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The Hunters aren't mentioned because 343i didn't seem fit to mention it, and that's pretty much the only source of information Karen Travissty used for writing the whole Trashlands Trilogy...basically she didn't do any kind of proper research at all and thus missed a whole ton of necessary information, like the Hunters being really good buddies with the Elites and pretty much hero-worshipping them.
As for the Arbiter, who knows...except that 343i is continuing to -blam!- up with the whole post-war story in regards to Elites -__- Whatever they do decide to do will most likely be something stupid that doesn't fit with the story.
Posted by: Nocbl2
I imagine it isn't ALL of the hunters. The original idea way back in Halo 2 was to have the Hunters on both sides. They scrapped it because it was too confusing.
We also never saw the Arbiter and co. in Halo 4, so we wouldn't know if they had Hunters or not.
It wasn't scrapped, there's a difference between not putting something into the game and retconning it/declaring it non-canon. The Hunters still sided with the Elites as well as a large portion of the Grunts. They just weren't included as forces in Halo 3 in order to avoid confusion, they're still there though. Actually, most of the Elites we see in Halo 3 are more like special forces squads or something similar, the whole army isn't being put on the ground to assist, just small squads to assist Chief, as most of the missions in Halo 3 where we have the Elites around they're for the most part small surgical strikes.
Posted by: nemesishunter7
I remembered that too but that was a penal colony, a prison for drones that weren't loyal, or at least that's how I understood it. I assumed it wasn't representative of a whole species.
You're on the right track. The Drones, as a species, are a hive mind, the ones that were on that penal colony were ones with what would essentially be a mental illness for Drones. They just didn't connect with the hive mind and that led them to do things to butcher their own kind or any other race they came across...so yeah, something like that.