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Subject: How did the covenant find Earth?
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Does anyone know how the covenant find Earth in Halo 2, I think that the Monitor, after escaping from Halo went to the Forerunners home planet and told them about planet Earth. The forerunners, who I think are the Brutes, joined forces with the Covenant and went to wipe out humanity. Good theory, eh?

  • 04.20.2004 6:33 AM PDT
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Cortana found out they knew becuase the rock they found had direct connection with the slipspace symbols that appeared before a ship went to SP. Cortana decoded the symbols on the rock to be a star chart, and the last destination was for the system Sol, the Sun.

  • 04.20.2004 6:36 AM PDT
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I reccomend you read the Halo Books: Halo the Fall of Reach, Halo First Strike and Halo THe Flood.

  • 04.20.2004 6:44 AM PDT
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Trust me, the Brutes are NOT the Forerunners.. at all.

  • 04.20.2004 6:58 AM PDT
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I don't think you guys understand. The question was HOW did the covenant find earth, now how we found out they found earth.

The answer for that is impossible to truly know, because they didn't address it in the books. The most obvious choice is that the covenant attatched one of those star chart mappers to one of the ships either leaving reach or Epsilon system. Or the covenant discovered a nav chart that had the location of earth. Too many possibilities, not enough evidence.

Besides, the books are always blatantly contradicting each other. Notice that in Fall of Reach the star chart from Corte de Azur points to Halo(last chapter with Cortana plotting a course), while in First Strike it points to Reach(The doctor checking secret records right before the destruction of the mountain)? I mean, both books were written by the same guy. HOw could he possibly overlook that?

  • 04.20.2004 7:25 AM PDT

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Does anyone know how the covenant find Earth in Halo 2, I think that the Monitor, after escaping from Halo went to the Forerunners home planet and told them about planet Earth. The forerunners, who I think are the Brutes, joined forces with the Covenant and went to wipe out humanity. Good theory, eh?


I take it you didn't watch last years e3 demo. Brutes, the big guys who couldn't see a 50ft. wall if it hit them in the face.. Forerunners? Hell no!

  • 04.20.2004 7:50 AM PDT
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Conned a travel company into telling them where it was maybe?

  • 04.20.2004 8:00 AM PDT
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rang a psychic hotline?

[Edited on 4/20/2004 8:16:53 AM]

  • 04.20.2004 8:13 AM PDT

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maybe they got the info off of a human rebel

  • 04.20.2004 8:17 AM PDT
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Ok obviously no one knows how the covenant found earth so maybe someone should just ask the Webmaster... just my opinion though...

[Edited on 4/20/2004 11:45:33 AM]

  • 04.20.2004 11:45 AM PDT
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In the books 343 refers to the MC as a forerunner, perhaps humans are the forrunners, or perhaps people who wore suits like the MC were forerunners.

back to the original question, i think the covenant found out when a cortana copied herself, remember she sadi the copy would become unsatble perhaps the covenant wer able to hack her copy and find earth, but more than likely, the translated text from the stones they were collecting. We will find out soon enough.

  • 04.20.2004 12:21 PM PDT