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I just wanted to kinda get some good summaries going from halo 1 as well as other information that could be necessary.

from what i can gather: The PoA was under attack near a planet called Reach so they made a blind jump and ended up near halo with the covenant ready to intercept ("the covenant ships have always been faster"). Then they woke up the MC (was chosen as a child to take part in the spartan program) to help defend them from the attack on the PoA. Pillar of Autumn gets shot down (well actually i think keyes manually drives it) and lands on halo which is infested with covenant, while several members of the crew crash land all over the halo. MC searches for survivers to formulate an effective resistance, grabs captain keyes from the Truth and Reconciliation, and then searches for the map room of halo to find out where the control room is. The master chief finds the map goes to the control room to find out that halo was built by forerunner and they used the fortress worlds to contain something. Meanwhile, Keyes and the crew search for a weapons cache (im not really sure why, maybe they were running out of ammo, but i dont think theyd find any human-made ammo there, maybe someone can fill me in on their motives to search for the weapons cache) but then it turns out to be a containment site for "the flood" (lol remember some people called it the flug?). Then the flood gets released, the MC meets 343 GS who takes him to the library to retrieve the key to some "super weapon" that kills the flood, then it is brought back to the control room where cortana unveils that the only way to kill the flood is to starve it, so the halo emits some large blast that kills all sentient life within a 15,000 light year radius. After that, MC has to destroy halo somehow so cortana and him think that destroying the PoA will trigger a big enough explosion.

Thats as far as the game storyline goes, but theres a few things within the game that people may theorize about.

The monitor wonders why MC calls himself human, and insists that he has activated halo before. Maybe he thinks youre forerunner (he also says in the library "you brought such ineffective weapons to fight the flood"...i wonder what forerunner used :P)

One more thing: i was thinking maybe covenant are forerunner evolved or something (on 343 GS the haxor says the Covenant tried really hard to lock the door), that might explain why covenant inhabited that halo in particular (there are obviously more halos that are spaced 15,000 light years away from each other so when the super weapon is triggered it makes all the other halos go off). Maybe another explanation for the covenant being on halo is that the forerunner used the weapon to exterminate the flood a while back so it was just a deserted ring and they decided to colonize it. And what explains the forerunner symbol on the back of high ranking elites? I can't remember if any of this was explained in the books..maybe they found ancient armor templates that were made by forerunner and then used it because of its shield attribute.

Hmm sorry im theorizing too much, basically let me know if my summary is correct/incorrect and maybe some info to add.

  • 07.25.2004 4:16 PM PDT
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WARNING: YOU WILL GET FLAMED! (seeing as your new here)

sorry, thats how this site works...

with that said, i can tell you this...

Most of that is right, but that's info your taking from the game. There are 3 Halo books which take place before, during, and after the game. I recommend you read those. I'll put a proof reading post soon...

  • 07.25.2004 4:20 PM PDT

WARNING: YOU WILL GET FLAMED! (seeing as your new here)
You obviously don't know the site.

  • 07.25.2004 4:22 PM PDT
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yeah i know, this is actually a new account though. ive been meaning to read the books

  • 07.25.2004 4:22 PM PDT

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PS: Halo's radius is 25,000, not 15,000.

  • 07.25.2004 4:23 PM PDT
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PS: Halo's radius is 25,000, not 15,000.

doh :P

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-Reach was a Military science and Research planet as well as a docking point for UNSC ships. For more on Reach, read "The Fall of Reach", which explains what happened with the Spartan II program as well as the covenant assualt on Reach.

-PoA: The ship that was being used as a launching point for a Spartan Mission. Their mission: to infiltrate a covenant vessel and capture a Prophet (covenant religious leader), and use him as a hostage in order to have a cease fire or truce to the war. During the covenant attack on Reach, the PoA took a blind jump to unchartered space(which is still under theory if was undiscovered at all, but thats another story) and landed near the Halo installation.

-Halo1- Basically, the game tells it all. If your confused at the game at all, buy "The Flood", which revisits the game and clears things up. (I'm trying to keep spoliers to a mininium, tell me if you dont care)

After Halo- Read "First Strike", which takes place right after Halo.

SPOLIER ALERT






In First Strike, we find out that MC isnt the only survivor. Sgt. Johnson, an ODST, an officer in the UNSC and a pelican pilot all survive (again trying to keep spoliers...). MC and the survivors find the Cryo-Tube of Linda, a spartan that was to thought have died on Reach. The new crew (excluding Linda, who doesnt wake up till later in the book) Assault a Covenant Flagship which dwarfs all the others, and capture it. A Engineer (a covenant creature devoted to fixing things and nothing else) fixes MCs Sheilds, then Haverson (the officer) kills it to make sure the covenant dont somehow learn the secrets of the sheild technolgy. MC convinces Haverson to go back to Reach, and salvage the area (this maybe wrong, since i havent read it in a while, lil help everyone?). They return to Reach, to find a distress singal. The MC and gang head down to the surface, and discover that some Spartans, as well as an Admiral survived the covenant glassing, and seem to be trying to mine something. They head over to the area and find the leading Dr. on the Spartan project as well as more spartans. They leave with an artifact they have found which warps time and slipspace (basically lightspeed for Halo) and are chased covenenat. They also salvage a human ship. On the way back, Dr. Hasley find out how Sgt. Johnson survived the flood. The Flood passed over him since he had a diseise known as the Boryns (sp? i know its wrong) syndrone so he couldnt get infected. Instead he has special regeneration powers now. So somw -blam!- happens, the remaining Spartans (including Linda) launch an attack at a staging center that is used for assualt earth, and then have the covenant fleet is annihalted when the the thing blows up, thanks to a sacrife by the Admiral. I'm doing the really fast version. You should read it yourself.

  • 07.25.2004 4:42 PM PDT
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Posted by: goweb
WARNING: YOU WILL GET FLAMED! (seeing as your new here)
You obviously don't know the site.


Every time i post a theory i get flamed. And dont tell me you havent caught people flaming.
DONT even tell me you havent. Just a friendly advice, thats all.

Posted by: Draag
Is the pistol your favorite because its cheaper than a shotgun in close range and out snipes a sniper rifle?
If this is why then, no they pistol will be sodomized and given back to you. or -blam!- raped and discarded


I rest my case. This was his response to a nice question..."Will the Pistol be back?"

[Edited on 7/25/2004 4:48:44 PM]

  • 07.25.2004 4:44 PM PDT