- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Halo_tru7h
Posted by: ghost91
I dont understand, if earth deflected the first invasion and the covenant are at civil war. Where did this huge force come from to kill humanity. Then again maybe its not important since this might not even be the way things turn out.
Let me just say one thing, we do not know that the force seen in the movie is there to kill humanity. Notice how the ships go right past MC and not even see him. Also, when the Forerunner device is activated, you can see some of the ships flee. So, it is a possibility that the Covenant fleet seen in the trailer is on MC's side.
The description says a Covenant controlled Earth, but which side of the Covenant? When we left Halo 2, there was a civil war in the Covenant, so we could assume that the side of the Covenant against the humans took control of Earth, but now MC is taking it back, with the help of the other side of the Covenant.
The only problem with that theory is that the covenant civil war was taking place on the other side of the galaxy during all of this. Chances are, that elites arn't all of a sudden going to start shooting brutes because there is a civil war on another planet. It's very possible that WHILE the MC was away, the Earth got overrun by the covenant forces.