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first off the humans started out with like a hundred planets and now they're down to like 3.
the covenant is vastly superior in firepower and number and unless a miracle happens theres no possible way it will be on a covie planet. humans dont know where any covenant planet is!!!!


  • 05.29.2004 12:30 PM PDT

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Anything could happen in an entire game. they said MC will be travelling alot so dont count out the possiblity.

  • 05.29.2004 12:32 PM PDT
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Here is how I see it there is no we we will invade a covie planet simply not enough men left however we could go to a covie planet and assinate a leader. If we wipe out the covies in halo 2 it will be by using the halos or the flood on the halos.

  • 05.29.2004 12:35 PM PDT

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I think that MC would be capable of it alone. He IS a spartan after all

  • 05.29.2004 12:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: mithrandir1
first off the humans started out with like a hundred planets and now they're down to like 3.
the covenant is vastly superior in firepower and number and unless a miracle happens theres no possible way it will be on a covie planet. humans dont know where any covenant planet is!!!!




Ever read the books carefully? First paragraph is about your statement of only three planets left.

Okay then we still have a few dozen colonies left, besides the Sol system. And even then Sol has 9 planets. Now when Reach was attacked the Covenant literally bypassed several dozen colonies to get to it. The events at Halo took place very shortly after The Fall fo Reach. Like only a week. Then there was Operation First Strike, which was another week after Halo. And then there is maybe another week after that in between Halo: First Strike and Halo 2. So basically we still have plenty of colonies left, the Covenant are just bypassing all of those that are not really important and are finally going for the head of operations.

As for the superior firepower and won't find a Covenant planet......Yes they have WAY too firepower, which makes our desperate situation oh so much greater. As for finding a planet, it is a long shot, but we'd have to send everything we've got at once to take down its defenses.

  • 05.29.2004 12:43 PM PDT
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those colones that they bypassed to get to reach are obviously worhtless because they're cut off from sol and the rest of them all and the covenant will get like 500 more ships after the MC helped destroy them all.

  • 05.29.2004 12:47 PM PDT
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I never remember hearing about the Inner Colonies being cut off. If that were the case then mass histeria would have already broken out and described in the books. As far as the Inner Colonies know, we are winning. And how foolish they are for thinking so.

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Posted by: mithrandir1
first off the humans started out with like a hundred planets and now they're down to like 3.
the covenant is vastly superior in firepower and number and unless a miracle happens theres no possible way it will be on a covie planet. humans dont know where any covenant planet is!!!!




Ever read the books carefully? First paragraph is about your statement of only three planets left.

Okay then we still have a few dozen colonies left, besides the Sol system. And even then Sol has 9 planets. Now when Reach was attacked the Covenant literally bypassed several dozen colonies to get to it. The events at Halo took place very shortly after The Fall fo Reach. Like only a week. Then there was Operation First Strike, which was another week after Halo. And then there is maybe another week after that in between Halo: First Strike and Halo 2. So basically we still have plenty of colonies left, the Covenant are just bypassing all of those that are not really important and are finally going for the head of operations.

As for the superior firepower and won't find a Covenant planet......Yes they have WAY too firepower, which makes our desperate situation oh so much greater. As for finding a planet, it is a long shot, but we'd have to send everything we've got at once to take down its defenses.


Does anyone find it wierd that in first strike MC returns to earth in a Frigate and yet in the Halo 2 movie he returns in his Longsword figther

  • 05.29.2004 12:54 PM PDT
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Ok earth is the only planet left in halo 2 this was said by bungie maybe not the books but what do the books know and in the halo 2 he is in a frigate look at the room he jumps out of to go to earth there is nothing that size in a long sword also he goes down an elavater no elavater in a long sword. I dont know you think we would have colongized Mars by then but the colonies out side the solar system are gone.

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Bungie said the books were official. Therfore THEY KNOW ALL. Although Bungie said that Sol was all that was left, they may inquire that Sol is the last place the UNSC is willing to defend, not necessarially the only one left.

On top of that.

He never returned in an fighter. Watch more carefully, there never was a fighter in that video.

  • 05.29.2004 1:03 PM PDT
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what he said

  • 05.29.2004 1:45 PM PDT

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To quote Frankie from Bungie "We ARE the books." (March-OXM interview).

