- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Bungie is correct in predicting the future of military warfare. In 2552 there will be guns that use bullets, similar to the ones we use today but with new gadgets, etc. Now, in order to know why that is true we must look at the history of the "Gun" and other military weapons.
The first reason for needing to know the history of the gun is to see how much progress we've made since the creation of the first gun. The first "gun" was used in 1259 (a cannon) in defence of a city. gunpowder was invented even further before, as early as 900 A.D., but was first used against their enemies in 1067. now, how far have we advanced? Not much. Most technological breakthroughs since that time have been towards transportation. the cannon was the first gun. then came muskets. then rifles. the cannon was used as late as the civil war and probably even further! the only new true changes, besides changing ammunition shapes and weapon configurations, the gun remains unchanged. shells and warheads are nothing but souped up cannonballs. missiles credit transportation breakthroughs (rocket technology) more than military breakthroughs, for it is more or less a guided cannonball. so, it is logical to assume that in 500 years there won't be THAT many changes to military weaponry, ESPECIALLY infantry weaponry. The Mac Guns are about as advanced as we're going to get 500 years later. But as I stated earlier, Transportation is what has been getting more and more advanced. We went from sailing boats and horses to steamships and trains and cars and plains and now spaceships. all within 1 and a half a century! so space travel as documented in halo is likely to occur 500 years later.
[Edited on 7/12/2004 3:56:23 PM]