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Posted by: SparD
"The Covenant was forced to rely on orbital bombardment, a strategy against which the Mgalekgolo had little to no defense. Thus, to save themselves from extinction, their only choice was to agree to join the Covenant..."
-Dunno how valid that is (http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Hunters
Would love for someone with the Halo Encyclopedia to quote that directly with a page number because the wikis seems to directly contradict Contact Harvest's brief passage which clearly explained that the Elites were "ill equipped" to resort to tactics such as orbital bombardment because that would mean destroying the Lekgolo fortifications, which in turn was made of up of Forerunner relics, materials, etc, which, in turn meant they couldn't because they would risk destroying those artifacts should they commit to the choice. Hence why the Arbiter's suggestion of taming the Hunters come in as a viable alternative to their normal means of conducting warfare. So it's puzzling that the encyclopedia would write up and establish something drastically (relatively speaking) different from what was established.
Of course, there was also the controversy of the Halo Encyclopedia supposedly copy and pasting Halo wiki articles, and with their extremely reliable posts I wouldn't be surprised if things turned out as they did as the result of copy and pasting the usually assumptions that were spread across the wiki. More so than usual back then...
In any case it would be nice if the passage and page number can be put up somewhere down the line by a reliable member since the Halo wikis can't seem to get their own sources straight.