via glassing. This was the case with the [[Fleet of Inexorable Obedience]]'s [[Attack on Etalan|attack]] on [[Etalan]], prompting [[Nizat 'Kvarosee|the]] [[fleetmaster]] to find an alternate way of destroying the world's inhabitants.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS9|HSS|Chapter=9}} Incompletely glassed planets can still retain living biospheres complete with standing structures and vegetation, as is observed on [[Kholo]].{{Ref/Reuse|Return}} | ||
Glassing a planet even partially requires an enormous investment in time and resources, necessitating the use of hundreds of Covenant warships over the course of several days which could have been used for other purposes. Even with all that power, 'glassed' planets can still retain living biospheres complete with standing structures and vegetation, as is observed on [[Kholo]].<ref>'''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''', "[[The Return]]", ''Motion Comic Adaptation''</ref> | |||
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