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Subject: Glyphs and treasure hunting; the truth about the Sword in ODST
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Do you think these Glyphs or symbols would be on the ghost or destroyed Wraiths? We need to check every thing as thoroughly as possible.

  • 12.06.2009 4:02 PM PDT

im an average person to play halo with. im not the best player youll ever see, but im working on it :)

"change is inevitable, except from a vending machine"

i very much doubt they will be on the vehicles but if you want to you can do that. i still need to translate the glyphs from the terminals to english.

  • 12.06.2009 4:04 PM PDT
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Hmmm well I dont know if this would be a clue or a glitch but somewhere in New Mombasa there is a Elephant if you get out of the area for a little bit the Elephant will strangly dissapear with out a trace.

  • 12.06.2009 4:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: T4NGLEWOOD
i know what those glyphs on the elite that you found searchbar. in the halo 2 guide book those are the symbols used for the different covenant vehicles like ghosts, wraiths, banshees and the phantom. maybe even the spectre but i cant remember it bieng on there. those are not the same glyphs as in halo odst though.

oh and btw. the secret lies within the elites. unless you can find any brutes with these glyphs on them that is. the only reason that i think it is with the elites is that 1) they are the only covenant species to have left the covenant and 2) only they have the glyphs on their armour.


i`ve never checked the dead brutes but if you forgot the grunts and hunters temporarely left the covenant at the end of H2

[Edited on 12.06.2009 5:38 PM PST]

  • 12.06.2009 5:38 PM PDT

Posted by: the searchbar XD
i`ve never checked the dead brutes but if you forgot the grunts and hunters temporarely left the covenant at the end of H2


Actually those Grunts and Hunters never rejoined the Loyalists, they stayed Separatists but Bungie left them out of Halo 3 to prevent confusion (*notice that when ever you face enemy Grunts/Hunters you don't have any allied Grunts/Hunters around just other Elites, and you only face Brutes when you have Grunt/Hunter allies).... though seeing 2 Hunter pairs fighting would be cool.....................

  • 12.06.2009 6:52 PM PDT

how about the idea of the blue plasma rifle around.. could it be possible? like.. near some elite cos they have no wepons for sum reason

  • 12.07.2009 3:00 AM PDT
Subject: The truth about the Sword in ODST
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Keep it clean.

You're absolutely right t4nglewood!
Now, the next thing we need to do, is to translate those symbols, and find out what they mean.

Anyone wanna try it out? :P

  • 12.07.2009 4:47 AM PDT
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You're absolutely right t4nglewood!
Now, the next thing we need to do, is to translate those symbols, and find out what they mean.

Anyone wanna try it out? :P


Sure, why not? Piece of a cake, right?


It's not like you just translate them. Even the hieroglyphs needed the Rosetta stone to be found.

[Edited on 12.07.2009 11:49 AM PST]

  • 12.07.2009 11:48 AM PDT

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Posted by: T4NGLEWOOD
i very much doubt they will be on the vehicles but if you want to you can do that. i still need to translate the glyphs from the terminals to english.


What terminals are these.

  • 12.07.2009 1:40 PM PDT

Posted by: Emansuela
Posted by: T4NGLEWOOD
i very much doubt they will be on the vehicles but if you want to you can do that. i still need to translate the glyphs from the terminals to english.


What terminals are these.


Halo 3 terminals.

  • 12.07.2009 2:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: enigmabi22
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i very much doubt they will be on the vehicles but if you want to you can do that. i still need to translate the glyphs from the terminals to english.


What terminals are these.


Halo 3 terminals.


I thought that I had missed something and that someone found terminals on odst. That's what confused me.

  • 12.09.2009 12:34 PM PDT

Posted by: Emansuela

I thought that I had missed something and that someone found terminals on odst. That's what confused me.



A lot of back and forth between all Halo 1 thru ODST. Its very easy to get confused. If I had not of covered 98.9% of the map I would have thought I had missed something too.

  • 12.09.2009 1:19 PM PDT

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Posted by: Emansuela

I thought that I had missed something and that someone found terminals on odst. That's what confused me.



A lot of back and forth between all Halo 1 thru ODST. Its very easy to get confused. If I had not of covered 98.9% of the map I would have thought I had missed something too.

So then what is in your 1.1% of the map you haven't looked through?

  • 12.10.2009 3:02 PM PDT


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So then what is in your 1.1% of the map you haven't looked through?


DISTRICT 7

  • 12.10.2009 3:29 PM PDT
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Just out of curiousity. If you look at the rubbish laying around you cna find some interesting stuff. i found one bit of rubbish with two military vehicles on it. One was a Warthog and the other a Hornet.

Could there be a Hornet in ODST? It would make sense and would be totally awesome. Hornets are good vehicals for moving around the city and fighting in the streets.

  • 12.11.2009 5:38 AM PDT

im an average person to play halo with. im not the best player youll ever see, but im working on it :)

"change is inevitable, except from a vending machine"

hornets wouldnt be very good. cos you have to open those big gates to move into a different area or a new district. and i doubt that you can fly over them as there would be a hieght barrier as always.

also v101. could you find that piece of rubbish again? and take a closer look at the warthog. it may be advertising new unsc vehicles like the hornet and transport hog from halo 3. they may not be new for us as we saw them in halo 3. but halo 3 odst is set at the quarterway point of halo 2 where new mombasa is supposedly leveled and at that time we didnt have hornets or transport hogs.

