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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] anton1792 The idea I always struggled to comprehend with this idea is how in the hell people didn't notice that holidays to Harvest were suddenly forbidden, and that the list of unavailable immigration and holiday destinations was growing bigger. If people never asked questions about that then maybe immigration and other movement of people between colonies was uncommon under the UNSC. Or maybe a complete halt to immigration and such was justified on the basis that ships and resources were all required for the war effort and such, and/or that the likelihood of attacks from Covenant raids were too high for non-essential space travel. Hell, maybe they even created the impression that many colonies were still there and faked news broadcasts and news stories and activity from them and such. Though not all of them I'd imagine. The occasional news of a colony attacked would galvanize people into the fight.[/quote]They could've used a rise of insurrection activity as an explanation of cancelled shuttles ect. Due to the UNSC's primitive communications people were not able to actually contact people on the planet and what little evidence of the attack that surfaced was swiftly censored by ONI. Before the war no one really thought aliens would attack so that would not be most people's guess as to why shuttles were cancelled. If I told you the reason that immigration and shuttles were cancelled due to a group of geocidal aliens annihilating all life on the planets would you believe me? [Edited on 11.16.2012 8:47 AM PST]
