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[Cole Protocol]

And earth turned into a fourunner portal, how odd

[D4RKST0RM99]

I think we discussed this before and the Forerunners would be described as the pinnacle of this ability being world builders theyed be able to convert rocky worlds into M class planets with ease, the UNSC would have a stripped down basic version of this and just be able to make the planet barely habitable and no more. I think we also had the idea of 2 colonization abilities for the phoenix class, the first would be the current one were u can colonise several planets with an initial small settlement from one ship, the second option would involve using the colony ship as raw materials to build a more elaborate settlement with greater pop cap and abilities this of coarse would cost u one or more colony ships for every planet u do this for.

[Aunt Gruntie]

Wait how could a planet get turned to sand by super heated plasma? When you heat sand up it actually turns to glass, something doesnt add up here

[SPECTRE]

Wait how could a planet get turned to sand by super heated plasma? When you heat sand up it actually turns to glass, something doesn't add up here

Ever seen somewhere lightning has struck? the "glass" has a habit of vanishing. Maybe because glass is essentially liquid sand, it looses its cohesion and falls apart back to sand due to lack of energy.

[Aunt Gruntie]

But the Covenant aren't using lightning, they're using space death beams that methodically scour the planet, using, I would assume, more than enough energy to make some sort of permanent mark on said planet.

[D4RKST0RM99]

Wait how could a planet get turned to sand by super heated plasma? When you heat sand up it actually turns to glass, something doesnt add up here

Just as kevlar and diamond are compressed forms of carbon glass and sand are forms of silicone their are even trace silicates in soil that when superheated fuse together into glass. Sand in some specialised process is coverted into silicone used to make the microchips that exist today in your computer or smart phones, it does make excellent superconductors at the same time not burning out at certain high temps that would fry a copper wired circuit.

[nitropurehyena]

ya i agree with everyone maybe you could have a terraforming transport ship which sends down terraforming units to revive planets kinda like the civilization V nuclear scrubbing?

[Cole Protocol]

ya i agree with everyone maybe you could have a terraforming transport ship which sends down terraforming units to revive planets kinda like the civilization V nuclear scrubbing?

Possible, granted. but that would mean modeling and texturing a whole new ship, so i could see this after the games full release, but not now

[XtremeRoflcopter]

In all honesty the concept of recolonizing a glassed planet is nearly impossible in reality. Since the atmosphere has been boiled away, the planets water is boiled away, the trees? Haha fuck those are gone too (maybe we should have sent greenpeace to fight the covenant). The planet becomes so inhospitable it can't be colonized. However we have a decent system with glassing as it is. 

[SPECTRE]

In all honesty the concept of recolonizing a glassed planet is nearly impossible in reality. Since the atmosphere has been boiled away, the planets water is boiled away, the trees? Haha fuck those are gone too (maybe we should have sent greenpeace to fight the covenant). The planet becomes so inhospitable it can't be colonized. However we have a decent system with glassing as it is. 

Some planets are resistant, Reach, harvest, kholo, the neutral ground in glasslands.

[XtremeRoflcopter]

Some planets are resistant, Reach, harvest, kholo, the neutral ground in glasslands.

Okay that is true, at the same time though you are talking about a select few planets that luckily were able to survive such a thing. 

[SPECTRE]

Okay that is true, at the same time though you are talking about a select few planets that luckily were able to survive such a thing. 

It would happen to all planets can reform after glassing, eventually, unless when glassing planets lost their gravity.

[XtremeRoflcopter]

It would happen to all planets can reform after glassing, eventually, unless when glassing planets lost their gravity.

Or when the atmosphere is boiled away as well as any biological life that can provide life. 

[SPECTRE]

Or when the atmosphere is boiled away as well as any biological life that can provide life. 

Not necessarily, biological organisms are not critical to terraforming a planet in the short run,