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I always assumed the Covenant outmatched the UNSC in terms of materiel production, but for entirely different reasons. It's obvious that High Charity is a MAJOR exception, and that applying its standards to the entire Covenant is a bit too far. It's a political venture, the Prophet's flagship and housing the Keyship. Firstly, there's their faster slipspace speeds - shortened supply lines proportionally compared to the slower UNSC. Secondly, you get facilities like the Pegasi Delta and K7-49, one a prominent fuel refinery and the other a small planetoid shipyard. Thirdly, the volume of space the Covenant encompasses is probably vast - they've had a little over three thousand years to expand, after all, and I doubt a fast-breeding race like the Grunts would be confined only to Balaho.

Given all that, I still find it weird that the Covenant took so long to destroy humanity, when they should have steamrolled them incredibly quickly with their vast fleets and legions. I thought for a while that it might have been a human/forerunner situation, where you're only seeing a small sideshow in a much larger game, that the Covenant was already at war with something that we never got to see, and that humanity got what the Covenant could spare against them, and still came close to extinction. The presence of a sentient species that had investigated Alpha Halo long before the UNSC or Covenant is clear evidence that other spacefaring races exist, and we never did get much of an idea about what they were. But then, if that were true, I would imagine that we would have seen them by now what with the collapse of the Covenant into its successor states, and so far they've failed to materialise in ~~eight~~ years, and their Elite allies haven't said a word about any kind of threat to humanity. -- [[User:Morhek|Qura 'Morhek]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|The Autocrat]] [[User talk:Specops306|of Morheka]] 20:30, 24 February 2014 (EST)

Given all that, I still find it weird that the Covenant took so long to destroy humanity, when they should have steamrolled them incredibly quickly with their vast fleets and legions. I thought for a while that it might have been a human/forerunner situation, where you're only seeing a small sideshow in a much larger game, that the Covenant was already at war with something that we never got to see, and that humanity got what the Covenant could spare against them, and still came close to extinction. The presence of a sentient species that had investigated Alpha Halo long before the UNSC or Covenant is clear evidence that other spacefaring races exist, and we never did get much of an idea about what they were. But then, if that were true, I would imagine that we would have seen them by now what with the collapse of the Covenant into its successor states, and so far they've failed to materialise in five years, and their Elite allies haven't said a word about any kind of threat to humanity. -- [[User:Morhek|Qura 'Morhek]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306|The Autocrat]] [[User talk:Specops306|of Morheka]] 20:30, 24 February 2014 (EST)

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	I always assumed the Covenant outmatched the UNSC in terms of materiel production, but for entirely different reasons. It's obvious that High Charity is a MAJOR exception, and that applying its standards to the entire Covenant is a bit too far. It's a political venture, the Prophet's flagship and housing the Keyship. Firstly, there's their faster slipspace speeds - shortened supply lines proportionally compared to the slower UNSC. Secondly, you get facilities like the Pegasi Delta and K7-49, one a prominent fuel refinery and the other a small planetoid shipyard. Thirdly, the volume of space the Covenant encompasses is probably vast - they've had a little over three thousand years to expand, after all, and I doubt a fast-breeding race like the Grunts would be confined only to Balaho.		I always assumed the Covenant outmatched the UNSC in terms of materiel production, but for entirely different reasons. It's obvious that High Charity is a MAJOR exception, and that applying its standards to the entire Covenant is a bit too far. It's a political venture, the Prophet's flagship and housing the Keyship. Firstly, there's their faster slipspace speeds - shortened supply lines proportionally compared to the slower UNSC. Secondly, you get facilities like the Pegasi Delta and K7-49, one a prominent fuel refinery and the other a small planetoid shipyard. Thirdly, the volume of space the Covenant encompasses is probably vast - they've had a little over three thousand years to expand, after all, and I doubt a fast-breeding race like the Grunts would be confined only to Balaho.

	Given all that, I still find it weird that the Covenant took so long to destroy humanity, when they should have steamrolled them incredibly quickly with their vast fleets and legions. I thought for a while that it might have been a human/forerunner situation, where you're only seeing a small sideshow in a much larger game, that the Covenant was already at war with something that we never got to see, and that humanity got what the Covenant could spare against them, and still came close to extinction. The presence of a sentient species that had investigated Alpha Halo long before the UNSC or Covenant is clear evidence that other spacefaring races exist, and we never did get much of an idea about what they were. But then, if that were true, I would imagine that we would have seen them by now what with the collapse of the Covenant into its successor states, and so far they've failed to materialise in ~~eight~~ years, and their Elite allies haven't said a word about any kind of threat to humanity. -- [[User:Morhek\|<b><font color=indigo>Qura 'Morhek</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306\|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>The Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306\|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>of Morheka</sup></font></i></u>]] 20:30, 24 February 2014 (EST)		Given all that, I still find it weird that the Covenant took so long to destroy humanity, when they should have steamrolled them incredibly quickly with their vast fleets and legions. I thought for a while that it might have been a human/forerunner situation, where you're only seeing a small sideshow in a much larger game, that the Covenant was already at war with something that we never got to see, and that humanity got what the Covenant could spare against them, and still came close to extinction. The presence of a sentient species that had investigated Alpha Halo long before the UNSC or Covenant is clear evidence that other spacefaring races exist, and we never did get much of an idea about what they were. But then, if that were true, I would imagine that we would have seen them by now what with the collapse of the Covenant into its successor states, and so far they've failed to materialise in five years, and their Elite allies haven't said a word about any kind of threat to humanity. -- [[User:Morhek\|<b><font color=indigo>Qura 'Morhek</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306\|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>The Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306\|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>of Morheka</sup></font></i></u>]] 20:30, 24 February 2014 (EST)