> Halsey is on humanity’s side. Not the Elites.
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> I don’t understand you people’s love for the Sangheili, even the Arbiter. They blindly massacred billions of humans simply because their prophets and idiotic religion told them to. The Arbiter may have had a change of heart at the last second, but he was the Supreme Commander of the Covenant fleet that was the main tool of genocide on humanity and responsible for the Fall of Reach and the death of the Pillar of Autumn’s crew on Alpha Halo.
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> For 3 decades they massacre the human race in an unprovoked genocidal war. Then at the very last second they help us merely because they needed our help to stop the array from firing. They were even ready to glass Earth when the Flood landed in Africa.
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> They aren’t our friends. They’re a liability. ONI through Kilo-5 is right to keep them in a civil war while humanity recovers.
You know, if we humans simply lived the by logic of hurting and retaliating everybody who hurt us, we probably wouldn’t be around anymore. The Covenant is a mirror to our own history and culture. How many systems have been used to justify and carry out tragedies and throughout the history of mankind?
Nobody is saying that humanity should forgive the Sangheili for what they did, but we aren’t up to a straight up fight and it would be entirely counter-productive to try and suppress their recovery. Lets work through this, we fund their civil war covertly, they keep fighting, we get stronger and then what? Do we simply leave them to their own devices, likely to rally under tyrants and authoritarian regimes that spring up from periods of instability? Do we set up a police state on Sangheilos and try to rule them as subjects, which will likely only ferments resent and anti-human sentiment that can erupt in full-blown rebellion?
This game that ONI and Kilo-5 is playing has no ultimate ending, unless you advoate killing all of the Elites, which is really foolish if you think about it. If you examine the past canon and lore for Halo, you would know that as the war against the humans went on, the Sangheili began to have doubts about what was going on. Humans had proven to be skilled warriors and tenacious and more than qualified to be allowed into the Covenant. These rumblings are why Truth betrayed them and replaced them with the Jiralhanae, the Brutes were far more loyal. Not only that, but among the Sangheili youth there was a growing human sympathizer movement. You also cant fault them for wanting to glass Earth when the Flood arrived, you know full well how dangerous the Flood is and the threat it poses. Besides, the UNSC let them glass Kenya to contain the Flood, so says Roland in Spartan Assault.
So yes, while the Sangheili were part of the war and slaughtered billions, that doesn’t mean they can’t become allies later on. I’d feel much safer knowing the aliens with the technology to glass planets is on my side, not plotting to kill me. But I suppose it makes more sense to plot against the Sangheili who do support us. I mean, all we have to deal with are human rebels, the Brutes, the Flood and other threats. We totally couldn’t use the help.