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Subject: Is the planet at the end of Halo 3 Reach? *spoilers*
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Halo Reach probably takes place before Halo 1, as evident by the trailer.


The way the star appeared from the horizon of the planet in the Halo Reach trailer is really similar to the legendary ending of Halo 3.

Maybe Master Chief is going back to Reach? Maybe it will be like ODST, where you are the master chief and you flashback to the Battle of Reach and you get to play as the other Spartans?

  • 09.25.2009 3:19 PM PDT

Thats exactly what I was talking about with my brother and friend a few days ago.

  • 09.25.2009 3:22 PM PDT
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I don't think so, Tim.

  • 09.25.2009 3:25 PM PDT
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It would certainly explain Halo 3's ending.

Here are two videos to compare. The have embedded the time in the URL so you don't have to look for it.


Halo 3 Legendary Ending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yygn_vlH5a4#t=7m53s

Halo Reach Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqIEvH7sGQ0#t=1m05s

[Edited on 09.25.2009 3:26 PM PDT]

  • 09.25.2009 3:25 PM PDT

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Reach got glassed looong before the Halo 3 storyline started

  • 09.25.2009 3:37 PM PDT

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It would certainly explain Halo 3's ending.

Here are two videos to compare. The have embedded the time in the URL so you don't have to look for it.


Halo 3 Legendary Ending
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yygn_vlH5a4#t=7m53s

Halo Reach Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqIEvH7sGQ0#t=1m05s


Odd how Reach has a different colored sun in each vid.

  • 09.25.2009 3:38 PM PDT

Actually it didn't get glassed entirely. The covenant built a city like thing there and were trying to dig into the surface. I personaly think halo reach will be there and you get flashbacks then meet up with the squad.
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Reach got glassed looong before the Halo 3 storyline started

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Actually it didn't get glassed entirely. The covenant built a city like thing there and were trying to dig into the surface. I personaly think halo reach will be there and you get flashbacks then meet up with the squad.
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Reach got glassed looong before the Halo 3 storyline started


And really Reach wasn't that long before the events of Halo 1,2, or 3 they were all pretty close together...Point being that Halo 1 happens right as Reach gets glassed, then Halo 2 happens right away and then like a month after that Halo 3 happens...so the time span is like 6 months at most

  • 09.25.2009 5:21 PM PDT

http://achievementgen.info/view.php?ach=22555

MC wasn't even ON Reach, he never touched down I guess you could say. The closest he got was on an Orbital station In Reach's Atmosphere I believe.

  • 09.25.2009 5:47 PM PDT

mc is dreaming of reach in his cryo-pod perhaps?

  • 09.25.2009 5:56 PM PDT

"I'm like SuperMan! I know when I'm needed!"

Reach was obliteraded by the covenant after chief left for halo and after he came back for the other spartans and picked them up they glassed the part they were excavating their by there is nothing left of reach its gone, goodbye hasta lavista

  • 09.25.2009 6:55 PM PDT

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Old idea. I've heard it before, but you know, it kind of does make sense.

  • 09.25.2009 7:02 PM PDT

guys, the master chief was some huge number of light years outside the galaxy at the end of halo 3. reach is a planet orbiting the sun inside the galaxy. can't be reach. what a planet was doing close to installation 0 is anybodies guess. the gravity would have screwed up any sort of construction of installation 0, though the resources of a nearby planet would be useful. if anyone's read the book "The Fall of Reach", they know that the other spartans that mc was trained with went to reach's surface to protect generators on the ground that powered the orbital MAC cannons. in the book, only a few survived, and only 3 surviving spartans didn't go to the surface, one of which was mc. the 2 who went with mc to destroy a map to earth on a space station orbiting reach got shot up, and one died. can't be reach

  • 09.25.2009 7:10 PM PDT

lucky member no.999 of SAS Halo3

lets settle this once and forall the legendary ending is outside of tha galaxy reach is in it.

