Today I was playing the mission Galileo from Spartan Ops, and I noticed that the Pilots of the Banshees carry Energy Swords. I remember that the Old covenant used to have different Rules. No elite but the Ones on Charge should use a Sword.
It’s funny to see how these Covenant uses whatever they want if they want to. I like that, because they are following the Rules of another Elite, Jul, so they can use Clever tactics instead of Religious ones.
Nice move 343.
They only thing I remember was the Elite Minors Could not carry Energy Swords.
Really any Elite could carry a sword, you just had to earn it, either by rank or outstanding action.
> Really any Elite could carry a sword, you just had to earn it, either by rank or outstanding action.
A Banshee Pilot is not what we call an outstanding Elite.
> Really any Elite could carry a sword, you just had to earn it, either by rank or outstanding action.
A “skilled” pilot would fit that description… Plus, that was a rule set by the covenant, as a religious order. They no longer exist in that sense, so I would imagine those types of rules are long gone.
> > Really any Elite could carry a sword, you just had to earn it, either by rank or outstanding action.
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> A Banshee Pilot is not what we call an outstanding Elite.
He could have earned it before the Covenant was dissolved. Or maybe he is a really good pilot? Same way Grunts earn their armor.
> > Really any Elite could carry a sword, you just had to earn it, either by rank or outstanding action.
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> A “skilled” pilot would fit that description… Plus, that was a rule set by the covenant, as a religious order. They no longer exist in that sense, so I would imagine those types of rules are long gone.
That’s what I said on the Post. “Clever Rules instead of Religious ones”
> > > Really any Elite could carry a sword, you just had to earn it, either by rank or outstanding action.
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> > A “skilled” pilot would fit that description… Plus, that was a rule set by the covenant, as a religious order. They no longer exist in that sense, so I would imagine those types of rules are long gone.
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> That’s what I said on the Post. “Clever Rules instead of Religious ones”
Its always been more of a status/social thing. Elites are a very militaristic race, their Covenant “religion” never really had much control over their distribution of swords.
It’s purely for the difficulty. It’s not canonical (3 years of waiting outside of Requiem and not one single Minor or Commander can be seen using a sword. Skip to 6 months after Halo 4 and then all these terrorists suddenly start showing up and just about every Elite has a power weapon…).
Kilo 6 has been busy (Read Glasslands and Thursday War for more details). They sold traceable Covie weapons to keep the Elites unstable. The traceable weapons does 2 things:
Now the thing is after the SpOps mission VIP Dalton may have gotten his tanks back but I’m fairly certain at least a few Spartan teams have an extra set of ONI shadows tailing them for non-UNSC ordnance. Give the high profile of Crimson’s target they most likely had a recovery team following them on this mission alone.
Speaking of Covie weapons, I coulda swore the grav hammer was a brute weapon, yet it is in the game. Perhaps they decided to adopt its use.
Aren’t the covenant you are fighting a sort of less then organized faction of zealots?
The Elites in their ranks may have just lost touch or stopped caring about their own particular traditions enough to warrant giving anyone who might need such a thing an energy sword.
Pilot behind enemy lines may as well be armed with something as dangerous as an Energy Sword.
> Speaking of Covie weapons, I coulda swore the grav hammer was a brute weapon, yet it is in the game. Perhaps they decided to adopt its use.
Or perhaps it was collected purely as an offering to Didact.
I mean hell, what gift could they really give him aside from things like that?
I’m fairly certain I remember the Gravity Hammer being located in a sort of weird Promethean display stand anyway. I literally assumed I’d stumbled across some room the Covenant set up in a hurry as a sort of attempt to gift Didact.
> Kilo 6 has been busy (Read Glasslands and Thursday War for more details). They sold traceable Covie weapons to keep the Elites unstable. The traceable weapons does 2 things:
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> 1. Weapon supply for the enemy
> 2. Reason for knowing where the enemy is
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> Now the thing is after the SpOps mission VIP Dalton may have gotten his tanks back but I’m fairly certain at least a few Spartan teams have an extra set of ONI shadows tailing them for non-UNSC ordnance. Give the high profile of Crimson’s target they most likely had a recovery team following them on this mission alone.
Reminds me of what the US did during Vietnam. We would plant weapons with bad receivers and what not in enemy weapon caches. When the enemy attempted to use them they would fail in various ways. One way is that the receiver of the rifle would come off of the rifle and into the user’s skull. Perhaps Kilo 6 (I want the books but I am saving for a bed) following this example?
To clarify, it is Kilo-Five not Kilo-6
> Speaking of Covie weapons, I coulda swore the grav hammer was a brute weapon, yet it is in the game. Perhaps they decided to adopt its use.
Its only on the Didact ship they had them probably for study purposes. Though I don’t know how they got it. Probably it was a salvaged Gravity Hammer from a Sanghelli after the Jiralhanae rebelion on Sanghelios.
> Kilo 6 has been busy (Read Glasslands and Thursday War for more details). They sold traceable Covie weapons to keep the Elites unstable. The traceable weapons does 2 things:
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> 1. Weapon supply for the enemy
> 2. Reason for knowing where the enemy is
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> Now the thing is after the SpOps mission VIP Dalton may have gotten his tanks back but I’m fairly certain at least a few Spartan teams have an extra set of ONI shadows tailing them for non-UNSC ordnance. Give the high profile of Crimson’s target they most likely had a recovery team following them on this mission alone.
Ah, I suppose that makes sense.
But then you might want to add another point:
It’s no wonder why there’s now so many high profile Elites being killed by Crimson.
This group is made up of various ammounts of shipmasters, zealots, minors, generals, feild marshals, officers etc. heck they have more shipmasters than ships. Also slot have war trophies of various things from ships/aircraft to tanks hogs mongooses and other various weapons. Heck some are probably running around with combat knives.
The group of covenant you fight is a break away group from the originals. Most likely meaning they would have their own rules (or no rules).
And think about it, if a group did break away from the covenant, they would probably try to take as much equipment as they could with them. And considering they would be low on troops, they would arm all their men to the teeth (which explains your question)