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: However, if they
: covenant were a couple shades more clever and didn't have a devious
: leadership, it would be noticed that humans are marked but not as
: artifacts, but each human is designated with a symbol representing
: 'Reclaimer'. Since the covies are in fact not a few shades more
: intelligent,
Intelligence has nothing to do with it. If you have no way of knowing what an obscure symbol means, you have no way of knowing what it means.
: I say this because an elite who
: knowingly kills all humans therefore all of what they believe to be
: 'artifacts', is heresy as far as the Council is concerned, but if they
: capture a few 'artifacts' and accept that others destruction(death) is
: unavoidable collateral damage they would probably receive praise and avoid
: being decreed a heretic.
What if those symbols aren't artefacts?
The Prophets knew that the Humans would show up in the Luminaries. That's what their war plan hinged on. In addition, they saw what the belief that the Reclaimer symbol denotes an artefact can do to a mission: Maccabeus disregarded his orders to burn Harvest, and went hunting for relics instead.
I would consider it likely that the Prophets came up with a rumor that Humanity had destroyed relics or somehow blasphemed the Forerunner. As punishment, the relics of the Forerunner had marked us for extinction.
: Short answer... The Covenant more than likely takes prisoners due humans
: being designated as Forerunner Artifacts by the special equipment most
: Covenant ships carry. With the Covenant Hierarchy deciding to bury the
: truth that they are marked as 'Reclaimer's and not as artifacts, well
: let's just say anal probing by aliens probably turned into a reality for
: many a prisoner due to covies being dumbfounded as to where the humans
: hide the artifacts on their person.
Darn it, I was drinking coke when I read that.