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I was just thinking about the top-secret Sabre program on Reach. As far as I remember, in Halo lore Humanity never managed to get basic energy shield prototypes onto ships, and it was only due to the work of their most brilliant scientists working for 20 years that they managed to get the MJOLNIR Spartan suit built from looking at Sangheilli battle suits.
So why would they suddenly have shield-capable fighters? And why, if at that point in the war they had the capabilities to mass-produce shielded ships (or at least had a bunch on hand), did they not try it on their capital ships first?
IMO, the ugly ratio of 3 human ships needing to focus all their fire on 1 Covenant ship is way more important than fighter-to-fighter combat.
[Edited on 02.28.2011 3:31 PM PST]