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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Indeed, and I remember something in Contact Harvest which said Truth had the Luminary 'reprogrammed' to track humans(After Harvest). Not sure on that part.
However, yes I fully believe Elites would have noticed something was up, unlike the Brutes who simply raged more and more and tried killing everything.
You are giving the Elites way too much credit.
The Prophets would have simply made another lie, and the Elites would have fallen for it hook, line, and sinker. You are talking about Prophets, a race of master liars. A good lie is easier to believe than the truth.
Even if the Elites were more skeptical than most races in the Covenant, and even if they analyzed the notion of all those Forerunner readings as being humans, and even if they brought it to the attention of the Prophets...the Prophets would have blamed it on a faulty luminary, thrown the word heresy around, some Grunts would have been executed for installing Luminaries incorrectly, and the war goes on. This is not absurd or a wild theory. Based on how the Covenant works...you could surmise this as being likely in a universe with no Brutes.
You give the Elites too much credit in this regard. You play them out to be all knowing and infallible, when, in fact, they followed the faith, for the most part, devoutly.
"They would have known...they always know what is best!"
And conveniently, you mention how the Luminaries were reprogrammed. This and that was reprogrammed! I wonder how long that took to reprogram ALL those Luminaries. There must have been tens of thousands, if not, hundreds of thousands of them. Time to burn the midnight oil on this one.
Posted by: Halopedian
Luminaries are of great religious significance to the Covenant and tampering with them was punishable by death. A Holy Writ, essentially the Covenant equivalent of folk wisdom, concerns the Luminaries, namely, "A Luminary does not lie."
I wonder...is it ever recorded in the Halo Canon...if, and where the Elites directly, and flat out, denied and questioned the findings of a Luminary? I don't think they ever did. Why would they do it in a universe without the Brutes?
Truth even said a Luminary was wrong when it identified the humans. Didn't the Elites buy the whole "Luminary is wrong" song and dance from Truth? I am pretty sure they did...because not until like...26...27 years after the war started did the Elites finally leave the Covenant...and only because of what happened on Delta Halo, at least that was the biggest reason, in my opinion anyway.
But yeah...the Elites would not have known any better. They would have made the same mistakes and, with no Brutes, there would have been no changing of the guard, no arbiter betrayal, etc.
Too much credit to the Elites. They are not even a race of scientific minds, at least, not great scientific minds. They are a warrior race above all else. They may have great military prowess, but that's it.
THey would have made the same errors.