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2/25/2014 3:39:09 PM
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[quote]there seems to be almost no indication that the UNSC ever had a specific strategy to win the war. [/quote] This is openly admitted on multiple occasions I believe, by Halsey herself at least once that I can recall. RED FLAG was the first and only (known) counter offensive the UNSC attempted. But the idea that the Covenant were waging conflicts with other alien races on their borders has little to no supporting evidence. No one talks about it, we see no sign of these aliens, and the Covenant seem more than willing to assimilate any race into their hegemony; that they didn't do so with humanity was, in fact, a point of confusion and suspicion in some of the Elites, the aforementioned professional soldiers who would be waging these wars against these hypothetical aliens in the first place. So why did they have a professional military? Probably because of the Elites' native culture to be honest; one of the two founding members of the Covenant were a race of space Samurai-Spartans, and over the years, they fought multiple conflicts with races that would all eventually be absorbed into the Covenant, including multiple Grunt rebellions, Kig-Yar pirates, the taming of the Hunters, the Brutes, and so on. The Covenant have a standing military in part because of the Elites' culture, and in part because they have experience in dealing with threats both external and domestic. That doesn't mean that they were actively sharing borders with hitherto unknown alien civilizations, just that they were prepared in case they ever were.
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  • Plus, combining multiple alien cultures into one society is incredibly volatile. An active military is needed to suppress rebellions and dissent and maintain order.

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  • I can't remember but... I don't think that prior to the absorption into the Covenant of the Brutes they had fought. I'm pretty sure it was much like with the Salarians and Krogans in Mass Effect where they graciously accepted being lifted and cast unto the bigger galactic plane.

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  • Which is what I talked a bit about in Grey's thread about Moonbabies. I figure there are two main sides to their coin, the ones that are thinkers, diplomats wanting to expand to the stars beyond that climbed the Covenant political ladder, and the more zealous, easily led ones such as Tartarus that rose to power near the end of the war and were what primarily we base our assumptions on Moonbabies off of.

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