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== New Picture ==
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Since now, the main pictures of major wars on Wikipedia consist of a diarama of scenes from the war, I created somethiong similar to that, but somehow, there is now way to add a caption, which is slightly obnoxious, but if anyone knows how to do that, please put the following in:
== The Covenant Sepratists (All the Elites left the Covenant during the Schism) were not Swords of Sanghelios ==


|Caption: From left to right: A [[Sangheili]] warrior holds a freshly killed marine on [[Harvest]], The [[Pillar of autumn]] evades Covenant forces, [[SPARTAN 117]] destroying [[Installation 04]], [[Marines]] engaged during the[[Battle of Harvest]], A [[scarab]] opens fire on [[UNSC]] forces, [[The Arbiter]] and [[John 117]] engaged against [[loyalist]] forces in africa.
Wasn't Swords of Sangheilios founded '''after''' the Human-Covenant war. The Elites that left the Covenant (all of them) and the ones that helped out humanity were just known as Covenant-Sepratists at the time and didn't officially form Swords of Sangheilios yet.


thanks [[User: Skene4kaos]]
I think it would be better to replace [[Swords of Sanghelios]] with [[Covenant Remnants]], since it is unclear which Elites sided with humanity and if some didn't end up joining the Swords after the war ended. All we know is that every single Elite left the Covenant during the Great Schism, and the majority of them sided with humanity.[[User:Editorguy|Editorguy]] ([[User talk:Editorguy|talk]]) 16:00, 5 February 2016 (EST)


==Intergalactic==
The Swords of Sangheilios was founded in November 2552, when the war was still going on and during the Battle of Earth, before the Battle of the Ark.--[[User:Paulhalo121|Paulhalo121]] ([[User talk:Paulhalo121|talk]]) 06:20, 18 April 2016 (EDT)
In what way is the conflict intergalactic? An intergalactic war refers to war between combatants whose headquarters are in different galaxies. The only action outside the Milky Way was the Battle of Installation 00.--[[User:Isidis 128|Isidis 128]] 19:26, 2 January 2008 (UTC)


==UNSC Surrendered?==
== Forerunner constructs as a 4th belligerent (side) ==
UNSC Surrendered? Whoa! This article is way off! Earth hasnt been even captured! Who wrote this article!--[[User:JohnSpartan117|JohnSpartan117]] 23:01, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
:I made this article, but others have insisted on keeping that line. It comes from the description of a "thorougly conquered and covenant-held Earth" as described by Bungie for Halo 3. -[[User:ED|ED]] 23:05, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Ok, but did the UNSC surrender? No, for all we know they could be still fighting even though the Covenant take the planet.--[[User:JohnSpartan117|JohnSpartan117]] 23:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
:Agreed. Change it if you want. -[[User:ED|ED]] 23:08, 25 October 2006 (UTC)


== 2553 ==
In the infobox, surely the Forerunner constructs should be shown as a 4th side because they were against every side of the war for almost all of its entirety, except for a few battles that i will say below. '''So for this reason the Forerunner constructs should be a 4th side in the infobox.'''
Does any one else think halo3 is gonna be in the year 2553 becuase halo2 ended in november
[[user:Mendoza|mendoza]] 1:15, 9 july 2007 (utc)


==I started the page==
Remember, the only time the Forerunner constructs were on the UNSC side was a very small part of [[Battle of Installation 04]] in Halo CE (The Library and 343 Guilty Spark levels), just the control room of [[Installation 05]] at the end of Halo 2, and only the [[Battle of Installation 00]] and the 1st part of the Raid on Installation 04B in Halo 3. Apart from during these battles, the Forerunner constructs were against every other side in the war, and not allied with any one side. '''For this reason, Forerunner constructs should be placed as a sub-side on the UNSC side, separate from the UNEG/SoS, as well as a 4th side.''' Would it be ok for me to do this? Thoughts?  --[[User:Paulhalo121|Paulhalo121]] ([[User talk:Paulhalo121|talk]]) 08:35, 15 April 2016 (EDT)


