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Subject: A question about Keyes...
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While he was captured aboard the Truth and Reconciliation, he overheard the Elites talking about Halo, and repeated what they had said to the Master Chief.
In Halo: CE the elites did not speak English... How did he understand what they were saying...?
Sorry if this has been brought up before... I did search for it... (This was the closest thing I could find...)

  • 01.26.2008 6:48 PM PDT
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That's a good question. Perhaps he wasn't familiar with the language, but he could infer out of context what they were talking about. Maybe they communicated through hand gestures or something that gave it away, Idk.

  • 01.27.2008 5:55 AM PDT

He might have had a portable-interpreter. I think Chief's one is Cortana. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Or maybe he just made it up, since the rest of the level he has an evil smile.

[Edited on 01.27.2008 11:14 PM PST]

  • 01.27.2008 11:13 PM PDT
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Actually, I think he says I heard the Covenant talking about Halo. The Grunts do speak in english (for some reason), so it must have been them that he overheard. Please remember folks, things will not always make sense from a logic standpoint. Sometimes you just have to suspend your disbelief and go with the story. God forbid the facts should get in the way of the fun!

  • 01.28.2008 6:52 AM PDT
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Come to think of it, he says I heard the guards talking...........Grunts are the first thing you actually kill in that room with the sword/invisible elites.........

  • 01.28.2008 6:52 AM PDT
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Posted by: womyfts
Actually, I think he says I heard the Covenant talking about Halo. The Grunts do speak in english (for some reason), so it must have been them that he overheard. Please remember folks, things will not always make sense from a logic standpoint. Sometimes you just have to suspend your disbelief and go with the story. God forbid the facts should get in the way of the fun!


i think he has got it right.

Grunts are pretty incompetent, and would do something like talking about the halo in front of a prisoner.

  • 01.28.2008 4:05 PM PDT
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I guess you could be right... But I'm sure the guards were Elites... Hmmm

  • 02.01.2008 3:18 AM PDT
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according to the books (yeah i'm that much of a nerd) the UNSC has translation software which keys probably has in his hardware thingy in the back of his head

  • 02.01.2008 5:25 AM PDT

I always offer fair game and usually allow some "extermination" of my teammates. I think that anyone should be able to play Halo or any other game they please.

What happened to Keyess wife? I am sure you all know where babies come from?

  • 02.01.2008 8:03 AM PDT
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At the point that you enter Keyes's detainment cells, there are 2 Invisible Elites and 4 Grunts in the room. The Grunts speaka da English. That is more than likely what Keyes overheard.

As for Mrs. Keyes, being a "Navy" man as he is, the wife is usually at home, alone or taking up with someone else in base housing........Does Miranda really even look like his child?? Who knows, maybe Mrs. Keyes was playing around while he was off galavanting through the stars........................

  • 02.01.2008 8:20 AM PDT
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Grunt #1:
Wow, this ring shaped structure which we call Halo, is a weapon...

Grunt #2:
I hope the humans don't find out!

Grunt #1:
Yeah, I'm thirsty... Wanna head off to the food nipple?

*Enter Master Chief...*


Grunt #2:
Ok! I'm rea- What the?


Yeah, I think I can imagine how it would have played out...



  • 02.01.2008 5:10 PM PDT
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A guy with that much experience picks up on a few things. I mean, you wouldn't think to test yourself for diabetes by taking ants to the toilet would you? You pick up a few things.

  • 02.05.2008 11:10 PM PDT

I always offer fair game and usually allow some "extermination" of my teammates. I think that anyone should be able to play Halo or any other game they please.

How does Keyes survive the flood? I thought the Master Cheif killed him to his brain or something?

  • 02.06.2008 4:26 AM PDT
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Keyes does not survive the Flood. The original question relates to the Truth and Reconciliation level. The Captain does not have the brain punching happen until the later level Keyes. Conundrum solved.

  • 02.06.2008 8:10 AM PDT
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Ants to the toilet!!!!!!! WHAT A RIOT! Good one Rhudebaker!

And I thought I was the only one who thought of ants while being in there!

  • 02.06.2008 8:11 AM PDT
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The head bashing is when Keyes is pretty much dead. A few levels later in the game.

And yeah, the ants... just a little trick. Like using egg hardener to fix a bad headgasket.

[Edited on 02.07.2008 11:34 PM PST]

  • 02.07.2008 11:34 PM PDT

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Posted by: Rhudebaker
The head bashing is when Keyes is pretty much dead. A few levels later in the game.


A quick question. Who else thinks that maybe the form that Keyes had taken by that point in the game after being infected was the start of the Gravemind building itself? It's the only Flood form that gets that big, and obviously much bigger.

  • 02.08.2008 1:47 AM PDT
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Apparently you can still hear him moaning after you punch his head in.... And I'm sure his 'conscience' would have transferred into the Proto-Gravemind, so if it survived, I guess you could say that Keyes did too...

  • 02.08.2008 4:59 AM PDT

they speak english...just not very clearly. You have to really listen

  • 02.08.2008 4:47 PM PDT
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I do not think that the Keyes flood is a pre-cursor to the Gravemind flood. It seems that the Gravemind has been in Delta Halo for a loooooooooooooong time. The Keyes flood was just another cool thing in the game, a flood not built for combat, but for piloting the covie ship off the ring so the flood could escape. It is more than likely to have gone like this:

Bungie Employee #1-"Wouldnt it be cool if Keyes got turned into a flood!"

Bungie Employee #2-"Yeah, that would be sweet, but it cant be a combat flood, or a carrier, and we cant make him a popcorn!"

Bungie Employee #3-"You guys are idiots, he is a pilot, he has to be a flying flood!"

Bungie Employees #1 & #2 in unison-"YOU ARE A MORON #3!"

GOD-"Hey, IDIOTS, make a new flood, one that is cool, different and seen no where else in the game, and if I am pleased, I will not SMITE YOU!"

I am pretty sure that is exactly how it got in the game!

  • 02.09.2008 8:33 AM PDT

Really, it's very simple if you don't think about it

the elites do speak english coz in the novel the fall of reach some oni spook or sumthin says that the covenant sent them a warning about resistance is futile in english or somethin i cant remember it all but yea they speak english

  • 02.16.2008 11:37 PM PDT

Posted by: Spiermayne24
the elites do speak english coz in the novel the fall of reach some oni spook or sumthin says that the covenant sent them a warning about resistance is futile in english or somethin i cant remember it all but yea they speak english

"Your destruction is the will of the gods, and we are their instrument." That's about it. And it was translated so the humans would know why they were being killed.

  • 02.18.2008 11:19 AM PDT
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did u think that the grunts thught that they might never escape did u think that the cheif would go in side the cruiser with all the other covenant there and survive to the covenant its very unlikely. so DONT MAK FUN OF GRUNTS!!!!!!!!!!

  • 02.28.2008 4:01 PM PDT
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HEY I HAVE NOTICED NOBODY HERE KNOWS THAT THE ELITES SPEAK ENGLISH BUT BACKWARDS.

  • 02.28.2008 4:12 PM PDT

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