originally posted in:Halo Archive
[quote]she also believed that up until 2552 the majority of the Covenant military had been engaged in another conflict.[/quote]
That does make sense. Look at the Nazi during the time they invaded France. They basically steamrolled right through it because there was really no other major powers to divert their attention. Then latter on when they got involved with Britain, the SU and latter the US that's when they started to loose that effect. There really is no reason why with the size of the Covenant they couldn't have simply made thousands of ships to fight humanity. Then due to it being different species that make it up they will also out number the humans. Just like the Allied nations fighting the Germans. So that statement does make sense about the Covenant not being able to take out the UNSC.
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Even with the retcon in mind the Covenant wouldn't have been able to focus on both internal disputes and the war. To be frank, They could have just sent a few dozen CSO's or Superdestroyers to Deal with us. But The presence of hundreds of powerful ships like that in orbit would make anything re-think rebelling. Which is why majority of there ships were probably on patrol. It is also possible that rebellions [b]increased[/b] as the war went on do to the ideology [i]clearly[/i] failing and that being the perfect time to attack.
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[quote]But The presence of hundreds of powerful ships like that in orbit would make anything re-think rebelling.[/quote] Just like with the Soviet Union. Apparently some country wanted to brake away or it was some riot and they sent in tanks to end it. I forgot what city it was, but when the Germans were invading they simply had bombers flying over and they didn't drop any bombs. They didn't need to because the message was clear. "Surrender or you will be turned into rubble." Like you said any thought of rebelling would come to an end when your home planets surface can simply be turned into a sea of molting molten glass. [quote]It is also possible that rebellions [b]increased[/b] as the war went on do to the ideology [i]clearly[/i] failing and that being the perfect time to attack.[/quote] That is true to. Latter on in Halo 2 that's when the rebellion went into full power. So they may have been sending ships out to control it and there probably were battles braking out to before that.