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===Low-altitude bombardment===
===Low-altitude bombardment===
[[File:H2A Terminals - Human city.png||thumb|right|250px|A human city on Reach being glassed.]]
[[File:H2A Terminals - Human city.png||thumb|right|250px|A human city on Reach being glassed.]]
When ground engagements are in effect, the Covenant will resort to low range bombardment, bringing their ships closer to the surface to destroy the area in question. This is accomplished by either building up or focusing plasma though a magnetic envelope from the [[energy projector]] located on the underside of the ship, and then discharging the plasma as a narrow beam. A single {{Class|CCS|battlecruiser}} can glass approximately one acre of a planet's surface in fifteen seconds of sustained fire, with desert taking less time and deep ocean taking much longer to glass.<ref name="data10">'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', ''[[Data pads#Data pad 10|Data pad 10]]''</ref> The Covenant use low-range bombardment in many battles where major ground engagements are occurring; smaller warships use this method specifically to deal with human armies and low-level structures during campaigns, while larger Covenant warships use this to level cities while engagements are occurring.  
When ground engagements are in effect, the Covenant will resort to low range bombardment, bringing their ships closer to the surface to destroy the area in question. This is accomplished by either building up or focusing plasma though a magnetic envelope from the [[energy projector]] located on the underside of the ship, and then discharging the plasma as a narrow beam. A single {{Pattern|Ket|battlecruiser}} can glass approximately one acre of a planet's surface in fifteen seconds of sustained fire, with desert taking less time and deep ocean taking much longer to glass.<ref name="data10">'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', ''[[Data pads#Data pad 10|Data pad 10]]''</ref> The Covenant use low-range bombardment in many battles where major ground engagements are occurring; smaller warships use this method specifically to deal with human armies and low-level structures during campaigns, while larger Covenant warships use this to level cities while engagements are occurring.  


Low-range bombardment is not performed solely by energy projectors; smaller Covenant ships like [[Covenant corvette|corvettes]] are equipped with bombardment guns that fire smaller, less-powerful lances than those utilized by capital ships.<ref>'''[[Halo: Reach Official Strategy Guide|Halo: Reach Legendary Edition Guide]]''' ''page 440''</ref> Capital ships and some smaller ships are equipped with excavation beams to excavate areas of interest for the Covenant, such as unearthing the [[Portal at Voi|Portal]] to [[Installation 00]] during the Battle of Earth.
Low-range bombardment is not performed solely by energy projectors; smaller Covenant ships like [[Covenant corvette|corvettes]] are equipped with bombardment guns that fire smaller, less-powerful lances than those utilized by capital ships.<ref>'''[[Halo: Reach Official Strategy Guide|Halo: Reach Legendary Edition Guide]]''' ''page 440''</ref> Capital ships and some smaller ships are equipped with excavation beams to excavate areas of interest for the Covenant, such as unearthing the [[Portal at Voi|Portal]] to [[Installation 00]] during the Battle of Earth.
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===Human-Covenant War===
===Human-Covenant War===
{{Main|Human-Covenant War}}
{{Main|Human-Covenant War}}
After the [[Hierarchs]]' declaration to exterminate humanity, the Covenant put all of their destructive methods to use. The first planet to suffer this fate was [[Harvest]], glassed by the [[Jiralhanae]]-operated [[CCS-class battlecruiser|battlecruiser]] ''[[Rapid Conversion]]''.<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''' ''page 285''</ref> Prior to the war, the territory of the [[Unified Earth Government]] comprised over eight-hundred planets; most of these worlds were glassed during the war.<ref>'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''', "Chapter 1", ''page 33''</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080424150226/www.xbox.com/en-US/games/h/halo/storyline.htm '''Xbox.com''': ''The Halo Timeline'']</ref>
After the [[Hierarchs]]' declaration to exterminate humanity, the Covenant put all of their destructive methods to use. The first planet to suffer this fate was [[Harvest]], glassed by the [[Jiralhanae]]-operated [[Ket-pattern battlecruiser|battlecruiser]] ''[[Rapid Conversion]]''.<ref>'''Halo: Contact Harvest''' ''page 285''</ref> Prior to the war, the territory of the [[Unified Earth Government]] comprised over eight-hundred planets; most of these worlds were glassed during the war.<ref>'''[[Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition)]]''', "Chapter 1", ''page 33''</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080424150226/www.xbox.com/en-US/games/h/halo/storyline.htm '''Xbox.com''': ''The Halo Timeline'']</ref>


The term "glassing" was coined by the [[artificial intelligence]] group known as the [[The Assembly|Assembly]] in 2526. The group at the time estimated that it would take 30.3801 years for a Covenant fleet of comparable size to that of the UNSC's to glass Earth. The Assembly chose the term to magnify the horrible act in the hope that it would galvanize humanity into action.{{Ref/Reuse|data10}}
The term "glassing" was coined by the [[artificial intelligence]] group known as the [[The Assembly|Assembly]] in 2526. The group at the time estimated that it would take 30.3801 years for a Covenant fleet of comparable size to that of the UNSC's to glass Earth. The Assembly chose the term to magnify the horrible act in the hope that it would galvanize humanity into action.{{Ref/Reuse|data10}}
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File:HR_ReachGlassed_Concept.jpg|The surface of Reach after being glassed.
File:HR_ReachGlassed_Concept.jpg|The surface of Reach after being glassed.
File:Reach Glassed.jpg|An orbital view of Reach's surface after glassing.
File:Reach Glassed.jpg|An orbital view of Reach's surface after glassing.
File:HaloReach - Glassing.jpg|A {{Class|CCS|battlecruiser}} glassing New Alexandria.
File:HaloReach - Glassing.jpg|A {{Pattern|Ket|battlecruiser}} glassing New Alexandria.
File:NA Glassed.jpg|The glassed remnants of New Alexandria.
File:NA Glassed.jpg|The glassed remnants of New Alexandria.
File:HR Highlands Glassing.png|The [[Military Wilderness Training Preserve]] on Reach is glassed by ''CCS''-class battlecruisers.
File:HR Highlands Glassing.png|The [[Military Wilderness Training Preserve]] on Reach is glassed by ''Ket''-pattern battlecruisers.
File:Halo Glasslands full cover.jpg|A glassed planet on the cover of ''[[Halo: Glasslands]]''.
File:Halo Glasslands full cover.jpg|A glassed planet on the cover of ''[[Halo: Glasslands]]''.
File:FUD-Corbulo-Glassed.jpg|Multiple ''CCS''-class battlecruisers glassing [[Circinius IV]] in ''[[Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn]]''.
File:FUD-Corbulo-Glassed.jpg|Multiple ''Ket''-pattern battlecruisers glassing [[Circinius IV]] in ''[[Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn]]''.
File:H2A Terminals - glassland.jpg|One of many worlds glassed by the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]] in ''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|terminals]].
File:H2A Terminals - glassland.jpg|One of many worlds glassed by the [[Fleet of Particular Justice]] in ''[[Halo 2: Anniversary]]''<nowiki>'s</nowiki> [[Terminal (Halo 2: Anniversary)|terminals]].
File:TFoR-as-concept 5.jpg|The members of [[Blue Team]] meeting up in Reach's glasslands in ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series]]''.
File:TFoR-as-concept 5.jpg|The members of [[Blue Team]] meeting up in Reach's glasslands in ''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach - The Animated Series]]''.
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