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the cutscene where the Shadow of Intent is shown glassing the outskirts of New Mombassa shows two other ships firing as well (there are three beams fired, in sequence, from at least two visible carriers and one obscured by another carrier). Lord Hood's comment is even acknowledged on both Halo wikis as exaggeration, as the mountains visible in the background are the same mountain range that's near new mombassa, meaning they very obviously only glassed the immediate landing zone where the flood had infected, rather than going above and beyond for the sake of certainty. Presumably this was what Half-jaw's statement about the "arbiter's counsel" was referring to, as he implicitly threatens to glass the Earth for the sake of stopping the Flood in the same breath.
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*** On the other hand, according to Lord Hood in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' the Elite assault carrier ''Shadow of Intent'' glassed half the continent of Africa in about an hour... while he watched it happen with his own eyes (though later canon clarified this to be an exaggeration, and we see in the game itself that they did nothing of the sort). It's also worth noting that the specific data pad claiming that the Covenant can't fully glass planets was written in-universe only one year into the war, when data on the Covenant's capabilities were limited; another data pad written only a few years later gives a conservative estimate of ''110 to over 300 years'' to properly re-terraform merely ''four'' colony worlds.
*** It's important to note that glassing Africa was also done by the flagship of the Sangheili fleet and specifically to prevent the Flood from overrunning Earth, so it's quite likely that they were working much harder on this task than usual, and it's possible that more than the Shadow of Intent was doing the work. So while it wasn't half of Africa, the importance of hitting every inch was much higher than usual.
*** It's important to note that glassing Africa was also done by the flagship of the Sangheili fleet and specifically to prevent the Flood from overrunning Earth, so it's quite likely that they were working much harder on this task than usual, and it's possible that more than the Shadow of Intent was doing the work. So while it wasn't half of Africa, the importance of hitting every inch was much higher than usual.
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*** On the other hand, according to Lord Hood in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' the Elite assault carrier ''Shadow of Intent'' glassed half the continent of Africa in about an hour... while he watched it happen with his own eyes (though later canon clarified this to be an exaggeration, and we see in the game itself that they did nothing of the sort). It's also worth noting that the specific data pad claiming that the Covenant can't fully glass planets was written in-universe only one year into the war, when data on the Covenant's capabilities were limited; another data pad written only a few years later gives a conservative estimate of ''110 to over 300 years'' to properly re-terraform merely ''four'' colony worlds.
*** It's important ** In VideoGame/Halo3 the Covenant Supercarrier ''Shadow of Intent'' is shown requiring assistance from at least two other carriers to note that glassing glass the portion of Africa was also done by the flagship of the Sangheili fleet and specifically to prevent the where The Flood from overrunning Earth, so it's quite likely have landed. And despite Lord Admiral Hood's claim that they were working much harder on glassed "half a continent", the end of the game shows this task than usual, and it's possible to be exaggeration, as the memorial to the fallen from the Human-Covenant-War takes place within that more than the Shadow of Intent was doing the work. So while it wasn't half of Africa, the importance of hitting every inch was much higher than usual.supposed "half a continent" and is very obviously still dirt and grass.
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* The various species in VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight fit here. A galaxy spanning series of populations with at minimum hundreds, if not thousands, of worlds. Despite being at the tail end of a massive uprising, the two primary factions can deploy veritable armies of capital ships capable of firing projectiles that are guaranteed to puncture through lesser ships and outright ignore shields. One faction is so numerous with these capital ships it's personified as an AdvancingWallOfDoom that occupies every jump node it comes across. Despite this the remnants of the Federation fleet, occupying merely one sector, is at minimum able to hold off/delay this faction. In addition, 7 other races occupy the galaxy, each with their own fleets capable of going toe to toe with their equivalent from other races and fighting on more-or-less equal terms. In addition, teleportation exists, energy shielding is ubiquitous, and one entire race of EnergyBeing characters is able to deliver power to any ship they board.
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** The one quibble that potentially upgrades them is a line in ''The Fall of Reach'' implying that "Super" [=MACs=] in orbital battle stations are powered by ''exawatt'' reactors, but that entry is self-contradictory and has been implicitly retconned. See ''Halo'''s entry under [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfMass Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense Of Mass]] for more on that matter.
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** The one quibble that potentially upgrades them is a line in ''The Fall of Reach'' implying that "Super" [=MACs=] in orbital battle stations are powered by ''exawatt'' reactors, but that entry is self-contradictory and has been implicitly retconned. See ''Halo'''s entry under [[SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfMass Sci Fi Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense Of of Mass]] for more on that matter.
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** Although since the biosphere of Earth utilizes only a tiny fraction of its insolation, with the majority being reflected back into space or powering the weather, the Na'vi are less than a Type I civilization even in fanon.
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