I started the page and the battle dialog[[User:Sauronas Churchill|Sauronas Churchill]] 11:15, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
:Only a handful of Forerunner constructs were involved in the war, barely. While the Flood were also involved for a fairly short time too, they had a much larger impact with the size of their forces and the final battles having to prioritize dealing with the Flood as well. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 14:50, 15 April 2016 (EDT)


Congratulations.--[[User:Isidis 128|Isidis 128]] 19:20, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
:Ok, i have added a note next to the 'Forerunner Constructs' part to address the Forerunner constructs involvement during the war in regards to side taking.--[[User:Paulhalo121|Paulhalo121]] ([[User talk:Paulhalo121|talk]]) 06:14, 18 April 2016 (EDT)


==Linki==


'''===The Only Way==='''
==Banished Inclusion==
Should the Banished be included in the Covy war? I have not seen any something saying that they fought against humanity. But I have no yet read the entirety of the new Canon Fodder. [[User:Alertfiend|Alertfiend]] - Warning, my comments may appear passive aggressive. <small>([[User talk:AlertFiend|Converse]]) </small> 13:51, 3 December 2016 (EST)


No-one can put anymore detail on the page, except for putting more links.[[User:Sauronas Churchill|Sauronas Churchill]] 12:02, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
Nevermind, in the Atriox trailer one of the places look like a devastated human city. [[User:Alertfiend|Alertfiend]] - Warning, my comments may appear passive aggressive. <small>([[User talk:AlertFiend|Converse]]) </small> 13:59, 3 December 2016 (EST)


'''===Look above==='''
https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/news/canon-fodder-surface-features Quote from Kevin Grace: "These guys are mean, grizzled veterans who are used to fighting both humanity and the Covenant" I suppose that could simply mean they fought humans after the war, though. Hmmm. [[User:Japeth555|Japeth555]] ([[User talk:Japeth555|talk]]) 14:11, 3 December 2016 (EST)Japeth555


I did start this page, and the people above, they don't know the plot of Halo3, just the tralier or demo etc, why don't they just read the bloody page for Halo3[[User:Sauronas Churchill|Sauronas Churchill]] 12:02, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
:Or future members of the Banished could've fought humans while they were still part of the Covenant; in fact many of them very likely did. I don't think there's enough info to assume the Banished, as in the faction itself, was an active party in the war. --[[User:Jugus|Jugus]] ([[User talk:Jugus|talk]]) 09:11, 4 December 2016 (EST)


[[Image:SCBS.jpg|right|thumb|200px|SILENT CARTOGRAPHER LZ SCREENSHOT]]
:I think the Banished-Covenant conflict should be a separate article, as the Unggoy Rebellion is.[[User:Editorguy|Editorguy]] ([[User talk:Editorguy|talk]]) 16:56, 24 December 2016 (EST)


I'm quite frankly sick of you. You've joined halopedia, you made a hell of alot of spam pages and uploaded alot of duplicate imagry, now your making a duplicate page of the covenat civil war by missing out a letter, now your claiming to have started a page that predates you joining and borderline insulting superior members of Halopedia to make up for your own inadequatsies. Pleases dissist your noisy prattling. --[[User:Ajax 013|Ajax 013]] 12:36, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
::Until we get more information about the conflict than "it was a thing", mentions in the Covenant's and Banished's respective articles should be enough. --[[User:Jugus|Jugus]] ([[User talk:Jugus|talk]]) 11:14, 26 December 2016 (EST)


== what gives! ==
==Pyrrhic pyrrhic pyrrhic==
 
Why is every battle and war on this site described as a pyrrhic victory? Do the people using this not know what it is and think it just means "costly victory"? You can't have 10 pyrrhic victories in a row, that's the point of it being pyrrhic. It's not something you can maintain. It always has a citation but I really really doubt the Halo books use the word "pyrrhic" every 2 pages or so, because that's how often it is used on this site lol {{Unsigned|77.165.250.227}}
if the convenet win what happens to man-kind?! do we just die and the covenet rules all? I need info!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
:Agreed, old halopedia editors had a real thing for stuff like this or "strategic/tactical X victory" etc. I tend to stick to how Wikipedia prefers this be done. I agree this should be removed.[[User:BaconShelf|BaconShelf - The Inners Will Never See Them Coming]] ([[User talk:BaconShelf|talk]]) 15:56, January 14, 2021 (EST)
 
