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7/20/2010 9:16:19 PM
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What Happens To Reach After Glassing?
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After Reach was glassed, Chuck Norris used it as a Christmas ornament.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] grey101 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] WILDMAN64CW [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] grey101 Reach wasn't glassed people.....[/quote] you sir, are dumb go read up... REACH GOT GLASSED![/quote] No at all. After re-reading the first 3 novels it is clearly stated that reach wasn't glassed. Hell, a solder even made a flied report to HIGHCOM saying that the planet wasn't glassed. And when i say "wasn't glassed" I mean the entire planet. The books clearly stated that only the poles were glassed while the rest of the planet was on fire.[/quote] glassed is glassed no matter one square mile or the whole planet, reach got glassed therefore glassed doesnt mean the whole planet, if so then they would be completely glassed
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Most of reach did get glassed but the covenant did not glass the entire planet they skipped some spots because there was some forerunner structures deep within reach it's self. It says so in the fall of reach book.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] WILDMAN64CW [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] grey101 Reach wasn't glassed people.....[/quote] you sir, are dumb go read up... REACH GOT GLASSED![/quote] No at all. After re-reading the first 3 novels it is clearly stated that reach wasn't glassed. Hell, a solder even made a flied report to HIGHCOM saying that the planet wasn't glassed. And when i say "wasn't glassed" I mean the entire planet. The books clearly stated that only the poles were glassed while the rest of the planet was on fire.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Etha777 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Hylebos I presume eventually the weathering effects of the atmosphere will break the glass surface apart, allowing the topsoil of the planet to be replenished, allowing for the planet to undergo Secondary Succession, which will eventually lead to the return of life to the planet.[/quote] I thought that after glassing, a planets atmosphere ceased to exist. Silly me.[/quote] It happens to some planets, but not all.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] jacksparrow7790 what was the crystal used for later on?[/quote]The crystal had time-dilating properties. Time dilating usually occurs due to moving at higher speeds. Basically, the closer YOU get to the speed of light, the slower time feels for YOU, while, at ordinary speeds, the rest of the universe feels more time. So you could leave Earth at 99.9% the speed of light and return after you have lived on your ship for 7 years. But when you get back to Earth you realize that 700 years has gone by, and everyone you knew is already dead. This is what the crystal did, but in reverse. It made it so that the PoA/Halo experienced a great deal of events (August 30-September 23), while in the rest of the universe, not effected by the crystal, had only experienced August 30-September 7. It did this through manipulating slipspace in a violent and uncontrolled manner. The crystal was used by the Chief/Cortana/Johnson/other Spartans in their escape from Reach after Halo 1, and eventual return to Earth, fleeing Covenant pursuers. The crystal was destroyed by an ODST detonating C4 plastic explosive on it. It just so happens (luck is obviously an integral part of Bungie's story) that the C4 went off right as the ship the ODST was on transitioned into slipspace. Thus the explosion happened at the in-between state. While some of the shards were vaporized in the blast, a few remained - and were squeezed out of the ship as it transitioned into slipspace, and remained in normal space. Later, Tartarus led search groups to find the artifact. 3 shards were found and delivered to the Prophet of Truth before the Arbiter's trail, and Truth said that the shards may still be enough for the plans he had laid out. What are the plans? We aren't ever told. Some believe that the crystal was used in order to activate the Ark Portal. I actually thought of the idea that Truth could have used the shards time-bending qualities to send massive fleets of Brutes to the frontlines in an essentially instantaneous amount of time, so that as soon as the Civil War began - as he knew it would - the Brutes would be in the perfect position to defeat the Elites. Were it so easy.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Hylebos I presume eventually the weathering effects of the atmosphere will break the glass surface apart, allowing the topsoil of the planet to be replenished, allowing for the planet to undergo Secondary Succession, which will eventually lead to the return of life to the planet.[/quote] I thought that after glassing, a planets atmosphere ceased to exist. Silly me.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] jacksparrow7790 what was the crystal used for later on?[/quote] It is destroyed. It alters the way Slipspace Jumps form and behave, vastly decreasing the time the jumps take. However, due to the ignorance Both the Covenant and Humans had of how it functioned, it led to a truly devastating battle between dimensions. Afterward, a surviving ODST from Installation 04 (Halo) gets a little drunk from rubbing alcohol (Which will kill you) and straps some C5 explosive to it and blows it up. Due to the spatial bending properties of the crystal, however, the explosion is amplified greatly and the ODST is killed in the explosion. [Edited on 07.20.2010 2:05 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Mikal7 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] vX Marxman Xv [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Hylebos I presume eventually the weathering effects of the atmosphere will break the glass surface apart, allowing the topsoil of the planet to be replenished, allowing for the planet to undergo Secondary Succession, which will eventually lead to the return of life to the planet.[/quote] Shame the atmosphere burns away along with the oceans... ...but I'm unsure as to whether they glassed Reach in it's entirety or just population centres and military emplacements. It doesn't seem like Red Team would have been able to survive on the planet post-glassing if it were total.[/quote] The atmosphere won't "Burn Away". The Planets gravity is what keeps it in place. It's not like an intense event blasted the atmosphere away, like a solar flare. However, the majority of the atmosphere will be less hospitable now that the glassing has occurred. Fortunately, a sizable chunk of the planet was unscathed and habitable. Reach might have fallen, but that small chunk is it's saving grace. The flora in that area will eventually retake the planet all the while thriving on the now abundant carbon in the atmosphere. Accelerated plant growth is a high possibility. The Atmosphere now contains the accumulated moisture from all of Reach's oceans and rivers etc. Rainfall will be heavy and violent and nearly instantaneous after the glassing across the entire planet. Rivers will form on the glassed surface which will break the hot, newly formed glass, exposing the good soil underneath, somewhat. All of the nonradioactive "fallout", as it were, will slowly fall back down to the planet's surface. This is like volcanic ash, and will provide a good starting layer of topsoil for plants. The changes go on and on. Reach might have fallen, but it is not lost.[/quote] Actually a planet's rotation is what allows it's atmosphere to stay in place via a magnetic field. But that's semantics. As it turns out Reach is one of the few planets to not have it's atmosphere boil away... however that happens normally. But, there would be no way for it to recover naturally. The glassing would destroy any organism, regardless of size or structure. That means no trees, no plants of any kind. Which in turn means no oxygen from them. There would also be a lack of single-celled organism from the non-existant oceans to provide oxygen so Reach is -blam!-.
