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| Re: The datapads are wrong. *SP* | |
| Posted By: Jordan117 | Date: 9/19/10 3:05 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: The datapads are wrong. *SP* (scarab) : The pads are essentially correct. If the Covenant had the power to glass most : of the land on a planet then their ships would have been massively more : powerful than what we saw in game. They couldn't have dissapated the waste : heat from their glassing weapons, etc. Not necessarily more powerful, just more numerous than the AIs first estimated. The Covenant treated glassing as a major religious act, performing an hour-long ritual before starting and sending a sliver of the glassed planet's surface back to High Charity as a trophy. I could see them diverting most of their fleets to a targeted world in order to burn it up faster. (Also, don't discount what I said about their "plasma nukes." The Assembly estimates 15 seconds of sustained fire to glass an acre of land. The Tsar Bomba, on the other hand, incinerated nearly a million acres in the same amount of time, and the Covie bombs in the Halo 2 trailer look significantly more powerful than that. Maybe the AIs were discussing the kind of small-scale, in-atmosphere glassing we saw at Voi in Halo 3 or New Mombasa in ODST, and not the more powerful orbital bombardments, which didn't occur until later in the war?) : And their alleged ability to totally 'nuke the site/planet from orbit' makes
Has this ever been a problem? I don't recall much mention of Covenant ground deployments for reasons apart from artifact-hunting, other than the teams sent to Reach to take out the generators powering the MAC platforms (which were merely ancillary to the glassing/artifact mission). Presumably, all the "uninteresting" planets were dispatched in short order after a one-sided orbital engagement. I could be wrong, though -- I haven't read the most recent books. On the other hand, I don't think overuse of the "Forerunner artifact" MacGuffin is a problem in terms of plausibility. It isn't a coincidence that humans keep building their colonies on Forerunner worlds -- the Forerunners either were humans or were closely related, and while their populations were wiped out by the Halo rings, their worlds were left behind. It's not really surprising that these worlds would be the ones most amenable to human settlement. : I think that Nylund has put this retcon in himself because it fixes the story
Wait, are you saying Nylund came up with the idea in this datapad? That would be kind of strange. Has he said anything about being involved with Reach?
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