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is there anything anyone would want to know about the three halo books and if so then ask away here. i kinda consider my self an expert about the books and love talking about them with anyone. please ask away and i will anser your questions. or if you have anything that you would want to talk about that has to do with the books then i will want to here about that to.

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  • 08.02.2004 8:29 AM PDT
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Any guesses on where Halsey took Kelly?
And what the covenant want the crystal for? it seems they can reassemble it or make it work again if they find the floating shards.

  • 08.02.2004 8:30 AM PDT
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what got me about the books is why did Haverson and Whitcomb fly the asendant justice into the unyeilding heirophant when cortana could of made a copy of herself and made ghost of them all and did the same thing. remember when she made ghost of the cheif and everyone when they first took over the ship?

  • 08.02.2004 8:33 AM PDT
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Posted by: XxBigxBossxX
And what the covenant want the crystal for? it seems they can reassemble it or make it work again if they find the floating shards.

Faster Slipspace jumps, maybe?

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  • 08.02.2004 8:33 AM PDT
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Yea, I have a question. I'm under the assumption that Kelly went down to Reach to defend the planet while Master Chief and his squad went to the station is. How did Kelly and any others survive the Glassing of Reach and is that where the third book picks up? I haven't read the third book yet, but I am curious.

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  • 08.02.2004 8:34 AM PDT
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They didn't glass all of Reach.

  • 08.02.2004 8:35 AM PDT
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But the covenant are idiots...they didnt even figure out how to use the plasma weapons on board the ships effeciently, cortana figured out how to do it.
So i don't think the covenant even know what the crystal is for. well maybe.

But yeah i think maybe cause cortana had all those copys and it was messing up the system. Probably a Covenant AI was trying to counter-hack Cortanas copies.

  • 08.02.2004 8:35 AM PDT
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Posted by: Powerhouse
Yea, I have a question. I'm under the assumption that Kelly went down to Reach to defend the planet while Master Chief and his squad went to the station is. How did Kelly and any others survive the Glassing of Reach and is that where the third book picks up? I haven't read the third book yet, but I am curious.


except for reach is nothing but a planet full of molten slag.

  • 08.02.2004 8:36 AM PDT
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The Covenant don't glass all of Reach. More specifically, they live the ONI base alone and tries to invade it on foot.

  • 08.02.2004 8:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: XxBigxBossxX
Any guesses on where Halsey took Kelly?
And what the covenant want the crystal for? it seems they can reassemble it or make it work again if they find the floating shards.


First off I think the good doctor took the spartan off in search of something to aid the struggle, or possibly off to kill that director guy that was ultimately screwing over humanity by his jealousy of the spartans and his competitive nature.

Secondly I seriously doubt the convenant could recreate the crystal from the shards, since much of it was lost in the "hyperspace"/"subspace" dimension. If that doesn't destroy it nothing will, you know? And that doens't even take into account finding something the size of a sliver in a place where everything and anyhting doesn't exist normally.

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Posted by: Killa Cam
what got me about the books is why did Haverson and Whitcomb fly the asendant justice into the unyeilding heirophant when cortana could of made a copy of herself and made ghost of them all and did the same thing. remember when she made ghost of the cheif and everyone when they first took over the ship?


Can someone answer my question plz? its really bugging me why they both died when they didnt have too

  • 08.02.2004 8:36 AM PDT
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i think that the coventnant want the shards to move faster through slipsspace. they mite want to get to earth before the humans can get enough forces to fight back or just because the forrunners had it and they now want -blam!- just cause the made it. as for the kelly thing (this is really theory) she took her to get the other spartens that were gone on some other missions when reach was glassed.

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The whole of reach got glassed except for the mountain where they used to secretly train in. The abandoned Titanium Mines. And that was an ancient forerunner temple or something the covenant were looking for. They all hid out there till Master Chief got back from Halo and wanted to make sure they were dead. But he found em.


What about the Mark VI Mjolnir? Could MC just find it in an abandoned ONI laboratory? Or will Dr. Halsey create it. I think we start the game with Mark V and in second level or so we aquire Mark VI with upgrades.

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  • 08.02.2004 8:37 AM PDT
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Okay, thanks for answering my Kelly question.

  • 08.02.2004 8:40 AM PDT
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maby that making copies of herself mite have a chance of damaging her systems or that the copiesa were unreliable and the admiral just wanted to make sure that he got the job done to protect earth.

  • 08.02.2004 8:42 AM PDT
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Most likely. Because Cortana mentioned when she copies herself she also copies the deffective parts of her code. And since the Copy copied more copies then there were errors everywhere.

And the admiral went down with the ship probably because of pride and wanting to make sure cortana didnt screw up, as you said

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does everyone realise that not all of the covenant ships were sent to the unyeilding heirophant? Infact only about half of them were supposed to go to earth, and the other half were protecting the covenant home worlds and teritories. so this leads me to beleive that if they sent half of their ships to take earth and they know that 500 ships is more then enough to take earth then this must mean that they are scared of something. i think this thing they are scared of are another race of aliens that may live close to the humans galaxy that they know of but we dont know of. why else wou;d they have soo many ships when their ships only lose to us when we out number them 3-1?

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i think that you would already start ou twith the upgrated armor when halo 2 begins. kinda like when the piller of autom found halo they talked about reach and how the escaped. maby they will talk about them finding the armor in a lab or somthing or maby thats where Dr halsey and kelly went to go to get the armor and come back and give it to the spartans.

  • 08.02.2004 8:46 AM PDT
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Posted by: XxBigxBossxX
Most likely. Because Cortana mentioned when she copies herself she also copies the deffective parts of her code. And since the Copy copied more copies then there were errors everywhere.

And the admiral went down with the ship probably because of pride and wanting to make sure cortana didnt screw up, as you said


if cortanna was so woried about the copies screwing up why did she send the master cheif into an alien space station with one?

  • 08.02.2004 8:47 AM PDT
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Posted by: canada769
i think that you would already start ou twith the upgrated armor when halo 2 begins. kinda like when the piller of autom found halo they talked about reach and how the escaped. maby they will talk about them finding the armor in a lab or somthing or maby thats where Dr halsey and kelly went to go to get the armor and come back and give it to the spartans.


Well yeah but if you read fall of reach it leads you directly up to that point in time, so unless theres another book before halo 2 then we dont start out with Mark VI.

And cortana was willing to risk it. Plus i don't think she thought of the possibilities of her Copy making more copies. Because she was doing so many things at once, and the Halo data and the index took up alot of her memory, leaving her less efficient for normal tasks.


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  • 08.02.2004 8:49 AM PDT
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cortona probly didnt think that MC would need the copied cortona to make another copies so she thought the risk was worth taking

  • 08.02.2004 8:53 AM PDT
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i just said that =p

If Halsey went through all the trouble of kidnapping Kelly basically to go do something to "save as many lives as possible" i don't think it would be the Mjolnir Mark VI armor, unless it had some way cool new upgrade that was resistant to plasma or some other very good upgrade.


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but i was talking about if cortanna (the real one) was to make another copy of herself and put it onto the ascendant justice to fly it into the unyeilding heirophany. she cout have even made a ghost of the crystal like she did with haverson

  • 08.02.2004 8:57 AM PDT
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She had close to no memory left. The thought probably crossed her mind after they died.

  • 08.02.2004 8:58 AM PDT
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by the way what do u guys think that the MJOLNR mark VI armors upgrades will be? i think it will have double the sheilds as mark V armor becuse it said that some of the spartans got a few upgrades wile on reach

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