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Subject: About the Color Purple

This might be old, but I think I figured out why the Covenant Military has a preference to any color withen the spectrum between red and blue. It's the color of Sangheili blood.

The Sangheili value their blood greatly, treating it like the essence of their Honor. It goes to the point that some refuse to see a doctor.

The Sangheili themselves, as we all know, are the only military leader element up until the Jiralhanae were encountered. They were also one of the two founder races of the Covenant. Thus, they made up the first military of the Covenant, and had a more active role in the designing of the vehicles, ships, and weaponry.

[Edited on 05.01.2011 11:26 AM PDT]

  • 05.01.2011 11:17 AM PDT

That actually makes a lot of sense.

  • 05.01.2011 11:20 AM PDT

Vengeance only leads to an ongoing cycle of hatred.

Makes sense. I don't see why else they'd have that color.

  • 05.01.2011 11:45 AM PDT

To be honest, when I first saw all this in the weekly update I thought 2 things.
#1- there is an actual legendary ending but,
#2- No matter what anyone does,(kill all the bobs, hit all switches etc) that until the "time" mentioned in "There'll be another time..." is reached there won't be a legendary ending.

The weekly update by bungie has slowed my hardcore search for what unlocks the legendary ending.

Someone in this forum is finally starting to think

  • 05.01.2011 1:35 PM PDT
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makes sense, but before all the "sangheili honour" thing was really sort of thought out, jason jones chose purple because it was his favourite colour. But even before that, it was the forerunner architecture that'd be purple and curvy and the covenants' silver and edgy.

  • 05.01.2011 2:04 PM PDT

What a waste....

And only the supreme commander gets to wear full purple, as a sign that he has been bloodied in many battles but survived.

  • 05.01.2011 4:13 PM PDT

It makes sense, I can't believe I never thought of that. So obvious it was staring you in the face (literally).

  • 05.01.2011 4:17 PM PDT