Posted by: Monitor117
Posted by: Wazooty
I don't think its that simple, but imagine this.
MC lands. He goes to a series of terminal through which the didact imparts his memories on to master chief. About half the major gameplay segments are of you atually playing through didacts memories, while the other half consist of MC searching for the terminals that contain didacts memories, fighting through forerunner defenses, put there to stop the flood if they ever got through. Naturally, this ties in very closely to Greg Bears forerunner trilogy.
Through didacts memories we learn about the prisoner (who is still alive). Master chief, who thanks to didacts memories knows how to use forerunner weaponry, must face the "ancient evil" and defeat it. He gets a suit of forerunner power armor and stuff.
Then didact, from the great beyond (or perhaps from the great journey), speaks to the chief. He tells the chief what has been going on. All this time ONI has secretly been a way for the forerunners to monitor and guide humanity from the great beyond. All along John was destined for this. John has been imparted with all of didacts memories, and the forerunner technology. He in a sense becomes the new didact.
John takes his knowledge, forerunner technology and the mantle, and returns home to earth as the didact, so that he may guide humanity as they rebuild the galaxy, scarred, broken and in turmoil after the human-covenant-flood war, and rebuild. He will guide humanity as the take up the mantle that forerunners left them.
*sheds tears
This is beautiful, this is the type of reply i've been looking for b/c i read that John117 may not have a genetic mark like the others, hinting that he may be of direct descendantcy (i think i made that word up but you get it) to the ancient race of the forerunners. You know the shields the suits give off? you see those on the ships of the covenant but NOT the ships of the humans. The shields on the suits are activated by spartan thoughts.. do you see where im going here. It plays almost perfectly with what you're saying. I'de like to see more of this..
*prays
Thanks! I've sort of wanted halo to end kind of the way I described, and who knows, maybe its closer to what will actually happen than we think.
Some other htings to consider:
Frankie said in an interview that the new trilogy ties in things from past games, current games, and current fiction, I think implying that it has a lot to do with the forerunner trilogy.
And this is just something I noticed:
In the epilogue to halo reach, it cites the year 2589. In the back left there looks to be a ship of some sort, but it certainly isn't completely human. There's also the fact that reach somehow completely regrew in a matter of 30 years...sounds completely off.
But if something like what I said is true, then by 2589, humans will have integrated forerunner technology into theirs, and the ship may reflect that, hence why it doesn't look complete human. And the forerunners could literally make planets. The only plausible way for reach to have regrown in 30 years is with some help from forerunner technology. So that entire scene could be a glimpse of what these next 3 games will bring.
I'm also hoping MC meets up with blue team in this forerunner....thing. Halsey is there too...imagine if she was imparted with the librarians memories and became the new librarian?
Lots of potential for good things to happen with this trilogy...lots of potential for bad things.
We shall see...