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Subject: The Covenant before Elites

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So I was thinking about something earlier and I wanted to know if any of you knew anything about it. Before the Elites joined the Covenant, what race was their primary soldier or did they gather all the races at once?

  • 06.28.2012 10:39 AM PDT

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Propably the Hunters, grunts, or Jackals.

[Edited on 06.28.2012 10:49 AM PDT]

  • 06.28.2012 10:49 AM PDT

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This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
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The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Oh god.

The Covenant was formed by the Elites and Prophets. The other races were later added through conquest and by absorbing them.

Before the foundation of the Covenant, the Elites and Prophets were in a war over Forerunner artifacts, which Elites considered sacrosant and the Prophets manipulated them to gain their technology. This infuriated the Elites which saw it as blasphemy and fought the Prophets. The Elites were vastly superior when it came to regular armies and one on one, but the tech obtained from the Forerunner artifacts gave the Prophets an edge (especially thanks to the Forerunner Dreadnought in space combat). The Elites were forced to also investigate and use Forerunner artifacts to level the playing field, violating the reason they entered the war.

The war ended with the Prophets almost exterminated, and the Elites severly damaged. They signed a treaty which name I can´t remember and thus formed the Covenant.

  • 06.28.2012 10:54 AM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
Oh god.

The Covenant was formed by the Elites and Prophets. The other races were later added through conquest and by absorbing them.

Before the foundation of the Covenant, the Elites and Prophets were in a war over Forerunner artifacts, which Elites considered sacrosant and the Prophets manipulated them to gain their technology. This infuriated the Elites which saw it as blasphemy and fought the Prophets. The Elites were vastly superior when it came to regular armies and one on one, but the tech obtained from the Forerunner artifacts gave the Prophets an edge (especially thanks to the Forerunner Dreadnought in space combat). The Elites were forced to also investigate and use Forerunner artifacts to level the playing field, violating the reason they entered the war.

The war ended with the Prophets almost exterminated, and the Elites severly damaged. They signed a treaty which name I can´t remember and thus formed the Covenant.


Ah I see. Well that makes a lot more sense, thank you.

  • 06.28.2012 11:27 AM PDT
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The Writ of Union was the treaty.

  • 06.28.2012 11:37 AM PDT

There was no Covenant before the Elites.

  • 06.28.2012 11:56 AM PDT

There was no Covenant before the Elites. The Prophets and the Elites had a war and in the end they had a treaty and created a Covenant. The Jackals, Drones, Grunts were in the Covenant at the beginning and later on the Brutes joined.

  • 06.28.2012 2:58 PM PDT

The Covies wouldn't be very powerful without the Elites as their main warriors.

  • 06.28.2012 3:13 PM PDT


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The Covies wouldn't be very powerful without the Elites as their main warriors.


Halo 3 in a nutshell.

  • 06.28.2012 3:40 PM PDT


Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
There was no Covenant before the Elites.

  • 06.28.2012 7:18 PM PDT
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Wort, wort, wort

The elites and prophets formed the Covenant. There was no Covenant before the elites

  • 07.07.2012 3:44 PM PDT

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The Covenant was formed by the Prophets and Elites. Their was no "before".

  • 07.07.2012 3:56 PM PDT