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Ok... I've decided to make a topic (like this lol) where can or post or read annalizations of the halo books
The first book is ironically the last book in the series (to date anyway) ok this is a long one and all I ask is keep an open mind
*May contain SPOILERS*
Ok let’s start this with the epilogue of Halo: FS...
First off is the title... It starts off as follows.. 'The Ninth age of Reclamation' Ok... "The Ninth Age" now lets take Age as meaning about 100,000 years on the Covenant world. If you recall a certain Bungie employee on the Halo 2 Documentary has talked about making a battle ground that took place 900,000 years ago or in this case nine ages ago... maybe there was a battle between the Forerunner and an ancient enemy and this place is what everything is leading up to.
Now the word “Reclamation” comes from the word Reclaim. My first theory on this was how the Covenant are trying to collect or “Reclaim” the artifacts that the “Great Ones” had scatter across the galaxy to maybe Reclaim their status among the Forerunner. There is another possibility however if you remember good ole 343 Guilty Spark called out human hero John "The Reclaimer". This could mean that Guilty Spark thought that the Master Chief had came to reclaim the power of the ring (sounded too LotR lol) ever since the Forerunner had left. Maybe the MC was meant to find these crystals or artifacts that were strewn across the galaxy by these “Great Ones”. Maybe he was meant to bring back the Forerunner himself on that 900,000 year old battle ground using those crystals that he must “Reclaim”, again the word Reclaim comes into play on both all of those theories but who knows...
Ok moving along. It talks about how the setting of the epilogue is in a Covenant Holy City called "High Charity" and how it is a Sanctum of Hierarchs. Ok first things first Covenant Holy City well that pretty self explanatory really... we know its a City that is probably deep into the Covenant homeworld and, well, is a city of religion.
"High Charity" Tells me it is a place to make charity or give gifts to their what might be their Gods or maybe even the ancient Forerunners. Since it tells us of how the Brute Tatarus brought the shard of artifact to that Prophet "The Prophet of Truth" I'm thinking the gifts of charity are the artifacts them selves. "It may yet be enough for our purposes... and one more relic from the Great Ones, as precious as they are, will soon make no difference to us." -p. 340.
Now these “Great Ones” IMO are the Forerunners themselves. In Halo: TFoR Dr. Hasley sated that the artifacts were found in craters from suspected meteorites, and were 60,000 years old, but then Cortana says that the calculations could be off because they were in fact, human. Maybe the artifacts took 60,000 years to reach Sigma Octanuns 4 and Reach, relying on the fact that that’s when the Forerunner had died out 900,000 years ago and the Covenant are still trying to “Reclaim” (there it is again) all the artifacts left by the Forerunners.
Now for "The Sanctum of the Hierarchs" Now “Sanctum” means a persons private room or a holy place now I’m thinking It’s the latter so keeping that in mind. Hieracrchs comes from Hierarchy, which means a system with grades of status or authority ranking one above another in a series. So this means that it probably home to very, very high ranked Covenant Prophets an Elites who are very, very religious.
I know that was a lot I do have another one and will continue to do them (this was made over the period of about a week by the way)… Well tell me what ya guys think and if any parts are confusing (which I'm sure there are many) please tell and I'll try to clarify… well I'm out peace
[Edited on 4/16/2004 11:14:58 AM]