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Holy crap. Great read, but I completely forgot about what Dr. Halsey said. Who else were they fighting?
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Originally The Covenant were heavily implied not to be focusing on us. 343I retconned that with the Adjuncts to fit in line with Halo:Reach.
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Wait, what do the adjuncts say that make us their primary focus?
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Excerpt from the first TFoR adjunct detailing the interrogation of an elite captured at Groombridge. [spoiler][quote] [SUBJECT 386] You are ignorant swarming maggots. You know nothing of the Great journey or of our gods’ treasures, yet you [unintelligible] intend to destroy them. We will root out every single world you possess and lay waste to them one by one until there’s nowhere left for you to go. [SUBJECT 386] Yesterday? Three ships, human? You boast about [unintelligible] three of our vessels when you had five times that many, and lost almost all? [COLE] We— [SUBJECT 386] Our fleets approach from beyond the stars and they are far more vast than your [unintelligible] mind can fathom. There is no defense which you can muster. No escape. [COLE] We’re not afraid of you. We’ll stand and fight. [SUBJECT 386] And you will perish. By the billions. [SUBJECT 386] We are the holy and glorious inheritors. [SUBJECT 386] You have been judged unclean! A scourge that must be burned away! Every one of your worlds will be reduced to ash.[/spoiler] So from the very start the covenant now seemed to have been focused on humanity. Which just doesn't make sense when you think about how many ships they [i]should[/i] have been producing. Not to mention the Hundreds of CSO's they had or superdestroyers.
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Edited by ch33zy burrito: 2/25/2014 4:41:05 PM[quote][SUBJECT 386] Our fleets approach from beyond the stars and they are far more vast than your [unintelligible] mind can fathom.[/quote] Woah. Was he boasting or...?
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How Do you Think any human world would feel if High Charity and it's fleet warped in orbit of the planet? Nobody would even fight.
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Edited by ch33zy burrito: 2/25/2014 8:19:30 PM2 things: He says "far beyond the stars" What was he meaning by this? Second thing: I don't really recall where the rest of the fleet was at the time so care to remind me?
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It's just wording. He is saying that their ships are coming from places unknown to the humans and will dwarf any force they have ever seen. Not sure exactly what you are refereeing to with the second point. High Charities fleet didn't form until the war started so they were probably on patrol. That is really it. We don't know much about how the covenant was making material for the war or how long it took.