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12/28/2012 4:24:32 AM
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Who REALLY won the war in space?

The more I think about it the more I start to tell myself that the UNSC, and not the Covenant, won the war in space in the end. Yes I know it took three or four UNSC ships to destroy one Covenant ship, but overall I still think the UNSC had many major wins. The Unyielding Elephant, destruction of High Charity, the gas planet Admiral Cole nuked to cook the Covenant fleet in orbit, etc.... I really can't remember a time when the UNSC lost at least 150 ships or more in a single battle.... So overall, even though the Covenant won almost every engagement, when you add in Unyielding Elephant(500+ ships), High Charity (1000+ ships) and the fleet destroyed near the gas planet (300 ships) it looks like the covies lost a lot more in space than Humanity did. Discuss.

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  • I'm aware of everything you said. I've read those books and I know the basics behind the forming of Covenant. The Reformists were the ones who wanted to explore Forerunner tech, and the Covenant Prophets became their descendants. The Reformists and Sangheili warred due to ideological differences, as you said. The Reformists wanted to explore the tech, the Elites thoughts it was heresy. It was the Covenant as a WHOLE who only mimicked Forerunner tech. No one in the Covenant truly understood their own tech, derived from Forerunner tech. The Prophets perhaps were the only ones who truly knew the inner workings of their tech. Which leads to my question. If the Elites were totally against using Forerunner tech then how on Earth (or Sangheilos in this case, lol) did the Sangheili achieve space flight? They reused to touch Forerunner tech, so they couldn't have used that to achieve space flight. They had to have developed it on their own.

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