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what was the crystal used for later on?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] vX Marxman Xv [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Hylebos I presume eventually the weathering effects of the atmosphere will break the glass surface apart, allowing the topsoil of the planet to be replenished, allowing for the planet to undergo Secondary Succession, which will eventually lead to the return of life to the planet.[/quote] Shame the atmosphere burns away along with the oceans... ...but I'm unsure as to whether they glassed Reach in it's entirety or just population centres and military emplacements. It doesn't seem like Red Team would have been able to survive on the planet post-glassing if it were total.[/quote] The atmosphere won't "Burn Away". The Planets gravity is what keeps it in place. It's not like an intense event blasted the atmosphere away, like a solar flare. However, the majority of the atmosphere will be less hospitable now that the glassing has occurred. Fortunately, a sizable chunk of the planet was unscathed and habitable. Reach might have fallen, but that small chunk is it's saving grace. The flora in that area will eventually retake the planet all the while thriving on the now abundant carbon in the atmosphere. Accelerated plant growth is a high possibility. The Atmosphere now contains the accumulated moisture from all of Reach's oceans and rivers etc. Rainfall will be heavy and violent and nearly instantaneous after the glassing across the entire planet. Rivers will form on the glassed surface which will break the hot, newly formed glass, exposing the good soil underneath, somewhat. All of the nonradioactive "fallout", as it were, will slowly fall back down to the planet's surface. This is like volcanic ash, and will provide a good starting layer of topsoil for plants. The changes go on and on. Reach might have fallen, but it is not lost.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] vX Marxman Xv [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Hylebos I presume eventually the weathering effects of the atmosphere will break the glass surface apart, allowing the topsoil of the planet to be replenished, allowing for the planet to undergo Secondary Succession, which will eventually lead to the return of life to the planet.[/quote] Shame the atmosphere burns away along with the oceans... ...but I'm unsure as to whether they glassed Reach in it's entirety or just population centres and military emplacements. It doesn't seem like Red Team would have been able to survive on the planet post-glassing if it were total.[/quote]They glassed most of the planet. When the Chief returned to Reach after Halo 1 he noted the entire world as being ao orbiting ball of glass except for a small part. A mountain chain - the Highland Mountains - which was the heart of ONI activity on the world. It's where the S-IIs were trained, new technologies were theorized and implemented, where the highest ranking officials went for vacation or in cases of emergency - as well as Red Team's crash site and probably the area where the top-secret Noble Team was stationed. This segment survived from the initial glassing (Aug 30) until September 7, so its possible that the game does not end with the glassing of Reach. Infact that would make for a very short game (the world is glassed just 2 hours and 20 mins after the Covenant arrive in-system). If this region survived - its possible that over the years a natural terraformation would occur over the world, where the atmosphere is restored through the photosynthesis from the Highland Mountains, and the surface is restored to a healthy one rather than crackles glass. Of course this would take a long time, but it would still happen. Provided the Covenant didn't glass the Highland Mountains after the Chief and fellow Spartan-IIs fled with the Forerunner artifact the Covenant were digging for. [Edited on 07.20.2010 1:51 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] grey101 [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] xxSpartan 99xx [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] grey101 Reach wasn't glassed people.....[/quote] -facenuke- YES, it was.[/quote] No it wasn't, Just the poles the rest of the planet did burn but wasn't glassed.[/quote] liers all of you!!!!!
