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Posted by: OdorousLicense3
Posted by: Spartan1995324
Not sure.
Maybe because they didn't have time to train every average joe to pilot one of their ships?
That and it was almost impossible to capture one. Getting close was a nightmare.They could've used a prowler to get close enough and board it.
Then the troops get inside and get slaughtered.
The encounters we know about involved Spartans, AI working with them, and low numbers of opposing forces that would pose a serious threat.
The ship Chief highjacked with Johnson and the others had only 100 Elites, some grunts, maybe some jackals, and the rest was Engineers.
Cheif and the marines dealt with around 3 or so Elites, then flushed all the others out into space or sucked the air out of compartments.
Cheif was nearly killed multiple times, twice by Elites and once by Grunt gangbang.
So, these operations would sustain high casualties, need high numbers of troops assuming spartans were not involved, advanced AI to take over the ship, all for a minimal payout.
Once the word was out that Aescendant Justice was boarded, the ship was pretty much totaled in the fight.
So, overall, the conditions chief had were very lucky, and were it anyone else the operation would have likely failed. No point in wasting soldiers in an operation with low success odds. Only one's I could see being used were Spartan IIIs, and as it is they were needed elsewhere.