Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24037259-20131011045357/@comment-38.112.87.226-20131015164307

Sorry if I'm wrong about this one and please don't just chew me out for this like you guys do everyone else but:

Didn't we mention that the planet they are now stranded on was forgotten by the UNSC, so perhaps the people who originally lived there got military support from the UNSC and as the war between them and the Covenant waged on they forgot to go back and retrieve their equipment. A real life example of this is when the Russians lost the war in Afghanistan they litterally abandonned hundreds of functioning tanks and attack helicopters. My theory is that due to the UNSC possibly losing the paperwork for these items or due to another cause Locus got a hold of the equipment with relative ease. Also to explain the soldiers present they possibly got their training from the time before the war and it was passed down from generation to generation (much like the Muja Hadin)