- BoondockSaint32
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Ok so to end all of these silly time travel threads once and for all (which I won't do but can only hope for) I'm posting this thread.
*User Warning: Wall of Text Ahead! Wear Hardhat*
Quite simple:
Why time travel shouldn't work:
+ Time travel is the easy way out. If you can time travel, you can fix everything. Only one game in my opinion has correctly worked out time travel, and that was time splitters. Every other game that tired it has fallen straight on it's face.
+ Time travel doesn't particularly fit into the Halo universe in my opinion. Though we have absurd technology, all of it is viable on some level in thought. Time travel, although up to much debate, is not "concrete". No one (except top scientists who continue to debate) understand the idea and what would be necessary for time travel.
+ Time travel is a horrible thing to have. Not only is it a cop out (explained in point 1), but it's just silly. There are so many things that can go wrong and unanswered with Time travel, like would the Master Chief see himself and what would he do in that particular situation. I don't think that Bungie is interested in working out that particular situation at this time, and I would hope that they are smarter than that ;).
+ Finally, the Chief is a spent character. Though we all yearn for him, we don't yearn to play for him as much. We just want to know what happens to him, his fate persay. For this reason, Bungie is probably working on some other characters. The Halo universe is rich in diverse characters, all with stories to be told.
Sadly this is how Time travel could work in the game...
+ Medicant mentions that Master Chief will be his example to the forerunners. Seeing as Forerunners are all but extinct (as far as we know and excluding the human race "offspring") how would he show them he has redeemed himself? Well if Forerunners still exist than they are certainly watching us at all times and at all angles. (They wouldn't intervene because that wouldn't teach us anything). For this reason, Medicant sent the Chief back to the beginning of the war to save us from the whole fiasco and millions of human lives. If the Forerunners are all dead, extinct, fanito, then we are they're remnants, meaning he sent the Chief back to us so we could all be saved.
+ Though one can argue, as I have done before, that the technology doesn't exist, if anyone knows about time travel then they know that worm holes are required. The gateway to the Ark can be considered a worm hole. Medicant, having lived for millions of years has vast knowledge of the gateway and all of it's ticks. He could easily have bent it to his own means to send the Chief backwards in time.
+ The Chief, although a highly yearned character (as mentioned before) doesn't have to be playable in this game. He could easily be a character molding events in the background as Medicant was in Halo 3. He could simply be an unseen but felt entity in the game that we don't learn about till half or all the way through.
In conclusion, though I don't agree with the use of Time travel, it could work and be explained (but not with a quick "it worked like this" explanation).
Read, discuss, flame.