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Subject: ILB countdown = fall of Rome?
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I was reading about the greek mathology, and the connection with spartans, i like greek mathology and all this is my info that i can recall so some bit may be wrong. The spartans were a race of people bred for war, they were left on cliff edges after they were born for several days and only the strong survive, they are brought up to fight from a very young age. Somehow the greeks got into a war with the persians, and the spartans sacraficed themselfes in a final battle to keep the persians out of greece. So i was thinking that the covvies were the persians and the sprtans were the spartans obvioulsy, so all the spartans might die in Halo 2, but then we cant forget the Spartan 3's mentioned in the book first strike so they might have some part to play in Halo 2

  • 08.05.2004 3:51 PM PDT
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Alexander the great was some one very special he was an Evil basterd to every one but the Romans Kinda like the MC. Now try to rember all the greek and Roman legnds you can look them up on google and copy paste them here with a small tidbit on how they relate to Halo 2 lets get movin!!!!!!!!!!

[Edited on 8/5/2004 4:14:15 PM]

  • 08.05.2004 4:12 PM PDT
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i think the trojsn horse covie ship is the most likely and possible answer. I think master chief and maybe others spartans/marines will go in the covie ship and attack reach. That is very possible but there will be more to it.

  • 08.05.2004 4:15 PM PDT
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Help me look for Halo 2 plots in the following legends (Warning spelling mistakes ahead.) Hercules, Medusa, The minatore, things involving Demi Gods and Godesses, and Some of the small storys inside the odessy.

  • 08.05.2004 4:18 PM PDT
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The halo series is just a modern reinactment of the roman empire. This is amazing and bungie are doing a great job of making the links ect.

  • 08.05.2004 4:19 PM PDT
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I found a great site to research alot of greek Legends and heroes, Lets get to work!
http://www.mythweb.com/ I geusse I will get us started off.

Perseus fidgeted uncomfortably. "If it meant you'd leave my mother alone, I'd gladly give you anything I owned - which unfortunately is precious little. Horses, chariot, gems, you name it - if I had 'em, they'd be yours. The sweat of my brow, the gain of my strong right arm, whatever. I'd go out and run the marathon if they were holding the Olympics this year. I'd scour the seas for treasure, I'd quest to the ends of the earth. Why, I'd even bring back the head of Medusa herself if I had it in my power."

This could be refrenced to as the Master Chief saying this to the human race giving him self to stop the Covie armada.

Perseus was also Allied with a god:

Clearly, then, Perseus had his work cut out for him. Fortunately he had an ally in Athena. The goddess of crafts and war had her own reasons for wishing to see the Gorgon vanquished, so she was eager to advise Perseus. Why, exactly, Athena had it in for Medusa is not entirely clear. The likeliest explanation is that the Gorgon, while still a beautiful young maiden, had profaned one of Athena's temples. For this sacrilege Athena turned her into a monster, but apparently this wasn't punishment enough.

This is begging to sound alot like Cortana and the good old MC also you could change Gorgon to Covie.

[Edited on 8/5/2004 4:30:30 PM]

  • 08.05.2004 4:22 PM PDT
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Spartan - Sparta (SPAR-tuh) (maybe the city sparta helped destroy enemy empires like the spartans/master chief is helping to kill of the covenant ect.)

City in southern Greece, mythological Home of Helen and the Hero Twins, Castor and Polydeuces. Sparta was the rival of Athens in ancient historical times. The soldiers of Sparta were famed for their discipline and indifference to pleasure or pain. The story is told of a Spartan boy who hid a fox in his cloak and did not reveal it by any sound or grimace even though it gnawed out his entrails.

  • 08.05.2004 4:27 PM PDT
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The story of persiuse is begining to sound alot like MC's story.

Now Athena wanted Medusa's head to decorate her own shield, to magnify its power by the Gorgon's terrible gaze. Athena told Perseus where he could find the special equipment needed for his task.

Can you say the new Mjolin (Sp) armor.

