: 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.

It is interesting that Halo is a very "old school" sci-fi universe when you put it in that context.

I think you're a bit uncharitable in your description of them telling the same story over and over, though. The books have examined a lot of what we're talking about with cross-cultural exchange. The stuff about using Waypoint and the mechanics of how people communicate in the colonies was only ever first explored with 343 and "Hunt the Truth".