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{{Quote|You are, all of you, vermin! Cowering in the dirt thinking... what? That you might escape the coming fire? Your [[Earth|world]] will burn until its surface is but glass!|Unidentified [[ | {{Quote|You are, all of you, vermin! Cowering in the dirt thinking... what? That you might escape the coming fire? Your [[Earth|world]] will burn until its surface is but glass!|Unidentified [[Prophet]]}} | ||
[[Image:Halo3 E3 TRAILER 2007 720p30 ST 6300Kbps 002 0001.jpg|thumb|300px|Two Covenant [[CCS-class Battlecruiser|''CSS''-class Battlecruiser]]s glass [[Earth]] in the [[Second Battle of Earth]].]] | [[Image:Halo3 E3 TRAILER 2007 720p30 ST 6300Kbps 002 0001.jpg|thumb|300px|Two Covenant [[CCS-class Battlecruiser|''CSS''-class Battlecruiser]]s glass [[Earth]] in the [[Second Battle of Earth]].]] | ||
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- "You are, all of you, vermin! Cowering in the dirt thinking... what? That you might escape the coming fire? Your world will burn until its surface is but glass!"
- — Unidentified Prophet
Glassing is a Covenant battle tactical doctrine.
It is used by the Covenant to render captured UNSC worlds uninhabitable and of no strategic value. The Covenant occupation fleet maps the latitude and longitude of a planet's surface, divide it into grids, and bombard each grid with heavy plasma fire, thereby obliterating all life on the planet and turning its surface to glass. After the glassing is done, the planet is a red smoldering sphere. After a few days, the atmosphere of the planet supposedly corrodes and dissipates, leaving it truly barren.[1] This technique was used to obliterate the UNSC outer colonies and Reach. After they glass the planet, they remove a shard of glass and take it to the Step of Silence in High Charity where it hangs with hundreds of other shards from other planets.[2]
Sometime during the Second Battle of Earth, Earth is being glassed, as confirmed in the Halo 3 E3 2007 Trailer.
References
- ^ Halo: The Fall of Reach, page 8
- ^ Halo: First Strike, page 338
