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'''Glassing''', or '''Plasma Bombardment''', is a [[Covenant]] battle tactical doctrine. | '''Glassing''', or '''Plasma Bombardment''', is a [[Covenant]] battle tactical doctrine. | ||
It is used by the | It is used by the Covenant to render captured [[UNSC]] worlds uninhabitable and of no strategic value. The Covenant occupation [[fleet]] maps the latitude and longitude of a planet's surface, divide it into grids, and bombard each grid with heavy [[plasma]] fire, thereby obliterating all life on the planet and turning its surface to glass. After the glassing is done, the planet is a red smoldering sphere. After a few days, the atmosphere of the planet supposedly corrodes and dissipates, leaving it truly barren.<ref>''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'', page 8</ref> This technique was used to obliterate the UNSC [[outer colonies]] and [[Reach]]. After they glass the planet, they remove a shard of glass and take it to the [[Step of Silence]] in [[High Charity]] where it hangs with hundreds of other shards from other planets.<ref>''[[Halo: First Strike]]'', page 338</ref> | ||
The [[Second Battle of Earth]] culminated in the glassing of over half of the African continent by [[Covenant Separatist]], in an effort to contain a Flood infestation which had come to Earth only hours earlier.<ref>''[[Halo 3 Epsilon]]'', ''[[Tsavo Highway (Level)]]''</ref><ref>''[[Halo 3 E3 2007 Trailer]]''</ref>. | The [[Second Battle of Earth]] culminated in the glassing of over half of the [[Africa|African]] continent by [[Covenant Separatist]], in an effort to contain a [[Flood]] infestation which had come to [[Earth]] only hours earlier.<ref>''[[Halo 3 Epsilon]]'', ''[[Tsavo Highway (Level)]]''</ref><ref>''[[Halo 3 E3 2007 Trailer]]''</ref>. | ||
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- "You are...all of you...vermin. Cowering in the dark thinking... what, I wonder? That you might escape the coming fire? No - your world will burn until its surface is but glass!"
- — Prophet of Truth
Glassing, or Plasma Bombardment, is a Covenant battle tactical doctrine.
It is used by the Covenant to render captured UNSC worlds uninhabitable and of no strategic value. The Covenant occupation fleet maps the latitude and longitude of a planet's surface, divide it into grids, and bombard each grid with heavy plasma fire, thereby obliterating all life on the planet and turning its surface to glass. After the glassing is done, the planet is a red smoldering sphere. After a few days, the atmosphere of the planet supposedly corrodes and dissipates, leaving it truly barren.[1] This technique was used to obliterate the UNSC outer colonies and Reach. After they glass the planet, they remove a shard of glass and take it to the Step of Silence in High Charity where it hangs with hundreds of other shards from other planets.[2]
The Second Battle of Earth culminated in the glassing of over half of the African continent by Covenant Separatist, in an effort to contain a Flood infestation which had come to Earth only hours earlier.[3][4].
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 8
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 338
- ^ Halo 3 Epsilon, Tsavo Highway (Level)
- ^ Halo 3 E3 2007 Trailer
- ^ {{{Text}}}
