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Elites vs. UNSC?


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Hello everybody,

 

There has been one question lurking on my mind ever since I first encountered elites on Halo 4. I have had the campaign completed for quite a while now, yet browsing online, I have never found the answer to my question.

 

Why have the Elites broken their "truce" with UNSC forces, humans in general?

 

Help clear this up for me, as I have no clue why my best friends are trying to massacre me? :(

 

Thanks,

-Inversion

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They haven't so to speak.

 

The elites encountered in Halo 4 are a seperate faction of the covenant that opposed the Arbiter and all of the other elites in continuation of their pursuit of the Great Journey. (Religious nut-heads if you will) They never accepted the Arbiter's truce with the humans and still seek to eradicate them. It's also worth noting that they are a very dark and cruel gang of elites. Their armor is darker and more ancient, they act more like brutes, and they are often depicted as terrorists throughout Spartan Ops.

 

Not sure why 343i didn't seek to explain this in the game though.

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Yeah, those are the "most religious ones". They refuse to choose the path of the Arbiter and are still up for the "Religious war". Perhaps there are more goals besides the Halo rings. As we could see, the Didact was apparently another of their goals. Who knows what else they have in store to use in their favor on this war?

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Essay time!

 

After the war, a group called Servants of the Aboding truth wanted to overthrow arbiter. ONI began to give them weapons to start a civil war. In one of these meetings, Jul M'Dama was captured and sent to Onyx. He was improsoned and eventually set to wander round in an explosive harness. He had an engineer escort who he talked to about the forerunners to keep impressions he was still religious. In paticular the Didact and Requiem. The engineer showed him some symbols on a portal, where he threatened to blow it up If he wasn't set free. The Huragok was forced to save Forerunner tech and released him. He was sent to a Sangheili occupied colony where he explained the Great Schism and war. He then began to study the portal he arrived from, piecing together launguage to find....

 

You guessed it, requiem. There they waited, building their armies for four years until chief arrives. And you know the tale from there...

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