• eduardog3000 [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Isn't "glassing" originally from nukes turning sand to glass? I never really got why what the Covenant does was called that.

      • Does_KJU_Have_Drip [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Because in the plot of Halo they initiated a hyper speed jump inside Earth’s atmosphere with their gunship and turned a huge chunk of Africa into glass

        • eduardog3000 [he/him]
          hexagon
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          edit-2
          3 years ago

          That wasn't what they called glassing was it? I thought it was the big lasers they were just lining the planet with.

          This

          • Does_KJU_Have_Drip [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            https://www.halopedia.org/Africa

            Looks like you were mostly correct. The prophet launched into lightspeed in atmosphere and destroyed the city of Mombassa. Then more covenant ships “glassed” the continent with an orbital bombardment of plasma weapons

          • ssjmarx [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            In the books, the covenant use a much wider variety of shipborne weapons, and the ones they glass planets with are essentially specialized tools for the purpose of flooding the target planet with hot plasma.