- dude527
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But remember that you don't really start playing until 6 hours after crashing -- This is way past the Chief's visit to New Mombasa. I believe it was still on the tail end of Halo 2, but by this point, the slipspace rupture, the Chief, and then the Brutes had already killed a good number of the Elites in New Mombasa. Truth took this opportunity to insert Brutes into New Mombasa (the other Prophets didn't know about this). The only part I find hard to believe is that there was only one ship in the Covenant fleet, and it entered slipspace. It would take days for it to get very far, and it was the only Covenant ship in sight, if I remember correctly. Yet 6 hours later we have a complete Covenant occupation? I just personally found this very odd.
Then, I haven't played Halo 2 in years, and I could be getting my sequence of events mixed up completely, and that's probably it. Bottom line, the Elites that were in New Mombasa were killed first by the Chief, then by the slipspace rupture, and then by the Brutes that occupied the region within the 6-hour span following. And Truth is the Prophet that betrayed the Elites, before consulting the other Prophets. Yeah, that's it. Truth was trying to take over secretly, and gaining the trust of the Brutes and betraying the Elites was his key to doing that. So he allowed the Brutes to occupy New Mombasa.