- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
First of all read the books, but allow me to summarize how the conflict started.
For hundreads of years mankind was alone in the universe, they mastered space travel and colonized, many many planets. A UNSC (united nations space command) was developed and after a civil war, contact with a planet i belive it was called harvest, was lost.
A scout team went into see what happend, they never came back. Except for one ship who told the UNSC that the planet was burnt to a cinder destroyed by some sort of newly discovered alien race.
The one ship also carried the only message ever sent to the UNSC by the covenant. It basically said how humans were an affront to their gods ect ect.
they have been destroying planets ever since.
Also the message was in broke english suggesting the covenant have been studying the human race for a while before showing themselves.
[Edited on 8/7/2006]