[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] specops306 First off, I would like to commend Opog. I remember reading the ORION Project sentence, but I just dismissed it, assuming it was part of the armour project. Now that I know that the MJOLNIR project was something completely different (though related), it makes me whack myself on the head for overlooking something so blaringly obvious, in hindsight. On halo.bungie.org, if you look hard enough there is a recording of Regret that mentions that every other alien race encountered by the Covenant submitted, and joined in their holy quest. But then he mentions; “but the humans denied us access to sacred sites; desecrated holy relics; and for that, they shall be killed until none are left.” Now, the first planet to fall was Harvest, so we can assume that that was where the “desecrating” was done. But what exactly did we do? Well, perhaps it had something to do with the Spartan I’s? [/quote] That's what my current thinking is. And to everyone who is thinking about Harvest, here is a quote from Joe Staten that you may find interesting [quote] HSP: Imagine you are an aging ONI operative, sitting with an old friend on the porch one fine summer night, the cares and intrigues of battle and politics a hazy memory. Let's hear a story! JS: Does it have to be an ONI operative? Because Frankie insists this see the light of day: Shaw sat on the end of the sun lounger, his robe open to the soft trade wind, his eyes narrowed to meet the glare from the whitewashed poolside. He huffed. His brown, almost orange skin wrinkled and rolled over a seventy-year old belly. "Fuji, you old -blam!-," he announced, his English-accented baritone startling a preening Macaw. "Fuji, I've come to a decision!" "How thrilling," responded Fujikawa, not bothering to move the tented paperback from his face. His voice, muffled by the book, betrayed a kind of languid irritation. Shaw, his once-Adonis like figure now bent and pruned by the Caribbean sun, glared at his reclining partner. In their youth they had looked astonishingly similar, but now Fujikawa's mop of curly white hair betrayed the illusion that they were elderly brothers. "I'm going to make a bloody time machine, you wizened poof," stated Shaw, with the haughty sneer he'd so perfectly mastered. "Utter buggery," yawned Fujikawa, drifting in and out of a pleasant doze. "Why not make something useful, Shavian? A daiquiri, for example." Shaw closed his robe. "Vicious queen," he muttered to the cooling breeze, "I'll make it. And I'll make it entirely out of metal."* (*Ed. Note: See?! I told you not to ask!) [b] In all seriousness, the ONI operative might start to tell the story of first contact between humanity and the Covenant. Then stop, realizing the hour was late, his audience was old, and the story was long enough to fill an entire novel. [/b] [/quote]