>Key military ship breaking yard
>Importance level equal to Earth
>First sign of Covenant presence on the planet
>They're known for glassing any planets they find hours after finding them
>UNSC does little to nothing at first
What would you have done.
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UNSC fleet was shattered after years of warfare, it takes multiple days for their FTL drives to get anywhere, and the majority of the fleet was already there. Not much else they could've done. The entire war basically was the covies giving the hammer to anything they could find, while humans hid.