- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Zyce
I just finished reading the last of the books, and of course have played the games. As far as I can find, no one else knows this (outside Bungie anyway), but I'd like to hear other ideas. Why do the Covenant want to exterminate the humans and not offer them to join their ranks first?
Obviously the Covenant wasn't always brutes, prophets, elites, grunts...etc. They would most likely all joined at seperate times. I'm just wondering why they never offered the humans a place in the Covenant as a new low caste race, as would seem they would normally do.
So I'm wondering what all of your theories are on to why the Prophets decided to exterminate humanity rather than enslave it.
the theory that comes to my mind first is that the prophets KNEW we were the forerunners, or at least we led them or something, and they're simply jealous