Talk:Raid on Reach

It wasnt really a battle was it?-- UNSCOH   COL.   "Running   Riot"   Ryan    BAM  22:30, 2 July 2007 (UTC) 17:42, 14 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Define Battle
 * Assuming it's not a battle, give a better name for it. Certainly, it is an event (and a relatively important one at that) and it should probably be recorded AND it is best represented by the Battle template.
 * --Forgottenlord 21:55, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

It was more of a rescue of the survivors of the battle of reach.-- UNSCOH   COL.   "Running   Riot"   Ryan    BAM  22:30, 2 July 2007 (UTC) 22:02, 14 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Two sides squared off, fired a bunch of guns at one another, thousands died (including half a dozen Covenant warships), I'd call it a battle. --Forgottenlord 22:06, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

I still dont think it was, the unsc had one ship used it to get the survivors of the planet then was stuck in slipspace for awhile, so it wasnt really the 2nd battle of reach, in th book every called it the battl in slipspace or something like that. They didnt really fight around reach.-- UNSCOH   COL.   "Running   Riot"   Ryan    BAM  22:30, 2 July 2007 (UTC) 22:10, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

They got more kills before they entered slipspace than they did in the bubble.... Seriously, if we had an operation name, I'd use it but we don't. --Forgottenlord 01:54, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

Cortana got 3 cruisers, a carrier, while in slipspace 2 cruisers and a carrier. So its only 1 more ship and whitcomb even said "we have a battle to fight here" in slipspace. And on page 192 it says "however, to recharge the slipspace capacitors and regenerate the plasma she had expended in her(cortana) brief fight with the covenant cruisers." She only fired when the ships came after her and she was just testing her new firing method for the ships plasma, even then she was backing a way. It wasnt the second battle of reach, a second battle for a planet would be more like the 2nd battle of earth.-- UNSCOH   COL.   "Running   Riot"   Ryan    BAM  22:30, 2 July 2007 (UTC) 14:40, 15 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Alright, let's look at something else here. First Battle of Earth.  15 warships from the Covenant forces drop out of Slipspace over Earth looking to excavate some information.  They find....well.....Earth and the UNSC's war machine.  The resulting battle is just the Prophet of Regret trying to get to the surface and the two sides battling in New Mombassa before the Prophet of Regret bugs out (along with In Amber Clad).  It wasn't a battle for control of the planet, it was a battle that just happened.  It doesn't have to be the scale of the Second Battle of Earth or even just a Battle for control of a planet to make it a battle.


 * Anyways, the events of the battle spent more time on or around Reach than it did in Slipspace. Add on that beside the 1 extra kill in space, you also have the docking of the Gettysburg to Ascendant Justice AND you have the fight in the Forerunner structure.  There was considerably more fighting on or around Reach.  Though I should note that I hadn't even planned to mark the fight in Slipspace as part of the Second Battle of Reach.  I could, I just wasn't planning to since it didn't really happen over Reach.


 * Finally, this all doesn't even matter because you STILL need to suggest a better name for the Battle that we could file the page under.--Forgottenlord 15:46, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

We dont need this artical, it can just be in the reach artical or summary of the book and on the pages of the charters that were involved.-- UNSCOH   COL.   "Running   Riot"   Ryan    BAM  22:30, 2 July 2007 (UTC) 15:52, 15 July 2007 (UTC)