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Re: Hah.
Posted By: 58 <gundamx@adelphia.net>Date: 11/4/07 5:47 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Hah. (Omega)


: 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.

If the human population is as large as it would be if it had eight hundred well-populated worlds (and if it has access to the resources of eight hundred worlds and the cosmic debris included in the solar systems), the UNSC navy would easily match the Covenant's due to sheer size. The 'largest' Covenant fleet ever assembled is at High Charity, and it is somewhere around five hundred ships large. If the UNSC had eight hundred colonized worlds (not just eight hundred documented planets with a couple of guys and an airtight dome), then five hundred ships would be a pretty humdrum fleet.

: 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.

The stations at Reach were stationed at the poles, and there were only twenty of them - yet they were able to destroy nearly three hundred and twelve Covenant ships (the number of enemy ships Cortana gives is 312, there are about a dozen left at the end of the battle, and I think reinforcements showed up at some point).


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Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvestkr-1426 11/4/07 11:05 a.m.
     Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestCthulhu117 11/4/07 11:06 a.m.
           Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvestkr-1426 11/4/07 2:00 p.m.
                 Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestVVM 11/4/07 3:04 p.m.
                       Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestCthulhu117 11/4/07 3:07 p.m.
                             Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestVVM 11/4/07 3:22 p.m.
                                   Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestCthulhu117 11/4/07 3:46 p.m.
                                         Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestVVM 11/4/07 4:08 p.m.
                                               Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest58 11/4/07 5:36 p.m.
                                               Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestBry 11/4/07 11:59 p.m.
                                                     Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestDeckard 11/5/07 12:36 a.m.
                                                           Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvestkr-1426 11/5/07 5:33 a.m.
                                                                 Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestDeckard 11/5/07 12:46 p.m.
                                                                       Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvestkr-1426 11/5/07 2:50 p.m.
                                                                       Dekard was a real assholeSinisterSamurai 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: HarvestLouis 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 quiteWalshicus 11/6/07 1:26 p.m.
                                               Re: Um... not quiteOmega 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: HarvestKorsriddare 11/5/07 9:47 p.m.
     800 FTWDevrous 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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