- CoySmithy
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- Exalted Member
Actually, if I may interject my awesome geek powers here and compound upon what you have said, the War started because of more political reasons in the Covenant hierarchy.
In Contact Harvest, the Prophets (or rather, the San' Shyuum who were scheming to become Prophets) saw that the humans were being deemed Forerunner, by the relic-scanner. The whole binding glue of the Covenant, the conglomerate of species, the keystone keeping them together and not warring is the promise of the Great Journey; that if they remain faithful and subservient, they will ALL be guaranteed to "walk the blessed path", as is evident that ALL Forerunner (they believe) also took the Great Journey when the Halo rings were activated.
The fact that humans are irrefutable proof that not ALL Forerunner took the Great Journey, the entire founding beliefs of the Covenant would be undermined, and thus fall apart and it would be chaos and death, but more importantly, the San'Shyuum would no longer hold power.
So what do they do?
The 3 Prophets-to-be scheme and maneuver their way to power and begin a War with their prophetic Gods.
That is, IIRC. And I like to think that I do.
EDIT: Oh, and as for your original question, the story of the Mythic "First Firing" is what is told in the Terminals of Halo 3. I'm still trying to figure those out, though. Mkay. Hoped this helped. =)
[Edited on 06.17.2009 10:21 AM PDT]