  • 08.05.2004 4:32 PM PDT
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alright every1 im back and im looking for stuff again...............

  • 08.05.2004 4:40 PM PDT
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Good,

  • 08.05.2004 4:43 PM PDT
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I just noticed some thing I have read threw alot of storys of Heroes and John can connect to every story in atleast one or two ways it is amazing hercules, Jason,Persiuse you name it his character has been taken from all those guys and more i belive.

  • 08.05.2004 4:46 PM PDT
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My take on this...... Somehow (I'll get more into this later ILB related!!) the covenant find the location of Earth and setup an attack force to invade, but the covies home world is attacked by the flood and the attack force retreats to protect the home world. The covennants can't do this on thier own and need assistance from us Humans....I have also linked in some characters from ILB into my theory but I don't have time to post my whole thing....trust me I think it's pretty close...

  • 08.05.2004 4:51 PM PDT
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Posted by: Cypriss
First the Roman borders fell, on august tenth the invaders spread all over the Roman Empire and finally on August twenty-fourth Rome was defeated, will the same events happen to the human race in Halo 2?


i like this. very nice. good theory

  • 08.05.2004 4:55 PM PDT
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But who are the Romans and who are the Barbarians?? Don't know do we?

  • 08.05.2004 4:57 PM PDT
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More than likely the humans are the barbarians cuase we are out numberd and out matched and the covie are the Romans.

  • 08.05.2004 5:05 PM PDT
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im having trouble finding stuff i need inspiration, any1 got any interesting thoughts ???

  • 08.05.2004 5:22 PM PDT
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"At the age of about ten, Hadrian went to Italica for the first time (or returned, if he had been there earlier in his childhood), where he remained for only a brief time. He then returned to the capital and soon began a rapid rise through the cursus honorum; he was a military tribune of three different legions in consecutive years, a series of appointments which clearly marked him for a military career, and reached the consulate as a suffect at the age of 32, the earliest possible under the principate."

That reminds me of the story of John becoming a Spartan. Hadrian was the emperor of Rome in the year 117, he was officially named emperor on August 11th. That's really close to August 10th, which is significant on ILB.com.

  • 08.05.2004 5:27 PM PDT
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Posted by: HaloFanticMike
My take on this...... Somehow (I'll get more into this later ILB related!!) the covenant find the location of Earth and setup an attack force to invade, but the covies home world is attacked by the flood and the attack force retreats to protect the home world.
that sounds very familiar.........any1 remember hannibal?? (the real guy not the one from the movie) he was a very succesfull general and went undefeated for a long time, then when the romans attacked cartharage(who he fighted 4) he had 2 retreat back from italy(where he was fighting 4 a long time and went undefeated) back 2 cartharage where he was defeated.......sounds like we r the romans and the covenant are the carthaginians they attacked our homeworld, but we attack theirs also...........

  • 08.05.2004 5:36 PM PDT
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I cant seem to find anything.

  • 08.05.2004 5:46 PM PDT
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im having trouble myself

  • 08.05.2004 5:47 PM PDT
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I dont even know where to begin ive already typed everything ive pretty much could come up with.

  • 08.05.2004 6:09 PM PDT
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Well guys lets keep trying, lets hope the thread makes it through the night.

  • 08.05.2004 7:08 PM PDT
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Has any one looked up any thing in accordanc with the knights of the round table? I am too tired to look but smokem if yah got uhm.

  • 08.05.2004 7:11 PM PDT
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I haven't looked up anything about the knights of the round table...
But I know for sure that there is a planet named Troy. I was reading something on GameSpot about ILB.com, and it showed a conversation between two Halo characters hidden in ilovebees, and one of them said he was stationed on the planet Troy.

  • 08.05.2004 7:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: Cypriss
Has any one looked up any thing in accordanc with the knights of the round table? I am too tired to look but smokem if yah got uhm.


http://www.kingarthursknights.com

  • 08.05.2004 7:56 PM PDT