Is the Harvester really Covenant built?

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In episode 6 of Spartan Ops a Covenant vehicle shows up, named the Harvester. There has been much debate over this before, but now we can say that it is indeed a Covenant vehicle. But, is it actually their own design?

The major thing that tips us off is the fact that it’s mostly devoid of hexagons. This could be just a design change, if it weren’t for the fact that hexagons are used to make up the floor (I’m not convinced the Covenant put those their, either). It isn’t made out of any metal we’ve seen the Covenant use before, and the flooring is made of Forerunner metal. Something strange is going on, the only thing that is definitely Covenant in this things is the crates and the Lekgolo worms that are controlling it.

In order for the Covenant to make something like this, they’d need a lot more resources then they currently have. It wouldn’t make sense to use an all new type of material when you have a good amount of the metal you’re already using at your disposal.

My theory is that they simply found it and used Lekgolo to take control of it. I have no idea who built it though, considering it has Forerunner metal for the floor and a few other things, but some type of other material, which may be organic, making up the rest. All I know is that it doesn’t seem to be Covenant, and it was most likely found on Requiem. Either way, there’s more to this then we’ve been told so far.

EDIT: I had some more revelations.

If you look near the Harveter’s “control panel”, you see Lekgolo crawling through pipes. If the Harvester were something like the Scarab, and was actually made of Lekgolo, then we wouldn’t see that. Instead we would see a wall of Lekgolo, just like in a Scarab. This isn’t the first time that the Lekgolo have crawled around inside things before, in fact they did the exact same thing to the Forerunner Keyship on High Charity, and could even control it. If the Harvester were made of Lekgolo, then shutting it down like we did in the mission wouldn’t be possible. You can’t shut down a Scarab like that, since it’s technically a life form.

It’s name is also strange. Since when has a Covenant vehicle been named after it’s function? Something definitely doesn’t add up. Even if you think it’s Covenant, you have to admit that there’s definitely more to the story.

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Can we just let it go? It didn’t look like anything else other than covenant to start with so we can stop with these silly things. Not really directed at you Moa since you were the most resonable of them all but still.

Harvesters (of a type) were brought up in evolutions “blunt objects”.

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> Can we just let it go? It didn’t look like anything else other than covenant to start with so we can stop with these silly things. Not really directed at you Moa since you were the most resonable of them all but still.
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> Harvesters (of a type) were brought up in evolutions “blunt objects”.

I understand where you’re coming from, and I’d probably be a little annoyed if I were in your position, but I’m still not convinced. Even if it is Covenant built, something doesn’t add up. There’s no denying that there’s Forerunner components in this vehicle, the Covenant usually make their own version of the technology.

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What’s weird is that from the way Palmer and Switchback talked about it, it was like they already knew what it was, and expected us to know as well. But I agree, doesn’t look anything like the Covenant usually field.

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> What’s weird is that from the way Palmer and Switchback talked about it, it was like they already knew what it was, and expected us to know as well. But I agree, doesn’t look anything like the Covenant usually field.

I liked that. It made Crimson feel like less of a self-insert and more of a team that had been on Infinity for a while and fought Covenant before, meaning that they may have encountered a Harvester before.

And to me, it looked very Covenant right from the beginning. It’s not too much of a stretch, either, to say that Jul 'Mdama may have told his team to directly incorporate Forerunner technology into it rather than reverse-engineer it after seeing the success Infinity had doing that.

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Your right, it’s not Covenant built. It’s Lekgolo built.

I found Lekgolo slithering around in it.

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Anyone mind telling me what a Harvester even is/ does? I looked it up on the Wiki and found nothing.

The way they talked about it they expected us to know exactly what it was like it was general knowledge but I’ve never heard of anything like that.

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> Anyone mind telling me what a Harvester even is/ does? I looked it up on the Wiki and found nothing.
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> The way they talked about it they expected us to know exactly what it was like it was general knowledge but I’ve never heard of anything like that.

