- SweetTRIX
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- Exalted Mythic Member
Doc: "i'm a pacifist"
Caboose: "your a thing that babies suck on?"
Tucker: "no dude, that's a pedephile"
Church: "tucker, i think he means a pacifier"
Look, here's how I see it, the inclusion of Brutes, while entirely possible since Bungie has quite a bit of leeway on such details, is very improbable. My reason for stating as much is because of the politics surrounding the Brutes at the time that Reach was taken. I'm seeing a lot of misinformation flying around here, and one thing that is being missed is that the Brutes role was not simply that of "small" tasks, but also the tasks that the Elites would recognize as heresy, and departures from the beleif of the Covenant. This is the reason that the prophet heirarchs used them in the capacity that they did, because the Brutes were too foolish to question, whereas the Elites had much greater understanding of the Forerunners, and were not prone to following orders blindly.
All that being said, the destruction of Reach would be a "holy" mission to say the least, considering that it was established as a human stronghold and possibly homeworld from the Covenant POV. Everything available in the books and games make it a pretty safe assumption that a mission like that would not be given to a group that is black-balled such as the Brutes were at this juncture in the Covenant time-line.
Once again, it is all up to Bungie, as they have even gone on record stating that small details can and could be changed for anything in the prequal vein. However a change like this would upset something rather important to the Covenant structure, and while the gamers (people that only play the games) would not really know the difference or have any issue other than those that are gameplay related, the actual fans of the series (who have read the books) will most likely be taken aback by it.
Not to mention from a gameplay standpoint Brutes have always been terrible. We'll have to see how they are in ODST, but that will naturally be different as you are no longer a Spartan. I for one do not want Brutes anywhere in the Reach game, unless there are branches of the game that go off-world, and their prescence could be well explained.