(Ex) Covenant Intelligence

Games Other Halo
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Did Bungie set up a problem for 343i?

I feel like everyones going to expect only Elites in the next game, mainly because they’re the only species smart enough to make it on their own, just because if we went strictly with game-canon, that’s how it would be.

I’ve seen it discussed here, and people are definitely right; in the games, the Brutes are a bunch of bumbling -Yoinks!- who just rage when they get shot at, yet thats not how they really are.

> Despite their savagery, Brutes have proved intelligent enough to achieve spaceflight and space-faring status, though their warlike nature meant they quickly collapsed into civil war, and quickly afterward, fell back to their former pre-space status and learned nothing from the experience.

This was all Pre-Covenant. Due to their experience with more advanced technology, it is not out of the range of possibility that the Brutes have at least slightly remastered this lost talent, and will be their own force in Halo 4. But that would seem crazy to the basic Halo player, who used to think they were nothing more than bullet sponges.

But it’s not just Brutes that suffer this fate.

> During their early history, Kig-yar society was divided into clans that sailed across Eayn’s seas as pirates, raiding the encampments and settlements of rival clans. Eventually, the clans united, and the Kig-yar species worked together in developing space-travel technology. Shortly afterward, they established colonies on many small asteroids around Chu’ot.

As you can see, the Kig-Yar suffer the same fate. I’m willing to bet over half the people who play Halo would never even consider the possibility of Jackals being on their own.

Does anyone think 343i might right this wrong, and give the species who deserve it a slightly more individualistic role in Halo 4, or will they keep them as is?

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Sangheili can ask for help from the humans. (Assuming the Arbiter gets his treaty.)
Jirhalhanae are either extinct or will revert back to the semi-stable tribal system.
The Kig-Yar I’d expect would manage alright.
The Prophets - assuming some are still alive - they’ll rely on all their Forerunner tech.
Drones will go back to their old Hive mentality.

I think the Unggoy are probably going to struggle without aid due to the massive population increases.

Glasslands implies that some sort of alliance or vassal system is in face for some of the races.

We simply don’t know how the ex-Covenant races will factor into Halo 4.

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We’re told only the Prophets understood Covenant technology though, and other than the Brutes, most races “joined” the Covenant many years before it’s fall.

Though we shouldn’t know what to expect for Halo 4. Anything is possible.