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Posted by: Erdu Cololee
Brutes had achieved space flight prior to joining The Covenant but ended up destroying each other and sending themselves back into a primitive era. The Elites also achieved space flight before they joined The Covenant but gave up most science to focus on protecting the Prophets and furthering The Covenant.
Yeh the brutes are mentioned in the books as having been a space faring species but fought against each other andlost their technological advancements, their joining of the covenant if anything was just because they felt it allowed them to just back up to being an advanced species however when the covenant colapsed they most likely fell appart as well posing no major threat to humanity.
Elites culture only advanced into space fairing because of the covenant, they joined after a war with the prophets as they refused to use forunner technology as they saw them as holry relics that shouldnt be used. They joined after the prophets attacked them with their advanced forunner technology and the elites were forced to use the forunner dreadnaught on their homeworld to defend themselves. This resulted in them realising they had done what the prophets were doing and so joind the covenant and the dreadnaught became the structure centre of high charity.