- prometheus25
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Old school Bungie, born and raised,
In the Septagon is where I spend most of my days.
Relaxin', maxin', posting all cool,
Talking about Halo, life and some school.
Got in one little argument, and the mods got scared,
they said "You're gonna get banned and your member title'll be bare!"
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: prometheus25
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Posted by: Raylette
One explanation I can offer for the Infinity development is Vergil. Oni having an engineer would boost their ability to integrate Forerunner technology much faster than normal. It's a bit more speculative, but much more reasonable.
Here's the rub, Glasslands apparently states Vergil, and all those engineers from the AJ(first strike) don't exsist. I've only heard they reference a single Engineer which they 'have had for years', apparently also referenced in Stomping on the Heels of a fuss.
I would imagine that all the engineers would have been destroyed along with the Ascendant Justice. Remember that the Cole Protocol had two parts. Not only were ships supposed to destroy all navigational data if capture was a real possibility, but no Covenant tech was allowed into Human controlled space.
Bringing a Hurogok into Human controlled space would be a high risk for a society that knew so little about them. Of course, we know that it wouldn't have been bad, but we're nearly omniscient, outside viewers.
A: It's clearly said they moved ALL surviving engineers from Cortana's air purge into the Gettysburg before the split.
B: They brought a covenant slipspace drive to Earth anyway. And Cortana cleared the Engineers/knew they were harmless. As ranking 'ONI' person left, I doubt she'd just kill them.
It's been so long since I've read first strike...
Don't really have an answer for you, I suppose. Perhaps it just slipped through the cracks. A lame excuse, I know, but what are you going to do? Can't really change it.