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"OMG Mars is in Iris! Mars is round and there is a round thing in the legendary ending! ZOMG Mars iz in the legendary ending!!!"
This long and people are still being duped by this?
There's no proof what-so-ever in that theory, and what premises there are are easily refuted.
Posted by: Ogier
Halo 3 takes place 200 YEARS before marathon... He floats in space for 200 years until you see the colonized mars appear...

This Is Not A Time Travel Theory.Two hundred years is not nearly enough time for a broken half-of-a-ship to float from the Ark (shown to be outside/ on outer edges of the galaxy at the beginning of The Ark level and implied in various terminals) to Sol.
Marathon left Mars 80 years before Halo even started. So, unless it IS a time travel theory, it has just been debunked in one sentence.
btw,
ONYX ASPLODED.
Onyx did did not explode, the crust of the planet did, revealing the sentinel-constructed center. Not that I particularly support the Onyx theories, just that you're wrong.
At the beginning of the legendary ending, Right where Cortana is awaking the chief from his little nap, You see a small object that looks just like the security com device that the security bots in marathon had.
It also shows in the halo 3 permutation.
That is a solid brick of debris. The antenna that clips to the top the shoulder vent/reactor vent on the Mjolnir armor is a hollow shell. It's just debris, and linking it to Marathon is like saying Megaman and Metroid both take place in the same universe because they both shoot plasma out of arm cannons.
It is my theory ( 100% positive in my head ) , That when the portal collapsed, It did so on the master chiefs side of the ship, Sending them into another universe. The arbiter is in the halo universe, In the same time, But chief + cortana are in the marathon universe.
There is no "in-between" that transports you between dimensions if a portal collapses; you're either on one end of it, or the other end of it, but never in it (get it?). You say that the collapsing portal sent them to the Marathon universe, but how could Cortana know the exploding Halo "did a number on the Ark" if they're in a different universe? The portal simply cut off and separated the two halves of the ship like scissors cutting paper, and they drifted forward with whatever momentum they had. Remember that the Halo didn't exactly fire as much as explode, and they did not have to be transported long distances to survive.
And to people that say this theory isnt possible because of the different universe thing, in the game Marathon Infinity, the main character can travel between universes and dimensions.
In Infinity, the player is yanked from timeline to alternate timeline by a hybrid computer (I'll call it Thothandal) looking for a way to stop the embodiment of chaos from coming out of the sun and eating the universe. Play the game instead of reading summaries secondhand. The Master Chief cannot travel between dimensions, the portal did not send him between dimensions, there is no W'rkncacnter crisis.
1. Marathon takes place on a ship called marathon, but the ship is actually a hollowed out moon of Mars
2. The Iris and the Mars photos are exact, meaning Bungie meant for Mars to be somewhere in the game, and look at the iris pictures, everything lines up with the legendary pictures.
1: Marathon was hollowed out of Deimos. So? The marathon has been gone for eighty years by the time Halo starts and the Marathon cyborg is in hibernation and on well on his way to have some fun at Tau Ceti.
2: "Mars is in Iris, Mars is round, there is a round thing in the legendary ending, zomg Mars is in the legendary ending." All planets are round. Take a guess at how many planets are in the galaxy, and you get <1% chance that that is Mars. Blue nebula next door to our solar system, show me it.
The compiler is slightly viewed from and angle, looks as if it is sitting on a throne, and the enforcer is getting disentigrated from his right, facing us.
The "Compiler" picture is a rock on a hill in the middle of a rain forest, really, it is. Use your eyes. For the Enforcer picture, some people might see a monster from an old Power Rangers episode, their crabby grandmother, a puppy, or a strip of bacon. What I don't see is seven eyes and an alien flamethrower.
[Edited on 08.08.2008 6:30 PM PDT]