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If Master Cheif did in fact help create 343 Guilty Spark, then he would have made sure that it'd kill ANYONE to wipe out the Flood, including himself. Master Cheif knows as well as anyother person who may go through time that their future self will not believe such bulls**t. I mean, would you believe if some computer program told you one day that your going to have to save the entire human race? I doubt it. I also doubt Bungie would do that since it's far too similar to The Terminator movies.
True, Bungie did say timetravel stories were lame, but in the case that I'm talking about ti'd actually be quite unique.
Theres a big difference between Time Travel stories and Sci-Fi stories that touch on the topic of time itself. For example, theres a big difference between ghost stories, and stories that touch on the topic of life after death. Think of the difference between the movie "Ghost" and the movie "Sixth Sense". Although both based on life after death, Sixth Sense was not a typical story about a ghost, and came off as one of the most original and least cliche stories of all time.
In typical Time Travel stories we have a hero who can alter the future by going back in time. These characters almost always have the ability to do it as many times as they want with the only side effects being what you may change in the future accidentally. These are movies such as Butterfly Effect. Our hero only stops going through time when he feels everything is right where it should be. In a story like Halo, this would cheat EVERYTHING, and rule the story unbareable. However, if you could only travel through time ONCE to save the fate of mankind, then time travel wouldb't be so bad in the story. This however rules out some of my theory, but it's only an example of a catch time travel has. Some people have said that Halo might be a gate of some kind. Maybe Halo itself is built as some kind of worm hole that messes with time. This could explain the multiple Master Cheif theory. Maybe that Master Cheif was you five, or ten minutes in the future without knowing it. I still like my first theory better though, because even if it isn't true, it's more fun to think about :P
Time Travel is lame, I agree, but just remember the difference between movies like "The Time Machine" and shows like "Quantom Leap". The difference? QL's hero was a victim to his own experiment of wanting to change the course of history and could not control time, but rather only flow with it wherever it takes him. TM's hero was a scientist who actually could control time and pinpoint the exact time and date of where he wanted to travel to, and he could attempt to change anything as many times as he wanted to as long as his machine was still working.
What makes my theory pretty cool is the fact that our hero doesn't know about the whole "time travel" thing and the people who sacraficed themselves to build Halo only left small clues to guide us. Reminds me of the movie Pay Check minus the bad acting :P
Oh, and heres another quote to add to my theory.
"With travel in space comes travel in time. With new awareness of space comes new awareness of time."
Interesting.....
[Edited on 8/5/2004 3:18:52 PM]