...and in the books they mention several colonies, there are also fringe (pirate) settlements that try to remain hidden from everyone, UNSC and Covenant (wont spoil the books too much for ya). So i doubt that Earth, or 3 planets is all that's left of human settlement. But granted, the Covenant are pushing a quick offensive and they're really into glassing the planets of their enemies so if the number of planets inhabited by humans is running low it would not be surprising. I think we have to think about how hard it is to locate a particular planet in the galaxy (without intel). But the planets stick out in a solar system and so i think there might be a strong -mobile- human force or maybe it will be that many are finding places to hide (asteroid belts).

We must also ask ourselves if the Covenant even have a home world and what I am about to discuss will spoil the end of First Strike and more so read on at your own risk.....

It was the Spartan II's mission to board a covenant ship and pilot it with the use of top AI and infiltrate "Covenant space". Locating a home world is a very human albeit logical conclusion to draw out but the UNSC is dealing with something very non-human so we must prepare ourselves for anything (as if finding a huge ring didn't already get us thinking outside of the homeworld).

At the end of First Strike they start off the chapter as they do every chapter by giving us the time, date and location of the scene (usually the order is the celestial system, time, date, locale then planet or ship ......or huge ring or what-have-you). It gives us some alien time reference then places us on/in the Steps of Silence in the/a Covenant Holy city named "High Charity. Then all it says is Sanctum of the Hierarchs for the general place. So it's a city in a sanctum....? It gives a lethal description of the Covenant space, filled with cruisers around a "massive, bulbous planetoid". That's it. No mention of a homeworld or a bonified planet. Even more un-humanlike, is the scene in the room decorated with "countless" shards of glass each from a conquered and glassed, planet. This is so counter-intuitive, what would be more precious to man in 2552 than a habitable atmosphere on a planet within the GoldieLocks zone?

I think the Covenant have a very different idea of "homeworld" and perhaps the history of the Forerunners has something to do with it. Whatever happens in Halo 2 it's going to be awesome and I'm sure that where ever we end up it will be very fun to play cause the levels will be magnificent.

As for how MC ends up at earth... he was on the Gettysburg (frigate) with Cortana and all her juicy data at the end of First Strike. I'm pretty sure they were heading towards Earth, and they know that the Covenant have the coordinates for Sol, so maybe that scene with the Chief "jumping out" of a frigate in space (very cool Bungie!), is from the Gettysburg. They only thing i find that might contradict this if you listen real carefully you hear transmissions from Fleetcom and Cortana says hold on "reinforcements are on the way". Now is she refering to the Chief (he is pretty kick-ass but back-up for a whole fleet?) or other ships that the Chief picked up along the way, or even, the eventuality of the chief boarding that Covie cruiser floating beneath him and Cortana doing her thaing???

I don't know how much time has passed between the end of presently known events and the beginning of that scene or the beginning of Halo 2 for that matter. I wouldn't be surprised if they start us off without a clue and we all get caught up in the missions at hand that the game flows (sorta like playing Halo then reading The Fall Of Reach) then they release a book a few months later, as a prequel, explaining all the new perpexlities that'd arise from this awkward begining. BLAM!



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  • 05.29.2004 3:19 PM PDT
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wtf of course the covenat have a homeworld. if u look at the page before all the high charity sanctum crap, the section is titled "harbinger" what do u think thats refering to.

duh

  • 05.29.2004 5:27 PM PDT
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Ya we are going to the covenant planet because i said so and if not than theres alwasy halo 3 so and why are u spreading false rumors anyway

  • 05.29.2004 5:34 PM PDT
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I doubt the Covenant have a single homeworld, since there are so many species (especially with only grunts breathing methane). More than likely we would attack the Prophet or Elite homeworlds, or possibly just Covenant "sanctums".

And as far as the FLEETCOM transmission from the Halo 2 Announce Trailer, I would think that refers to the cheif stealing a Covenant Cruiser and using Cortana's modifications to decimate the Covenant Fleet a la First Strike.

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false rumors slayer?

what do u think the chances are of that happening and how

  • 05.29.2004 6:28 PM PDT
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mars basically is the home planet.

  • 05.29.2004 6:36 PM PDT