How would an actual meeting of this two would actually go?

Anyone?

Bump?

>>55430482
Don't The Covenant have a big speed advantage when it comes to starships due to slipspace travel? Give them an edge in mobility and deployment and such?

>>55433807
Well, yeah

>>55430482
I think the Covenant is like an Empire proxy.
They use old reverse-engineered technology they don't understand, they have an elite class of warriors (literally called elites) and fodder in various forms of alien species.

They can "glass" planets, so can the empire, they're lead by an xenophobic and zealous conusel.

So I'd say that they would be on par with Empire.
Meaning that they'd probably own Tau, if they focused solely on them, but they will not because they're too divided.

>>55430482
They'll either form a loose alliance or engage in outright war. The Covanent worship the forerunners and their technology, limited what the other races can do with it. Why the elites were on thin ice with the carbines.

The tau are so innovative they would get booted out for making the forerunner tech into some new super weapon,

>>55434297
Funny that you say that, because the lore that got revealed in fleet battles mentions that only 3 ministries out of several actually fought humanity and only two of those kind of worked in tandem most of the time

>>55434384
I imagine them getting into a war fiest and folding the Tau in.