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Subject: Ship names: Is Bungie trying to tell us something?

Bear with me on this one. My GF gets a mailer on candlemaking. Thumbing through it I found a term that clicked a little. It advertised 'Autumn Pillars'. It's a certain type of candle. Hmmmm, Combat Evolved starts with a lone ship(PoA) keeping darkness from destroying humanity.

"In Amber Clad" might be a little tougher of a sell. Amber is pine resin that has a habit of solidifying around small plants and animals and keeping them preserved forever in time. The name of the ship suggests something/someone preserved through the ages to be resurrected at a much later date. Perhaps akin to the storyline of 'Jurassic Park'. Could there be a link to the whole "I love bees" thing?

"Forward unto Dawn'. This phrase always suggested that the darkest times of the night are just before the sun rises. It suggests that hanging on just a little bit longer will bring about preservation.

So, the Halo story starts with humanity at it's lowest ebb with only a flicking candle. It continues with a person/thing sealed off from time and the elements for a later date.
Lastly, it ends with an acknowlegdement that things are really bad right now, but that salvation is almost at hand.
Not quite an ironclad hypothesis I admit, but it does give one things to ponder. Can anybody help me out with thoughts, obserations or ideas on this?
Thanks

  • 06.13.2010 6:53 PM PDT

I applaud you. That does make since. Someone at bungie is very nifty with english hough. The map epitaph and epilogue are also english terms. There are many hidden messages in their games.

  • 06.13.2010 7:12 PM PDT

Corn, Oil, and Wine... We need more wine...

Makes more sense than anything I've read in any other forum in a while. For this I applaud you.

  • 06.14.2010 8:55 AM PDT

Nice find, bro. This DOES make sense. Bungie never ceases to amaze me.

  • 06.14.2010 4:08 PM PDT

that's... very impressive. nice find indeed

  • 06.18.2010 2:34 PM PDT

Step 7 is on it's way. Prepare the sling-shot.

All hail for the seventh number.

You are one VERY smart cookie.

  • 06.18.2010 2:53 PM PDT

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wow
Another "insane theory based off rough guess about the meaning of a name" thread...
Unfortunately for all the others this one is believable and it seems like something bungie would do.

  • 06.19.2010 10:04 PM PDT
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So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.

-Gandalf

Nice find. :D

  • 06.20.2010 11:52 AM PDT

This lake couldn't have been created by volcanic action, which means it was either built this way on purpose, or was created by some other cataclysmic event. Sorry... were you trying to kill something?

Extremely smart cookie

[Edited on 06.21.2010 3:22 AM PDT]

  • 06.21.2010 3:22 AM PDT

Posted by: cB4d93
Posted by: Silent Eli
you are a good translator
Idiot can be a hard language to learn, but once you get it down, everything becomes so clear! The whole world will make sense to you.

Well done sir. Very believable.

  • 06.22.2010 10:48 AM PDT

Thanks for the props, guys, but I can only take credit for something that clicked while I was reading a candle making magazine. What guy reads those anyway?
I'm certain that I'm possibly close to something and it needs a little more brain power. I'm shopping for additional speculation on this one. I don't want it to die half baked, but I've hit a wall.

One issue is 'In Amber Clad'. That would make more sense for H3 as MC/Cortana got left behind in the rear half of Forward Unto Dawn. And that ship would make more sense in H2.
Thanks again

  • 06.22.2010 7:37 PM PDT
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Good job finding this out, it makes sense to a certain extent.

  • 06.23.2010 4:40 PM PDT

Maybe I will never be
All the things that I wanna be
But now is not the time to cry
Now's the time to find out why
I think you're the same as me
We see things they'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever

I think they got the names from books.
I will try to find the link...

  • 06.23.2010 4:46 PM PDT