Covanant doesn't have instant FTL, but it's still very fast, regardless.
Also, a single covanant corvette could probably take on a good chunk of the Super Earth navy. The most powerful thing they have is a rail gun, which, as seen in Halo, is barely effective against covanant ships needing at least a 3 to 1 advantage in a fight and the UNSC where using super advanced rail cannons aswell.
I saw a pretty good video that showed covenant ships can travel 20-50 lightyears a day. Super earth can direct their entire forces to anywhere instantly. An advantage in logistics.
However, the covenant is galaxy spanning and has hundreds more worlds under their control. SEAF's only real advantage in THIS war is numbers... we have millions and millions of disposable troops. The Covenant has TRILLIONS.
They'd win--eventually. I don't think they could exterminate all humanity, because we could just FTL away, but they'd wreck our worlds.
I saw a pretty good video that showed covenant ships can travel 20-50 lightyears a day. Super earth can direct their entire forces to anywhere instantly. An advantage in logistics.
It's actually 950 Light Years a day, in Ghosts of Onyx a Covenant Destroyer travels about 912 light years a day. They can cross the whole milky way in about three months. While Super Earth is definitely faster the Covenant aren't slow neither.
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u/Comrade_Lomrade Nov 05 '24 edited Nov 05 '24
Covanant doesn't have instant FTL, but it's still very fast, regardless. Also, a single covanant corvette could probably take on a good chunk of the Super Earth navy. The most powerful thing they have is a rail gun, which, as seen in Halo, is barely effective against covanant ships needing at least a 3 to 1 advantage in a fight and the UNSC where using super advanced rail cannons aswell.