[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] AlphaZero X [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] GrnDragn It's scarier if a planet falls in a day! It shows that the Covenant are something to be feared. Not incompetent dolts.[/quote] It worked when there was no real backstory. How fearsome are the Covenant? They destroyed the planet in day. They must be mean. But this is the same Covenant that took 3 years to get from Harvest to Madrigal, and the same Covenant that, almost ridiculously, has not managed to find ONE single piece of Nav Data in all the Human colonies they've destroyed. Maintaining the Cole Protocol for 27 years was a stretch for me....it's hard to believe, but I'll go with it. They've never really gone into how long it takes the Covies to glass a planet, we've only seen glimpses and aftermaths. Jericho VII, even Reach in FOR, the actual Fall isn't very detailed, just the Spartan II's actions....there's plenty of room for embellishment.[/quote] Exactly, you've got a good head up there, man, or woman, whichever you may be, there was very little detail about the Battle of Reach in TFoR, and there is plenty room for more additions, especially now that the whole affair is close to a month in length, rather than a day, which doesn't make sense anyway. Two weeks against the full Covenant might on Humanities second "homeworld" makes ever so much more sense than a couple hours, this is Reach we're talking about, just as valuable as Earth. And I don't think Reach was fully glassed anyway, I doubt any whole planet was, only the areas with the largest concentration of humans and where the biggest battles were fought.