 
 
if the convenet win what happens to man-kind?! do we just die and the covenet rules all? I need info!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
:There is none yet. That's what [[Halo 3]] is for. We'll find out what happend to mankind when the game comes out. -[[User:ED|ED]] 00:52, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 
 
Theres a problem with this article, a few billion? Covenant, a few million? You must be nuts, a few billion is more like it, the grunts are cannon fodder, and most likely billions of them were killed in the war.
:Not likely. As you can see on the "[[Heroic]]" difficulty of the Halo games (The generally accepted "real" difficulty in universe) you see that most humans aren't very good at killing Covenant, even Grunts. Casualties are even, at best. Add to that the billons of human civilians killed by the Covenant when they glass worlds, versus the fact that the UNSC has never attacked a single Covenant colony, I would say that is about right. -[[User:ED|ED]] 16:45, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
::The Covenant population has to be bigger because a single Covenant ship can deploy thousands of troops at a time so the covenant population has to be at least a few billion and the covenant would have at least a million casualties in operation first strike--[[User:MCDBBlits|MCDBBlits]] 02:01, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
what if the [[Covenant Separatists]] join the Humain?
 
How exactly is one race (us) supposed to be bigger than EIGHT races(covenant)?![[User talk:Papayaking|Papayaking]] 06:23, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 
== Cleanup ==
 
Can someone tag this for cleanup?--[[User:JohnSpartan117|JohnSpartan117]] 05:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
:What on the page needs work? -[[User:ED|ED]] 19:54, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 
The timeline.--[[User:JohnSpartan117|JohnSpartan117]] 00:47, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 
== If we do lose... ==
 
If we do lose, I'd rather hope that the humans were assimilated into the covenant rather than be exterminated.
 
:I find this unlikely. The Covenant considers us devils, not just obstacles to be assimilated. "When no single human brick lies atop another, then will we be satisfied with your destruction." Besides that, the Covenant is falling apart in civil war. I don't think they'll have time to enslave us properly as they race to reach the Ark first. --[[User:Dragonclaws|Dragonclaws]] 22:47, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
::The logical thing for them to do would be to focus on one enemy at a time, but I suspect that humanity is so weak at this point that it wouldn't make much of a difference. -[[User:ED|ED]] 16:48, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
 
== military force ==
I able to evaluate it number : 1999 6 billions of population 22 millions of soldiers 2552 60 billions population 220 millions of soldiers + de concription. during war. It is impossible that the covenant have just 40 millions of troops an 6,000 star ships
:No info is avalibale on the total numbers yet. --<b>[[User:ED|<font color="000000">ED</font>]]<sub>([[User talk:ED|<font color="000000">talk</font>]])</sub><sup>[http://halofanon.wikia.com/wiki/Halo:_Shock_Front<font color="000000">(shockfront)]</font></sup></b> 16:08, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
 
==military losses==
I have estimate at less 3,100,000 deads for the covenant with the information we that have.
 
I have add this new infos: unsc all outer colonies, large scale of the army
Covenant the salia system medium scale of troops.
[[User:Chief frank 001|Chief frank 001]] 15:23, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 
==Salia system==
Can I include the Salia system in the covenant losses?
[[User:Chief frank 001|Chief frank 001]] 14:14, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
 
== Covenant Separatists ==
 
the Covenant Separatists have allied with the UNSC can i or some 1 else fix the fraction list but to clarify does all of the unsc know about this alliance say the halo 3 elite bios "The Elites have allied with their former Human foes in part because of a deep-sealed resentment of the Prophet rule and in part because they actually understand the scale of the Flood problem."
 
