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*** Not to make light of a horrific death toll, the inner colonies were among the most industrialized and populated, though they don't really get mentioned much with the notable exceptions of Reach and Earth (the most important). Stands to reason that, there are many billions of survivors yet.
*** Halsey estimates that 23 billion humans are left.
** We don't actually know the casualties on the Covenant side though. Basically the entire Prophet race (very small to begin with, with tight family planning to prevent inbreeding) was on High Charity - so, that's one less species in the Halo galaxy at least. Not that anyone'd miss them, [[Manipulative Bastard|considering what they're responsible for.]]
*** The covenant might have taken Reach but they payed a heavy price for it, because over 2/3rds of the Covenant fleet (''Fleet of Particular Justice'') was destroyed during the attack. The covenant would also take heavy loses in ground battles. Interestingly enough before they attacked Reach the covenant suffered a severe defeat at the ''Battle of Sigma Octanus IV''.
*** There was also the loss of an armada of ''500 ships'' and a massive supply station due to the [[Heroic Sacrifice]] of [[Four-Star Badass|Admiral Whitcomb]], a [[Super Soldier|Spartan]], and a spook.
** The Covenant's civil war is still ongoing 6 years AFTER the Human-Covenant war. Jiralhanae wage their own internecine wars, the Sangheili themselves are gradually losing their fleets in a war of attrition, having lost the technical expertise kept exclusively by the Prophets.
*** Although it's a bit more hopeful for the Sangheili, given that they are now on the side of humanity {{spoiler|who, as the true inheritors of [[Precursors|the Forerunners]], should have few problems providing a new source of technical expertise}}.
*** Maybe... the relationship between humans and Sangheili are still dicey at best... if ''Halo: Glasslands'' is to be believed.
* ''[[Wing Commander (video game)|Wing Commander]]'' sometimes portrayed the war against the Kilrathi as hopeless, especially in the [[Tie-in Novel|Tie In Novels]]. So much so that the only way that humanity could come up with to win was a desperate strike against {{spoiler|the Kilrathi homeworld, completely destroying it and killing millions, if not billions of civilians to demoralize the entire race.}} The fact that it works is a miracle.
* The ''[[Free Space]]'' series consistently portrayed the war against [[Omnicidal Maniac|the Shivans]] as hopeless, especially in the succession of [[Hope Spot]]s known as ''Freespace 2''.
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