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- NastyxButler, 12:36, 1 November 2011 (PST) | - NastyxButler, 12:36, 1 November 2011 (PST) | ||
:While I find it likely that there was an evacuation plan in place, I doubt that it would account for a significant amount of the drop in Earth's population. It's unlikely that the UNSC would allow it to be widely known that they thought an attack was likely because of the risk of panic, and they wouldn't have had a great deal of time between the destruction of Regret's fleet and the arrival of Truth's to get large numbers of people off the planet. Perhaps one of the enduring images of the Human-Covenant War in later years is that of families crowding into spaceports, desperately trying to find room on ships, while UNSC troops fight a losing battle to keep order, and then Seraphs start swooping down, strafing and blasting open overcrowded departure lounges, while in space dozens of UNSC ships sacrifice themselves to keep the evacuation corridor open, and even then only one evacuation ship in five makes it out...--[[User talk:The All-knowing Sith'ari|The All-knowing Sith'ari]] 16:39, 1 November 2011 (EDT) | :While I find it likely that there was an evacuation plan in place, I doubt that it would account for a significant amount of the drop in Earth's population. It's unlikely that the UNSC would allow it to be widely known that they thought an attack was likely because of the risk of panic, and they wouldn't have had a great deal of time between the destruction of Regret's fleet and the arrival of Truth's to get large numbers of people off the planet. Perhaps one of the enduring images of the Human-Covenant War in later years is that of families crowding into spaceports, desperately trying to find room on ships, while UNSC troops fight a losing battle to keep order, and then Seraphs start swooping down, strafing and blasting open overcrowded departure lounges, while in space dozens of UNSC ships sacrifice themselves to keep the evacuation corridor open, and even then only one evacuation ship in five makes it out...--[[User talk:The All-knowing Sith'ari|The All-knowing Sith'ari]] 16:39, 1 November 2011 (EDT) | ||
Earth is also now mostly urban hubs. People likely live in arcology like structures that hold millions. A covenant cruiser that breaks the orbital line just has to fly towards a city and let of a few plasma torpedoes and millions get wiped out. | |||
[[User talk:ProphetofTruth|ProphetofTruth]] 16:51, 1 November 2011 (EDT) | |||