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Posted by: Pocket Syndrome
First, I would like to welcome you to my thread. If your purpose is to rant and yell without reading my theory first, please leave now. That being said, I am not very well educated in the Halo timeline, so please correct me if I am wrong.
To begin with, how is space travel possible? It would have to be some form of "space jump," where space ships move vast distances INSTANTLY. How do we receive information? Through various forms of wave/partical transmitions that take take TIME to travel distances, however fast that might be. If we accept these two ideas as fact, I can continue.
Now, I would like to direct your attention to the Stary Night Trailer, in which I first came up with this idea. In this commercial, a child mentions "Do you think we will ever meet them?", meaning aliens (later to be known as the Covenant). The Chief then appears in what seems to be the same field saying, "Not yet." The sudden cut might just be an attempt to add a felling of excitment, OR could be hinting towards a connection between the chield and Chief.
A connection that could only logicaly be made in time. Could the Chief somehow know this child? Or even BE this child?
Going back to the children in Stary Night. They are looking at distant stars/plants. What they see are in fact NOT the stars/planets in their current state, but instead how they looked millions of years ago. This is because light takes TIME to travel distances, and while that light travels, the star/planet is changing.
Now, during the colonization of other planets, how did the humans on those other planets communicate with Earth? Did they communicate with Earth? Because of the distance between these colonize and Earth, it would take MILLIONS of years in order for any signals to reach Earth. That means that any events on these planets could NOT be known on Earth for a LONG period of time after they occured. An easy way to mix up dates if other planets distance from you is constantly changing (orbit around star, the star's movment, and the galaxies movment).
Moving toward the end scene of Halo 3, Chief is seen drifting toward a planet, that some speculate to infact be Reach. However, to get their, the ship would have had to almost INSTANTLY travel HUGE amounts of space. I am not clear on when/if humans developed this kind of technology, but I assume it was after the Covenant. Remeber, they attacked us.
If humans did not ever develop this kind of technology, that leaves two possibilites. One is that they got this technology form Covenant allies. The second is that the forrunner ring somehow sent the Dawn through a SPACE JUMP.
Additionlly, if humans had not developed this technology before the Covenant, how would they know what was going on on their colonize. The fact is they wouldnt. Since at the end of Halo 3, Chief got in what looked like a "staisis pod," I am forced to conclude that humans did not have space jump technology and the forrunner ring forced the Down through a space jump.
Put together the pieces. Covenant can travel infinite distances instantly. Humans have to rely on "physical" movment, and thus can not communicate over long distances. The forrunners MUST have had access to space jump technology in order to build all the rings in the first place.
Could Chief in fact be heading toward Reach? Could the battle for Reach be, in fact, about to BEGIN. Could the battle for Reach be a microcosm of the battle for Earth? Post your thoughts.
Reach was attacked before the event in the game halo combat evolved. If you read the book (it's called "the fall of reach") it explains how the spartans die. there is also a book about the events from halo 1 (it's called "the flood" and it show what other people did as well as the cheif) And a book about how he got back to earth (it 's called "first strike") and how he slowed down an attack on earth.