system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Halo] Why didn't the Covenant drop ship just stick around and slay the humans with it’s powerful turret instead of continuously dropping off small infantry units to be slaughtered by the Chief?
gpt
Arrogance. 

If you read the books, they basically did that for most of the war against humanity, when Reach was conquered they felt they had humanity on the ropes as canonically, they could decimate earth’s fleets and biospheres while the Spartans are about as powerful as a single sanghelli (Biofoam, regenerating shields, good luck and just simply being that badass were John-117’s saving graces).