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I have a story about Halo and the Covenant.
It Begins:
It all began in the late 21st century, Bungie had just made billions off of Halo3, having nothing better to spend the money on they invested heavily in new technologies such as Slipstream and Genetic Engineering. They rapidly became the full stock owners of said technology, and soon started playing with it. One year thousands of Bungie employee's volunteered to be the guinea pigs in several new expirements, three types of these expirements succeeded, creating new charismatic leaders, super strong and fast people, and brutally strong but not so fast or smart people. The other four expirements though were not so successfull often decreasing the intelligence or physical prowess of their subjects. The good people of Bungie knowing their old pals and buddies would never fit in on Earth again, built two giant slipstream capable ships, and gave it to the Expirementals and formed a Covenant with them to prevent them from coming back to Earth and being destroyed. For two generations these Expirementals grew uglier (by human standards) and more defined as individual races. With encouragement from the Charismatic Leaders who now called themselves Prophets the other races forgot the meaning of the Covenant. Not long after the Prophets rose to power those that became the Brutes rose up against the Prophets because they were jealous of them and were more numerous than the Elites who first obeyed the will of the Prophets. The Elites united two of the weaker races Grunts and Drones but the Jackals who unlike the grunts or drones had not lost their human mental capacity sided with the brutes. The two giant colony ships were torn by the fighting and lost their ability to go to slipstream. The prophets seeing they were about to crash into a gas giant secretly poisoned the Brutes, they then accepted the Brutes back into the covenant widely proclaiming their High Charity through out the ships, the Jackals though gave up and were never truly punished for their evil crimes. The reunited Covenant turned their attention now to the prophesied crash landing in a Gas Giant. They discovered a giant ring in orbit around the planet and managed to save both colony ships by landing on it. Over the generations the Prophets also forgot what the Covenant meant and created a religious order around the ring they called Halo. The Prophets strangely enough were the only ones left who understood the Oracle and soon learned before it disapeared that there were numerous worlds that had markers telling the locations for the other Halos. They converted the sentinal production machines to produce energy sheilded armor as a reward for the elites who stood with them during the rebelion. Then after many years of studying the "sacred" artifacts of the Forerunner, the Prophets ordered the Covenant to build an enormous fleet to reclaim the the Holy Marker Worlds. Then at the world we called harvest the Covenant found what the prophets concluded could only be ancient humanity, though they did not admit this to the rest of the Covenant. More importantly Harvest was one of the Holy Marker Worlds and Humanity in its recklessnous had destroyed the Holy Marker of Harvest. The Prophets declared a Holy War. After a few months they modified their fleet of reclaimation into a Warfleet with fiery lances for all who would burn the Heresy of Humanity clean. In the meantime they sent their proud elites to another world to tame a race of Giants to help purge the galaxy of Humanity.
Thats what I think! Give me input!
[Edited on 12/9/2004 6:46:30 AM]