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  • 12.11.2009 5:53 AM PDT

im an average person to play halo with. im not the best player youll ever see, but im working on it :)

"change is inevitable, except from a vending machine"

well kris. if everyone wants to find out what they mean then you all need that forerunner alphabet unless one person figures it out and posts the pictures of them individually.

  • 12.11.2009 5:59 AM PDT

im an average person to play halo with. im not the best player youll ever see, but im working on it :)

"change is inevitable, except from a vending machine"

Sure, why not? Piece of a cake, right?


It's not like you just translate them. Even the hieroglyphs needed the Rosetta stone to be found.


imppa. if you read one of my previous additions into solving the glyphs you would have realised that the "Y" figure contains 3 letters (glyphs) and these single glyphs are easy to translate from halo 3 marathon man terminals. the problem is working out the whole "Y" shaped glyphs. it may be that you have to fine out the letters and choose a certain letter.

i shall call the "Y" shaped glyphs trio's as there are three letters to each one.

also guys i have noticed another thing. some of the glyphs (as earliest shown in the first misson after finding the map terminal to contact the SI) the doorway that leads to the grunt courtyard which has a SI wepons cache to its left has four Y shaped glyphs and the second one is like a Y but it is like this >-. these may be like domino's

the dots are letters and the lines and comma's are there as the spaces between my drawings are too big.

so starting off the chain is the first glyph like this,
|,,,,,,,\./
|,,,,,,,.Y.
|,,,,,,,,|
now we find a second glyph which is rotated like this, >-

so say the letter on the bottom right of the starting letter is the same as the top letter on our second trio of letters. it would fit like a puzzle and look like this.
|,,,,,,,\./|\ .
|,,,,,,,.Y.|.>-
|,,,,,,,,| |/ .

these lines in between the two trio's shows how the fit together. (with out the lines it would look just mashed together and would not be good for my explanation so the lines simply seperate them so they are distinguishable)


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  • 12.11.2009 10:57 AM PDT
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i think i found the sword`s location

well the glyphs are all Y`s right? yes they are well why not try searching the middle of a Y in the map or as i`m doing try searching the middle of three supply cache`s which form a Y

  • 12.11.2009 11:16 AM PDT

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has someone had a group at the hinges all at the same time? It might be a good thing to try with a person in the center of every single one of them.

  • 12.11.2009 11:57 AM PDT
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look at the begining of this [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKMC1dhlojI]video[/url]

  • 12.11.2009 1:30 PM PDT

The carbine in the Stonehenge room, could it act as some sort of compass? Maybe one of the ends points to the sword and the glyphs describe the specific location, not a series of instructions to find it?

  • 12.11.2009 3:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: the searchbar XD
i think i found the sword`s location

well the glyphs are all Y`s right? yes they are well why not try searching the middle of a Y in the map or as i`m doing try searching the middle of three supply cache`s which form a Y

If you look at the two areas on the VISR map that look like Squidhenge and line them up, it could form a triangle. I was thinking the triangle could be an arrow pointing somewhere but I don't know.
I was thinking the numbers of certain things might mean something.
For example:
6 pillars making up Squidhenge.
4 Dead elite areas (that I know of), 4 Plinths.
3 Lights in Squidhenge that turn on when something is close, 3 Elite Weapons (2 Carbines, 1 Beam rifle).
2 Engineers in Squidhenge.
1 Ghost (that I know of), (And if the Ghose-Brute sightings are true than,) 1 Ghost-Brute.
Does anyone know how many Elephants there are? They sometimes disappear so could be a clue.

[Edited on 12.11.2009 4:06 PM PST]

  • 12.11.2009 4:01 PM PDT

Posted by: Reekhon
Posted by: the searchbar XD
i think i found the sword`s location

well the glyphs are all Y`s right? yes they are well why not try searching the middle of a Y in the map or as i`m doing try searching the middle of three supply cache`s which form a Y

If you look at the two areas on the VISR map that look like Squidhenge and line them up, it could form a triangle. I was thinking the triangle could be an arrow pointing somewhere but I don't know.
I was thinking the numbers of certain things might mean something.
For example:
6 pillars making up Squidhenge.
4 Dead elite areas (that I know of), 4 Plinths.
3 Lights in Squidhenge that turn on when something is close, 3 Elite Weapons (2 Carbines, 1 Beam rifle).
2 Engineers in Squidhenge.
1 Ghost (that I know of), (And if the Ghose-Brute sightings are true than,) 1 Ghost-Brute.
Does anyone know how many Elephants there are? They sometimes disappear so could be a clue.


There is not a ghost Brute at the Henge. That was just a joke by Enigmabi22. He lured a rampage Brute into the henge and the Engineers gave the Brute shields,which gave the ghost look.
lol he was driven made by the seventh of the month....

  • 12.11.2009 4:21 PM PDT

"look at the begining of this [url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKMC1dhlojI]video[/url]"

..... artistic add on, that was clearly edited

[Edited on 12.11.2009 5:27 PM PST]

  • 12.11.2009 4:54 PM PDT