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First mentioned in [[Halo: First Strike]], the NOVA is a special device that uses ten nuclear warheads in a ring formation. Once detonation occurs the lithium-triteride fusion cores combine together and the resulting blast is multiplied hundred-fold. Nick-named "planet-killers", these have enough explosive power to destroy an entire planet. In the novel, they were left on Reach and "repurposed" by [[Admiral Whitcomb]].  His reasoning was that "either the Covenant pack those bombs up and take them home for study, a possibility that I hope to God happens.  A bomb like that could crack their homeworld in half.  Or, the bombs stay here, and they'll stop the Covenant on Reach..."