Is the alliance official?
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Hmm.... well apart from the 'Onyx incident' and the Nova going off (blamed on Brutes anyway) theres been trade agreements going on, Elite representatives running about and what not. --[[User:Ajax 013|Ajax 013]] 02:05, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 
Then there's the fact that [[N'tho 'Sraom]] has been passing information about the [[Brutes]] to the UNSC. That's the best example of it i can think of. [[Image:HalfJaw03.jpg|20px]] '''[[User:Specops306|<font color=purple>Kora ‘Morhekee]]</font>''' ''[[User talk:Specops306|<font color=blue>The Battle-Net</font>]] [[Special:Contributions/Specops306|<font color=purple>My Conquests.</font>]]'' 02:59, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 
== Cole ==
 
what even happened to Cole?was he killed or something? [[User:Voy101|Voy101]]
 
If i remember right there was a painting in the books that was title "cole last stand" or something like that
 
== a new picture ==
The actual picture of the page boring me so what do you think if we change it?(please suggest a other pic)  [[User:Chief frank 001|<font color="SteelBlue">ÇЋЇŒʢ ʕЛΆΝќ]][[Halopedia:UNSC of Halopedia/A Company|<font color="#000000">Aegis Company </font>]] [[Image:Marines HALO wars.jpg|40px]]</font><sup>[[user talk:Chief frank 001|<font color="#A9A9A9">βĻά βĻά βĻά</font>]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/Chief frank 001|<font color=Teal>'''ɰЊάł Ḷ ḍõИШ '''</font>]]</sub> 13:13, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 
== One of these Two are Wrong ==
 
The pages about the Halo 3 levels all say they take place in 2553. Yet Here, it says Battle of Installation 00 and The new Installation 04 both take place in 2552. I believe the Halo 3 levels are wrong though.
Nope Halo 2 took place from October-November. It would take not days but maybe months to take the the UNSC homeworld.  And if the ceremony was on March 3rd then yeah it was in 2553--[[User:Councilor 'Rumilee|Councilor &#39;Rumilee]] 13:18, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
 
== Covenant Casualties? ==
 
One of the covenant casuelties list says "(billions of dead)" and the other one says 500.6 million. Which is it? I changed the casualties of the second list to match the first one, but someone changed it back.
 
== Human Deaths ==
 
it says 1,006 Billion dead on the human side,but wouldn't 1,006 Billion make it 1,006 TRILLION,not billion  [[User:Voy101|Voy101]]
:Umm, 1,006,000,000 and 1,006,000,000,000 are two different numbers. I think you meant to say "1.006 trillion". <span title="I am not an employee of Wikia.">Çya</span>, [[w:c:halo:User:Mouse among men|<font color="black">M</font>]][[w:c:halo:User talk:Mouse among men|<font color="black">ø</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Mouse among men|<font color="black">u</font>]][[w:c:halo:Halopedia:Parasite of Halopedia|<font color="black">s</font>]][[w:c:halo:User:Mouse among men/Sandbox|<font color="black">e</font>]] 23:19, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 
== the picture ==
 
can we get a better one?
 
== operation prometheus and operation torpedo were not pyrhhic victories ==
 
both battles were planned to be suicide missions. they were fought so that the UNSC could halt covenant attacks and buy valuable time to rebuild their fleets and fight back. a pyrhhic victory is when the loss exceeds the importance of the victory, which doesn't really apply to either because both operations saved many planets. [[User:CaptJim|CaptJim]] 03:21, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 
<s>Actually a pyrhhic victory is defined as "A victory that is offset by staggering losses" both of the battles fit the description, and while these were planned as suicide missions, it doesn't mean that the outcome of these battles don't fit the description of a pyrrhic victory. If you want to call the two battles suicide missions, you are more than welcome to add that to the respective articles, but please do not remove the "pyrrhic" part, that is the outcome.
[http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Halopedia:Covenant_of_Halopedia/Member_List#Honor_Guard_Elites <span style="color: #000080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;">'''Honor Guard'''</span>] [[User:Spartansniper450|<font color=#00416A>Spartansniper</font>]]'''[[User talk:Spartansniper450|<font color="#000000">'''4'''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/Spartansniper450|<font color="#000000">'''50'''</font>]] 3:22, Nov 24, 2008 (UTC)</s>
 
So wouldn't the entire war be a pyrhhic victory for the UNSC?[[User talk:Papayaking|Papayaking]] 06:29, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
 
== commanders ==
john-117 shouldn't be listed under commanders, he only had about as much command authority as a sergeant. [[User talk:CaptJim|CaptJim]] 18:27, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 
He was Chief Petty Officer of the Army theres only 1 of them thats as high as you get without going to officer school in the Marines.[[User talk:Sith Venator|Sith Venator]] 18:32, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 
but it's still an enlisted rank. he may have won the war for humanity, but he wasn't a commander. [[User talk:CaptJim|CaptJim]] 18:50, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
 
== 4 Ships? ==
 
it says that the "In amber clad" was one of 4 ships that tailed regret to instalation 05. when do we see 3 others?
 
