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Subject: Decoding the data pads

I have a theory concerning these AIs.Okay I think that the AI are forerunner. I also believe that humans are forerunners... very very primitive forerunners. When the forerunners created the halos they were designed to destroy all sentient "life". Maybe they AIs are left from the halos firing. Also that could not be true at all. They could however have been copied and sent with the humans from the ark.

  • 10.11.2010 7:34 AM PDT

Also Id like to add that maybe humans are not forerunners. Maybe Spartans combined with AIs are forerunners. There are several mentions in the game of 117 being forerunner.

  • 10.11.2010 7:38 AM PDT

Hey, now!

This is officially either the greatest or worst thing to ever happen to Star Wars. I'm going with the former.


Posted by: calistrat1991
Also Id like to add that maybe humans are not forerunners. Maybe Spartans combined with AIs are forerunners. There are several mentions in the game of 117 being forerunner.

The only person who says that the Chief is Forerunner is 343 Guilty Spark...And he's crazy. Everything 343 GS says, you have to take with a grain of salt.

  • 10.11.2010 9:15 AM PDT

The only person who says that the Chief is Forerunner is 343 Guilty Spark...And he's crazy. Everything 343 GS says, you have to take with a grain of salt.

Yes "he" is the only one that has said that, but you must be confusing guilty spark with penitent tangent which is rapent.

  • 10.11.2010 11:08 AM PDT

Gibbo: That's a great summation and analysis, I believe that to be the case.

Calistrat: Penitent Tangent was controlled by Gravemind, not rampant.

  • 10.11.2010 2:24 PM PDT

That would be classified as rampancy.


[Edited on 10.11.2010 4:40 PM PDT]

  • 10.11.2010 4:35 PM PDT

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  • 10.12.2010 1:07 PM PDT

The Commitee seems to have a lot of powers, they have lots of information about humans, and they seem to know about our future (They "know" spartans is the key to victory). They can be forerunners (i dont think so), they could be some sort of AI or robot (possible), they could be an unknown race (possible), they could even be The Precursors (possible). Regardless of what, i think there is lots of more hidden in the data pads and all switches.

  • 10.13.2010 9:05 AM PDT

"The strength of the pack is the wolf, the strength of the wolf is the pack."

"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me..."

ODST for life

I doubt they are forerunner AI if they were unaware of the Flood or the forerunner artifacts before their discoveries.

I guess it's plausible that the forerunners created the committee with no knowledge of such things in hopes that they would protect mankind while keeping them somewhat limited in their capabilities in order to prevent them from reaching the same pinnacle and eventual self destructive point that they themselves reached.

I wish there was more information on how, when and why the committee contacted the Covenant....

Also, I find it interesting that they allowed mankind to be pushed so close to extinction. It sounded as if it was their destiny to protect mankind yet they never implemented their full powers to protect them.

The committee allowing themselves to be examined doesn't make much sense...there is no indications of any kind of "outer AI" coming into contact with mankind and allowing them to examine them. It also raises the question as to why they would do this if they were only going to limit mankinds advances.

Very interesting.....I will have to do some more research/thinking about these.

  • 10.13.2010 11:44 AM PDT

ever since reach, bungie made so much more info and side stories that it seems that it might(like 5/100% chance) that the halo events might happen. creepy.

  • 10.13.2010 2:34 PM PDT

"Bacon-There is no cure."

Precursors = Humans

  • 10.17.2010 7:51 PM PDT

Interesting, didn't know a 3 day ban reset forum titles.

  • 10.18.2010 4:24 PM PDT

Smoked out my mind (baby) now im seein 3-D dopeboy fresh from my fitted to my DC's

the answer is in the data pads u just need to understand them

  • 10.18.2010 11:11 PM PDT
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you're naut cookin'


Posted by: Hysterical Joker
Interesting, didn't know a 3 day ban reset forum titles.


noob. u got mod trolled.