  • 09.25.2009 7:21 PM PDT

Armor Lock isn't overpowered. You just suck at Reach :)

Reach isn't bad, you're just a BK :)

For my gamertag, look up "Ghoulishtie"

Or it could be the logical "You play as characters back in the story of reach prior to Halo 1" choice?

I despise the idea of time travel, or the planet being reach. Reach is reach, halo 3 ending planet is....well....halo 3 ending planet. I highly doubt it is reach though.

  • 09.25.2009 7:23 PM PDT

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How is it that seemingly no one has noticed that the suns in both videos are different colors? Since you guys probably don't know to much about astronomy, I'll explain why they are obviously at different locations.

Epsilon Eridanus, as seen at the end of the Reach trailer, is a mid sized yellow star, much like out own sun, which is consistent with it's real life counterpart(cool sidenote: around that star, a planet has been confirmed, and may be terrestrial, which means that the planet Reach could actually exist).

The star at the end of Halo 3 Legendary is most likely a blue giant, like the star Rigel in the constellation Orion(it may even be Rigel, we don't know). This means that it is much more massive than the star in the Reach trailer.

These two types of stars are on completely different life cycles, meaning that a yellow star cannot be come a blue giant, or vice versa. In fact, the only real color change for a main sequence star(which is to say, bot of these examples) is toward red. This is also accompanies by a huge change in size, and a massive explosion in the cases of the bigger stars.

This change takes place over millions of years, which means that is is impossible that they are the same star, since the maximum length of time between the Battle of Reach and the end of Halo 3 would have been around 1 year. It is also impossible because as stated above, the two stars are of different types, and are therefore on different life cycles.

tl;dr: The planets in both instances cannot be at the same location since the suns(the biggest stars seen in the video) are different colors.

  • 09.25.2009 7:56 PM PDT

Anybody need a lucky driver?

does anyone knw wat color the star is in the systerm with the planet oynx? cuz thats always what i thought it was at the end of halo 3.

  • 09.25.2009 8:01 PM PDT
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Argumentum ad populum

No.

The star in the Halo 3 Legendary ending is blue. The star in the Halo reach trailer is yellow.

/thread.

[Edited on 09.25.2009 8:10 PM PDT]

  • 09.25.2009 8:06 PM PDT

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does anyone knw wat color the star is in the systerm with the planet oynx? cuz thats always what i thought it was at the end of halo 3.


Onyx tore itself apart after the Sentinels making up its structure disconnected. That doesn't mean that they couldn't have recombined at a different location, or that the Forerunners had multiple installations similar to Onyx.

It is also likely that the Halo 3 Legendary ending is non-canon, like Halo CE Legendary.

On the subject of time travel: It is theoretically possible to do so, as postulated by both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Doing this would require a wormhole, which Slipspace seems to operate most like. It also requires a MASSIVE amount of energy to do this, something that the back end of a frigate likely wouldn't be able create. There are also certain paradoxes that arise with time travel, such as the Grandfather Paradox(if you know what that is, good for you, if you don't google it, I don't feel like explaining it at this time of night).
It is also really cliché, which doesn't seem to be Bungie's style.

[Edited on 09.25.2009 8:20 PM PDT]

  • 09.25.2009 8:13 PM PDT

i wnat halo reachhhhh¡¡¡¡

  • 09.25.2009 8:26 PM PDT

me to

  • 09.25.2009 10:44 PM PDT

The planet you see in the end of legendary halo 3 doesn't even look like a planet. more like the death star from star wars, pretty much a giant machine

  • 09.25.2009 10:52 PM PDT

My Theory

In "Reach" you play as each of the becoming Spatans, possibly a girl, a heavy explosives worker, the stealth/sniper, the average weoponry guy that is rude, and as MC(maybe). By the end of Reach their is only 1 Spatan left, MC.

Reach: The quest to find the real Spartan.


[Edited on 09.25.2009 10:54 PM PDT]

  • 09.25.2009 10:53 PM PDT