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Posted by: RVB Fan 123
Posted by: Mutoid Log
The Covenant simply didn't know where the human worlds were. They had to resort to checking every star system in the orion arm. That's what took them so long. Also in the beginning of the war the UNSC outnumbered the Covenant in all space battles.
The covenant was never there to occupy. Their goal was to kill every single human, and orbital bombardment is the most effective way to do that.
This, and wern't they more concerned with finding Forerunner tech than fighting Humanity?yes but humans came up as forerunner artifacts on their scanners, they knew it was a corrupt right as the war began, they covered it up made new scanners and killed humanity because the prophets realized that we were infact the heirs to the rings, they could cover us up by killing us and labeling us as demons and any interaction with us heresy.
oops, might want to contribute to the post eh?
i think humans withheld the onslaught as best they could, the fact that we are an intuitive species rather than a imitative species like the prohpets meant we could adapt, we could come up with better defenses quicker, while they may have had the technological advantage, we were able to create things that could combat their technology before they could make it better. coupled with the fact that humanity was hiding the location of their worlds and with their worlds forerunner artifacts we hindered their learning while we kept advancing at a quicker rate due to captured technology.
i think elites are as powerful as they say they are, but maybe not as cunning as we see in books and games, they are blinded by their faith and run headfirst into battle instead of thinking for a moment and using their weapons in a more efficient way. same goes for space battles, covenant ships were better but the captains of the human ships were much more skilled in many cases.
[Edited on 02.22.2011 2:51 PM PST]