[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] PhyscoRaiderS97 That was like a five minute alliance, they been [i] zombiefying [/i] life for hundreds of thousdands of years.[/quote] So? The Elites were hellbent on humanity's extinction for almost 30 years and killed [i]billions[/i] of people - certainly more than the Flood did. [quote]Anyway I can believe that the humans didn't have harbour any sudden friendship/respect within the Alliance. Maybe the Elites did due to their superior attitude, but they did want to include Humanity in the Covenant because of their fighting spirit etc. (forgot what source, probably Halo Nation).[/quote] No Elite said they [i]wanted[/i] humanity in the Covenant, [i]one[/i] questioned why the Prophets hadn't approached them to join because they've seen humanity are capable fighters. [quote]But the Chief and Arbiter had enough respect to form a friendship, and after Lord Hood's speech at the end of Halo 3. I would presume that Humans and Elites had mutual respect MUTUAL.[/quote] The relationship between John, Thel and Lord Hood is not and cannot be representitive of an [i]entire[/i] race. Many Elites back on Sanghelios still despise humanity and see them as a threat that will rise again and try to wipe out the Sangheili for good - which, funnily enough, is true. Likewise with humanity, ONI see the Elites as a threat that will try to rise up again and stop humanity from colonising again, thus they try to prevent that. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] the real Janaka EDIT: just because something has the same religious views as the Covenant, doesn't make it [i]Covenant[/i].[/quote] Except that the Storm most definitely [i]are[/i] Covenant, in fact that's what the developers have been referring to them as ever since it was announced they'd come back. It's clear from what happens in The Thursday War that they [i]are[/i] Covenant. [quote]That's like saying that England nor France should be able to reconsile with Germany after the two world wars.[/quote] No it isn't. In WWII for instance, the people of Germany were given [i]no choice[/i] but to devote themselves to Hitler (Godwin's Law, [i]wonderful...[/i]) because they were under threat of death if they opposed him. The Elites, while being dictated by the Prophets, clearly [i]believed[/i] in the genocidal butchering of our race [b]and still do[/b].