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Subject: The great journey is real

So. Those of you familiar with the terminals may know: the great journey is real.

The covies didn't just pull the great journey out of thin air, they perhaps saw it referenced in forerunner texts and knew that since it was attainable, something the forerunners had would take them on it. They simply assumed it was lighting the halo rings. Obviously they were wrong.

The forerunner who lit the ark said he will go on the great journey after lighting the rings. Thus, there is some way to go on it.

As of now, we have absolutely no way to know what it is, what it does, or how one gets there.

Or do we?

When you think of heaven, you think of a paradise, a perfect world where no one ages, no one dies, where you live forever in eternal happiness, right?

The dysons sphere in onyx, it's a paradise right? Your body is locked in slipspace, but you are in this "paradise". Perhaps when in such a state you don't age? Who is to say that at the end of GOO, they have not embarked on the great journey?

Here's something else to consider: The forerunner who lit the ark went on the great journey. Therefore the place he went to go on the journey probably wasn't that far from the ark. We don't know how long MC has been drifting during the legendary ending, but perhaps he's going exactly where that forerunner went. Perhaps he's going to embark on the great journey. This could imply that onyx and the dysons sphere have nothing to do with the great journey. If we think about medicant bias, he decided to use MC to make up for his sins. Who is to say he didn't cause the portal to shut down purposely just so MC could go on the great jounrey? Medicant made him his example, and now he's sending him on the great journey.

A. because chief deserves it
B. Sending him to the forerunners as proof of his atonement

Many possibilities.

[Edited on 10.25.2009 12:48 AM PDT]

  • 10.25.2009 12:46 AM PDT

Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed, knowing better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives: not men, for flags.
"The Next War"

Interesting theory. Quite original, too. So props on that. However, this seems a little weak plot-wise, so I doubt that this is the direction the Halo series would go.

  • 10.25.2009 12:55 AM PDT

Posted by: blue3232
Interesting theory. Quite original, too. So props on that. However, this seems a little weak plot-wise, so I doubt that this is the direction the Halo series would go.


Please explain

  • 10.25.2009 12:58 AM PDT

Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed, knowing better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives: not men, for flags.
"The Next War"

Posted by: Wazooty
Posted by: blue3232
Interesting theory. Quite original, too. So props on that. However, this seems a little weak plot-wise, so I doubt that this is the direction the Halo series would go.


Please explain

Well, it just leaves too many plot-holes. For example, they would still age in a Dyson Sphere. People still age in Slipspace, that is why Cryo sleep is necessary. Also, Chief wasn't in Slipspace in Halo 3's legendary ending. He got cut out, which is why he wasn't with the Arbiter.

I also just don't want this to be the way things go down, I'd be pissed if it turned out this way.

  • 10.25.2009 1:04 AM PDT

Posted by: blue3232
Posted by: Wazooty
Posted by: blue3232
Interesting theory. Quite original, too. So props on that. However, this seems a little weak plot-wise, so I doubt that this is the direction the Halo series would go.


Please explain

Well, it just leaves too many plot-holes. For example, they would still age in a Dyson Sphere. People still age in Slipspace, that is why Cryo sleep is necessary. Also, Chief wasn't in Slipspace in Halo 3's legendary ending. He got cut out, which is why he wasn't with the Arbiter.

I also just don't want this to be the way things go down, I'd be pissed if it turned out this way.

Posted by: blue3232
Posted by: Wazooty
Posted by: blue3232
Interesting theory. Quite original, too. So props on that. However, this seems a little weak plot-wise, so I doubt that this is the direction the Halo series would go.


Please explain

Well, it just leaves too many plot-holes. For example, they would still age in a Dyson Sphere. People still age in Slipspace, that is why Cryo sleep is necessary. Also, Chief wasn't in Slipspace in Halo 3's legendary ending. He got cut out, which is why he wasn't with the Arbiter.

I also just don't want this to be the way things go down, I'd be pissed if it turned out this way.


Uh...you seemed to put a lot of words in my mouth that I never said. You have no idea how people age in the forerunenrs slipspace. It was far far beyond what the humans have developed, so you couldn't say they do age.

I never said chief was in slipspace, I said he could be going to wherever the forerunner went to go on the great journey. How the hell did you manage to think I ever said that? You're arguing against yourself, not what I posted. Read more thoroughly before you try to make counter points please.

[Edited on 10.25.2009 3:44 AM PDT]

  • 10.25.2009 1:21 AM PDT

Posted by: iTz TrOLLiN
No. By "Great Journey", the Forerunner meant the next big adventure, the next road. Death. The Covenant merely took this wrong and thought they meant another dimension, or another place where everything perfect. They might've been right, because of the "Afterlife" idea.


You have no way at all of knowing that's what they mean by the great journey. You can't discount my theory as "no", sorry.

  • 10.25.2009 1:22 AM PDT

Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord. (Psalm 83:16 KJV)

gamertag: your shames

very interesting. possibly.

  • 10.25.2009 1:32 AM PDT

pretty intresting point but i doubt itll turn out that way.. just doesnt seem like its the way things will turn out

  • 10.25.2009 1:12 PM PDT