- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Doggy Biscuits
The Covenant have technology like a thousand years ahead of humans in Halo. They can go through hyperspace faster than human vessels, have shielding on their vessels unlike human vessels, have weapons that instantly melt through titanium, and have many more troops than Earth does. According to the books, the first time a Covenant vessel was every defeated, it was outnumbered ten to one. And a Mac Gun does not instantly destroy a Covenant ship, but it does lower the shields a good bit.
But you ahve to remember that all the covenant technology is borrowed from the forrunners and EXTREMELY in-efficient. Keys alone took out around 3 or 4 covenant ships in one UNSC Frigate. So i dunno what your talkinfa bout but it is possible for the humans to fight back. They put up a real good fight on Reach, the covenant just sorta overwhelmed them rahter than out fought them.
And we must also remember that this is 1/3 of the way through the game, that can be up to 5 levels. So it really doesnt happen all that fast. Ill bet it has a huge cinematic in the beggining with space battles and crap happening, and then we will go to MC on the Forerunner ship and that is where it will start off.
[Edited on 5/13/2006]