- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Nah, I think the technology they have for Halo makes a lot of sense. I mean, gunpowder has been the mainstay for weapons for something like the last 4 or 5 centuries and even with all of today's advancements it's not going anywhere anytime soon. All that's really changed about guns and gunpowder is how they are utilized. As for the vehicles, we're already reaching the threshold in modern times for how much functionality a military vehicle can have. You put too much capability in a combat vehicle and all you end up doing is confusing soldiers with too much data and diffusing the overall effectiveness of the vehicle. Some of the elements of the technology in Halo actually make perfect sense since military technology contantly goes through the cycle of making something better than someone else, that something being made obselete by opposing devolopments, and then the cycle repeats itself. Since the human tech is based on projectiles and defense against projectiles, it makes sense that basically everything (including the early stages of the Mjolnir Mark V armor) is designed to resist projectiles. Only when faced with a superior technology (the Covenant's energy weapons) does the human technology need to make the next big leap (i.e., Master Chief's shields). Also, since the only really big advancement between now and the time of Halo is the development of faster-than-light travel and it's incorporation into combat, there's really no reason why human ground-based combat technology would change all that much.