In Response To: Re: Something else I don't like about "Halo 2.0" (Bry)
: I'm not in support of that antagonism continuing, not in the least.
: Just pointing out that if you look back on some of these events with the
: knowledge of which direction the fiction has been going, it's not too
: difficult to see justifications.
: They aren't completely out of the blue.
: Ahhh, I'm not quite following that last part. When the word spread that Kilo
: Five was on Sanghelios with the Arbiters permission and had desecrated a
: Forerunner 'temple', it caused a surge of support for 'Telcam. It would
: have been the turning point for the civil war, had the Infinity not
: intervened.
: 'Telcam himself is quite an interesting character in that his overwhelming
: passion is in the worship of the Forerunners as Gods. By which I mean that
: he seems to be prepared to accept anyone of any species if they embrace
: this reverence. He's genuinely happy when Phillips takes an interest in
: examining the inners of the 'temple', even if he is misled into the actual
: reason.
: Whether the fiction explores it or not, you can bet that at least some humans
: would heed that call and indeed decide to worship the Forerunners.
: As for the former part, well, I don't really have too much of a problem with
: many Sangheili, especially the warriors, showing a certain measure of
: naivety, having spent millennia in the Covenant as soldiers rather than
: politicians.
: Subterfuge and 'internal affairs' seems to be the domain of the Spec-Ops, as
: happened in Halo 2 where they were sent to silence a Sangheili 'heretic'.
: While it is not a young civilisation, it hasn't particularly shared in
: humanities goal of continued self improvement and expansion. They found a
: niche in the Covenant and they became entrenched in that. Utterly
: dependant upon it.
: That's why with no leadership, no Huragok, in cases no sense of purpose and
: little knowledge of how to be truly independent ...
: Well, I suppose it's somewhat similar to our doomsday concept of the
: Millennium Bug or numerous EMP blasts that would destroy our computer
: networks. If civilisation as we knew it suddenly didn't exist any more.
: The Sangheili might not have it that bad right away, but it's going to get
: worse and worse unless they learn how to maintain Covenant technology
: themselves.
Fair points all. I'm just concerned that the characterization of Sangheili being the Proud Warrior Race has been somewhat Flanderized. (Sorry for the excessive citing of TVTropes, but as they say, once you read about these things, you start to notice them everywhere.)
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