You know about as much as we do. All we can assume is that it’s used for mining, since the Covenant were using it for an archaeological dig.

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It’s an excavator that Harvests Forunner tech.

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Doesn’t mean anything, they run the scarabs as well.

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> Doesn’t mean anything, they run the scarabs as well.

No, Lekgolo are Scarabs. These Lekgolo don’t make up the Harvester, they just control it. If they were the Harvester like they are the Scarab, then we wouldn’t be able to shut the Harvester down. You can’t simply disable a Scarab like that.

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The Harvester is the funkiest looking thing I’ve ever seen the Covenant possess. It is not your average Covenant machine as this thing is clearly organic in nature. It’s more like something that is or was alive and they simply took it over.

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> There’s no denying that there’s Forerunner components in this vehicle, the Covenant usually make their own version of the technology.

So? Covenant technology didn’t always look like it did now. Perhaps this is older technology being used and brought back (hopefully). Maybe this is a completely new vehicle they just made on requiem, Maybe this is native lekgolo technology,etc

I can think of a crapload of examples. For all we know it was built on requiem with promethean direction. Just because it doesn’t look like standard covenant technology doesn’t mean anything, it’s just looks. The Infinity doesn’t look like standard human tech yet you still know and claim it to be human.

> > All we can assume is that it’s used for mining, since the Covenant were using it for an archaeological dig.
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> Again, halo evolutions had something akin to this mining the crust of a planet.

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> > There’s no denying that there’s Forerunner components in this vehicle, the Covenant usually make their own version of the technology.
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> So? Covenant technology didn’t always look like it did now. Perhaps this is older technology being used and brought back (hopefully). Maybe this is a completely new vehicle they just made on requiem, Maybe this is native lekgolo technology,etc
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> Again, halo evolutions had something akin to this mining the crust of a planet.

Covenant technology didn’t always look exactly like it does now, but we can assume that it looked similar since the Sangheili were the original manufacturers of Covenant war machines, and they continued to manufacture war machines for the Covenant until the Great Schism. If this is old Covenant technology, it would have to be very, very old. Since we don’t know what Covenant technology looked like around the time of it’s origins, it could look like this. But the chance of multiple of these living past the Human-Covenant war is very slim.

The only real problem I see with it being native Lekgolo tech, or something similar, is that it doesn’t make much sense to bring stuff like that into the picture this late. It doesn’t really add to the story at all, and it would just leave a lot of gamers confused.

If this machine only had a few differences to the standard of the Covenant, which wouldn’t make any sense to change now (on a side note, Infinity looks a lot like standard human tech of it’s time if you ask me). A change this dramatic in standard Covenant technology wouldn’t add to the story. If the Covenant standard was going to change, then it would have with Halo 4, not with the second half of the first season of Spartan Ops.

I’m just saying that there is definitely more to this then we’ve seen so far. I have a strong feeling it’s going to return either later in Spartan Ops or in Halo 5.

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They borrowed a Collector ship.

Someone had to say it.

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In the harvester, Palmer says “stop it from coming back to life” or something along those lines, I don’t know if this is meant in a liberal sense or just meant as “shut it down” to me, the harvester looks neither covenant nor forerunner. It looks completely new, like built by something else. Or perhaps it is a complete living thing.

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It’s too organic to be a Covenant design in my opinion. To be honest I was seriously hoping that it would be a Precursor’s invention, or even a Precursor itself.

> The Infinity doesn’t look like standard human tech yet you still know and claim it to be human.

lol, yeah it does.

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There were Lekgolo found to be in it, just like a Scarab. But I agree there is something more to it than that, maybe the Covenant are implementing Forerunner tech into it somehow.

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I’m more curious in the artifact they were looking for must have been of great importance if they used something so massive. Reminds me of when they used scarabs to uncover the ark portal

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My very first thought when I walked through the door was “This isn’t covenant”

After closer examination, it looks more like a hollowed out skull that’s been re purposed, with the “control room” being the brain section. You can see a spine on the roof at the back too, so it’s definitely organic but dead.