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Subject: Would an Arbiter been sent to Kill Noble Six and Emile?
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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: Ageless Durandal
Oh my god. Really guys?

Alright, Thel was a Supreme Commander. He commanded an entire fleet of ships. He would never, ever leave his command vessel to go kill some Spartan-IIIs. Especially when there were still Spartan-IIs on the planet. ALSO, I believe the original topic was if "an" Arbiter was on Reach and no canon source has even mentioned an Arbiter during that era.

Common sense isn't so common, apparently.


Thank you, i have been saying this for atleast iunno all day


Actually you happened to be the one who brought up the arbiter in the first place, so as far as things go your day long discussion has been nobodies fault but your own.


are you illiterate or just stupid? the title clearly says " arbiter" in it.

  • 07.23.2011 7:56 AM 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

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Posted by: K vader halo
I wouldn't think they would send an Arbiter for just two Spartans.

i LOL'ed at this. An entire Covenant fleet was sent after ONE spartan.


Um negative. it was sent after a fleeing ship that happened to carry a spartan.



Also negative, maybe one or two ships were but the main fleet was actually brought there by co ordinate arhat the covenant found on a forerunner stone that they found on a human planet. Cotta an also had those coordinates and made the jump as they were fleeing reach


The lead a fleet of ships to follow the PoA; and we have no idea how they got to installation 4.

  • 07.23.2011 7:59 AM PDT

rule of thumb: double tap

they sent a field marshal, and look what happened to him

  • 07.23.2011 10:30 AM PDT

Cave Johnson here, we're done!

PS: If you are reading this comment while imagining my voice, don't panic. That's just a side effect of the testing.


Posted by: grey101
are you illiterate or just stupid? the title clearly says " arbiter" in it.


Are you? The title of the thread was "Would an arbiter been sent to kill Noble six and Emile", not the arbiter, not the arbiter from halo 2, and definitely not the arbiter from halo wars.

The post also asked the same question, I guess you just read over it.

Posted by: SuperShrimp4
Knowing that The covenant was about to glass the plantet, and may have, or may not have known about the spartan, could there be a possibility that one would be sent?


The grammar in both the title and the OP was structured towards no specific arbiter, but just one that could have been there if there was one at that time.

You just happened to not read the first couple of lines and bring up "the" arbiter (Sorry if I didn't air quotes the "the" to make it absolutely 100% clear).

You were the first, there was no reason to bring him up as he was not the intended subject, and you brought this on yourself.

Not like it's a heavy burden or anything.

  • 07.23.2011 12:05 PM PDT

"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum

Posted by: tinyohyeah
I pointed this out that this is only a guess, particularly that this is a speculative thread, and to my extent I did not know where 'Rtas was in all of this simply because I do not remember it being mentioned anywhere in TFoR or The Flood.

It was in the Halo Graphic Novel.

Posted by: tinyohyeah
The scene in Reach depicts an elite of high ranking opening his energy sword while left handed, it's not exactly the most significant thing, but it taking up a large portion of the screen is indicative of having significance.

Filling a significant portion of the screen could also serve to indicate that there are even more Elites in the background, thus removing all sense of hope that the player may have for 6 surviving at this point.

Posted by: tinyohyeah
All speculative threads are ridiculous, and presumption should be welcome in one.

You act as if I base my ideas on facts, that I base them to prove that it's him, or an arbiter, or one of the many elites.

It's all speculation, and I thought that I made that perfectly clear multiple times.

Hypothesising should be based on some facts, to fit facts. Otherwise it is aimless speculation. Part of this is also being sceptical and testing ideas to make sure that they are valid.

Posted by: tinyohyeah
I am not, I am only saying that it was possibly an arbiter.

The quintessential argument for an Arbiter is that the sword is in his left hand.

Arbiters can be different Elites, therefore whatever hand an Arbiter will use is dynamic. This is no evidence. The only way this could be, in any way, considered evidence is if Arbiters are only left handed. This is not the case.

  • 07.23.2011 12:35 PM PDT

Cave Johnson here, we're done!

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Posted by: anton1792
It was in the Halo Graphic Novel.


Pity I don't have any of the comics.


Filling a significant portion of the screen could also serve to indicate that there are even more Elites in the background, thus removing all sense of hope that the player may have for 6 surviving at this point.


Yes the significance of the position of the elite can lead to numerous outcomes, like it being a sign of the futility that is noble sixes resistance as you had stated, or that it's indicative of showing that he is dead without a doubt.

Multiple speculative conclusions can be drawn from this but to me at least the left handed elite seems to be the more likely conclusion.


Hypothesising should be based on some facts, to fit facts. Otherwise it is aimless speculation. Part of this is also being sceptical and testing ideas to make sure that they are valid.


Yes, but if I wanted to have built a hypothesis and take it farther into a theory I would have steered away from this thread the instant the discussion was about finding out who the elite was based on the left hand. It's my personal interest in speculative threads that leads me to post here.


The quintessential argument for an Arbiter is that the sword is in his left hand.


It's also an argument made by those who have only skimmed the series. It was my intent to only mention the possibility, not to treat it as a fact.

Arbiters can be different Elites, therefore whatever hand an Arbiter will use is dynamic. This is no evidence. The only way this could be, in any way, considered evidence is if Arbiters are only left handed. This is not the case.

Yes I understand this, the only arbiter that we know of that is left handed is Thel, Ripa on the other hand appears at first to be right handed, but it's highly possible that he is ambidextrous.

Again in response to the quote above, my post had the intent of being speculative given the fact that the thread itself was ultimately going to end on the fact that A) We don't know for sure who the arbiter was at the time if there even was one, and B) The evidence for that particular arbiter to be there at his death is non existent. But the thread doesn't have to end there, and I usually like to see speculative threads continue, they always start off slow but it can easily be picked up by highly imaginative people.

  • 07.23.2011 1:27 PM PDT

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