>about to win intergalactic war
>decide to violently replace your praetorian guard for no real reason
>cause massive civil war, fracture your empire
?????
About to win intergalactic war
Daniel James
Michael Turner
he knew it would be easier to convince the brutes to activate halo to kill the entire covenant while he was busy chilling
Ian Jones
He knew that the Elites were smart enough to stop obeying them eventually, so they picked the dumb brutes
Adrian Hughes
space niggers
Julian Hill
the elites were in the cusp of fully rebelling, my guess is he took the initiative to catch them by surprise before they could organize
Adrian Taylor
This
The only reason he decided to do it during the human war was because the death of Regret gave him a damn good excuse to go ahead with that idea. He probably didn't expect a full on coup either. And had it not been for the flood he likely would've one that fight.
Daniel Perez
>there will never be a staten cut of halo 3
Evan Sullivan
That kind of writing is something 343 never would have been able to come up with on its own. They're too busy making sure their writers are anything but good at writing.
Camden Smith
Elites have always been reluctant allies. The only thing keeping them in check was religion and honor even then they were questioning the religion part. When regret got capped truth used it as an excuse to have more dogmatic and less questioning bodyguards.
Easton Brooks
The hot-headed Regret was the most pro-sangheili Hierarch. He spent much of his early career flying around space on elite ships, he trusted them with his own personal scheme in Halo Wars without involving Truth, and they rubbed off on him enough that he even carried around a plasma pistol, unheard of for San'Shyum.
Truth could never have pulled off his species swap with Regret still alive, or at least not as successfully, which is why he let Regret be killed.
Colton Russell
>Rash, ambitious, immature, and naive compared to the other Hierarchs, Regret originally served as Vice Minister of Tranquility, where he worked frequently with Sangheili and had adopted some of their personality traits, such as a preoccupation with honor and personal arms.[3] In many ways, he can be characterized as a Prophet who thought like an Elite; a rare mindset for his species, and from the High Prophet of Truth's point of view, a dangerous one
Grayson Hughes
>Regret was very fond of the Sangheili and showed compassion towards them.[3] He was not involved in the betrayal and massacre of the Sangheili as he died prior to the Great Schism.[34]
Christopher Bailey
I still refuse to believe that Bungie ever planned on humans being a space-faring race of magical native americans that were made retarded.
The lore was better when we were just a fledgling race chosen by the Forerunner to take on the mantle. Everything after 3/Reach is a fucking joke.
Kevin Rivera
>A record of all our lost time..."Human history" is it? Fascinating.
>You ARE Forerunner!
>RECLAIMERS
HOW HARD IS THIS TO GET?
John Howard
Post the concept art of Arbiter finding a forerunner tomb and opening it to reveal a human skeleton, that always sets the 343 fanfiction drones off
Brayden Sanders
assuming he's not omnipotent it seems pretty realistic. He was literally just overly confident
Aaron Mitchell
These are allusions to humans BEING Forerunner, not a separate race of dumbfucks at war with them.
I'd have been cool with us literally being Forerunenr, and I'd have been cool with humans being a separate race that was just evolving when the Ark was built. But the route they actually went with is retarded.
Austin Ward
This guy probably knew very well what clean feathers smelled like.
Juan Rogers
It's pretty obvious that that was a retcon. The story was neatly wrapped up with nowhere left to go after 3, so they had to fuck with the lore to create conflicts and plot twists for the sequels.
Robert Collins
Because in Halo 2 he clearly had some sort of deeper plan and endgoal rather then just activating the rings, as evidenced by the fact that he specifically lets Chief kill Regret ("If you had not withdrawn our Phantoms, his murderer would have been within our grasp!") to both take out another High Prophet (see also him leaving Mercy to die) and to put the Brutes into power by using his death as an excuse.
Additionally, in the same cutscene where the game is hinting at Truth letting chief kill Regret, we have Truth say that he "spoke to the Oracle" who told him about the Index, and we know Guilty Spark is fine telling Covenant about the truth of what the rings do since that's what caused the Heretics to become a thing.
Halo 2 implies that Truth knew what the rings did and is for some reason amassing singular power and taking out political rivals(the other prophets, the elites), which in turn suggests he doesn't actually plan to fire the rings and intended to be in control of things for the long haul or for some other goal.
But Halo 2 had an insane amount of plot cuts due to Joe's intial giant script getting heavily cut down and then like a third of the game's missions being cut 9 months from launch, and then Joe was barely involved with writing Halo 3 so Truth's personality is entirely different there. So we don't know what the actual original intent was
unironically our only hope is Hiddenexperia interviewing joe like he did marcus, marty, etc to ask what his original plan was
Ryan Johnson
Nothing the Prophets do and how they run The Covenant makes any sort of sense when you dive right into their histories or even current tactics with humankind. Do you know what Covenant will do instead of just outright glassing a planet? They'll dive down with foot soldiers and fight their enemies to make them fear some sort of "righteous penance" and then scour that planet for Forerunner artifacts. But Humans are Forerunners so they want to genocide their own gods who despite the numbers and tech advantage are holding their own, including their living demigods who can solo entire squadrons of your shock troops. Hell they could've been delusional while asking humans to join the Covenant but no they didn't....
Carson Gomez
>Nothing the Prophets do and how they run The Covenant makes any sort of sense
this
Nathaniel Johnson
>Excuse me, sir? Exactly aCK
Throw him out the airlock with the rest, Tartarus.