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Posted by: CoolCJ24
One of my favourite topics in Halo to discuss (no sarcasm btw).
I think that the UNSC will take a LONG time to re-form to a decent level of power. The Human population is 200 million, Earth is a bit beaten up in places, but worst of all, only a couple of colonies remain if any.
There's going to be a lot of work put on re-colonising the important worlds such as Reach and Harvest.
this, but I also see Humanity being in an "uneasy" alliance with Sangheili....at first
Sure they may trade technologies and co-exist for a while (at least until a few decades after the Sangheili have defeated the Jiralhanae), perhaps with some sparse Sangheili settlements on some of the outer colonies, but ultimately this relationship is doomed.
I could see a Sangheili/Human war well after both species have rebuilt their resources. Perhaps it is Human greed and Sangheili honor being the straw that breaks the camel's back.
The Innies would still be against UNSC colonization post-war. Perhaps they no longer see the need for an overarching super-power/government now that the Flood and the Covenant have been eliminated. Sure, they were against UNSC before the war, but I think during the war they realized that the UNSC was their only hope for survival (at least after their attempt at trading with the covenant was an epic failure).
The Innies could potentially take advantage of the eventual Human/Sangheili conflict in seeing that it is their opportunity to work/trade with the Sangheili in order to defeat and disperse the UNSC.
Though Sangheili tend to view humans as weak, pathetic vermin, the Innies would probably try to gain their trust so that they might preserve their own existence after the UNSC is destroyed.
I don't see this ending well, however. Once again, in an attempt to obtain autonomy, the Innies misplace their trust and once again are betrayed by their "allies."
I think that the spartan program would secretly have been re-initiated after the conflict with Covenant. Conscription would have started before the end of the war, however.
Better MJOLNIR, better training, better weapons. These Spartans, trained by MC, will be more deadly than any of the previous incarnations. They will fight to a stalemate with the Sangheili during the eventual Sangheili/Human war.
Perhaps this future war will not be as costly, nor as destructive as the previous Human/Covenant war. It may only take place on the Outer Colonies. Eventually though, the Sangheili and Humans will agree to lay down their arms, with the Sangheili colonies being disbanded, all the warriors return to their homeworlds and the humans being left in the galaxy to their own.
Once again, alone.
EDIT: Harvest was important because of the amount of raw resources it produced.
From Halo.wikia.com:
Harvest was one of the UNSC's more productive and peaceful colonies, Within two decades of its founding, it had the highest per capita agricultural manufacture of any outer colony. Major crops, such as corn, wheat, watermelons, peaches, apples, grapes, and numerous other foodstuffs nourished the inhabitants of more than half a dozen other colonies
[Edited on 02.16.2011 10:08 AM PST]