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] xxSpartan 99xx [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] grey101 Reach wasn't glassed people.....[/quote] -facenuke- YES, it was.[/quote] No it wasn't, Just the poles the rest of the planet did burn but wasn't glassed.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] vX Marxman Xv [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Hylebos I presume eventually the weathering effects of the atmosphere will break the glass surface apart, allowing the topsoil of the planet to be replenished, allowing for the planet to undergo Secondary Succession, which will eventually lead to the return of life to the planet.[/quote] Shame the atmosphere burns away along with the oceans... ...but I'm unsure as to whether they glassed Reach in it's entirety or just population centres and military emplacements. It doesn't seem like Red Team would have been able to survive on the planet post-glassing if it were total.[/quote] Permanently armor locked and then glassed on?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Hylebos I presume eventually the weathering effects of the atmosphere will break the glass surface apart, allowing the topsoil of the planet to be replenished, allowing for the planet to undergo Secondary Succession, which will eventually lead to the return of life to the planet.[/quote] Shame the atmosphere burns away along with the oceans... ...but I'm unsure as to whether they glassed Reach in it's entirety or just population centres and military emplacements. It doesn't seem like Red Team would have been able to survive on the planet post-glassing if it were total.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] jacksparrow7790 is the relic that thing that looks like this?; ----------------- \______ _______/ \ / I I I I I I I I I I I__I[/quote] No. That's the Activation Index for Installation 04 (the original Halo). The Artifact resembles an uncut crystal that morphs its form as it morphs space and time. It's very trippy.
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The Covenant starts selling novelty glasses made from Reach. Or what Hylebos said.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] WILDMAN64CW its dead nuclear winter basically[/quote] that was only on harvest. something to do with glassing near the ice caps.
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I think you're all forgetting the Forerunner ruins on the planet. The Covenant specifically left a chunk of the surface untouched so as not to destroy the extensive forerunner ruins. CASTLE base is located right above those ruins, and that's how Dr. Halsey and Blue Team survive, by taking refuge in the ruins. So it's entirely possible that Noble Team survives by heading to that location as well.
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is the relic that thing that looks like this?; ----------------- \______ _______/ \ / I I I I I I I I I I I__I [Edited on 07.20.2010 1:38 PM PDT]
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Is it like shiny glass?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] SIMAN166 Glass sales go high high high?[/quote] I laughed so -blam!- hard.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Axcleblade [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] xxSpartan 99xx It becomes inhospitable. The oceans and rivers are vaporized, all plants are instantly burned, animals and humans are killed, and the surface is so badly burned, that the surface is literally a sheet of glass. Eventually, the planets rotation and orbit will cause it to crack and break under the intense pressure, and finally explode.[/quote] This. Although, parts of Reach, weren't glassed. Small parts. Read First Strike.[/quote] I have, and am currently re-reading it. What the Covenant missed got nuked. Besides, the intense glassing of what the Covenant got destroyed the Ozone surrounding the planet and probably destroyed the atmosphere with it.
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0500 Hours (5:00 am) - 314 Covenant ships exit slipspace in-system. 0615 Hours (6:15 am) - The Spartan-IIs of Blue and Red Teams split up. [b]Blue[/b] (John, James, Linda) go to an Orbital Docking Station to destroy a navigation core before the Covenant reach it, and [b]Red[/b] (Fred, Kelly, Will, and 23 others) go to the surface to defend the Orbidal Defense Generators, keeping the Super MAC Cannons online to chip away at the massive Covenant fleet. 0637 Hours (6:37 am) - Spartan-II [b]Blue Team[/b] returns to the [i]Pillar of Autumn[/i]. James went MIA on the mission, and Linda is clinically dead and put into cryo (you can see her vital signs on the missions "The Pillar of Autumn" and "The Maw" in [i]Halo: Combat Evolved[/i]. 0647 Hours (6:47 am) - The [i]Pillar of Autumn[/i] enters slipspace and flees the system as the glassing of the world begins. A dozen Covenant vessels led by Thel 'Vadamee, future Arbiter, give chase. 0720 Hours (7:20 am) - The Orbidal Defense Generators are overrun, and the Super MAC Cannons in space are vaporized by the Covenant fleet. Remaining UNSC ships would be wise to retreat. Covenant split their forces; half form five-ship teams to hunt down remaining UNSC vessels, and the other half enter formation to begin glassing the human world. As you can see, the battle of Reach is very short. I surely hope this game would last longer than 2 hours. It is unknown how long the glassing takeactually s. It begins on August 30, and a portion of the planet is left unscathed by the Covenant a week later on September 7. This is because this region is housing a very important Forerunner relic. It also happens to be the hub of all ONI activity on the planet; HIGHCOMMAND, Retreat facilities, CASTLE Base, Testing grounds, the original Spartan-II training zone. Also Spartan-II [b]Red Team[/b]'s crash site, and most likely where Noble Team is stationed. Noble Team will not fall when the World does. Prepare for a longer-reaching fight.
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Well, the Covies didn't glass all of Reach first cause there was a Relic. By the way that's where the rest of MC's team died. So after they got the Relic it was, well, glassed.
