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Posted by: Naked Crook
Posted by: CTN 0452 9
According to Stomping on the Heels of a Fuss there are deep feuds between different clans, so that even when they are cut off from the Covenant leadership they will eventually descend into chaos. Especially once they start getting hungry.
If brutes start killing each other after a short time without leadership, or an immediate target imagine what the remnants of the covenant are going through after the events on the Ark. It is true that they have a common enemy, but it is likely that many of the remaining brutes will kill each other before the elites find them.
Lol...they get cranky when they are hungry.
But yeah...so is the way of things.
But that is how the Brutes work...the fact there WASN'T a fight, with one brute killing another to establish and keep order...Parabum did kill Ceretus...but obviously not fast enough.
It's pretty obvious the Brutes didn't kill each other because the UNSC eventually came and killed the remaining Brutes.
We can surmise that the Brutes did keep order in the ranks, although their methods and ideals precluded any peaceful solution, they still were intact when the UNSC arrived to mop up.
I think the cohesion of Brutes is underestimated. They are called pack creatures...and yes, in packs, there can be killing of subordinates...but a pack never just utterly destroys itself, and it never tears itself apart.
Sometimes...I question the writers and their knowledge of the material they base the Brutes on.
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As for the IQ of an Elite...
I would say equal to that of humans.
Each pack comes from different clans though, and the clans do not get along with each other when left to themselves. Some clans might be conquered by a stronger clan and assimilated, but that does not mean they will be cohesive to each other. They will fight at the first chance they get, as Stomping on the Heels of a Fuss indicates. What does it actually say about the Brute survivors at the end of the story? It sounds from the summary, like it was not anything organized but rather those Brutes who were still alive.
I don't think a race that bombs itself back to the Stone Age is very cohesive, cohesion between clans is not something that can be expected of the Brutes.