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Even ignoring that this is sci-fi, on what grounds are you assuming that antimatter is going to be reasonably easy to harvest? When scientists DO contain it, they have to set up particles on a very careful planned-out track. You can't just wave a box with a carefully buult EM field around in an area that has naturally occuring antimatter and expect to capture it usefully.
Similar logic to yours could be used to argue that, since there's a LOT of carbon atoms around us, and since carbon interacts with the matter in our bodies, it's easy to collect diamonds by waving your arms about.
I'm not saying that humanity will never be able to efficiently produce antimatter, but it's not necessarily a given. Not ALL technologies improve THAT fast as time progresses. You might notice, for example, that the 60's-era Soyuz rocket remains to this day a popular launch vehicle for low Earth orbit.
edit: Of course, power is getting kind of silly in the Haloverse anyway, and modern physics can't really be applied. If you start doing some number crunching, nothing makes sense.
[Edited on 11.27.2010 3:12 PM PST]