Glassing (Earth-5875)



"You are, all of you, vermin. Cowering in the dirt thinking, what, I wonder? That you might escape the coming fire? No. Your world will burn until its surface is but glass!"

- - Prophet of Truth

Glassing, formally known as plasma bombardment, is the act where Covenant vessels bombard a planet from its orbit through the use of heavy plasma weapons. The process was heavily utilized during the First Contact War to eliminate humans and their colonies, which are refereed to as "glasslands".

History of the Covenant
After the creation of the Covenant in 852 BCE, the hegemony extensively employed the use of heavy plasma weaponry in order to threaten other species into joining them. The lekgolo were the first member species to be threatened with glassing in their homeplanet Te, duo to their transgressions against orokin technology, accepting peace and becoming the first outside species to join the Covenant, in 784 BCE. The yanme'e and the unggoy were both threatened by glassing, with the latter having their planet, Balaho, partially glassed during the Unggoy Rebellion of 1462. The kig-yar were not threatened with glassing, as they quickly realized the Covenant was all but capable of extinguishing them and accepted to join the Covenant and its ranks, happy for the earnings they could win.