- Backfjre
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Well in First Strike I believe Cortana got a ton of data which she brought back and that probably advanced the translator tech significantly.
But here's what I think actually happened.
Halo CE was the first game in the series, and it shows in that. Not alot of story development compared to later games.
Halo 2 came around, and the plot benefited from actually being able to talk to these aliens we spent the whole first game despising, and Bungie just chalked it up to improved tech with the Mark VI suit.
I'm not sure how related First Strike's plot point of having all this new data from Ascendant Justice is, it could have just been a happy coincidence that answered this question in our understanding of the covenant, or it could have been an intentional seal to the plot hole, either way... does it matter?