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== Trivia Section, the Data Pads and the Concept of Glassing == | |||
In the trivia section, listed as the second bullet point, is the information regarding the conclusions of the AI Assembly found in the Data Pads. The last sentence says: | |||
"''However, the Covenant fleet was later discovered to be many times larger than imagined.''" | |||
Where in the Data Pads is that mentioned? I obviously know that the Covenant had a larger ship count than Humanity, but in order to Glass a planet in entirety, the Covenant would need a ridiculous amount of ships. The article describes Glassing as if it were a process which reduced all of the surface to molten slag, had the potential to boil away the atmosphere and oceans and leave it a dead husk forever. That was true. That could be true. However, the Covenant have neither the ship count nor the ability to discharge those levels of energy that could achieve that result given the scope of the Human-Covenant war. | |||
If it takes 2000 ships 30 years to glass an Earth sized planet, then in order to do it in a week, you would need 3'120'000 vessels, all over the one colony and all discharging thier weapons continuously for the target time period. Bump that number down to 10'000 ships, it takes 6 years. How many ships do the Covenant have? That is the question. It sure as hell ain't over 3 million. I would guess it as struggling to break the 5000 mark; given how many vessels they lost in the war, the implications of the NOVA event at Joyous Exultation, the state of the post Halo 3 universe described in Evolutions and then the general behaviour of the Covenant with respect to specific "endgame" devices and plans such as the Forerunner Fleet in Halo Wars, The Knowing, Halo and Project Exodus. | |||
What I am trying to say is that Glassing would be as destructive as that, given that the Covenant had that many ships at its disposal, but the fact is that they do not, therefore Glassing in that context is not. | |||
The second point is the power of their weapons. The ship to time ratio is given ultimately by the strength of their weaponry. It is because their weaponry is not powerful enough that they are not actually able to Glass a planet completely in effective time spans. Halsey comments on it in her Journal, as do the AI in the Data Pads, as does common sense. (Any power capable of discharging the amount of energy equal to several million kilograms of antimatter in the space of a few days or weeks would be unbeatable to the UNSC.) The fact that there are Human-Covenant space battles, the fact that they are not instant wins for the Covenant and even in some cases wins for the UNSC suggests that they have not that level of destructive capability at their disposal. The weaponry used to Glass is also used in ship-to-ship engagements (Energy Projector). It is in space battles that this was determined by the AI. | |||
It appears now to be more a way to simply destroy cities and military installations quickly, to eliminate all large scale resistance. Evolutions even described that as well, and the fact that total planetary destruction was rare. Now we know that even in those occasional circumstances, it is not total. -[[User talk:Anton1792|Anton1792]] 23:15, 24 October 2010 (EDT) | |||