Just an interesting what if scenario. Rather then the artifact leading the Autumn and the fleet of Particular Justice to halo it takes them to Requiem. How would you think events would change. Also just to avoid an exact repeat of Halo 4, the Mantle’s Approach will not be here.
I’d like to see a cinematic of 5 or 4 marines getting killed off by forerunners in a video like how Johnson’s team did with the flood in CE
Would make things interesting, we wouldn’t at least have to deal with the flood
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> Would make things interesting, we wouldn’t at least have to deal with the flood
True, but now have the didact to deal with inside requiem and a Covenant fleet. To quote spark “They may almost prefer the flood.”
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> True, but now have the didact to deal with inside requiem and a Covenant fleet. To quote spark “They may almost prefer the flood.”
Excellent point…
but how would thel react to the didact?
he wasn’t the most faithful before if I recall correctly
an exceptional warrior and an even better leader yes, but other than that of I recall correctly, he did not a cheat to the covenant religion as deeply as others of his kind
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> Excellent point…
> but how would thel react to the didact?
> he wasn’t the most faithful before if I recall correctly
> an exceptional warrior and an even better leader yes, but other than that of I recall correctly, he did not a cheat to the covenant religion as deeply as others of his kind
Thel was quite faithful, at least earlier in the war. Would think his reaction, and that of the Covenant as a whole would be confusion. He could rally the Covenant fleet, and the empire as a whole with his anti-human speechs. However, the obvious fact he should have left the physical plane according to the Path would be a massive problem.
The hierarchs could try to argue the first point, saying he was a guide to prove the Covenant correct. Or they could claim he would be a “Fallen angel” type figure. Someone who was unworthy of the Journey and would want to destroy the Covenant and veer them off the Path to the Great Journey.
I’d say not much would change. Covenant arriving would mot likely zealously follow the Didact as a godlike entity. Since the UNSC would be battered to the brink at that point in the war, it is not unfeasible that a Covenant force at the Didacts behest could have annihilated humanity at that stage of the Human- Covenant War.
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> I’d say not much would change. Covenant arriving would mot likely zealously follow the Didact as a godlike entity. Since the UNSC would be battered to the brink at that point in the war, it is not unfeasible that a Covenant force at the Didacts behest could have annihilated humanity at that stage of the Human- Covenant War.
Yet the Great Journey says the forerunners should have transcended. That was the whole cause to the war, the-yet-to be heirarchs talked to Mendicant Bias who claimed humanity was its makers. Finding a flesh and blood forerunner could cause problems for them.
I don’t think the Prophets would have liked having to deal with a real live Forerunner. The Didact’s presence would either usurp their authority or just plain disprove the Covenant religion. I would be interested to see how Truth would have handled the Didact.
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> I don’t think the Prophets would have liked having to deal with a real live Forerunner. The Didact’s presence would either usurp their authority or just plain disprove the Covenant religion. I would be interested to see how Truth would have handled the Didact.
That would be a tricky question, even more so since the didact here is stuck relying on the Covenant for transport off his world thanks to Mantle’s Approach being gone. Would he try to play along with the Covenant for the time being? Or would he indeed try to overthrow the heirarchs? Or would the Covenant see him as a sort of “fallen forerunner.”
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> I don’t think the Prophets would have liked having to deal with a real live Forerunner. The Didact’s presence would either usurp their authority or just plain disprove the Covenant religion. I would be interested to see how Truth would have handled the Didact.
Yeah, I think there would be a huge schism in the Covenant, with some siding with the Didact, and others staying with the Covenant and the prophets. I’m not sure how it would turn out because even with the flood I was always under the impression the Covenant war was still mostly a war between two factions. Humans vs. Covenant. The Sangheili eventually went over to the human side, and the flood destroyed a good chunk of the Covenant, and then the war just kind of died out after the prophets were killed and then the flood destroyed.
But if the covenant is fighting a religious civil war, there’s a chance we could make it out just fine by slipping through the cracks and avoiding too much attention while the Covenant fight themselves, or the Covenant breaks into tons and tons of radical splinter groups, all fighting each other, and all having a mutual hatred of humanity. In that case, I think we would actually end up faring a lot worse, and probably end up refugees and scattered across space, or end up with a life where terrorist attacks are the norm.
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> > I’d say not much would change. Covenant arriving would mot likely zealously follow the Didact as a godlike entity. Since the UNSC would be battered to the brink at that point in the war, it is not unfeasible that a Covenant force at the Didacts behest could have annihilated humanity at that stage of the Human- Covenant War.
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> Yet the Great Journey says the forerunners should have transcended. That was the whole cause to the war, the-yet-to be heirarchs talked to Mendicant Bias who claimed humanity was its makers. Finding a flesh and blood forerunner could cause problems for them.
Good point. So do you think that might have caused the Covenant to splinter along similar lines (Kig-Yar out for themselves, Jiralhanae-Sangheilli conflict, etc.)sooner? If so, what then? UNSC adopts a policy of putting them all down, Forerunners do the same? Modified alliances?
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> Good point. So do you think that might have caused the Covenant to splinter along similar lines (Kig-Yar out for themselves, Jiralhanae-Sangheilli conflict, etc.)sooner? If so, what then? UNSC adopts a policy of putting them all down, Forerunners do the same? Modified alliances?
Personally think it would be more likely that the san shyuum declare the didact to be a fallen forerunner and an enemy of the Covenant.
Johnson:
“Men, we led those dumb bugs out to the middle of nowhere to keep them from getting their filthy claws on Earth. But we stumbled onto something they’re so hot for, that they’re scrambling over each other to get it. Well, I don’t care if it’s God’s own anti son of a -Yoink- machine, or a giant bowling ball, we’re not gonna let them have it. What we will let them have, is a belly full of lightrifles, and some pulse grenades to drown in! Am I right, Marines?”
Then there’d be no one to stop the covenant from activating the Halo! Lol but this is a cool what if scenario. I would like to see how Keyes reacts to the promethians.
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> Then there’d be no one to stop the covenant from activating the Halo! Lol but this is a cool what if scenario. I would like to see how Keyes reacts to the promethians.
That is one thing of interest, with the flood unable to get keyes you have the humans fighting back longer, possibly until High Charity arrives.
Imo the prophets would probably not have allowed the Covenant to reach the inside of Requiem if they learned the Didact was alive. They would probably kill whoever made the discovery and kept it a secret. A living breathing forerunner would ruin the foundation of the Covenant and would be a major risk to the Prophets grip on their religion.