Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-92.233.39.118-20130307075338/@comment-5904951-20130405011348

Presumably, as we cannot be sure just yet. However I do agree, but it may be possible judging from their metal-bladed firearms and large metal arm-shields that they are on the primitive side of the space-faring technological level if you compare their weaponry to the "energy sabers" utilized by the Fallen. They remind me of the nature of the Jiralhanae or "Brutes" of the Halo Universe. They are intellegent, but savage and bloodthirsty with a suggested favoring of blades and conventional ballistic weaponry than that of energy-based weapons. From the concept art it looks fairly likely that the Cabal will be using large slug-throwing weapons, I think this may have been stated by Bungie before, if I had to paraphrase I believe they labeled them "Rhinos with slug-throwers", but I am not completely sure about that.