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10/14/2012 1:31:04 PM
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I think I will actually miss the Covenant. Even though the Covenant divided into two factions, the Covenant Loyalists were still good enough for me. I hope the Brutes will return at some point and the Arbiter! [Edited on 10.14.2012 5:31 AM PDT]

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  • [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajw34307[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]So their caracteristics haven't changed? The Elites, Grunt, Hunters, Jackals, etc, behave the same as they've always behaved? The internal hierarchy, structure, civilization, is the same? Good, then they are Covenant. [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].[/quote]Correction: some still do. The Elites knew nothing else at the time, that is what conviction is. Being given no choice to act without being killed, is the same as not being given any choice to form own opinion without being killed. Were the Elites given the choice to negotiate with the humans, to figure out what humanity actually was? The Prophets knew that humanity/the human species were the ones chosen by their own gods, and not any of the species within the Covenant. They knew that the their society would change, probably even collapse, if humanity was introduced; it would become apparent that the foundation of the Covenant was no more than [i]misunderstanding[/i], and since the they wanted to remain in power, they handled the politics in the most decieving of ways: they lied, something that in retrospect actually worked; the Elites bought what they were told. The Elites were pretty much convinced that humanity filled the possition that the Flood later on would prove to have, a force that tested them, one that needed to be cleansed in order to achieve the Great Journey. How could this possibly be any different? Especially given the fact that many Elites changed their beliefs once they larned more about humanity/got the chance to learn more. [i]Godwin's Law[/i], cute. [Edited on 10.14.2012 11:05 AM PDT]

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