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 :::That is assuming the Huragok also performed all manual labor in Covenant industry, as opposed to sticking to the rare "innovation" and repairs to existing technology. For something as random as you described, you'd imagine the Covenant would be a technological and aesthetic mess, yet what we see is a very rigid consistency in their technology. This speaks of large-scale standardization and mass production as opposed to everything being accomplished through microscale tinkering solely by Huragok. Thus it's rather obvious that the Covenant had the capability to reproduce their technology through non-Huragok means, even if they didn't understand half the science involved. Although it bears noting that since the Kilo-Five series turned the Huragok from "good at fixing things" to technogods who can casually build anything anywhere out of nothing, very few things are actually certain. I also fail to see the logic in the Huragok simply disappearing from the hundreds of Sangheili-held ships still intact. How exactly did they "flee"? Did they hitch a ride out? Did they steal single ships? Did they teleport away? We may never know. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 11:13, 25 February 2014 (EST)
+:@ScaleMaster: going from a fleet designed to put down slave rebellions or heretics to one where you can throw fleets of hundreds at Reach and Earth is still a significant achievement, and is itself a testament to the Covenant's industrial capacity.
+:@ProphetofTruth: I'd never thought about the Huragok that way. I think it's ingrained into our collective fan conscious that the Covenant's lack of understanding of their own technology was due to religious/political reasons, the Elites deeming any tampering heresy and the Prophets not trusting anyone but them with the knowledge. I'd never realised the effect of having the Huragok in that capacity would have. Interesting.
+:@Jugus: wow. That quote. I knew there was something lurking in the back of my memory, but all the way back to Ghosts of Onyx? It makes me think that the Covenant finally defeated whatever enemy it might have been fighting at the time, which explains the sudden increase of fleet numbers just as the UNSC was close to reaching technological parity, where you from engagements where a dozen or so ships is a daunting prospect to something like the Fleet of Particular Justice at Reach. Unfortunate for humanity though, but it would also explain why they didn't make a sudden resurgence when the Covenant fell. Once again, not saying I'm convinced that this is the case, but it is an interesting possibility, one which I hope 343 manages to incorporate somehow. -- [[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>]] 16:11, 25 February 2014 (EST)