- dude527
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Posted by: Notanoob7
I think that they should add them, as the explanation for them not being seen was flimsy at best, and the story never relied on the fact that it was only elites. I wouldn't mind seeing some skirmishers rushing marines in Halo, or watching them flee in terror from my mad warthog skills in Cartographer and Assault, or even walking into their barracks accidentally and rousing a hoard of them. But any more than 4 encounters would make them too common.
Brutes are in the same boat. I can imagine them in one of the passages guarding the way to Captain Keyes, or the security room in the silent cartographer, or just running around trying to secure the Truth and Reconciliation during the flood attack on it, and especially having a brutal smack down with the flood on 343 guilty spark. Heavy security situations, like Thel said in the fluff in the Halo 2 manual thingy. But not too often, just like with the Skirmishers. It would be fun to run around with a BPR again too.
Enginiers would be okay on T&R, AotCR, and Keyes. Maybe The Maw as well.
Finally, drones should only show up on Halo (again rushing marines), Cartographer (once you open the door, there's that ledge to the right, good place for them to be hiding),Two Betrayals and the Warthog run on the Maw.
It wasn't a flimsy explanation; it worked. One single UNSC ship jumped. A fragment of an Elite fleet followed. That's how the Covenant works; each "higher caste" species gets their own ships and fleets. Each ship is not equipped with part-Elite, part-Brute, part-Drone, part-Skirmisher crews (though Grunts and Jackals are subservient species, and thus pretty common). Thus, seeing Brutes on an Elite ship would be strange, to say the very least.