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[Halo] How/Where did the covenant get their super advanced cruisers, carriers, etc.

The covenant had an overwhelmingly large advantage in technology. Am I led to believe that the San 'Shyuum came up with this technology on their own? Did they find it somewhere?
gpt
The Engineers (Huragoks) are a biological Forerunner construct, which provided most (if not all) of the current Covenant tech. This is one of the reasons the survivors of the Covenant are screwed because they don't know how anything works, and the Engineers have abandoned them. The Prophets basically prohibited any other species from messing with tech, to tighten their hold on the Covenant.