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Subject: ONI Alpha Building - HGN Connection
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Hey all.
I apologize in advance if someone noticed this already (yes I did search and I couldn't find anything), but I think we've seen the ONI Alpha Building before.

In the Halo Graphic Novel story Second Sunrise Over New Mombasa the main character works as a media editor for ONI as a civilian photographer and photo editor. It looks like the building he works in is an ONI building, but he never confirms it despite it being implied. But what he makes a point of saying he works technically in the region of New Mombasa known as Old Mombasa across a bridge.

For those of us who have seen the gameplay part of Dutch (w00t) and Micky blowing up the bridge, we know that the bridge leads almost directly to the ONI Alpha building.

Are the two locations one in the same????

I think so. Your thoughts?

  • 06.07.2009 6:36 PM PDT
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An easter egg? The HGN came out first, and the ONI Alpha building is a major plot point.

  • 06.07.2009 6:39 PM PDT

Four shots, four kills, reload, repeat. This is the work of a sniper.

Perhaps. I'm sitting right next to my copy, I'm gonna look and find what you said, cool kind of little easter egg if you want to call it that.

  • 06.07.2009 6:40 PM PDT

Posted by: TheAvenger7
An easter egg? The HGN came out first, and the ONI Alpha building is a major plot point.
He might mean that it doesn't impact our understanding of the storyline if this connection is confirmed as true.

It's a neat observation, though. But is the building in the game actually in Old Mombasa? I guess we don't really know that.

  • 06.07.2009 6:53 PM PDT
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Idk, I guess you could call it an easter egg. But yea i was skimming it and was like ZOMG. haha Idk I really like finding "easter eggs/references"

  • 06.07.2009 6:53 PM PDT

the bridge in the demo is a differnt bridge than the one your thinking of.

the bridge mention in the HGN is the one the you cross in a tank in halo 2

  • 06.07.2009 7:34 PM PDT

If it is the same building, it would be cool if there was some kind of easter egg related to him, like a charred corpse slumped in a chair wearing orange shades :P

  • 06.07.2009 8:05 PM PDT