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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
The repair part can be taken many way. One is that the ships weren't maintained (unlikely, seeing as most Elite ships had Engineers one board...)
or they couldn't be easily repaired after taking heavy battle damage.
Edit: About the engineers 'leaving' the covenant... I find that unlikely as well. Simply because they didn't have ships, and had nowhere to go. They couldn't steal a cruiser easily and just leave.
Well, one does not have to walk out on them. All they need to do is refuse to work. The Sangheili can threaten them and kill them, but that is about all they can do, and it would change nothing. If the Huragok said no, then that would be it I would imagine. Or the Sangheili may have let them go, reluctant to commit even more genocide to try to get them to co-operate. You would not want detained and imprisoned Huragok working for you either. What if they rig the reactors on Sangheili ships to explode out of spite? Could they take the risk of using technology that could be rigged? If the Huragok really did not want it anymore, there really is nothing that one could do to stop them.
The Sangheili do not have the ability to construct or repair Covenant grade technology. This was never really an issue because they had the Huragok there to do that for them. Now they are making a big deal out of it for some reason. One has to ask, why all of a sudden? If the Huragok have performed a mass exodus from the Covenant, which is possible, then this is could be a reason why.