- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
What may seem feasable (through the first poster's idea on First strike) is that if the prophets want to kill the covenant (elites, jackals, grunts) they team up with the brutes. Since we all know the brutes dislike the elites and vice versa: so, there'll be 4 different sides fighting eachother; the prophets/brutes, covenant (meaning everything else thats left), the flood, and then the humans.
Oh, even better, the prophets learn of the halo installations immense power and find a way to survive it's main weapon, without telling the elites, but someone (MC or Cortana?) finds out and as a well played trick cortana sends a message to the covenant elites (the high ranking ones anyway) of the Prophets plans.