  • 10.19.2010 7:55 AM PDT

josepi

What did you do hysterical? one day you were just gone like a spooky ghost. anyways i read in fall of reach like chapter 13 or 14 when they get mjolnir for the first time they see multiple a.i's in the same room and john mentions how halsey told him that was impossible. maybe a clue in this?

  • 10.19.2010 10:59 AM PDT


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Posted by: Hysterical Joker
Interesting, didn't know a 3 day ban reset forum titles.


noob. u got mod trolled.

Yeah, I trolled them a bit first though.

Posted by: Smoke It 420360
What did you do hysterical? one day you were just gone like a spooky ghost. anyways i read in fall of reach like chapter 13 or 14 when they get mjolnir for the first time they see multiple a.i's in the same room and john mentions how halsey told him that was impossible. maybe a clue in this?

Oh, you know, keeping to the namesake. The Reach Forum thought it was pretty funny.

I vaguely recall that, though I can't find any info on Halopedia. Perhaps you could elaborate a bit more?

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Posted by: Hysterical Joker
Interesting, didn't know a 3 day ban reset forum titles.


Neither did I. *ahem*

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Posted by: EMANI5
Precursors = Humans


Precursors were supposedly before the Forerunner. The Forerunner were alive the same time as humans, but this was during the (first? one of two?) stone age. Precursors are long extinct when humans supposedly "evolve."

  • 10.19.2010 8:26 PM PDT

By the time I make your reticle red, you're dead.

correct me if im wrong but on the level "the package" cortana seems to be an a.i. from the crashed alien ship thats underneath the ice that dr. halsey is researching right? is she forerunner technology? one way or another maybe these data pads are her, reaching out to sentients to help get her out of the ice prison or at least her knowledge. thats also why she probably has such a vast knowledge of ONI she is directly connected to them through dr. halsey who has maximum clearance if im not mistaken and later on in the story of S117 it is made clear that cortana has maximum security clearances as well. hence the dirty dealings of oni being documented through the data made. maybe i am speaking jibberish, i dont have all the data pads collected so i dont know the whole story behind them but its just some brain food for others to stew on and maybe make more sense of it

  • 10.20.2010 11:04 AM PDT

By the time I make your reticle red, you're dead.

forgot to mention thats also why the elites are carrying them or near by them alot because the covanant is searching for cortana and they might be hunting her down through the data pads... maybe this also has to do with the zealot class recon teams that halsey was talking about in the cinematic after level three: ONI Base

  • 10.20.2010 11:09 AM PDT
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No, Cortana (or rather a portion of Cortana the rest of her is doing what she's doing at this time in the Fall of Reach novel (it's in Halsey's journal)) is a human created AI. She's just there decifering the Forerunner relic burried under Reach and trying to get info out of it.

  • 10.20.2010 1:18 PM PDT

By the time I make your reticle red, you're dead.

I stand corrected! HAH! :-P and is that why she and dr. halsey have the same voice?

  • 10.20.2010 2:18 PM PDT

samscozz

ya he right there is more datapads then there is megapixels
in the game

  • 10.21.2010 12:51 PM PDT

Stealing kills in a Team Slayer match is like eating food, it all goes down the same hole

Mining and tunneling through hundreds of asteroids while shooting others who are doing the same thing. It's a game. Check it out.

Just throwing my two cents in here...

"And if we brought these weapons to bear, if we too became wolves, would there still be a human race to save when we were through?" From the way this one is talking it seems like he's confident enough in the ability of these 'weapons' to not say "if we were through?" but instead to say what he says, that being "when we were done?". That usage of words makes me ask the question: does this "assembly" have the ability and means to annihilate the Covenant? And if so, why haven't they chosen to do so?

The last line gives a little bit of relief to the last question: either their 'weapons' are so powerful that they would destroy Humanity along with the Covenant, or they would not be fast enough, despite the power of these weapons, to prevent the extinction of Humanity.


Totally off topic: it wouldn't let me use a hyphen, what's with that?

  • 10.21.2010 7:18 PM PDT