Thread:ProjectPredacon/@comment-26464372-20150320202214/@comment-24198837-20150324210933

I've read Contact Harvest - which is likely my favorite of the bunch. I feel that it's the most diverse, touching what seems like every genre, and the Sif/Mac story was really touching, espicially that epilogue.

I've also read The Fall of Reach, The Flood, First Strike, Ghosts of Onyx, Glasslands (The insight into Halsey's mind is amazing and it's because of that book that she's my fav. character - I'm really against 343i making her a villian), and all three Forerunner books (Though I should probably re-read... Silentineum, if that's how you spell it).

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Thing with Reach is, favorible estimates suggested re-terraforming glassed planets would take at least 100 years - more moderate estimates suggested up to 300. Assuming they started immediatly after the war, it only took the UNSC 37 years to finish - and we all know they didn't start right away.

As for Six's helmet... no clue. Sometimes, Glassing wasn't a complete blanket of the planet, just enough to render in inhabitible, burn down major settlements, and move on. If Six's helmet wasn't hit directly by a glassing beam, it's possible it could've stayed intact. Although I don't remember to what degree Reach was glassed when it was over.