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Posted by: bruteslayer34
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Posted by: PrecisionUncle
You think they are stupid, and yet they have superior technology?
Stolen technology. None of it they developed themselves.
How much technology did humanity build themselves.
What has Humanity got to do with anything? Why are you bringing them into it? They have got nothing to do with the fact that the Sangheili only reached Tier 2 by copying Forerunner designs and receiving handouts from the San-Shyuum.
Anyway, the answer to your question is all of it, with the exception of only 3 things: Energy shields, the Rhino weapon platform (Plasma weapon) and a specific type of slipspace drive designed to map temporal fluctuations in slipspace. The Covenant basically stole all of that, plus more. The Shield Worlds, like the one in Halo Wars, are where the Covenant got most of their technological developments when they discovered them. It is a clear theme in Halo that the Covenant are imitative and owe almost nothing to their own intelligence or back-breaking work.Atleast were intelligent enough to use that tech!
You are clearly missing the point. They are imitative, not innovative. It means that they rely on copy and paste principles for their technology rather than understanding, creative thought, research and development. The Covenant cannot use that technology to anywhere near its full potential because they do not understand how it truly works; they do not understand the scientific principles underpinning the technology. All the races really do, Sangheili included, is push buttons with everything being automated and done for them. Perhaps the occasional scholar type will dig a little deeper and change a weapon's design but that is it. They do not understand the technology.
The Prophets are the only ones with a deep understanding of the Covenant's technology and even then, if it were not for the Engineers the Prophets themselves would not understand the technology or be able to reverse-engineer Forerunner designs. (I should also mention that the Engineers themselves are Forerunner creations, stolen from special Forerunner facilities by the Covenant...)
Humanity has a superior personal energy shielding system over the Covenant; Mjolnir shields are stronger and recharge faster than the average Sangheili shielding system because unlike the Covenant, Humanity studied the physics behind it and then reproduced it and then improved it. Humanity's AI is decades, perhaps even centuries, ahead of the Covenant's AI and that is without Humanity even touching anything alien to achieve that.
So the answer is: No, they are not intelligent enough to properly use that sort of technology. Humanity is, on the other hand, capable of not only understanding it, but taking it to a level above the Covenant's standards. Give Humanity a Forerunner shield world, and then 3000 years to study it (Like what the Covenant have had) and Humanity would probably have far eclipsed the Covenant in development by the time that was up.