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The Shadow has covered the Earth like a quilt.. All plants and flowers that were once bright and beautiful have begun to wilt.. This Darkness runs rampant across the Earth.. Anger and Passion gave this creature birth... He thrives in the Shadow, the Darkness continues to grow... The god known as Atonement is no more. He has now evolved into something that once hid beneath the core. He's here to revenge his martyrdom. The Darkness has come...
While this theory is good and makes sense at some points, it does not make sense at others. For example, Marathon and Halo contradict each other in many several ways, such as when humans first came into contact with aliens, Pfhor for Marathon, Covenant for Halo which is hundreds of years before Marathon. Another contradiction is when the protagonist and humans of Marathon landed on the planet of Tau Ceti IV, which stated that the protagonist of the Marathon series had been in cryostasis for 300 years in the year of 2773, making the year 2473, the Chief was not even born yet. Also, the protagonist of Marathon was said to be born on Mars, while the Chief was born on Eridanus II. The final contradiction I could find was that the humans of Marathon left the Sol system in 2472 and made it to Tau Ceti IV in 2773, whereas in the Halo universe the UNSC humans had already colonized Tau Ceti by 2552.
I do not for one second believe this theory as a run on for Marathon because of it's constant contradictions. However, I support a shield world theory. I'm not stating that this shield world is Onyx, because we all know that it was destroyed. However, that does not mean I am not including the Spartan II's and Spartan III's that were trapped in the shell of the planet to act as a "shield" from the outside.
What I believe, is that when Onyx was destroyed and when the Ark was destroyed, that possibly a new shield world was created and the Spartans that were trapped in the portal were sent to this new shield world, and since the Arbiter made it through the portal to Earth before while the Chief and Cortana did not, that they are still floating freely in the area of the Ark. When they land on this shield world, they could be reunited with the Spartan II's and others and so on and so forth.
What supports the idea of a this "Shield World", is the fact that the planet we see in the legendary ending looks mechanical. If read in the Ghosts of Onyx, you will see that Onyx, a shield world was stated as being a mechanical world. As for the Marathon image seen on the planet, for all we know, Bungie could be just making another reference to one of their other Projects like they always do and have done. Also, the Oracle, which is what I refer to the Monitor/ 343 Guilty Spark as, even said himself in Halo 3, that he "always assumed that the Ark was a shield installation." While he stated that he could be mistaken due to his creators' choice of knowledge to place within the Oracle, could be jumbled. The Ark could have fail-safed and created a shield world, just like it did for the Halo that the chief destroyed. Which brings me to my next point.
Since the Ark remade another Halo ring to replace the one that the Chief destroyed, why wouldn't it remake another Onyx, or in other words, another Shield World. This is all merely closely viewed speculation throughout the Halo series, but at the same time well constructed and well thought out. I am not stating my theory as correct, or the Marathon theory as incorrect, just stating the contradictions between Halo and Marathon, and the hints and supporting evidence for the Shield World theory. I am here if anyone has any questions or any further debates.
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