:Halo: Ghosts of Onyx. Two frigates and a corvette follow it to Installation 05. We don't see what happened to them. -- <b>[[Halopedia:Administrators|<font color=blue>Administrator</font>]] [[User:Specops306|<font color=blue>Specops306</font>]] - ''[[User Talk:Specops306|<font color=purple>Qur'a 'Morhek</font>]]'' <sup>''[[w:c:halofanon:Operation: HOT GATES|<u><font color=blue>Honour Light Your Way!</font></u>]]''</sup></b> 21:35, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 
== 2401 ==
 
It says in the infobox that 2401 Penitent Tangent is still alive. Wouldn't he have been killed with Installation 04 2 blew and killed the gravemind? [[User talk:D1134|D1134]] 01:17, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 
== Commanders ==
 
Master Chief, though a significant figure, is ''not'' a commander. He did not command troops or discuss strategies with others. He was a soldier who was effective at doing what he was told. Please don't add that again. Commmanders are commanders. Soldiers are soldiers. [[User:The 888th Avatar|<span style="color:blue;">The 888th Avatar</span>]] [[User_talk:The 888th Avatar|<sup><span style="color:blue;">(Talk)</span></sup>]] 06:15, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 
== Rate of Colony Destruction ==
 
I've calculated that with eight hundred colonies destroyed in a period of twenty-seven years, that's <s>one colony lost to the Covenant every 12 ''days''. Jeez!</s> 29 colonies lost a year. Improved number - bah, a pox on my poor math skills.  -- <b>[[Halopedia:Administrators|<font color=blue>Administrator</font>]] [[User:Specops306|<font color=blue>Specops306</font>]] - ''[[User Talk:Specops306|<font color=purple>Qur'a 'Morhek</font>]]'' <sup>''[[w:c:halofanon:Operation: HOT GATES|<u><font color=blue>Honour Light Your Way!</font></u>]]''</sup></b> 23:57, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 
== Ships ==
 
Before the civil war, and durring it, didn't The humans destroy roughly 1000 Covenant ships? ([[Special:Contributions/98.210.46.212|98.210.46.212]] 04:32, 9 August 2009 (UTC))
 
== War Financing ==
 
Ever thought how the UNSC had the money to finance this war? I think that after a certain point, they approached military and health industries and said "Look, unless you want to die, we need this stuff for free." That is the only real feasible idea as to how the UNSC could afford such a war effort.--[[User talk:Hypnocake|Hypnocake]] 02:08, October 22, 2009 (UTC)
 
:Or perhaps the UNSC is a somewhat Communist government, where military efforts and rations are dispensed equally among people. That honestly sounds much more feasible than assuming the world advanced to unification through Capitalism. Also, please sign your posts. Thanks. -[[User:DinoBenn|<span style="color:red">DinoBenn says "Fight to the End,</span>]] [[User talk:DinoBenn|<span style="color:blue">Never Give In"</span>]] [[Image:S4.jpg|18px]] 02:07, October 22, 2009 (UTC)
 
::But that would mean conscription, and as we see through Halo 3: ODST, recruitment was voluntary.--[[User talk:Hypnocake|Hypnocake]] 02:10, October 22, 2009 (UTC)
 
:::That does not mean conscription. Communism means everything is dispensed equally. However, as this does not work all too well, a form of Communism, where instead of wealth, rations were dispensed equally among those in need, which would be next to everyone. People would conscript into the war effort, yes, by choice, but that is not a defining opossition movement to Communism. What I am trying to say is that is was kind of Communism, and otherwise Democracy. -[[User:DinoBenn|<span style="color:red">DinoBenn says "Fight to the End,</span>]] [[User talk:DinoBenn|<span style="color:blue">Never Give In"</span>]] [[Image:S4.jpg|18px]] 02:14, October 22, 2009 (UTC)