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Subject: Theories of Spirit of Fire's end

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Hello people of the universe forums!

This thread is for all of you who have those ideas on whaqt happened to the Spirit of Fire. Post your theories below.
My Theory is:

It had been 3 days since the destruction of the shield world. After serina woke up the captain, she explained the situation. "A single flood spore has infiltrated the ship, and infected a crew member. He has now turned into one of those bulb shaped creatures we met on that planets surface. 3 hours after the report, the whole deck went offline. Visuals showed that the infected marine exploded, and more of those parasites came around. I fear the ship will become infected in a matter of hours."

Captain cutter mulls this over, then realising his options, he says to serina, "Serina, activate self descrut sequence. We cant let this thing get loose. Start the countdown to 3 minutes." "Aye captain"
Serina leaves, and captain cutter annouces over the ships speakers: "All active crew members, the creatures we encountered on the shield world are on the ship. I am activating the self descrut sequence. Please make your final moments happy" He ends, then gazes out into the stars. He remembers the free coffe beans coffe huts gave him out of respect. He remembers his wife. He sadly stares at the never ending universe, and says good bye.

That is my theory. What's yours? Post below.

  • 03.04.2011 9:47 PM PDT

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On February 10, 2534

The Spirit of Fire, previously designated as "missing", was declared "lost with all hands" by the UNSC. The reason for this change was kept top secret. A memorial service was held for the people aboard the vessel, but many of the crew's family members chose not to attend, holding out hope that their loved ones are still alive. Various theories circulated throughout the UNSC as to the ship's actual fate, ranging from being lost during a covert mission for ONI, destroyed in orbit over Arcadia, defecting to Insurrectionist forces, or being stranded in space. When Mary Cutter, wife of Captain James Cutter, was asked about the defection theory, she physically assaulted the reporter.


I believe they were found, along with the Flood, which is why it was kept quiet.

  • 03.04.2011 9:53 PM PDT

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That actually makes sense, except why didnt ONI tell any of the spartans, Doctor Hasley, ect.?

  • 03.04.2011 9:58 PM PDT

Finally Reached Harvest in 2589 to discover that it is still glassed, thus the Serina thing about "Something has happened."

  • 03.04.2011 10:09 PM PDT

Ok, here's my theory.

SoF wasn't lost with all hands, it was accidentally recovered by ONI. Why do I think this?

The Evolutions story Mona Lisa takes place in October 2552, on a unspecified day at the Alpha Halo debrisfield.
In the story a team of Marines infiltrates a top secret ONI facility that has been there testing the Flood as bioweapons.

Now: Halo 2 starts off at October 20th. And Alpha Halo is destroyed at September 25th.
The ONI ship arrived at the debris field shortly after the destruction of Halo, presumably within a week or so and began testing with the Flood....

How on Earth do they know about the Flood and Halo at that point? Because Chief and Cortana aren't back on Earth to tell them about the Flood/Forerunners at that point in time. I can (am will at least to) assume the distress call from Cortana when they destoryed Halo and wanted the UNSC to find them, had some minor info about "Flood", but the question still remains: how does ONI suddenly turn up with a fully fleshed out plan to use Flood as bioweapons, even with a ship fully equipped and prepped for such an operation? Thats not something you do in the short period of time they had...

Unless they were prepared for such things and already knew about the Flood in a minor way....which is where SoF comes in to play, because they are the only ones who had UNSC contact with the Flood before them.

So I assume ONI somehow found them, put them in quarantine, covered the whole thing up, and then already planned for what they did during Mona Lisa. Halo is destroyed: Cortana leaves a distress beacon with information in it for the UNSC to find them. However, they capture a Covie ship and make it back to Reach (First Strike) and ONI shows up with their plan to use the Flood...

  • 03.05.2011 2:59 AM PDT

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Posted by: DonVinzone1
Ok, here's my theory.

SoF wasn't lost with all hands, it was accidentally recovered by ONI. Why do I think this?

The Evolutions story Mona Lisa takes place in October 2552, on a unspecified day at the Alpha Halo debrisfield.
In the story a team of Marines infiltrates a top secret ONI facility that has been there testing the Flood as bioweapons.

Now: Halo 2 starts off at October 20th. And Alpha Halo is destroyed at September 25th.
The ONI ship arrived at the debris field shortly after the destruction of Halo, presumably within a week or so and began testing with the Flood....

