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Posted by: RKOSNAKE
Posted by: Wolverfrog
Posted by: RKOSNAKE
100,000 years is not enough time for a civilization to advance to be honest.
Mate, we went from mud huts to skyscrapers and from donkeys to spacecraft in way less than 10,000 years. 100,000 years is more than long enough.
You say that we went from mud huts to skyscrapers in lss than 10,000 years, that may be correct (although not every country has them and many are still in the state you just mentioned, using mud huts and donkeys), but that's an easy achievement to be honest, we just use better materials and we have been doing the same thing for the last thousands of years. If you look at it, skyscrapers take as much technological advancement as a pyramid, maybe even less seeing how most pyramids will probably be around past the time a skyscraper will be, so it's not really a good example to say that we went from huts to skyscrapers in less than 10,000 years when you're comparing that to the advancement of a tier 1 civilization.
Take the Covenant as an example, been stuck in Tier 2 for the entirety of its existence, while we were building pyramids they were already on space, being a tier 2 and yet they did NOT advance that much in 100,000 years (seeing how ridiculously weak they would be compared to any Forerunner construct).
Are you seriously saying a Pyramid is at the same level of something like the Burj Khalifa? I'm no Architect by any stretch of the imagination, but I study Physical Geography and part of that is looking into the design of modern architecture to see how it's built to cope with natural hazards and such - the technology in these kinds of buildings is insane, a lot more advanced than bricks thrown on top of each other.
The Covenant's been stuck in Tier 2 because they copied everything from a Tier 1 species, and did so in an inferior manner. If one thing's been reiterated more times in the franchise than anything else, it's that the Covenant imitate, they don't innovate.
In a few hundred years, we've made more advancement than the Covenant made in 5,000. In another few decades, we'll have surpassed them.