- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: ahdinh2
Posted by: Zephrix
Well i dont really like the quote "If it ain't broken, dont fix it"
The reason which I stated it is because:
Posted by: Aerien
Since the Covenant are the first alien races the humans have encountered, they never really needed to develop more sophisticated weapons. Projectiles have, do, and will always work very well against the human species.
Before the Covenant arrived, if bullets could still kill Human, then there would be no need to to "advance" the way of killing someone.
They didn't advance the basics too much - more efficient assault rifles and pistols, better sniper rifles, etc. Because there will always be insurgents in any species, these would still be developed just like they are today.
However, I was mainly talking about advancing weapons for use in space battles. If you took a normal artillery cannon into space, it would fire, but it would be incredibly hard to actually hit something. As the battleships get more and more advanced for travelling to different planets/galaxies, new weapons would have to be developed to stop these ships in the event of a rebellion.
Yeah I bet you 500 years ago in a play they wouldn't believe we were still using gun powder. Hell 500 years ago they sure as hell thought we would have robots doing our work right about now. Besides halo does not take place during are time line . Our universe doesn't come about untill the next collapse/ rebirth or possibly even a few births/collapses after that. Considering that the human race in halos time started from scratch 100,000 years before the game it's really damn good as humanity in our time has been around for 300,000 years at our current stage and we still don't have all the technology they have.
Think about it like this: the Halos would really only kill off anything that had enough biomass to sustain the Flood. We are fairly sure that lifeforms like grunts do not have sufficient biomass, since we see no combat forms of them. Now, a human child would have around the same amount or less biomass than a grunt would. Logically, this would mean that things like grunts and human children might not be killed by the Halos, allowing the species to survive and grow in the last 100,000 years.