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"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum
Posted by: mojeda101
Posted by: CTN 0452 9
Posted by: anton1792
Win?
Everyone would be dead.
Delta Halo says hi!
Exactly, the Covenant wouldn't have won, but humanity would have lost.
No, they would have won. Their goal was to take on the great journey. Activating Delta Halo would have been their goal. Yes, they would have all died, but the Covenant still completed their goal.
From the readers point of view, they would have lost.
They wanted to achieve the Great Journey. Delta Halo was simply a means to an end. Delta Halo was also not the way to do so. Therefore they would not have achieved their goal and would have died. This is exactly the point. They would be dead, not in an afterlife - dead. Therefore, they would have lost in that regard. The Great Journey does not even exist, so they have an impossible goal to attain. They certainly would never have won in the readers eyes in this case. If their goal was to commit mass suicide, then you could say that they won.
From their own point of view they cannot win either, because again being dead negates the fact of them being able to say "Yey!, we won!", or even have a point of view in the first place.