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Subject: Replayed Halo 3 and a couple things are a little unclear

Halo Reach Mythic Conqueror

1. How was the killing of Truth a guarantee that the covenant was defeated? Wouldn't there be countless others to take his place? All the brutes were clearly devoted to the great journey and there are many other members of the prophets' race that could take his place as the leader of the covenant.

2. How was destroying the ark a guarantee to wipe out the flood once and for all? Couldn't a spore presumably be somewhere else in the universe like on all the other Halos?

3. When activating the Halo why didn't it activate the rest of the Halos to destroy all life in the Galaxy? It just sort of fired into the Ark and blew both of them up.

[Edited on 07.25.2011 1:27 PM PDT]

  • 07.25.2011 1:26 PM PDT

these might all be explained in halo 4, u never know

  • 07.25.2011 1:38 PM PDT

Good players work together...and no matter how good you are, you're not physic. - blade6321

1. High Charity held the majority of the prohpets. With it gone, Truth was the unifying voice (and leadership) of the Covenant. The brutes lack the intelligence to keep themselves together. They either broke under their lack of strategy in the battlefield, or due to their power hungry nature...I don't exactly remember which.

2. It doesn't. There are undoubtedly more flood spores out there, but that removed the immediate threat, along with the current gravemind.

3. They actually didn't activate it fully. If you listen to spark closely, he says that Halo will be ready to fire a Tactical Pulse in a few days....but Alpha Halo-B wasn't ready. The pulse broke the ring apart and destroyed the Ark along with it.

[Edited on 07.25.2011 3:24 PM PDT]

  • 07.25.2011 3:18 PM PDT

In memory of those fallen in the defense of Earth and her colonies.

March 3, 2553

1) Truth was the last covenant leader.

2) Flood works like a hivemind. After the gravemind was killed the flood has no brain or mind to control them.

3) The firing of the rings was stopped. Halo 04 was incomplete as thus when it fired it blew itself up and the resulting explosion destroyed the ark.

  • 07.25.2011 4:15 PM PDT

Posted by: A 3 Legged Goat
"Team shoot the wraith!"
"What's a team shoot and what's a wraith?!"
"It means we all shoot at the big blue thing together!"
"Okay!"
*starts betraying blue teammate*

1 and 3 are explained well

2 is one of the major plotholes in Halo storyline. The Flood were on earth but evidently the gravemind sent every last spore to the Ark.

  • 07.25.2011 10:19 PM PDT
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1. You're confused about belief. The Covies put their trust in Truth. Tartarus had sympathy for Mercy, but his allegiance was with Truth. Look at Arby's futile attempt to dissuade Drones on Crow's Nest and the frequency of those stupid Truth holograms. Finally, that crazy Brute Chieftain on The Ark. Basically, he became their god.

2. You're confused about motive. They weren't trying to destroy the Ark. They were trying to destroy the Flood. The Ark merely suffered repercussions.

3. See here and here. It was unable to synchronize with the other Halos and it was out of range.

[Edited on 07.26.2011 3:47 AM PDT]

  • 07.26.2011 12:20 AM PDT

Halo Reach Mythic Conqueror

I am satisfied with the responses to questions 2 and 3, but it seems that the covenant could still persist. Sure the brutes and everyone else were very good followers, but wouldn't that demonstrate how much the belief is embedded in them? Without Truth it seems they could hold him up as a martyr and still continue on. The prophets originally came from a planet, wouldn't that planet still be populated with their kind even if numerous amount of their species was on board high charity? If all them were actually wiped out, the Brutes have the ability to be tactical and leaders. Tartarus was a stubborn brute who refused to see the truth about Halo but you could argue he was still a capable leader.

[Edited on 07.26.2011 10:55 AM PDT]

  • 07.26.2011 10:54 AM PDT

The Covenant DID continue. The Elites allied with the humans and began a campaign to eliminate the scraps of loyal troops Truth left behind. This continued for years after the events of Halo 3, but due to being led only by minor prophets or just their commanders themselves, the loyalists proved no major threat to the humans or Elites and were not overly difficult to overcome, given time.

Or so I'm pretty sure I learned from 343 somewhere...

  • 07.26.2011 10:58 AM PDT

Oh sorry did i crack your visor, here, now yoour helmets cracked, now your visor isn't lonely. Wheres Mah Dooble EXP!

(2) That is incorrect, the "Gravemind" so to speak is not the only gravemind to ever exist, I remember hearing through books that there was a gravemind before, Graveminds are made through absorbing information and intelligence from other sentients, but first must go through the photo-gravemind stage, play combat evolved and you will see captain keyes and enveloped him in a flood chamber object, or a photo-gravemind, there can be many graveminds, but there is only one seen in the video games.

  • 07.26.2011 11:02 AM PDT