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Subject: The Crashed Pelican in Halo 3's "Cortana"...

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Is it the same pelican we found at the beginning of Halo 2's
"High Charity"?

It isn't the chiefs because he came in a banshee. It can't be the arbiter's because the pelican is there before him. Johnson used another one. So is it the same pelican from Halo 2?

  • 11.14.2010 7:01 PM PDT

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To narrow down your search, seek the answers to these questions...

- What models were those Pelicans, do they match?
- How many Pelicans were at High Charity?
- Where did the Flood in Halo 2 leave that Pelican and where exactly in High Charity is the Pelican that is used in Halo 3?

  • 11.14.2010 7:05 PM PDT

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I doubt it, the pelican in Halo 2 crashed much higher up in High Charity than the one seen in Halo 3. It is possible that it is another Pelican from In Amber Clad.

  • 11.14.2010 7:06 PM PDT

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Posted by: CTN 0452 9
I doubt it, the pelican in Halo 2 crashed much higher up in High Charity than the one seen in Halo 3. It is possible that it is another Pelican from In Amber Clad.


If anything they crashed lower. In Halo 2 you end up in the Prophet's inner sanctum, and from the looks of it you end up there in Halo 3 without going up any higher or lower.

In any case given the operational status of the Pelican and the uninfected marine bodies around it, it is more likely a recent arrival rather than a left over from the initial Flood attack. No other human controlled vessels had breached High Charity back in Halo 2.

  • 11.14.2010 11:14 PM PDT

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As seen in Halo 2's mission High Charity, there were quite a lot of Pelicans crashing all around High Charity. It is most likely that it's not the same Pelican. However, it's possible it fell from the tower and crashed onto that tiny platform.

  • 11.15.2010 7:34 AM PDT

It's crashed inside the mausoleum tower, so I don't think so.

  • 11.15.2010 8:04 AM PDT

I doubt it, it would have had to have survived a slipspace journey, and then the mother of all impacts into the dirt. Nice thought, but alas, unlikely.

  • 11.15.2010 8:28 AM PDT
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Given all the human ammo laying around, I think it belongs to a group of marines that wanted to be big damn heroes.

  • 11.15.2010 12:47 PM PDT

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I'd love to know the story of that dead lone ODST deep inside High Charity.

  • 11.15.2010 12:51 PM PDT

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I'd love to know the story of that dead lone ODST deep inside High Charity.

  • 11.15.2010 1:04 PM PDT

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Posted by: flamedude
I'd love to know the story of that dead lone ODST deep inside High Charity.


It'd make a great story for another Evolutions style book with short stories.

  • 11.15.2010 1:08 PM PDT


Posted by: StealthSlasher2

Posted by: CTN 0452 9
I doubt it, the pelican in Halo 2 crashed much higher up in High Charity than the one seen in Halo 3. It is possible that it is another Pelican from In Amber Clad.


If anything they crashed lower. In Halo 2 you end up in the Prophet's inner sanctum, and from the looks of it you end up there in Halo 3 without going up any higher or lower.

In any case given the operational status of the Pelican and the uninfected marine bodies around it, it is more likely a recent arrival rather than a left over from the initial Flood attack. No other human controlled vessels had breached High Charity back in Halo 2.

/Agree considering the floods main purpose is to assimilate and learn the knowledge of any being out there I doubt they would leave these marines unattended for that long. Most likely new marines.

  • 11.15.2010 1:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: tocom11

Posted by: StealthSlasher2

Posted by: CTN 0452 9
I doubt it, the pelican in Halo 2 crashed much higher up in High Charity than the one seen in Halo 3. It is possible that it is another Pelican from In Amber Clad.


If anything they crashed lower. In Halo 2 you end up in the Prophet's inner sanctum, and from the looks of it you end up there in Halo 3 without going up any higher or lower.

In any case given the operational status of the Pelican and the uninfected marine bodies around it, it is more likely a recent arrival rather than a left over from the initial Flood attack. No other human controlled vessels had breached High Charity back in Halo 2.

/Agree considering the floods main purpose is to assimilate and learn the knowledge of any being out there I doubt they would leave these marines unattended for that long. Most likely new marines.


Well keep in mind that Brute and Elite bodies are still found all over the place, and I doubt they're recent arrivals so I must say I find it puzzling why they aren't assimilated yet. The reason why I'm going with the theory that that particular pelican was a recent arrival was because no single human controlled ship had made it onto High Charity. We know that the In Amber Clad broke through, but as Cortana said there were no human life signs aboard it, and as we know in Halo 2 the Pelicans seen there were all Flood controlled.

  • 11.15.2010 11:25 PM PDT

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Posted by: StealthSlasher2

Posted by: CTN 0452 9
I doubt it, the pelican in Halo 2 crashed much higher up in High Charity than the one seen in Halo 3. It is possible that it is another Pelican from In Amber Clad.


If anything they crashed lower. In Halo 2 you end up in the Prophet's inner sanctum, and from the looks of it you end up there in Halo 3 without going up any higher or lower.

In any case given the operational status of the Pelican and the uninfected marine bodies around it, it is more likely a recent arrival rather than a left over from the initial Flood attack. No other human controlled vessels had breached High Charity back in Halo 2.


this is quite the interesting point...

perhaps this Pelican carried the last surviving servicemen of the UNSC In Amber Clad? this could also explain the strangley out of place ODST commander as one of the In Amber Clad's 105th.

I imagine they either ran out of fuel or were forced to crashland when High Charity broke atmosphere on the Ark.
What on earth makes you think he was an ODST commander? Granted, it's been well over a year since I last played that level, but I can't remember anything that would distinguish him from any other ODST.Posted by: FleetAdmiralBob
Given all the human ammo laying around, I think it belongs to a group of marines that wanted to be big damn heroes.
Well, there was IIRC a shotgun, an SMG, a flamethrower and a rocket launcher - all weapons ideally suited to tackling the Flood.

Those troopers knew what waited for them... knew what they wrought.
IMO, they must have come from the Aegis Fate or the Forward Unto Dawn, and been 'back-up' infantry sent to help 117 recover Cortana. They're far too recent to have been from the In Amber Clad, the Flood had had atmospheric control over High Charity for months by the time of Halo 3.

[Edited on 11.15.2010 11:34 PM PST]

  • 11.15.2010 11:30 PM PDT

On hiding dead bodies:
Posted by: Psuedo
Posted by: teh Chaz
Inside another dead body. It's the last place they'll look
A corpse within a corpse.
CORPSEPTION.
Win.

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[Edited on 11.15.2010 11:34 PM PST]

  • 11.15.2010 11:33 PM PDT
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No. You are in a totaly different area that from Halo2.

  • 11.16.2010 11:52 AM PDT

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This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
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The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

Highly doubt it.

  • 11.16.2010 11:56 AM PDT