- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
besides, elites aren't really "arrogant". They actually just want to fight and kill, and, in doing so, honor their gods. The prophets are the true heretics, exploiting this religion while they themselves pay mere lip service to gods from whom they steal and plunder.
Add: Also, if the elites rebel, I think they should take the grunts with them. the grunts, being a conquered race, and being only serfs in the covenant caste sysem, shouldn't have much of a problem going to humanity. now, some think the grunts "hate" the elites, and the elites think the grunts are scum. However, once the elites realize that they too, are merely the prophets priviliged pawns, they might kind of fell "sorry" for the grunts (i don't really think the elites can feel sorry in the sense that we do, but they would feel a sense of kinship, like repressed minorities rallying against "the man"). The grunts in turn, don't hate the elites, they hate being used as canon fodder, and indeed, already respect/fear the elites themselves. once the elites came around, the grunts would probably go with them. Of course, the Jackals would see this as verification of what they knew all along: the grunts are inferior to themselves, and the jackals would stay with the prophets. The hunters, as anyone who has read the covenant primer on this very site would know, feel a certain kinship with the elites and their warrior mentality. As the hunters are a more recent addition to the covenant hordes, they would see no problem with taking advantage of the current situation by returning to their homeland and returning to their ancient ways, not to be seen much in halo 2 (it saddens me), or, forming their own rebel faction and striking back with a passion, or, just shoot everyone else, or join the elites but not the humans (the hunters have no particular reverance of the forerunners, or join the human side. Th brutes would obviously seize advantage of the power vacuum and start filling the elite role, or maybe there would still be a few, thick skulled elites still loyal to the covenant (their most probably will be, as bungie has been hyping the enemy elite AI alot). This mass defection could provide humans with some of our "lost" technology, and help explain how we could possibly win this war.
[Edited on 7/14/2004 10:38:53 AM]