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Posted by: Etsor
I posted this in another form and I'd like some more feedback.
I'm a guy open to many, many things. I've enjoyed Halo through the years, done extensive research on the games, books, comics, fan-based things, even so far as to create my own Fleet with Elites, and my own original Halo character : Enme 'Etsoree.
But one thing that is impossible to my mind is Halo 4.
To me, this is like... a complete -blam!- moment. I haven't seen the trailer for it yet, but hearing about it just makes me... frustrated. It ruins the Halo trilogy. I completely understand that more Halo games can be made, but anything after the events in Halo 3 with the Chief aren't possible.
Let me tell you the specifics from my understanding. A LOT is from assumption from a technology and technological standpoint in the year 2553, and collective information from other futuristic sources.
According to the Origins episodes of Halo Legends, Cortana is going rampant. The 'background' space image with the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn. Rampancy, described here, and seeing other examples such as Juliana and 05-032 Mendicant Bias, show us her possible paths:
1 : Insanity like Bias went through, turning on her creators and even Master Chief possibly
2 : The more likely of the three, like Juliana went through : staying 'mental' to protect the person/peoples that she loves, in this scenario being Master Chief ( I'm saying love not as in romantic, but friendship and the kind of love where you cannot live without someone ).
3 : She will fizzle out and die.
I'm sure you guys can do your research on Juliana; she is from the book Halo: The Cole Protocol.
Even if she goes through the second state, there's an even bigger unlikely chance that Chief will survive. There's power sources, cryotechnology, location in the galaxy, ship halve remaining, and the Origins episodes to take into account.
Power sources with the cryotube ( this is continued on later for more explination purposes ). While yes, it is extremely advanced technology while compared to our own, it still needs power. The ship halve most likely cannot sustain itself with power for more than a random number of years, I'm not even going to try and guess due to the Origins consideration. Cortana might find a way to use some robots that might exsist on the ship, or some computers on it that can change metals into other elements to sustain the ships' power. Very doubtful that she can do that, though she's Cortana; a fanboy would use that as an excuse.
More with the cryo technology itself. It can sustain Chief for a very long time, yes, but without power to back that up, and the pod's power itself, he will sucumb to frostbite or along those lines and die. His suits' power as well, wouldn't work after that even if he is rescued. The more knowledgeable fans of Halo know that Linda was in cryostasis while technically dead for a few months on end without medical treatment. We at least know that a cryotube can keep a person 'alright' for that amount of time, but my theory is that it will eventually fizzle out and the person inside will die off. Nothing lasts forever.
Location. We've no idea where he's at. He could be in our spatial back yard for all we know. The planet at the end of Halo 3 is there, yes, but if the ship gets pulled towards it, he would crash land and die. The bridge was on the front half of the ship, we know this due to the Arbiter going to the navigation station on it and piloting the Dawn away from the Ark. This means that the navigation controls are gone, making it so that Cortana cannot steer the ship to safety, or land it to safety. The only possible way to survive that crash is to land in water, even if then, or help from a foreign source.
And finally, the Origins episodes. According to the beginning of that, the ship is nowhere near where it was before. It didn't crash land, it didn't receive help or anything like that. If it crashed, it wouldn't be there. If it received help, and the Chief and Cortana go through another 'full game' so to speak, why would they go back to the Dawn to escape the things that helped them?
I have also heard with the trailer that it begins immediately where Halo 3 left off : Cortana waking Chief up when they near the planet. Cortana would only know of the planets' existence with scanning technology, which was on the bridge, which isn't there. If she somehow did have the ability to scan that far out, and detect threats, she would then wake the Chief up immediately after he was frozen, a process which would take an amount of time. That time would then be wasted due to them crash landing and dying.
I've also thought up some ways as to how to continue his story.
As explained before, some foreign force could come and rescue him. If we look at the planet at the end of Halo 3, this source would most likely be old Forerunner technology; it thinking that the ship is a meteor and it 'collects' the chunk of metal to prevent damage. It would then search it and find Chief, realize he's a Reclaimer, and wake him up. He would then go through another game, and be 'rescued' or 'saved'; however the game ends. If not, and his saviors turn on him, why again would he go back to the old, busted up Forward Unto Dawn?
The second way of how to continue the story is that they bypass the planet completely, but still come into contact with some Forerunner installation, again being saved, turned on, and escaping, most likely.
The final, third way, is a new alien race.
*sighs* To me, overall, Halo 4 just ruins it somewhat. I'll most likely be irritated so much by my friends to watch it that I'll eventually end up saying "-blam!- you, fine! I'll watch it!" then end up loving it and hating myself for that for both reasons.
To the fanboys out there: Yes, I know that it's just a game and I should enjoy it. Yes, I know it's more Halo and I should love it, but I just don't.
I'd like some grammatical feedback on this, guys and gals. Tell me your thoughts.
~*~EDIT~*~
Like I stated in the previous topic, I still love how people are voting and giving me next to nothing at explaining their vote.
Ok first off, watch the trailer for yourself before making any sort of assumptions. Otherwise you'll only make yourself look bad, either a fool or worse.
And second of all, your interpretations of information from other Halo media is not very accurate at all. Cortana has ALREADY gone through Rampancy, she was forced into by the Gravemind much like Mendicant Bias, she is no longer Rampant not in any dangerous way or anything. She has either entered Meta-Stability or is well on her way there.
You are just flat out wrong on your idea that Chief would die. Cryo tubes have a self-sustained power supply, which is why they can be jettisoned into space and still pull live people out of them as long as the pod itself is completely intact. So power would not be a problem. Especially since the most likely place for a Frigate's engines would be in the aft section of the ship which is exactly what broke off when the Portal collapsed.
Sure power would eventually give out, but you have absolutely no idea when that would be, it certainly would not be 4-5 years, which is the only time table we actually know about how long Chief and Cortana have been out there.
I don't think you can claim with any certainty that Chief would die from the crash either...he survived the jump from orbit at the intro of Halo 3 with absolutely no problem aside from being knocked out for a couple hours.
How the bloody frak can you possibly tell they're not in the same place they were at the end of Halo 3 in Origins? Are you bleeding insane? What are you even babbling on about in that section? O_o
Um, Cortana has external cameras or something quite similar on the outside of the Dawn's aft end, and quite a few other means of looking outside the ship. She would be able to see the damn planetoid. I'm not even sure you know what you're talking about. I don't have anything else to say other than that I think you are being quite foolish and making yourself look silly.
Sorry if I come on too strongly and sound offensice, it's right about that time of the month again, if you know what I mean >_>