…do you reckon they would have just glassed all the Flood on Halo Installation 04??? And on Installation 05??? Do you reckon they would have self destructed High Charity??? Would Jul’s Covenant have even had a ‘holy city’??? Would he have replaced the Elites with the Brutes??? Would he have executed the Arbiter instead having him become, well, the Arbiter??? Considering he didn’t give a toss about Forerunner relics or the Great Journey, I reckon A LOT of Halo 1, Halo 2 AND Halo 3 (maybe going back as far as Reach, or even the attack on Harvest) would have been VERY different if the Covenant was led by an atheist. Hell, his Covenant might not have even been Forerunner obsessed at all!!!
What do you guys think???
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> …do you reckon they would have just glassed all the Flood on Halo Installation 04??? And on Installation 05??? Do you reckon they would have self destructed High Charity??? Would Jul’s Covenant have even had a ‘holy city’??? Would he have replaced the Elites with the Brutes??? Would he have executed the Arbiter instead having him become, well, the Arbiter??? Considering he didn’t give a toss about Forerunner relics or the Great Journey, I reckon A LOT of Halo 1, Halo 2 AND Halo 3 (maybe going back as far as Reach, or even the attack on Harvest) would have been VERY different if the Covenant was led by an atheist. Hell, his Covenant might not have even been Forerunner obsessed at all!!!
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> What do you guys think???
I think his weariness of forerunners being gods was based more after how the war ended then during it…and he wouldn’t promote the brutes
Jul wouldn’t have been able to get the Covenant to the size that it was. So I’d say no.
The Brute would never get promoted like the prophet did, another is it will be impossible for him to get the army the size of the original covenant.
It would literally be impossible for Jul to be the leadership of the old Covenant. Only san’shyuum can hold that role, and he’s a sangheili. He wouldn’t even be considered as a potential fallback leadership figure under any circumstance in which the Covenant is not horribly mutilated beyond repair.
But if we throw some magic fairy dust on that and believe real hard…
Jul is a pragmatic guy, so I think he wouldn’t declare a murderous war against the humans on first contact. Even if he learned that humans were the inheritors of all the Forerunners left behind, I think he’d realize that hiding that information and making a peaceful exchange bears more fruit than a genocide – humans could join their cause and help them figure out Forerunner tech faster than ever before. I expect that this would still have resulted in war (as some species integrations of the Covenant have), but it would have been a different war. Less glassing.
Second, no way would Jul command the changing of the guard, which is the only reason humanity survived the war. I don’t even understand why Ord Casto would even consider it, let alone carrying it out – it makes no strategic or philosophical sense, and it cost him, his species, his home, and his history everything. Jul, as a sangheili, would never ally himself to the jiralhanae and have his own species butchered. There would have been no schism, humanity would never have the necessary allies to create the opportunity to end the war favorably.
I don’t think glassing something regarded holy by the Covenant would go over well with them.
Lol yeah Jul would have glassed them without a second thought. The guy sent Requiem (the place they awakened basically a living god) plummeting into a sun just to get rid of Infinity. And yeah I could see Jul usurping command of the Covenant temporarily. Even the San’Shyuum would be hard pressed to deny the will of the Didact and his ‘sacred’ Promethean enforcers. But the moment the Prometheans weren’t under his command anymore they’d have him dead to rights or let the humans kill him.
The whole situation is pretty much impossible to recreate with Jul as leader. The jul we know is very much the product of the human-covenant war and the great schism.
That being said, a pragmatist would have absolute devastated humanity. With their stealth technology and being unknown to humans, the covenant could have watched out movements and gathered intel to give themselves a better understanding of us, and map out all our trade routes and major population centers. Captured a few outlaying ships to gather such information without there being a cole protocol in the way, and in the end it just looks like the work of innies. Due to space being what it is, they really had no reason to start at the outer colonies and work their way inward. They could have easily overwhelmed the defenses of Reach or Earth, with them being unprepared to face such a threat.
Even if it didn’t matter that he’s not a Prophet, even if he could unite the Covenant empire, it wouldn’t matter because 343 would realise that they didn’t want to commit to the character, turn him into a scrublord and have a team of rather uninteresting Power Rangers top him within five minutes.
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> Even if it didn’t matter that he’s not a Prophet, even if he could unite the Covenant empire, it wouldn’t matter because 343 would realise that they didn’t want to commit to the character, turn him into a scrublord and have a team of rather uninteresting Power Rangers top him within five minutes.
Nice burn.