The Covenant from Halo could defeat the COG, Locusts, and Lambent from Gears of War

“A forfeit should result in the loss of this debate. Both debaters shall remind kind and courteous to one another.” == I agree to this. One additional thing, we are using all portions of canon for Halo and Gears of War. This includes games, books, and other related media that has received acknowledgement of canon by the developers. == “Game play usually represents” == Gameplay and Game Mechanics are not to be considered canon. These are tools used by developers to create balanced and enjoyable games. Otherwise, things like surviving multiple 7.62x51mm FMJ NATO rounds to the head, like in the Halo games, would be considered true. == Now to respond to Con’s rebuttels == “I feel this argument is rather Un significant. So if anyone here reading this has played the game (halo) and finished the series, you would know that the covenant (mostly) were defeated. They were defeated vastly by the technology that was currently known to humans, which were regular automated weapons.” == This is an extremely gross misunderstanding. The events of Halo 2 and Halo 3 take place when humanity is on the doorstep of extinction. The UNSC had controlled 800 planets at the beginning of the war, and they are now down to Earth and a few Inner Colonies. If it were not for the Great Schism (The Elites breaking from the Covenant and joining the Humans), Earth would have fallen. Actually, if The Arbiter (Thel Vadam) had not argued otherwise, the Elites on their own would have destroyed the humans. The UNSC only previaled because the main military power of the Covenant broke off. Otherwise, Earth would have been conquered just like the hundreds of planets before it. Also, Con does not realize that Earth was protected by 300 Orbital Defense Platforms. These platforms each carry one SMAC (Super Magnetic Accelerator Cannon), which fires a 3,000 ton projectile at 0.04c (4.0% of the speed of light) at a rate of 1 round every 5 seconds. No weapon on Earth today, not even the mighty Tsar Bomba, comes close to rivaling the energy of one of these platforms. On top of that, no weapon found on Sera rivals this either, yet Con expects that the forces of Sera will defeat an empire that defeated all 300 platforms with relative ease. Earth’s population was also 23 billion. The Covenant managed to reduce this to 200 million in the course of a few days. That is effectively reducing a 23 billion population by 99%. == “Now when we take the gears of war weapon arsenal into account, we see a lot higher technology employed by the humans. Chainsaw guns, Hammer of Dawn (can bring a powerful crashing into and destroying most anything).” == Ahh, the infamous Chainsaw guns.Realistically, chainsaws are not very effective weapons of war. And again, youhave to realize that the Covenant employs energy shielding, which a chainsawwould have no effect on short of delivering the Kinetic Energy from each swing.You can’t cut an energy shield. Con also needs to realize that the Covenant cansimply destroy all Hammer of Dawn Satallites before they even land, without theforces of Sera being able to stop them. After all, the Covenant is a space-faring empire. == “Ifcovenant technology is so easily defeated by normal human weapons, what makesyou think that they will stand a chance against the far superior technologicalaspects of the COG and the locusts?!” == The fact of the matter is that the Covenant isn’t defeated easily by UNSC weaponry,which is by no means “normal human weapons” For example: http://www.halopedian.com... http://www.halopedian.com... http://www.halopedian.com...I could post more with no problem, but I feel as though that I have mae my point.== "The covenant attack fleet that is largely seen in the halo series is about 15 Miles long. Yes it is big. A s hip that size could hold roughly3-4 hundred thousands troops."== Not to seem rude, but that is a fairly pathetic source. Also, you are confusing and individual ship with a fleet. That was ONE Covenant ship (The Long Night of Solace, to be exact, which is 27km long). Reach was attacked with a fleet containing over 400 ships. Also, what is to stop the Covenant from sending more? They have entire planets devoted to building ships, and thousands of ships reside around High Charity.== "population stuff"== Earth's population was 23 billion. The Covenant reduced this to a mere 200 million over the course of a few days. Also note that Humanity in Halo was fighting for survival, and the UNSC (as evident by all of the recruitment stands in Halo 3:ODST) was heavily recruiting, 3% is a low estimate for the amount of population that serves the military. This is 690 million armed forces fighting for Earth. The population of Sera is nothing but a mere drop in the water to the Covenant.== "Four COG members often will show down hundreds upon thousands of Locusts at a time, without even seeming to break a sweat."== Gross over-exaggeration. If this were true, the COG forces would not be in the losing position that they had been in. I will need actual proof of such a claim before it can even be considered.== "Who is to say that they would not do the same against the covenant? The COG are almost invincible, while the covenant has a wide span of weaknesses, that are expanded in the Halo series."== Because the Covenant have energy shielding and superior weapons. Energy shielding allows them to take blows that would be fatal while suffering no damage to themselves. Their weapons give severe burns from near misses, and even the weak ones can blow off limbs. Combine this with Active Camouflage, superior numbers, superior tactical control, and unassailable supply lines (space), you get an enemy you cannot defeat.== Strategy #1: Mass InvasionThe Covenant have multiple hundred planets under control. These planets are untouchable to the forces of Sera. They also provide a near unlimited supply of weapons, vehicles, troops, and ships. Not only this, but the existing population of the Covenant most likely far exceeds that of the forces on Sera (Sanghelios, the Elite homeworld, has 8 billion alone, most of which are in the Covenant military, as per the Elite way of life). Through the use of space-faring ships, they can literally travel anywhere on Sera without danger and assault them from any direction. Not to mention energy weapons and shielding that undoubtedly gives the Covenant the advantage in ground warfare. The forces of Sera literally cannot take the offensive against the Covenant, while the Covenant can throw troops and supplies at the planet with almost no limit. == Sources of interest: http://www.halopedian.com...http://www.halopedian.com... http://www.halopedian.com... http://www.halopedian.com... http://www.halopedian.com... Due to lack of characters remaining here, I will be posting quotes from the Halo Novels in the comments.