- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Halifax
Posted by: Zamamee
that was a covenant Engineer
wait a minute, I thought that was a prophet. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't ever remember reading in the Fall of Reach that there were engineers.
In that part of the book, Halo: The Fall of Reach, it was describing a Covenant Engineer. I'll quote this directly from the book.
" Something else caught his attention, though. There were other aliens on the sidewalk-or rather, above the sidewalk. They were roughly man-size creatures-unlike any he had ever encountered. The creatures were vaguely sluglike, with pale, purple-pink skin. Unlike other Covenant forces, they were not bipeds. Instead, they had several tentacular appendages sprouting from their thick trunks.
They floated a half meter above the ground, as if the odd, pink bladders on their backs kept them aloft. One alien used a slender tentacle to open the hood of a car. It began to disassemble the car's electric engine, moving with startling speed." (page 183)
The Prophets use a device that allows them to float above the ground, but notice how the book describes the aliens that the Master Chief sees as being able to float with simply their bladders? Besides, I don't think the Prophets would resort to doing the dirty work that they can simply let the others do. That and one other difference separates them from the engineers: the Engineers have tentacles while the Prophets do not, to the best of my knowledge. Hope that helped clear some things up. =)