Thread:ProjectPredacon/@comment-26464372-20150320202214/@comment-25958301-20150320215721

When Reach was taken, the UNSC lost around eighty ships (I think, I do not exactly recall), and the Fortified Doorstep to Earth lost. Humanity didn't have the strength to retake it, and this was during the final years of the war.

Harvest, it was still a fresh conflict... so.