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| Re: Hah. | |
| Posted By: Omega | Date: 11/4/07 5:23 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Hah. (58) : If there are 500 planets with 5 million citizens each, you have a total : population of 2,500,000,000. That's two point five trillion, for those of : you who do not like counting zeroes(the numbers for my equation are : estimates: earlier in the thread, someone suggested that the number of : human-controlled worlds rested in the "upper hundreds," and your : statement that the populations sit in the millions). It is stated that the population of Sigma Octanus IV is about 13 million (FoR p.212), and Harvest has a population of 3 million (FoR p.96). : Given the prolific nature of the human race, I feel that it is safe to assume
On page 134 of FoR, Ensign Lovell reflects over his military career and is said to have seen a dozen worlds glassed and billions murdered. Obviously the population of the UNSC is many billions, but that doesn't really matter because of the limited ground on which they can fall back. : If the human population were two trillion large, and if it had access to five
It has been stated in the novels that the UNSC and the Covenant are about evenly matched on the ground, but in space the Covenant has a huge advantage. The population of Earth right now is about 6.5 billion. Consider that three Covenant ships in orbit could kill the entire population of the Earth in a matter of weeks, without having to drop a single soldier onto the planet's surface. : Of course, I once calculated, based on information from the battle at Reach,
The stations at Earth are Geosynchronus, and the Earth is pretty big. We don't know how much coverage one of the Platforms around Earth can provide, so destroying three might leave a large enough hole for a significant Covenant fleet to pass through. : I still feel that "hundreds" is too generous; perhaps a hundred
Before the games were released, Bungie gave a backstory (available in the Story Page Timeline) which says the UNSC had over 800 colonies in 2490.
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| Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 11:05 a.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Cthulhu117 | 11/4/07 11:06 a.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 2:00 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | VVM | 11/4/07 3:04 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Cthulhu117 | 11/4/07 3:07 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | VVM | 11/4/07 3:22 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Cthulhu117 | 11/4/07 3:46 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | VVM | 11/4/07 4:08 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | 58 | 11/4/07 5:36 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Bry | 11/4/07 11:59 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Deckard | 11/5/07 12:36 a.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | kr-1426 | 11/5/07 5:33 a.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Deckard | 11/5/07 12:46 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | kr-1426 | 11/5/07 2:50 p.m. |
| Dekard was a real asshole | SinisterSamurai | 11/6/07 1:35 a.m. |
| Yes, but was he human? | Narcogen | 11/6/07 10:54 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Louis Wu | 11/4/07 6:53 p.m. |
| Hmm... that's really low... | Walshicus | 11/4/07 11:14 a.m. |
| From the Halo timeline: | Jordan117 | 11/4/07 11:30 a.m. |
| Re: From the Halo timeline: | Dundradal | 11/4/07 1:00 p.m. |
| Thanks *NM* | Jordan117 | 11/4/07 1:25 p.m. |
| Re: From the Halo timeline: | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 2:04 p.m. |
| Hah. | 58 | 11/4/07 11:30 a.m. |
| Re: Hah. | BirDMaN | 11/4/07 11:41 a.m. |
| Re: Hah. | 58 | 11/4/07 1:09 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Thanatos119 | 11/4/07 1:15 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Orpheus | 11/4/07 2:43 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 3:08 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | gspawn | 11/4/07 3:12 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 3:23 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Omega | 11/4/07 5:23 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 5:32 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | 58 | 11/4/07 5:47 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | dude2 | 11/4/07 9:18 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | 58 | 11/4/07 9:27 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | dude2 | 11/4/07 10:15 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Omega | 11/4/07 11:04 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Walshicus | 11/4/07 2:08 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | VVM | 11/4/07 3:08 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 3:11 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | 58 | 11/4/07 3:33 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 5:10 p.m. |
| That, I can believe. *NM* | 58 | 11/4/07 5:35 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Orpheus | 11/4/07 6:01 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | kr-1426 | 11/4/07 6:18 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | dude2 | 11/4/07 9:08 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Omega | 11/4/07 10:26 p.m. |
| Um... not quite | Walshicus | 11/6/07 1:26 p.m. |
| Re: Um... not quite | Omega | 11/6/07 4:38 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Peptuck | 11/4/07 7:40 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | 58 | 11/4/07 8:37 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Peptuck | 11/5/07 1:01 a.m. |
| Re: Hah. | 58 | 11/5/07 12:29 p.m. |
| Re: Hah. | Peptuck | 11/5/07 8:11 p.m. |
| I assumed it was semantics. | Funkmon | 11/4/07 4:55 p.m. |
| Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest | Korsriddare | 11/5/07 9:47 p.m. |
| 800 FTW | Devrous | 11/12/07 3:18 p.m. |
| Contact Harvest *Spoilers* Above *NM* | Simpsons Rule | 11/12/07 4:24 p.m. |
| Re: 800 FTW *sp* | Stephen L. (SoundEffect) | 11/12/07 7:07 p.m. |
| Re: 800 FTW *sp* | Devrous | 11/13/07 12:36 a.m. |
| More! (+calculations) *Spoilers* | Devrous | 11/13/07 3:34 a.m. |
| Re: More! (+calculations) *Spoilers* | kr-1426 | 11/13/07 2:31 p.m. |
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