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Posted by: firedune
1) Covenant weapons WERE reverse engineered from forerunner technology, but from much more primitive weapon technology, much akin to comparing the brute spiker to the plasma rifle. The brute spiker and plama rifle both fill the same role, but the spiker is much more primitive, as it is not strictly forerunner, but inflicts similar terrifying wounds to their target. The covenent must not be able to reverse-engineer later forerunner weapons, but why would they need to? If a sligtly less advanced weapon does the same thing as a more advanced weapon, why spend the effort in developing the latter? If you don't think that this is true, then why aren't the covenant using their own sentinels to fight wars?
2) First things first, what would a forerunner vehicle even look like yet alone fire? I agree with the theories that it fires a blue light beam, probably made of "hard light" (spartan laser?) due to the weapon seen in Halo Legends and the way that the forerunners build (some)bridges. the forerunners might not even have something like a tank. More likely they would use something silimar to a Hawk (halo Wars) as tanks are often slow and have limited transportational capabilities. This is not to say that they didn't have their uses for ground vehicles as planets are still large, even for forerunners.
1. That's also true. The Forerunner have their own alloy or something, don't they? But... do they have Sentinels on High Charity/the Dreadnaught? I'd say the tech that the Prophets have to work with is kinda limited, in a way. That, or they're just creating purpose-driven weapons, as you said. (If I got anything wrong there, let me know.)
2. Tbh, what Judge Bread (and you also) said kinda rings home. It might just be some super Sentinel or something, like a Strato-Sentinel, but fitted to the max with guns and other things. Imagine that...