Roberto, the Covenant didn't shatter into dozens of fighting forces anymore than humans would have. Sure the Brutes, Elites, Jackals, Grunts may have gone their own way. But each by itself, outnumbered humanity. The Elites had at least 8 billion on their homeworld alone. Their colonies, their factions are all strong. The Covenant would still have the most colonies and planets in the galaxy because unlike humanity, they weren't destroyed. Let's say for argument sake, there are factions like the Storm covenant, and others. The majority of the fleet is loyal to the Arbiter and went home. They would easily have become the power for the Elite. There has been no single indication at all to your assertion it was Mendicent Bias who sent Chief and Cortana drifting to Requiem. You are plain making things up. All because of a terminal where he said he wanted to atone for his sins and show his former masters he changed, that in turn makes you think that he used slipspace technology to cut half of the Chief's ship and send it drifting to Requiem? What if the cryo-pods failed? And if Cortana was too far gone, would she have been able to wake Chief before it crash landed on requiem? The slipspace portal doesn't work like that. It's one way only back and forth. That's why the Ark could only be accessed from the portal on Earth or the Arbiter was able to go back. How did he survive the blast? Easy, they barely did. The Forward Unto Dawn was completely smashed up and broken. To think this is what Mendicent Bias wanted is wrong. If he had the ability to manipulate a portal at will, why wouldn't he just send Chief to Requiem? Why make them drift 25,000 light years away from Earth for nearly 4.5 years? You're giving an answer to which there is none. Bungie just wanted to give hope to people that Chief would be found one day. 343 Industries made it so it was only 4.5 years later. Once again, where did humanity get the ability to just "go" to planets at will? Even with slipspace travel, it would have taken far longer. Remember, we learned in Halo 4, there are no portals that lead to Requiem either because they didn't want Didact coming out. It's all a bit too convenient that the most massive human ship in the galaxy goes to Requiem and finds Chief there no? How is this realistic? Cortana knew the odds of finding them were like a needle in a haystack. I'm sorry Roberto, I know I am being difficult and a lot of these questions are unaskable because there is no information. The people who developed most of the story of this game no longer work on it, and the people now in charge are taking it in a new direction. All we know going by the games, Humanity was weakened and on the verge of extinction. They lost their military strength on Reach. The Spartan program was bankrupt from the start which is why they could only get such few children than what Halsey planned. And the money being spent was ridiculous. The armor etc. My point being, that even at the height of humanity's power, they weren't able to do all this, we're supposed to accept that just 4.5 years after Earth fell, after Reach was gone, they are stronger than before? That all of a sudden they have better armor, enough to train and equip hundreds and hundreds of new spartans? That rebuilding Reach took 27 years, but new ships and Spartans are what's important? Even after securing peace? Thanks Roberto, you are far more knowledgeable than me but I just don't like the direction the story took. I'll leave it here then, and hope Halo 5 has more answers than new questions. Thanks again.