How on Earth do they know about the Flood and Halo at that point? Because Chief and Cortana aren't back on Earth to tell them about the Flood/Forerunners at that point in time. I can (am will at least to) assume the distress call from Cortana when they destoryed Halo and wanted the UNSC to find them, had some minor info about "Flood", but the question still remains: how does ONI suddenly turn up with a fully fleshed out plan to use Flood as bioweapons, even with a ship fully equipped and prepped for such an operation? Thats not something you do in the short period of time they had...

Unless they were prepared for such things and already knew about the Flood in a minor way....which is where SoF comes in to play, because they are the only ones who had UNSC contact with the Flood before them.

So I assume ONI somehow found them, put them in quarantine, covered the whole thing up, and then already planned for what they did during Mona Lisa. Halo is destroyed: Cortana leaves a distress beacon with information in it for the UNSC to find them. However, they capture a Covie ship and make it back to Reach (First Strike) and ONI shows up with their plan to use the Flood...

Took the words right out of my mouth. This has been my theory for quite a while. Glad to see I'm not alone!

  • 03.05.2011 5:16 AM PDT

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The Spirit of Fire was never found.
April 10, 2555
"Captain, wake up. Something has happened."
Serina picked up Cortana's signal from deep space and finds the crippled Forward Unto Dawn. Cortana was emitting the signal for the beacon and Serina picked it up. Afterward the two began conversing and Serina learned that the Human-Covenant War was over.

  • 03.05.2011 5:26 AM PDT

"Wort wort wort!"

The crew drifted in space and slowly starved to death or ran out of oxygen. If they were moving at max speed, they would take hundreds of years to reach any sort of space stuff, and anything going by would think that it was debris. They couldn't be found by another ship because the other ship would be in slipspace. Flood infection is possible, and means the flood could still be a threat in future games. Or they could be god, then find god like Bender did.

  • 03.05.2011 5:33 AM PDT

Am I supposed to write something funny here?

They arrive at forerunner "failed slipspace jumps come here" facility, where they find MC and Jorge. Also the half of the civilian transport mentioned in LNoS (And the supercarrier and other hundreds of years old stuff)

  • 03.05.2011 5:43 AM PDT

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They drift for years and are found by Covenant ships from the Arbiters fleet. They are then transported back to Earth and the whole thing is covered up. ONI marks the section of space they came from for further study.

  • 03.05.2011 6:14 AM PDT

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Posted by: Stewie2552

I believe they were found, along with the Flood, which is why it was kept quiet.


This.

  • 03.05.2011 6:15 AM PDT

I think the Spirit ended up at the Legendary Planet with the Chief.

Why? Well because:

1) The Chief would have back up in the fights ahead.

2) The Spirit had been drifting for several decades in unknown space.

3) Something obviously "happened" at the end of HW.

4) We could have a Spartan reunion with the Chief meeting his Red Team companions from so long ago.

  • 03.05.2011 8:14 AM PDT

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Something like what happens between Aliens and Alien 3. Except the Xenomorphs are the Flood, and instead of weird cultists they run into Insurrectionists...

  • 03.05.2011 9:52 AM PDT


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Posted by: DonVinzone1
Ok, here's my theory.

SoF wasn't lost with all hands, it was accidentally recovered by ONI. Why do I think this?

The Evolutions story Mona Lisa takes place in October 2552, on a unspecified day at the Alpha Halo debrisfield.
In the story a team of Marines infiltrates a top secret ONI facility that has been there testing the Flood as bioweapons.

Now: Halo 2 starts off at October 20th. And Alpha Halo is destroyed at September 25th.
The ONI ship arrived at the debris field shortly after the destruction of Halo, presumably within a week or so and began testing with the Flood....

How on Earth do they know about the Flood and Halo at that point? Because Chief and Cortana aren't back on Earth to tell them about the Flood/Forerunners at that point in time. I can (am will at least to) assume the distress call from Cortana when they destoryed Halo and wanted the UNSC to find them, had some minor info about "Flood", but the question still remains: how does ONI suddenly turn up with a fully fleshed out plan to use Flood as bioweapons, even with a ship fully equipped and prepped for such an operation? Thats not something you do in the short period of time they had...

Unless they were prepared for such things and already knew about the Flood in a minor way....which is where SoF comes in to play, because they are the only ones who had UNSC contact with the Flood before them.

So I assume ONI somehow found them, put them in quarantine, covered the whole thing up, and then already planned for what they did during Mona Lisa. Halo is destroyed: Cortana leaves a distress beacon with information in it for the UNSC to find them. However, they capture a Covie ship and make it back to Reach (First Strike) and ONI shows up with their plan to use the Flood...

