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11/12/2012 12:01:04 PM
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Covenant asylum seekers
Haven't seen this topic brought up, I thought it was pretty interesting. In the Spartan Ops episode 'Departure,' one of the Majestic Spartans talks about Covenant asylum seekers in Rio; he mentions a Sangheili terrorist who tried planting a bomb too.
Pretty interesting that Earth's allowing Covenant species asylum - probably away from the persecution of the fanatical Storm. Whilst I'm sure most of them are unggoy, kig-yar and so on, the fact that a Sangheili was able to operate as a terrorist in Rio implies that enough of them are there that his presence wasn't out of the ordinary.
I wonder if this has been going on for years, or if it's just been since the New Phoenix incident. Maybe some of the Storm wanted to get out, seeing what the Didact was prepared to do.
Makes me wonder where the Arbiter is in all of this; if the Covenant's having to flee their home planets and colonies to get away from the Storm, they can't be too politically stable.
Could be that he's on Earth as well.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] spartain ken 15 So everyone on Earth is okay with the covies living among them? After they glassed half of Africa, killed Billions, and destroyed countless other worlds. okay...[/quote] I don't remember it saying that everyone was happy. It's implied to be pretty rough, actually. The UNSC has quite a bit to gain from doing this. After WWII, America helped nurse Europe, along with Germany, back to pre-war levels of economic growth and prosperity in spite of the fact that Germany just 4 years prior was hellbent on conquering them given the chance. So it's not an "out there" idea that someone offer's aid to a former enemy. As far as the psychological impact of the war on Humanity, I think you're exaggerating. No one knew how bad the war was until after it had already stopped, in addition to the "out of sight, out of mind" factor and the "million is a statistic" notion. No one cares all that much about Joseph Kony and the LRA, or about Darfur. Now imagine how little people would care if it all happened in the past, but no longer happens now, but is only just being declassified now. I'd imagine that the short lived buzz over Kony would have even less of a lifetime in the spotlight than it did a few months ago. (Of course everyone likes to forget about Section 2's propaganda campaign and act like people would have been sitting watching live feeds of glassings and of the UNSC getting its ass kicked...)
