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"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum
Posted by: cRiPpL3fIgHt45
Posted by: anton1792
Bungie needed a way to make it feasible for Humanity to defeat the Covenant.No...just no.
Yes, oh yes.
It is nothing short of idiotic for Truth to have made the decision that he made and have the Elites not only excommunicated but then exterminated. Exterminating them would require resources, ships and more soldiers, and with the Elites gone this pressure is going to be dumped on a reduced military and economy. The Elites are no pushovers, as well as still having control over a massive amount of resources and equipment. The damage to the Covenant would have been final, and he is too smart to have not known that.
Changing the guard alone was perhaps a sensible move if he suspected that the Elites would rebel soon, but choosing to exterminate them takes an event which is only a possibility and makes it a certainty. This is supposed to be the person who did everything in his power to preserve the Covenant by making sure the Elites never rebelled. He kept the true nature of the war on Humanity censored from billions despite the mountain of evidence around. He is a master at manipulating and planning. Him doing something so stupid when he is just about to defeat Humanity at Earth and activate the Array is frankly out of character. He could have waited 2 months before purging the Elites, which would mean that Humanity would have been crushed utterly leaving him to focus fully on the Elites by using the defeat of Humanity as justification for reducing their military capability (No more war) and then using the full might of the Brute led Covenant to smash the now reduced might of Sanghelios. It is not like the Elites were upset with exterminating Humanity or were doubting their faith and were imminently about to rebel about these issues. They would have done as they were told in the same fashion as they did so for the past 27 years, for the near future. Why did Truth not wait 2 months? Unless the Elites were literally on the streets rioting over something, then I see no reason why he made the choice at that moment.
So yes, Bungie did sort of just pull it out of their ass.