Hi, just playing Halo 2 and at the very beginning of the “Heretic” cinematic appears: “High Charity, Ninth Age of Reclamation.” What does that mean? Also I would like to know why the Covenant attacked humans (who and why started the war)
Easy explanation comes from the book contact harvest. Besides that the covenant tell ages by significant events such as the start of the human covenant war.
It’s quite complicated but basically Covenant ages are similar to our eras. For example the Victorian era. As for how the war started its said a single nervous grunt accidently let off a plasma round killing one of the human negotiator’s thus starting the war. Though its likely a war would of happened anyway by what the three prophets discovered on one of their Luminaries’.
Pretty much the humans are the real heirs to control machines (Forerunner) the covenant worship as a religion. And they were really really jealous and wanted all the humans to be extinct.
Kind of like a Younger brother hates his older brother for becoming king instead of him so he kills the older brother to become the heir to the throne.
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> It’s quite complicated but basically Covenant ages are similar to our eras. For example the Victorian era. As for how the war started its said a single nervous grunt accidently let off a plasma round killing one of the human negotiator’s thus starting the war. Though its likely a war would of happened anyway by what the three prophets discovered on one of their Luminaries’.
Yeah, by what I can recall of the game, the Prophets priorities were:
1- Halo
2- Kill humanity
3- The parasite
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> > It’s quite complicated but basically Covenant ages are similar to our eras. For example the Victorian era. As for how the war started its said a single nervous grunt accidently let off a plasma round killing one of the human negotiator’s thus starting the war. Though its likely a war would of happened anyway by what the three prophets discovered on one of their Luminaries’.
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> Yeah, by what I can recall of the game, the Prophets priorities were:
> 1- Halo
> 2- Kill humanity
> 3- The parasite
Finding the halo ring has always been the Prophets mission since they left their home world in the Dreadnought. The only reason the Covenant want to eliminate the humans entirely was because Truth,Mercy and Regret found out that the Humans were meant to be the true reclaimers not them. This would of shattered the Covenant if it was discovered and put their whole species at risk.
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> Pretty much the humans are the real heirs to control machines (Forerunner) the covenant worship as a religion. And they were really really jealous and wanted all the humans to be extinct.
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> Kind of like a Younger brother hates his older brother for becoming king instead of him so he kills the older brother to become the heir to the throne.
So “forerunner tech” was the main cause of he “human-Covenant” war. Yeah, they learn how to use forerunner weapons and structures, but humans built an AI out of human tissue and forerunner tech. It has a lot of sense that saw humans as a possible threat to their species.
Yes, less of the forerunner tech but more that if the covenant regular population found out the Humans were the real “Reclaimers” (heirs) of all forerunner technology it would destroy the entire fabric that the Covenant religion was built on to keep the masses enslaved to the Higher up “Prophets”.
So the “prophets”/Leaders decided to call them an enemy and go on galaxy genocide.
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> > Pretty much the humans are the real heirs to control machines (Forerunner) the covenant worship as a religion. And they were really really jealous and wanted all the humans to be extinct.
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> > Kind of like a Younger brother hates his older brother for becoming king instead of him so he kills the older brother to become the heir to the throne.
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> So “forerunner tech” was the main cause of he “human-Covenant” war. Yeah, they learn how to use forerunner weapons and structures, but humans built an AI out of human tissue and forerunner tech. It has a lot of sense that saw humans as a possible threat to their species.
Humans weren’t specifically a threat to the Prophets just the foundations of the Covenant. After the civil war and the war with the Elites the Prophets among the Dreadnaught were few in number that and added to their physical weakness is why the Covenant was so important to them.
I will say agian, read the book contact harvest it explains the entire reason why the war started! Also the main character is Johnson.
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> I will say agian, read the book contact harvest it explains the entire reason why the war started! Also the main character is Johnson.
Seconded. And FoR for how AI’s are made.