- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Nah, I think Halo 2 will probably go something like this:
The Covenant are bombarding Earth, MC joins the fight and helps hold them off as much as he can. Eventually we find out that the Covenant are looking for something on Earth, possibly the coordinates of another Halo. MC beats the Covies to whatever it is they're looking for, and we launch off to find another Halo to use against the Covenant.
Somewhere along the line the Flood come back into play, so I figure either a greedy human wants to use the Flood as the ultimate bioweapon (ala Aliens), or the Covies try to unleash the Flood on Earth, or at least catch up to the MC and try to unleash it on him on the new Halo. Granted, Bungie said there WILL be a huge plot twist or two just like in Halo, so I may be wrong on a few things.
Ultimately, I think we're going to end up firing a Halo at the Covie homeworld, and that will be the end of it. I'm pretty confident in this because the Flood are taken straight from Starhammer, as well as a lot of Halo having been influenced by Starhammer. Besides, Earth is clearly outmatched, the only way to defeat the Covenant at this point is to decapitate the serpent: Destroy the Homeworld.
We'll see, but I really don't think any human will ever set foot on the Covenant homeworld.
Cheers!