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7/7/2025, 8:41:12 PM
>>63951289
>also, to keep this tactical, how did the humans not get wiped out by 27 years of space war? is there an actual tactical explanation
Space is big, and the UNSC ended up taking fanatical measures (i.e. blow yourself up on threat of capture) to ensure navigational data that could reveal where the Human colonies were did not fall into Covenant hands. Most of the war was the Covenant trying to find dozens of needles spread across dozens of haystacks. This worked so well it became a major plot point that the Covenant discovered earth based on ancient records indicating there were Forerunner ruins on it before they figured out it was the Human homeward. This resulted in the Prophet of Regret living up to his namesake when he thought he could snatch up the gibs by himself with a small fleet without letting any of the other Prophets in on it.
>also, to keep this tactical, how did the humans not get wiped out by 27 years of space war? is there an actual tactical explanation
Space is big, and the UNSC ended up taking fanatical measures (i.e. blow yourself up on threat of capture) to ensure navigational data that could reveal where the Human colonies were did not fall into Covenant hands. Most of the war was the Covenant trying to find dozens of needles spread across dozens of haystacks. This worked so well it became a major plot point that the Covenant discovered earth based on ancient records indicating there were Forerunner ruins on it before they figured out it was the Human homeward. This resulted in the Prophet of Regret living up to his namesake when he thought he could snatch up the gibs by himself with a small fleet without letting any of the other Prophets in on it.
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