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Posted by: grey101
Study of English isn't a physics (although it is a science in itself and to be as good at it as I intelligence is a necessity) but I assure you I'm great at physics, biology and all that lark too; I'm a very intelligent guy, and although to assert my intellectual superiority over you when my only assessment of your own cognitive abilities are through your poor communication would be fallible, I'll do it anyway because it's a laugh and you're very easily antagonised. You especially seem sensitive about your intelligence and its relation to that of others', always trying to find a way to put yourself above someone else -- you should see someone about that because it won't get you anywhere in life, socially or professionally.
"I haven't been around and I'm pretty much outclassed." Perfect example of that narcissism; do you actually realise what a -blam!- you sound like? I hope for your sake you're not like this in real life. Just because I haven't been insulting every person with a suggestion like you, it doesn't mean I haven't been checking in regularly; I'm up to date on practically all Halo canon now aside from the CEA terminals.
The Jiralhanae put a gas in the Unggoy food nipples to boost their aggression; this is a chemical change affecting the central nervous system and changing the receptors of enzymes/cells in the body, and has nothing to do with genetics whatsoever.
Organisms can build resistances to hazards in a surprisingly short amount of time; look at anti-biotic resistant bacteria, for example. This is a beneficiary evolutionary trait for the species involved. Changing a species' complete psychological and mental state to the extent that they're a less intelligent species is unlikely in such a short space of time, especially when the Sangheili aren't exactly slaves in pits -- they're still educated, just suppressed in what they can know. Knowledge does not equate to intelligence.
"There is no reason the Prophets could not have done something to the Elites." No. There are billions of Sangheili out there and only a certain amount of San 'Shyuum, with the group willing the participate in such a morally devoid practice miniscular therefore. Disregarding for a moment the nigh-impossibility of gathering all Sangheili into one place so they can be genetically retarded, to carry it out they'd need to look outside the San 'Shyuum; Unggoy are too dim-witted for such a ploy, Kig-Yar are too devious and the prospect of Jiralhanae Doctors proficient in genetic engineering is humourous in itself. Despite all that, the most important reason -- the Sangheili as a whole would not let the Prophets anywhere near them or their young. That very idea is absurd.
Not to mention a lack of motive. For thousands of years the San 'Shyuum and the Sangheili co-existed in mutually beneficial symbiosis -- to retard their closest allies would be lunacy. It was only with the ascendancy of Truth, Regret and Mercy that hostilities brewed. Are you actually try to suggest that in the thirty rough years between Restraint, Obligation and Tolerance being replaced and the Great Schism that the San 'Shyuum not only created a restriction enzyme capable of splicing the Sangheili plasmids (assuming that they even had a map of the Sangheili genome which, judging by the Covenant's lack of innovation is improbable), add the base pairs (which they would have to synthesise, an effort in itself), and combine it with ligase but also splice this altered DNA strand into the body of every single Sangheili and that this would have an effect in the thirty years? Of course not, you'd need at least a generation or two for any small impact and many more for it to be felt significantly, and that's assuming it would work with Sangheili anatomy.
My biology isn't the best, but I think it's you out of your depth here, mate. Glasslands is a cool story, I thought Lucy killing the Huragok was sad.
Edit: an alien puzzle being basically a Rubix cube. -blam!- lol. Professor Rubix will be happy to hear that then, when we encounter alien life he can sue them for infringing on his copyright.
[Edited on 11.22.2011 1:11 PM PST]