By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
Posted by: Michael McNeil
actually if I am not mistaken the profits in the covenant are a small number from their home world, which means that they are not in fact extinct... however should their species make a come back, their role maybe much different, maybe allies to the humans as we have some kind of like to the forerunners?
The Stoics chose to remain on their homeworld, years later their planet's star went supernova and it disintegrated.
The profits that may have survived high charity will be in too few numbers to continue on, they were bearly hanging on as it was given their few numbers and strict breeding laws that were in place to control inbreeding...
These laws lead to the political games men ship that allowed for the wrong profits to gain power and deem humanity an abomination when in fact their religion would have had the profits bowing at our feet.
The Prophets would be too tired to carry on a war, it was only because of Truth that the others were seemingly indictinated into believing in his crucade against humanity. After their history of long and blood wars (Reformist/Stoic war, Sangheili First Contact war, wars inside the Covenant etc), the Prophets will just sit this one out.