Took the words right out of my mouth. This has been my theory for quite a while. Glad to see I'm not alone!

Same here! Especially since I never saw another theory like this pop up, except for the few times I posted it in threads like this ;)

  • 03.05.2011 10:33 AM PDT

I agree with DonVinzone1

  • 03.05.2011 10:36 AM PDT
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We are all going to get banned aren't we?

i vaguely remember one of the new re-issues having an extra chapter about an ONI member knowing about the flood and SoF post halowars. pretty much confirming that they did get back and it was covered up. I belive it was the new reach book

  • 03.05.2011 2:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: grey101
i vaguely remember one of the new re-issues having an extra chapter about an ONI member knowing about the flood and SoF post halowars. pretty much confirming that they did get back and it was covered up. I belive it was the new reach book


There isn't anything of the sort.

  • 03.05.2011 3:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?


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Posted by: grey101
i vaguely remember one of the new re-issues having an extra chapter about an ONI member knowing about the flood and SoF post halowars. pretty much confirming that they did get back and it was covered up. I belive it was the new reach book


There isn't anything of the sort.


Hence me saying vaguely. I know it's in some sort of media i just don't what it was, hopefully somebody can come along and post it.

  • 03.05.2011 3:07 PM PDT

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I agree with the ONI finding them, but wait! How about this?

TheCovenant and The Humans ae not the only creatures in the galaxy who have acheived space faring status! Some other species found SoF and brought them to their planet, or attack them and destory them.

  • 03.05.2011 3:09 PM PDT

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Also, who thinks Halo wars is the best RTS game in the world? It was my first halo, it was my first RTS, and yesterday I beat it on legendary!

  • 03.05.2011 3:10 PM PDT

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Posted by: grey101
i vaguely remember one of the new re-issues having an extra chapter about an ONI member knowing about the flood and SoF post halowars. pretty much confirming that they did get back and it was covered up. I belive it was the new reach book


There isn't anything of the sort.


Hence me saying vaguely. I know it's in some sort of media i just don't what it was, hopefully somebody can come along and post it.


The only mention there has been of the Spirit of Fire's crew in Halo's canon post-Halo Wars is in Halsey's journal where she draws the emblem on one of her pages and puts a question mark around it.

  • 03.05.2011 3:12 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?


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Posted by: grey101
Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: grey101
i vaguely remember one of the new re-issues having an extra chapter about an ONI member knowing about the flood and SoF post halowars. pretty much confirming that they did get back and it was covered up. I belive it was the new reach book


There isn't anything of the sort.


Hence me saying vaguely. I know it's in some sort of media i just don't what it was, hopefully somebody can come along and post it.


The only mention there has been of the Spirit of Fire's crew in Halo's canon post-Halo Wars is in Halsey's journal where she draws the emblem on one of her pages and puts a question mark around it.


I am not going to argue about this due to the fact i know it is published in some book and i can't remember. but it is around, i'll probably ask caboose to jog my memory

  • 03.05.2011 3:20 PM PDT

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Posted by: grey101
Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: grey101
i vaguely remember one of the new re-issues having an extra chapter about an ONI member knowing about the flood and SoF post halowars. pretty much confirming that they did get back and it was covered up. I belive it was the new reach book


There isn't anything of the sort.


Hence me saying vaguely. I know it's in some sort of media i just don't what it was, hopefully somebody can come along and post it.


The only mention there has been of the Spirit of Fire's crew in Halo's canon post-Halo Wars is in Halsey's journal where she draws the emblem on one of her pages and puts a question mark around it.


I am not going to argue about this due to the fact i know it is published in some book and i can't remember. but it is around, i'll probably ask caboose to jog my memory


Ask all you like, the SoF's only post-Halo Wars mention has been in Halsey's journal. It's not in any rereleases, nor is it in Evolutions or any other media.

  • 03.05.2011 3:24 PM PDT

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I dont think an infection would be possible because the crew is in cryo.

The most likely theory her is the one from DonVinzone1


[Edited on 03.05.2011 3:57 PM PST]

  • 03.05.2011 3:56 PM PDT

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Posted by: Spartan 2104
I dont think an infection would be possible because the crew is in cryo.

The most likely theory her is the one from DonVinzone1


They'd most likely have run a skeleton crew, standard protocol.

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Might I inquire, OP, why you set your theory 3 days after the Shield World was destroyed, yet the epilogue of Halo Wars is set two weeks after that?

[Edited on 03.05.2011 4:34 PM PST]

  • 03.05.2011 4:01 PM PDT

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