"It's been a long war and far too many human planets have fallen because of it." He agreed quietly and looked away for a moment because how could you even begin to try and explain the destructive potential of a Covenant armada? Or how they could reduce an entire planet with billions of people populating it into little more than shards of melted glass?

Until he'd seen it with his own eyes, Kurt hadn't been able to grasp the true magnitude of the war.

"I suppose it is. When you are fighting giant aliens, subtly is sort of overrated. That adage about creating monsters to fight monsters seems to hold true throughout the entire course of human history." But that wasn't completely true. The Spartans hadn't been created to fight the alien threat. They had been created to fight human rebels. The Covenant just justified the reasoning for their creation in the first place. "A ranger? Like a military spec ops sort of soldier?"

Note, he neatly dodged her question about his particular 'specialties'. Unless you counted his remark about fighting monsters of course.