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Subject: The Original Covenant
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This could be a stupid question but who...or what are the original covenant? Was it just plain elites who are the true covenant or was it the prophets who started everything...but that wouldnt make sense sense they cant really kill anybody. And so the Covenant just went to different planets and conquered different speicies so why dont the grunts, jackals, hunters and crap just go and form their own little alliances and destory the covie homeworld?

Im new cut me some slack Im just collecting What if answers :)

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I have a theory that the Forerunner put the covenant together... though we'll never know. - Or maybe we might.. we'll just have to wait.

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  • 07.13.2004 1:57 PM PDT
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the covenant are an alliance, there was no original covenant

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Prophets and Elites teamed up. The rest of the spieces where forced and enslaved.

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Prophet-Elite pact=Original Covenant who then assimilated other races into their society.

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The original pact was between elites and prophets, possibly engineers to. the other races we're conquered. if you need covenant info theres a cool site for it. go to
www.covenant-clan.co.uk and check out the battle net section.
or click the link in my sig

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Posted by: PriceChild
I have a theory that the Forerunner put the covenant together... though we'll never know. - Or maybe we might.. we'll just have to wait.


This beats the crap out of the theory that the Human race is the remainder of the forrunners. So why would the forerunners make a race to destroy themselves?

  • 07.13.2004 2:03 PM PDT
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The Forerunner did not put the covenant together. simply put... no

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Posted by: ghost rider 1
Posted by: PriceChild
I have a theory that the Forerunner put the covenant together... though we'll never know. - Or maybe we might.. we'll just have to wait.


This beats the crap out of the theory that the Human race is the remainder of the forrunners. So why would the forerunners make a race to destroy themselves?



It could have been because the Fore Runners Designed a race to protect the Halo....But then again the Conevants could have evolved to hate the entire human race....Its all very complicated...Well the way I'm looking at it is...

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I dount the forerunners put the covies together AND are humans, because the covies worship the forerunners, and dispise the humans.

  • 07.13.2004 2:06 PM PDT
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The forerunners didn't put the covenant together. the original races made a pact because it was mutually benificial. if you need covenant information I strongly advise you read every page of this site. http://www.covenant-clan.co.uk

  • 07.13.2004 2:09 PM PDT
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ok i know what happens in halo 2 (maybe) the human race is enslaved by the covenant, but the main prophet (or you could say, the covenent pope) falls in love with cortona, the covenent relizes the human race arent so bad, so the covenent doesnt end up killing everyone, they end up employing everyone, then covenant pope and cortona have a baby and it looks like a really nasty hologramish lizard thing with wings..and everyone lives happily ever after.

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sounds likea hollywood movie

  • 07.13.2004 3:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: Ops Agent 117
Prophet-Elite pact=Original Covenant who then assimilated other races into their society.


Yeah, but tthe funny thing is that the elites hate the prophets.

(ps. never tell anyone ur new kid)

  • 07.13.2004 3:09 PM PDT

Play as a team win as a team or die as a team!


Well they will know because of the date so it doesn't really matter.

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Dont really think teh Forerunners put together the covenant nor do i think that there human but maybe something happened along in time like perhpas they might have...been trying to expand their knowledge on the universe its self and perhaps they took soem creatures form earth or some other planet and did chemical expierments on them to turn them in to an elite/prophet. As for them being related to teh humans that could be true, perhaps at a point in time the mutated creatures known as the covenant hated the forerunners and wanted to kill them and then they went to earth as a safe haven to escape the covenant and they just kind of evolved or devolved into humans. Then after teh covenant realized how strong they were perhaps then they started praying to the gods or whatever?

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  • 07.13.2004 7:26 PM PDT
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what did us humans do to make the covies so pissed at us?

  • 07.13.2004 7:54 PM PDT
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WE didnt do anything.
Theyre trying to locate something on our planet.

Theyre actually a lot like -blam!-s. Theyre also trying to eliminate races close to them, or contesting them.

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  • 07.13.2004 7:54 PM PDT
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so any idea on what there lookin for

  • 07.13.2004 7:59 PM PDT
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Im goign by what everyone else has said. Posible ForeRunner Facilitys or Artifacts...Or maybe were just another arce and they feel like kicking our ass'es?

  • 07.14.2004 5:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: Mulletman262
Posted by: Ops Agent 117
Prophet-Elite pact=Original Covenant who then assimilated other races into their society.


Yeah, but tthe funny thing is that the elites hate the prophets.

(ps. never tell anyone ur new kid)


The Elites need the Prophets for their Forerunner knowledge and strong alliance with the Engineers, and the Prophets need the Elites for their military prowess.

And huh?? Right..........

  • 07.14.2004 6:12 AM PDT
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theyre religion tells them to kill all of us. that and there could possibly be a forerunner atrifact on earth. which no doubt there is.

  • 07.14.2004 6:26 AM PDT
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Each covie race hates one of the other for whatever reason...

But their religion is what keeps them bonded, they must stay together for their religion...

The prophets found the first remains of forerunner tehnology, they weren't powerfull enought to exploit it though so they formed an alliance with the elites they promised the elites power and showed them how their power (really forerunner technology) would help them, shields, technology etc...

They then started spreading throught the galaxy, finding remains of forerunner technology and recruiting other species into the covenant...

But then suddenly they came across the humans, a race with a mysterious history, the prophets suddenly realized that the humans were infact the decendents of the forerunner the remains of a lost civilisation that was nearly made extinct in a ancient war with a parasitic life form named the flood, the forerunners had fought bravely against the flood but had nothing left than to use their final weapons the halo's...

  • 07.14.2004 6:53 AM PDT