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Posted by: HunterX25
Posted by: jaktheripper
By the time the Fall of Reach rolls around, the UNSC had been fighting the Covies for a while. If you remember from the books, they were planning on stealing a Covenant ship and flying it into Covenant-occupied space to locate and kill the Prophets.
I'm pretty sure they had had more than sufficient contact with the Elites, Brutes, etc. In fact, according to the books, the Prophets and the Engineers were the only Covenant races that humans had had no real contact with prior to Reach.
So it's not too far-fetched to think that they would have had adequate translation software by now.
There are a few things wrong with this. First off, sure they wer going to capture a covenent ship, but they had Cortana. And it still took her a minute to figure out what they were saying. Second off, the humans had no contact with the brutes before Master Chief attacked the big ship thing at the end of First Strike. Thirdly, the Humans new about the engineers well before reach. in Fall of reach, the spartans found engineers disassembling cars on the planet with the french name. Just wanted to clear that up.
Read Contact Harvest, the Brutes, along with Jackals and Grunts, were the first Covenant to make contact with humans. This occurred some 20 years or so before the events surrounding the Fall of Reach.