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"I may not be perfect, but always been true."

So basically, pretty much everybody who has read Contact Harvest knows the reasons for the Human/Covenant war, but let's say, The Prophets actually accepted us into the Covenant instead of just massacring us without mercy with their hundreds of thousands of troops and ships.

What would have happened? What kind of treatment would we have gotten? Would we be just above Grunts or all the way up with Elites and Prophets due to our Reclaimer status?

Post your thoughts.

  • 03.10.2011 10:44 AM PDT

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Posted by: RKOSNAKE
So basically, pretty much everybody who has read Contact Harvest knows the reasons for the Human/Covenant war, but let's say, The Prophets actually accepted us into the Covenant instead of just massacring us without mercy with their hundreds of thousands of troops and ships.

What would have happened? What kind of treatment would we have gotten? Would we be just above Grunts or all the way up with Elites and Prophets due to our Reclaimer status?

Post your thoughts.


There'd be civil war eventually with all of the Covenant client races against humanity because all the other species would find out sooner or later that they are irrelevant to the Great Journey because Humans are the chosen ones and not them.

  • 03.10.2011 10:53 AM PDT

All throughout history great empires rise and fall. How you ask?
Two reasons:
1. Economic failure because of either inflation or socialistic programs.
2. War. Their armies were spread too thin and too far from home.

The United States has bases all around the world in "hazardous" areas and it's economy collapses it seems every 20 years. Do you really think that history won't change? Do you really think that you can run the world?


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Posted by: RKOSNAKE
So basically, pretty much everybody who has read Contact Harvest knows the reasons for the Human/Covenant war, but let's say, The Prophets actually accepted us into the Covenant instead of just massacring us without mercy with their hundreds of thousands of troops and ships.

What would have happened? What kind of treatment would we have gotten? Would we be just above Grunts or all the way up with Elites and Prophets due to our Reclaimer status?

Post your thoughts.


There'd be civil war eventually with all of the Covenant client races against humanity because all the other species would find out sooner or later that they are irrelevant to the Great Journey because Humans are the chosen ones and not them.


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  • 03.10.2011 11:01 AM PDT

If you're passionate about the thing you're talking about, I'll always lend an ear.

Hahah internal power stuggle.

I'm gonna bring up Mass Effect and the council with this.

It seems that the nature of Humanity will make them want a superior position until other's within the "alliance" become disgruntled with them. Leading to possible tension that could escalate into a full on war with the discovery mentioned above.

  • 03.10.2011 11:05 AM PDT

War would have come eventually, I'm sure that the Humans would have found out about the truth of Halo and wanted to stop the firing of said ringworld, plus humans don't like being the underdog they would push for a position equal to that of the Elites, Brutes, and Prophets. I think there would have been some fighting at first anyway, the Covenant has never peacefully taken a race in, there has always been some sort of battle or war beforehand.

  • 03.11.2011 4:26 PM PDT
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We would start probably equal to the Grunts, but we would overtake them pretty much straight away. I think we would easily work our way up the heirachy. We would probably end up equal to the Brutes for a while. I don't know what would happen after that. I suppose we would find Halo and then destroy all life in the entire galaxy thinking we were gonna join some Great Journey. Maybe we might have forced the Brutes out of the Covenant at one point to so that there was another war, but I don't really think Humanity would join the Covenant any (apart from maybe the Innies because they're idiots).

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  • 03.11.2011 6:22 PM PDT

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I agree with the people that say "civil war". It would be just like here on Earth, with the schism between Shi'ites and Sunnis over the caliphate. On the one hand, you have the Prophets, who for all this time have named themselves the sole interpreters of the Forerunners' will. Then you have the humans, who the actual Reclaimers, as it would happen. This would have led to the Great Schism on a much greater scale. This also begs the question: what happened after Halo 3, when the Covenant was all but destroyed, and an uneasy peace settled throughout the galaxy?

  • 03.11.2011 6:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: StealthSlasher2

Posted by: RKOSNAKE
So basically, pretty much everybody who has read Contact Harvest knows the reasons for the Human/Covenant war, but let's say, The Prophets actually accepted us into the Covenant instead of just massacring us without mercy with their hundreds of thousands of troops and ships.

What would have happened? What kind of treatment would we have gotten? Would we be just above Grunts or all the way up with Elites and Prophets due to our Reclaimer status?

Post your thoughts.


There'd be civil war eventually with all of the Covenant client races against humanity because all the other species would find out sooner or later that they are irrelevant to the Great Journey because Humans are the chosen ones and not them.

Heres an idea, think of it in the terms of that humans were not reclaimers and just another alien species

  • 03.12.2011 7:03 AM PDT