- ender4449
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K I might believe a BR, and that you could get it but if you all would remember during both H2 and H3 you cannot give a Marine/ODST a sword during a weapon swap thus suggesting that the Marines and ODST's can't use the sword due to lack of knowledge/skill. Spartans are trained to use whatever is lying around as a weapon. Now yes the sword could have a simple button/switch to turn it on and off but then that would mean anyone, including Grunts(hang on..) could just pick it up and start going nuts with the thing. But if after an event like say The Grunt Rebellion forced the Covenant to restrict the use of certain weapons to certain groups, by say a biometric sensor that would detect the Elite bio-pattern and enable the Elite to turn the sword on. Now with all of the equipment in the MJOLNIR armor systems a simple biometric replicator wouldn't be that hard to install (note this is 514 years from now). Now some of you may remember that John Forge picked up a sword during his fight with the Arbiter on the Forerunner Shield world, however the Arbiter had already activated the sword and dropped it when Forge shot his hand with about half a clip from an M6.
That's my 5 cents