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Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: grey101
They were more focused on colonizing than fighting, that has been told several times.
This x10000.
It's kinda annoying how much I see of people -blam!-ing about the UNSC not using energy weapons or such while ignoring the at least 300 years of COLONIZATION. No war, just colonizing.
Tell me, if the earth had no wars from... American revolution to the present, would we be having the same guns/aircraft/etc? The answer is very simple. No. Even if we had tech advances, it'd be peace-related, not weapons.
It still does not explain why advances in genetics, computing, materials and physics have been stunted so much.
3 examples: They apparently still use silicon based hardware for computing. Ignoring the obvious fact that silicon will no longer give us an increase in computing power by the middle of this century, where are all the advanced concepts like quantum computing or graphene based computers?
People still age in the Haloverse as if it was today. Parangosky has one foot in the grave at 90... A team of scientists managed to reverse ageing in mice, the only issue is that it could raise the chances of cancer. But hey, the Haloverse treats cancer like a simple ailment. They can beat it very easily it appears. With 500 years worth of research into genetics I would expect people to be living indefinitely from these discoveries. It is not like resources or space is an issue either.
This is probably attached to the previous point, but how are they only making breakthroughs with bio-engineering in 2500? 500 years of genetics, and the best they could do was 33 out of 75 augmented Humans.
And none of these are strictly military research either. They are all tied to either improving living standards or to improving the chances of an industry making profit when its products become obsolete.
For being a futuristic society 500 years in the future, the UNSC appears to be quite stunted. With the increased understanding of the universe and the laws of physics that they should have I honestly fail to see how they find Covenant technology a mystery. 100 years ago the physics community did not know about relativistic effects nor quantum effects, which are major pillars of physics. In 500 years in Halo, it looks like they have barely moved an inch since today despite how many revolutionary breakthroughs we have made in the past 100 years. The only thing they really have demonstrated to have over us in terms of understanding the universe is slipspace, but they cannot even understand that properly. They have had 300 years to study it, and are just completely stumped at everything the Covenant can do with slipspace.
The UNSC's technological and scientific growth has been severly retarded for some reason.
So making an easy cure for cancer, heavily augmenting(Including covering bones with metal), pocket-sized/small devices that can flash clone organs, making flash clones of human biengs that retain memory of their orignial, cryosleep, and neural interfaces don't count as progress in genetics/biomedical fields?
So "dumb" AIs that can single-handedly run cities and "smart" AIs that can run planets as well as out think our best minds, as well as making armor that can house them doesn't, doesn't qualify as significant progress in computing?
So discovering slipspace, creating ships/space-craft that can effectively manuever in space, utalizing fusion reactors and having the ability to implement them in armor, reverse engineering alien energy shielding technology, creating a man-portable laser weapon, utalizing railguns in things ranging from sniper rifles to space ships, and having the ability to terraform entire planets doesn't qualify as progress in physics?
Sorry, i didn't know we could/can almost do that today at the same level the UNSC can.