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"but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you?
Only when no Human brick is left atop another, shall we be satisfied with your destruction.
They need to be recharged, and presumably you need to replenish the gas they are using to make the actual plasma as well.
As to why the Covenant would go for that over replaceable power packs, possibly easier to engineer, but almost certainly political reasons.
The Covenant weapons are reverse engineered from Forerunner ones, they are gifts from the 'near-divine' prophets to the lower ranks, they don't want every grunt to be able to reload it on the fly. No, they want the grunt to look on it as something almost magical that they are allowed to use and then have to give back at the end of their deployment, otherwise if they fail to do so it simply stops working.
It also has the added benifit that if a soldier goes rogue he can't just take a rucsack full of ammo clips with him.
This of course means soldiers are relying on a power generator back at camp though, a potential point of failure.