: My impression is that mp players don't like grenade spamming and so want
: grenade numbers limited. They don't want vehicles to be too powerful. And
: they talk a lot about weapon balance. Those things aren't issues for
: campaign players because you are one against many and the Covenant can't
: post on message boards to give their point of view.

That gave me a mental image of an Elite sitting awkwardly on a PC and typing angry messages on a forum, but it made me think.

The Covenant posting on the internet could actually be a thing in Halo. With an interstellar FTL internet and comm network (as seen in Hunt the Truth) and places like Venezia where different species mingle, it’s not too hard to imagine that other species would discover humanity’s internet pretty soon.

What if the not-Storm Covenant actually posts propaganda videos like ISIS and tries to radicalize non-human youths on mixed-species worlds? Or would they even consider using “infidel technology” for recruitment purposes? One would think Jul would be smart enough to leverage any channels to recruit him more followers and come up with a clever religious explanation to justify it to his minions.

Or what if it went the other way? What if one of Jul’s Zealot social media agents was swayed by the arguments on the other side, or simply found his new calling in a particularly addictive human-made MMO? Or ended up finding Jesus, or Buddha, or Dasc, while trying to troll human religious forums? I wonder how much of that has happened already; ie. former Covenant converting to human religions. How accepting would religious communities be of them? We know it's happened the other way (as seen in Last Light), but could you imagine a Grunt as a Catholic priest, for example? Or a Jackal?

Is there an instant FTL comm line between Earth and Sanghelios? Or the other Covenant worlds? If it’s possible to link Earth and the outer colonies in a few years, I’d think it wouldn’t be too hard to establish a constant line to Sanghelios. Or would there be concerns about etiquette and cultural differences? Like if a human forum troll said something that made a Sangheili warlord wage a holy war on all of humanity. Maybe the UNSC would want to discourage that from happening, but I don't see how it could be altogether prevented.

I wish Halo addressed these kinds of questions. Mass Effect did, to some extent, which I always liked. Halo's post-war setting is fertile ground for all sorts of interesting cross-species social examination but it's a shame 343i hasn't really tapped into that potential and instead just kept telling the same "UNSC and Covenant armies clash over Forerunner thing" story over and over again. And with Cortana's recent skynet takeover, any and all serious examination into the complexities post-war Haloverse has effectively been put on hold if not made impossible altogether.