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Subject: My Theories and Opinions on Halo 4

(Now just bear with me, I know it's long but just trust me, I make some very good points here)
Well the 2011 E3 Announcement trailer for Halo 4 has left people wondering. This is just a discussion. Now I have many questions:
1. Didn't Cortana go into rampancy at the end of Origins? She clearly showed no sign of rampancy during her short appearance in the trailer.
2. The aft half of the Forward Unto Dawn was relatively close to the "Legendary Planet" at the end of Halo 3. Now in Origins they were drifting for five years. Halo 4 takes place after Origins. And yet they've traveled a distance toward the planet that would have normally taken three weeks at most.
3. The "Legendary Planet" is obviously a shield world. Now I'm theorizing that it's probably housing a Forerunner colony. If I had to come up with a story-line for the new Halo Trilogy, I would say the Forerunner colony is divided into two groups: Forerunners that believe the activation of the Halo Array has succeeded and the Flood are wiped out, or the "Believers," and the ones that think the activation has failed and the Flood control the galaxy, the "Non-Believers." The two groups are at constant odds with each other because one wants to leave the shield world and the other wants to stay. Families are divided between the two groups and therefore will not leave unless the rest of the family goes along. War has broken out and John arrives. The Believers see him as proof that the Flood are destroyed and the Non-Believers think he is a form of the Flood that has been sent to devour them. John must then either convince the Non-Believers that they are wrong, or force the Believers out of the shield world. Now I would like to hear your theories.
4. Changes have occurred. They're minor, but I feel that these little screw-ups are just the beginning of 343 Industries "dismantling" of the Halo story. Changes such as Cortana having mysteriously short hair, the appearance of John's MJOLNIR Mk. VI armor and the altering of the Forward Unto Dawn's appearance bring up some questions to 343 Industries.
Here is the 2011 E3 Announcement trailer and here is the Halopedian page about the trailer. I honestly look forward to seeing your theories and opinions on Halo 4!

[Edited on 06.18.2011 1:58 PM PDT]

  • 06.18.2011 1:58 PM PDT
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It's a teaser dammit WHEN WILL PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT THEIR APPEARANCE IN THE TEASER WILL NOT BE THE SAME IN THE FINAL GAME.

And Origins is not entirely cannon.

[Edited on 06.18.2011 2:04 PM PDT]

  • 06.18.2011 2:03 PM PDT

Oh hey there

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1) She may be metastable, we don't know yet.

2)Did it say 5 years in origins? Even if it did, it's a minor detail. While Origins is Canon people tend to take Legends as not the highest source.

3) We don't know that it's Onyx at all. In fact if we just read Halsey's description of the Micro Dyson Sphere in GoO and the descriptions the Dusk gives us as it flees Onyx, it is definitely not Onyx.

If it were Onyx there would be a fleet of TRILLIONS (p378 GoO) of sentinels patrolling the space around the sphere protecting it. That is assuming that we could see the sphere at all.

Halsey says on page 381 of GoO:
"The Forerunner's grasp of Slipspace technology was far more advanced than ours or the Covenant's," Dr. Halsey explained. "I believe this sphere resides in the center of the planet, encapsulated and protected by a Slipspace bubble of compressed dimensionality."So the sphere would be inside of Slipspace and not visible to regular space. Plus that bubble would be at the center of the core of Onyx.
She then goes on to say on the next page:
"You do understand that while externally, this space may be only a few meters in diameter within the center of Onyx internally it's compressed dimensionality...So it is definitely not Onyx. Unless 343 plans on rewriting GoO.


[Edited on 06.18.2011 2:26 PM PDT]

  • 06.18.2011 2:23 PM PDT

I never said Onyx specifically. I presumed that it was just a shield world.

  • 06.18.2011 3:34 PM PDT