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Posted by: MasterSin
Posted by: tsassi2
There are two possible reasons:
1. Humanity was in war constantly and they needed lots of weapons. You can't make lots of expensive high tech weapons because they're simply too expensive. Before UNSC was formed there was the interplanetary war. When UNSC was formed there was a small peace period then became insurrection and humanity was in war again. Then in the middle of insurrection came the Covenant.
There wasn't chance to get every soldier technically advanced gear. Of course there were some technological innovations like Spartan laser.
2. Humanity was more concerned about growing population in solar system and tried to solve the problem. In other words they were working on peace time technology like slipspace drives.
I believe the reason is combination of these two. As long as there is technology there is money and as long as there is money there are problems like budget and that kind of stuff. Plasma weaponry simply requires too much energy for it to be cost-effective.
We also shouldn't disregard weapon innovations like ship based MAC guns, orbital defense systems, Spartan projects, Spartan laser, NOVA bomb, M99 Stanchion gauss rifle and the list goes on. Weapons like MA5 assault rifle series, M6 sidearm series, BR55 Battle rifle, all different rocket launchers, all shotguns and sniper rifles were cheaper and quicker to produce. They also were reliable.
Also the Shaw-Fujikawa drive, the Tiara from Harvest, the Cryo sleep technology, the smart and dumb AI's! the space elevators, cars that has automatique drive, and they obey at voice command. goes on and on!
I had those in mind but I was mainly talking about weapon technology.