- Johnny Undead
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Hmm...
I suppose it COULD be Onyx.
Then again, it COULD have something to do with the Marathon series.
And in an entirely different note, it could also be a source to the Flood.
Think about it. It all started off with the Forerunners came in to contact with the Flood. Seeing that they were dangerous, they decided to create these freaking massive Halo Rings, which also held all the information of the flood they discovered (In the Library, I think). They also built the Ark, so they could bog off out of our Galaxy (No, not the Universe. Just the Galaxy. Don't be silly) and watch the fireworks as they set it off. Unfortunately for them, Mendicant Bias (The Forerunners Military AI, or the equivalent of Cortana), set it off for them. With them still inside the Milky Way. So, Mendicant Bias betrays the Forerunners, the Forerunners die out, so do the Flood, and all other sentient life in the Galaxy.
The Library, if I am correct, was to index all sentient life in the Galaxy. The Forerunners actually planned to send as many life forms through the Ark and to safety (Minus the Flood) so that they wouldn't just be committing Genocide of an incomprehensible size.
Anyway, Bias set off the rings, some of the population sent through the Ark survived, and the Flood were supposedly wiped out with the Forerunners. But, I think that some Forerunners survived via means of the Ark, and went back through, landed on Earth, and populated it, creating the Human Race. This would explain 343 Guilty Spark and Gravemind's comments on the Human Race being sons of the Forerunners.
Whew... That was a mouthful. Correct me if I got anything wrong.
But the Flood survived. They always do. Somehow, they came back. So, my suggestion is that the planet that the Master Chief is drifting to COULD hold the origin of the Flood.
Then again, it's most likely I'm completely and utterly wrong.
Here's another thought.
Those IRIS thing-a-ma-bobies that I hardly know anything about. One (I saw it on YouTube, so don't judge me) was flashing up with writing, and a planet that looked a lot like the one MC was drifting to was in the Background. The writing was talking of a "Final Resort Plan", and how whoever put the writing there obviously didn't want to have to turn to the failsafe plan. Forerunner, maybe?
I think the Final Resort Plan was the one I stated up above, but of course, it didn't work out.
I hope somebody agrees with me, because that took quite a while to write.
If there's anything wrong with it, let me know.
EDIT: Oh, yeah. I saw that picture you put up, Grey101, and thank you for that. It in itself proves that it isn't one of the planets in Earths immediate area (I.E, Mars, for whoever said that). The IRIS pictures, if you go frame by frame, show the surface of an area heavily populated by great, whopping buildings, much like the Forerunner structures we see on maps like Valhalla (I.O.W, maps that have stuff to do with the Forerunners).
There is also a picture that looks alot like a bunch of Suspended Animation Pods. Could this world possibly be the area that the Forerunners held the indexed specimens, the Life Forms they took through the Ark with them? Maybe the Master Chief wasn't sent into some random part of the Galaxy, but sent OUT of the Galaxy all together, and is hurtling towards the area that the Forerunners and Specimens are hiding?
Anyway, that's my idea. I could be completely wrong, and I probably am. Ah well.
[Edited on 12.22.2007 5:20 AM PST]