- POKEY CLYDE
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- Fabled Legendary Member
Has anyone actually seen the Halo 3 legendary ending planet? It had a bunch of lights, that made up forerunner symbols. Hmmmm, has anyone ever heard of a Forerunner planet that wasn't a Halo ring? Like an actual round spherical planet? Well Onyx is a spherical planet that is forerunner. Here is a quote from Joseph Staten:
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: Is the Legendary ending of Halo 3 a nod to Marathon, or is it a reference to Ghosts of Onyx?
Joseph Staten
: It's more or less a nod to the beginning of Halo 1. Putting the chief back in his hushed casket, and shutting him down. Oh, wait, you mean the legendary ending of Halo 3 with the crazy planetoid thing? I do not know! There is a crazy planetoid floating out there. Who knows? If you look really, really carefully at the lights on the planet, though, there is something to be seen in those lights.Those lights make up forerunner symbols.
Those lights are sentinels.
Here is something taken from the Halo Story line:
Dr. Halsey and Kelly arrive in the Zeta Doradus system, and are immediately attacked by Sentinels as they approach Onyx. They crash-land the Beatrice, and join forces with Kurt, Mendez, and the Team Saber squad of SPARTAN IIIs. Dr. Halsey coerces the Onyx AI, Endless Summer, to assist them by sending a message through Slipspace warning FLEETCOM about the events currently unfolding at Onyx. As the Slipspace COM probe is launched, the AI detects another message being transmitted from within the Slipspace matrix. It is Cortana, warning FLEETCOM that the Flood, with the help of a previously unknown coordinating intelligence, was attempting to escape Delta Halo.
Blue Team, consisting of Fred, Will, and Linda, is ordered to Onyx to aid Dr. Halsey and the others. They hijack the Covenant cruiser Bloodied Spirit and transition to Slipspace for the journey, only to have the ship automatically drop back into normal space to answer a different distress call. This is from the Covenant ship Incorruptible, commanded by the Elite Voro 'Mantakree, which is being attacked by a Brute-commanded pair of frigates, the Twilight Compunction and the Revenant. The SPARTANS manage to re-enter Slipspace and continue on to Onyx, but not before the Covenant discover who they are and where they are headed.
Dr. Halsey discovers that Onyx is what the Forerunner referred to as a "Shield World", and contains a stable Slipspace rift deep within the planet's structure. As the Covenant close in on the humans within Onyx, Dr. Halsey persuades them all to enter the rift, to escape whatever galactic destruction the Forerunner intended with the Halos that she is convinced is inevitable. Dr. Halsey, Mendez, SPARTAN III Gamma Company Teams Saber and Katana, Tom, Lucy, Fred, Linda, and Kelly all pass through the rift as it closes, as Kurt detonates two warheads within the ammassed Covenant forces. The detonation obliterates much of the planet's organic material, revealing an underlying structure composed entirely of trillions of Sentinels, all focused on protecting the rift.Of those 3 paragraphs, the only one that really matters is the third, bolded paragraph.
As you can see, it destroyed much of the planet's ORGANIC MATERIAL revealing an underlying structure composed entirely of trillions of sentinels. These sentinels were probably put in such a way that made patterns with thier lights. Forerunner symbols perhaps?
Making the Halo 3 legendary planet, Onyx.
Unless there is some other planet like this, but it being Onyx is much much much more likely.