- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Of course not.
The Arbiter's alliace with Miranda and Johnson was under extraordiary circumstances. This was a situation where they-and all life in that section of the galaxy- would go poof within literally minutes if they didn't unite. The alliance probably won't last all that long after they get off the ring and away form the Flood. Possibly even before
Now, I'm not saying that the Arbiter is immediately going to turn on Johnson and Keyes- far from it. However, the Arbiter (and the rest of the Cvenant) has had anti-human propoganda drilled into them for thirty+ years, from all sides. Such strong indocteration doesn't go away in a flash. Even if some Elites reluctantly (and it will be reluctant), a very large amount- especially the younger elites, who have grown up never knowing any other existance than campaign against the humans- will take an "over-my-dead-body" aproach, and may even feel that they had somehow displeased the Prophets and Gods. Instead of seeing the exchange of hats as a simple coup/power struggle, they will think that they have fallen out of favor and deserve to die.
Note that none of the cannon fodder that "assists" you in the fight against Tartarus are of a low rank. They are all Councilors or Gold elites, with the occasional Spec Ops. This is because the senior elites, if their life spans are anything like human's, are old enough to have grown up in a time before contact with humans, and, based of the number of species in the Covenant's parthenon, when assimilation was the name of the game. Because of this, they were able to swollow an alliance with the humans, where young elites might balk.
[Edited on 5/21/2006]