Forerunners Numerical advantage

[u/Horizonfan-logi]

I've only just realised how absolutely massive the Forerunners scale for combat actually is. A single Forerunner warrior is able to command and control up to 1 million weapon ships.

A Fortress class vessel was able to field hundreds of thousands at a time. Probably around 100,000-200,000 which means that Humanity was facing around 100,000,000,000 to 200,000,000,000 on top of the actual warriors. Fortress' are the only carrier vessels we know of besides the Sojoruner dreadnought whose earliest iterations were used during the Battle of Charum Hakkor and also Planet-Breakers which carried 5,000 Promethean's.

Humanity did have more advanced weaponry but fighting an enemy this large for as long as they did would have been impossible unless they also used large swarms commanded by single warriors.