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Subject: How to get Master Chief back from outer space
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Okay, let me begin by saying that I expect a certain amount of negativity for this idea. That said, it is kind of crap that John gets left behind. The question is, how would humanity recover him? Well, with the Elite and Human alliance, let's say that humanity has made some breakthroughs with slip-space jumps. ONI may or may not have decided to study forerunner tech, more specifically, the remaining Halo rings. You may or may not play as either an ODST or possibly a Spartan III (shhh, I know, but who is to say that ONI hasn't made more). Your mission may or may not be to go to one of these rings and explore. Reason YOU are sent? To protect the eggheads. Now, say that your egghead finds something that leads the team to an ancient forerunner planet, long uninhabited by anything but wildlife (because slaughter of non-sentient beings is always fun) and you protect the eggheads while they search for whatever they are looking for. Perhaps they find a map, and that map leads you all across the Halo universe, and the end destination just happens to be a certain spot in the universe that half of a ship is just sort of floating in space. Say you board the ship, and find a cryostasis chamber with a certain participant of the Spartan II program and an AI that has turned herself almost off. Now, this hypothetical situation might have a lot of gaps in it, but with the right kind of ingenuity, it could very well become a pretty good closer, or possibly even an opener to a new series of games that have Spartans. I'm just saying, Halo should not end at Reach. It's too good of a series to end at three games. Don't let Halo die, Bungie... Please? :(

  • 04.09.2011 3:50 AM PDT

Titan.

You mean 6 games, including Wars.

Halo's had its time.

  • 04.09.2011 4:02 AM PDT
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Actually I meant that had Master Chief in them. I think the following link will explain my feelings on the other games. http://ahcs.bungie.org/comics/116/

[Edited on 04.09.2011 4:08 AM PDT]

  • 04.09.2011 4:06 AM PDT

No pain...No gain

My idea is that because chief was drifting off into a unindentified planet (possibly forunner) he will crash land onto its surface and be greeted by an extraterrestrial species (again possibly forunner.) Wether or not humanity finds him or not it would be interesting to see what happens to him and probably set the scene for a couple more games?

  • 04.09.2011 12:57 PM PDT

He's too far away from the Milky Way, 262,144 light years to be exact. Both humanity and the Elites would be busy for the next decades and centuries rebuilding, so spending all the resources they have to make some kind of ultra-slipspace drive to recover only one person would be stupid. They don't even know he's alive. I also think Cortana lied to John when she said there would be years until their beacon was picked up, to keep his hopes up, unless that ruined Frigate hangar has Precursor comm tech.

Master Chief's story ending with him sacrificing himself for the galaxy and drifting endlessly in deep space would be the perfect sci-fi ending. The legendary planet ruined it all..

[Edited on 04.09.2011 1:25 PM PDT]

  • 04.09.2011 1:24 PM PDT

My Grandfather was a Desert Ranger, my Father was a Veteran Ranger in the NCR. My father was killed by Caesar's Legion and they took my Brother. It's now my responsibility to uphold the mantle of the Rangers and avenge my Father and find my Brother.

I thinks he's going to land on Onyx

  • 04.09.2011 1:36 PM PDT
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The reason they are jumping out to John's location wouldn't be to find HIM. It would be to see if anything was left to salvage and/or study. They would just happen upon John as they were looking for things. And it isn't a sacrifice if it wasn't intentional. He got left out there by accident. And this add-on to the Halo series would be a decade or so in the future. With that amount of time, the Human's would be able to use covenant tech with much more proficiency than when they were at war. There would be new and more powerful weapon variants, new vehicles, and all sorts of things. Bungie could make this a game and take it to a level that none of us could even have wet dreams about.

  • 04.09.2011 11:10 PM PDT
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@ iklnGzZ x I like this idea, but the question would be how would he survive the impact? The only reason Spartans can survive a planet fall is because they can lock their armor. Even when they do this, it almost kills them. They get up with significant injuries. John is in a cryo-tube. He is not awake, so cannot lock his armor. The ship has no shielding, or even working engines. Plus, it's the size of a meteor that is capable of causing catastrophic ecological problems if it crashed into a planet unguided. The only way that john could possibly survive is by a water landing, and that could potentially be hazardous to Cortana. Perhaps if an alien life form explored the ship and took it back down TO the planet...

  • 04.09.2011 11:15 PM PDT

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I would like to see some Marathon: Infinity-style time jumps made my Chief and Cortana as a result of the various phenomena in space they caused escaping the Ark, with the mystery planet acting as a sort of background level of sorts (but not in the same way as Mombassa Streets did for ODST), which would be covered in some ancient forerunner eldritch abominations/ biological experiments designed to defeat the flood, all while dealing with two bickering Forerunner constructs (one similar in construction and function as Guilty Spark, the other would be the crashed remnants of Offensive Bias.

When jumping, Chief would fill his own shoes in the past, everything from a few minuets of his original Mjolnir training (good way to have an in-game tutorial) to key events he participated in (fighting insurrectionists, boarding his first covenant ships) to beloved moments in Halo history (taking the silent cartographer, fending off invading covenant from Old Mombassa, clearing Brutes from old Forerunner structures), and even altering some events (saving Johnson). That's how I'd do it. And I'd end it just after Chief gets a peek at a possible future.

  • 04.09.2011 11:37 PM PDT


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I thinks he's going to land on Onyx


He's going to land on a metallic sphere a few meters in diameter, surrounded by the asteroid cloud of the now destroyed Onx surrounded by trillions of Sentinals?

Really? I must have missed that in the cutscene that shows nothing remotely resembling Onyx. You actually read the book, champ?

  • 04.10.2011 12:15 AM PDT

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Posted by: Monkeybarsixx
I thinks he's going to land on Onyx


He's going to land on a metallic sphere a few meters in diameter, surrounded by the asteroid cloud of the now destroyed Onx surrounded by trillions of Sentinals?

Really? I must have missed that in the cutscene that shows nothing remotely resembling Onyx. You actually read the book, champ?


What happened to the days were one could dream of their favorite character landing on a completely destroyed planet?

  • 04.10.2011 12:31 AM PDT
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Realism happened. :(

  • 04.10.2011 2:46 AM PDT
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@ TheUselessOne I don't think that I like the idea of another ODST type game style. To myself, and many other Halo fans, ODST was a disappointment because of the story, not the game-play. It's too fragmented to keep track of easily. However, I do like the idea of using John's spartan training as a tutorial, but I think that that could be a whole separate game entirely. Another prequel. Game starts with John in first person, in the spartan training complex, at a young age. Perhaps the bell trial could be used as the tutorial. It could have similar game-play to Star Wars Commandos as well. Not the same, mind you, but similar. Such as the ability to order your squad around. There would have to be cutscenes that would show John, but those could be put off until he completes his training and puts on his armor. Then the missions could be when John was fighting the confederate, instead of the covenant. Could be called "Halo - Beginnings", or the Halo title could be scrapped all together. Then, the next game to come out would be the one we are trying to figure out right now. :D

  • 04.10.2011 2:54 AM PDT
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Ah, also, I am not sure if anyone from Bungie actually reads these threads. If anyone reading knows someone from Bungie it would be pretty cool if said person could get the Bungie employee to read this. :D

  • 04.10.2011 3:05 AM PDT