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Re: Why do the Covies take prisoners?
By:Postmortem
Date: 8/5/13 4:11 pm
In Response To: Why do the Covies take prisoners? (Kal)

: Halo 1, 2, and 3 all have levels where Master Chief needs to rescue captured
: marines from Covenant prisons. But if the overall goal of the Covenant is
: to exterminate the human race, why in the world do they take any prisoners
: in the first place?

: Is it to get information out of their prisoners? If that's the case, I could
: see them keeping Keyes and Johnson alive, but not the average Private.

: Is it for a future prisoner exchange? That seems to fall into a traditional
: war mindset that I don't think the Covenant abide by.

: Is it just to create more varied gameplay for us? Is there a real answer in
: the EU?

Don't forget that they were also needed to interface with Forerunner artifacts. The Covenant have known for the duration of the war that humans had the magic touch, so that may have been the biggest part of it. As well as the location of Earth, circa Halo 1.


Messages In This Thread

Why do the Covies take prisoners?Kal8/5/13 2:21 pm
     Purple Is the New BlackGrizzlei8/5/13 2:49 pm
           Re: Purple Is the New BlackGrimmire8/5/13 4:23 pm
                 Re: Purple Is the New BlackQuirel8/5/13 6:52 pm
     Re: Why do the Covies take prisoners?padraig088/5/13 3:52 pm
           Re: Why do the Covies take prisoners?Stephen L. (SoundEffect)8/5/13 4:05 pm
                 Re: Why do the Covies take prisoners?Grizzlei8/5/13 4:11 pm
                       Re: Why do the Covies take prisoners?Stephen L. (SoundEffect)8/5/13 4:25 pm
           Re: Why do the Covies take prisoners?Joshinhuman8/5/13 4:09 pm
                 Re: Why do the Covies take prisoners?padraig088/5/13 5:03 pm
                       Re: Why do the Covies take prisoners?Quirel8/5/13 7:06 pm
                             H.B.O the Brute sessionsJoshinhuman8/5/13 8:59 pm
                                   Re: H.B.O the Brute sessionsNikko B2018/5/13 9:11 pm
                                         lions not loins but you get hanae on this jiral *NM*Joshinhuman8/5/13 9:39 pm
                                         Re: H.B.O the Brute sessionsZackDark8/5/13 10:15 pm
                                               Re: H.B.O the Brute sessionsGrimmire8/6/13 2:59 am
                                                     Re: H.B.O the Brute sessionspadraig088/6/13 10:09 am
                                                           Re: H.B.O the Brute sessionsZackDark8/6/13 12:26 pm
                                                     Relevant quotes from Halo 3 Bestiary...Dervish8/6/13 10:35 am
                                                           Re: Relevant quotes from Halo 3 Bestiary...General Vagueness8/10/13 11:50 pm
                                                                 Re: Relevant quotes from Halo 3 Bestiary...Postmortem8/13/13 2:37 pm
                                   Re: H.B.O the Brute sessionspadraig088/6/13 10:12 am
     Re: Why do the Covies take prisoners?Postmortem8/5/13 4:11 pm
     Re: Why do the Covies take prisoners?Quirel8/6/13 1:10 am
           So how 'bout Spartan Ops?Dervish8/6/13 10:56 am
                 What about it?Quirel8/7/13 5:05 pm

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