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I have studied the different races and backround information on each covenant but it does not say what they actually may have done before they went to war with the Humans. So far here are my theories.

Grunt - Miner, or climber
Jackal - The hunters of the group they would search for food.
Elite - Chieftain of the group
Hunter - No Idea
Brute - Body guard maybe just as they are now.
Phrophet - The religous leaders of them all.

Those are just my ideas but if you think you have come up with a better idea please tell me and why.

  • 05.09.2004 2:42 PM PDT
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hunters were probably like warriors or something of that sort

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The Hunter's name say it all. They are purely hunters.

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The Hunters name was given to it by the U.N.S.C. Therefore it does not imply what it actually did for the Covenant before the war, If it was part of the Covenant.

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I think the warrior think may be partially correct but it doesn seem like there are many of them so they wouldnt make good footsoldiers because there arent so many.

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shadow do you always have to be correct at every thing you so or is that just your personality

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maybe then hunters are obese civilians that have too much time on their hands whatching 65" plasma tv's and eating bon bons so they enlisted in to the covenent military.



i think i might be on to something

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The Hunters are a weird race in the Covenant force. They seemed very removed from the other races. Like when John and the rest of Blue Team were infiltrating Corte D Azur they found the Jackal that had been trampled by the Hunter and just left in a pile of gore on the ground. The Hunters may not have had a role at all. Maybe none of the Covenant have certain roles. Maybe before they began studying humanity if they were not studying another species they were just a seperated force that had their own planets with their own priorities. If they were to have roles, the Grunts and Jackals are regarded as the lowest form in the Covenant force, so they may have been the workers or builders, they come in large numbers and are ordered around like pets of their elders. They Elites were probably the authority of the Grunts and Jackals, policing them, telling them what to do. The Prophets, I agree with you, seem to be the religious leaders of the Covenant. As for the Hunters and Brutes, they both seem very sucluded. Perhaps they are only called upon to fight during combat, but actually have no role in the Covenant society.

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Posted by: Cool_Cow
I have studied the different races and backround information on each covenant but it does not say what they actually may have done before they went to war with the Humans. So far here are my theories.

Grunt - Miner, or climber
Jackal - The hunters of the group they would search for food.
Elite - Chieftain of the group
Hunter - No Idea
Brute - Body guard maybe just as they are now.
Phrophet - The religous leaders of them all.

Those are just my ideas but if you think you have come up with a better idea please tell me and why.


I think you are forgetting something here. none of these aliens lived on the same planet. they are all part of the "covenant" of aliens that were conquered/persuaded by the prophets to believe in their religion and fight with them. for example the grunts wear those packs on their backs because their homeworld did not have oxygen so they breathed another gas. (forget what)
so none of the aliens had these "Jobs" Before there was fighting each race lived independently. like humans, we are all the same species but we all have different roles.

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Grunts breathe methane.

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Posted by: Cool_Cow
I have studied the different races and backround information on each covenant but it does not say what they actually may have done before they went to war with the Humans. So far here are my theories.

Grunt - Miner, or climber
Jackal - The hunters of the group they would search for food.
Elite - Chieftain of the group
Hunter - No Idea
Brute - Body guard maybe just as they are now.
Phrophet - The religous leaders of them all.

Those are just my ideas but if you think you have come up with a better idea please tell me and why.


I think you are forgetting something here. none of these aliens lived on the same planet. they are all part of the "covenant" of aliens that were conquered/persuaded by the prophets to believe in their religion and fight with them. for example the grunts wear those packs on their backs because their homeworld did not have oxygen so they breathed another gas. (forget what)
so none of the aliens had these "Jobs" Before there was fighting each race lived independently. like humans, we are all the same species but we all have different roles.



he is technquilly right

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me? why thank you (if you were talking to me0

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I think of it like the covenant as say our world and society today.

We know (or think) the covenant are racist against each other. And they come from their own individual planet systems. So think of it like, they're in a shakey alliance with one another.

Here in California, a lot of people here don't like Mexicans. Yet we hire them for labor all the time. (I'm not racist btw, it's just a poor example) So, think maybe where I live we are the Elite's planet. The majority is quite racist against the Grunts on their planet, yet we (the Elites) work with them in spite of our disliking for them.

Does that remotely make sense?

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They have always been warriors nothing else

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What does that acutally have to do with my theory all you said was that they lived on different planets what I was reffering to was what they were born naturally to do but I do think that Jackals were on the same planet as the Elites Ex.= Same blood color. If you say though for example that a rabbit has Red blood but were not the same when in fact we are 75% similiar with rabbits and somewhere in the percentage of every other animal on earth.
Some of the races may have well been secluded but that has nothing to do with what they were naturally designed for. Think about it a work ant was born to do what? Serve the queen everything has a porpouse its just that now there real porpouse has been squashed due to the war but they still do have that original porpouse.

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Posted by: Cool_Cow
What does that acutally have to do with my theory all you said was that they lived on different planets what I was reffering to was what they were born naturally to do but I do think that Jackals were on the same planet as the Elites Ex.= Same blood color. If you say though for example that a rabbit has Red blood but were not the same when in fact we are 75% similiar with rabbits and somewhere in the percentage of every other animal on earth.
Some of the races may have well been secluded but that has nothing to do with what they were naturally designed for. Think about it a work ant was born to do what? Serve the queen everything has a porpouse its just that now there real porpouse has been squashed due to the war but they still do have that original porpouse.


So your saying that every single grunt is a miner or climber?? so who makes the food and manages society if every grunt is off mining, because the grunts DID live on their own planet. that is ridiculous. i dont think that an ENTIRE planet of a single species all mine and climb? and just what do you mean by climber? if what your saying was true they would all have died out.

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How about this explination then. Not every single grunt may have been one. What were humans designed to do? Who the flippity freak knows but we all have different interests and things we do for jobs. The grunts first purpouse when they first evolved may have been that and still may be for a majority is to mine why the rest take care of the matters needed to survive. If there instict at birth tells them to mine what do you think they do? Mine if ones instinct is to look for food what do you think they will do? If ones instinct is to rule then what do you think they will do? That is how they survived by doing what their instinct told them to do they are ruled by instinct. I mean when there commander dies from you when you are playing Halo whats there first action? Run! There itnstinct tells them to run and regroup. That is how they survived by following there instinct.

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as far as im concerned humans were DESIGNED to do anything specific. thats why we do everything. and thats why were are still here (where ever here is :)
and this is really a stupid thread. there is no way to determine what each race did before the covenant except for the prophets.

  • 05.09.2004 5:21 PM PDT