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Subject: The Protector of the Luminous Key.
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When Cortana took over the ship (in FS) the Covies' stated that the ship had "The Protector of the Luminous Key" on it...

I thought on this, here's what I have come up with...The Index that was retrieved by the Cheif, was a glowing key from the Library... and it was the key to activating Halo's final sequence... the book made you think that it was a Covenant force that was the protector, due to it being thier ship, but in fact CORTANA had the key. Yet another Idea is, it could have been 343.GS due to him being the monitor of Halo in the first place, could he have stowed away on the vessel?

what do you think? was the transmission talking about a Covenant force, Cheif, Cortana, or Guilty spark?
This is pretty far fetched, but Im just keeping busy until Nov 9th....

[Edited on 9/4/2004 5:35:15 PM]

  • 09.04.2004 5:34 PM PDT
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I just read that chapter a few minutes ago, actually. I thought it was the covenant AI, or the cloaked elites

  • 09.04.2004 5:49 PM PDT
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I thought he was a prophet...

  • 09.05.2004 5:35 AM PDT
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I dont think so, because if that was the case the MC's mission would have been completed, the origonal mission was to capture a leader (prophet) and use it for barter. back on earth... but that all went to hell when the Covenant attacked Reach.

  • 09.06.2004 2:15 AM PDT
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Yeah - that's why I thought it strange - I'll got back and read the book again...

  • 09.06.2004 6:41 AM PDT
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It is actually a smart to think that the Index is the "Luminous Key." As you said, the Index is used as key to activate Halo. But the Index could as hold some other information inside of it that the Covenant want; such as where more Forerunner technology or even the Forerunner homeworld is.
The ship could have held a group of the best of the best of Elites, that where sent to the Halo system to try to find the Index. Knowing the Covenant they would search through billions of particle for days just to find something they want, and would risk hundreds of lives to get to it.

  • 09.06.2004 7:30 AM PDT
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or perhaps the luminous key is the index from another halo ring that was on Ascendant Justice, after all Guilty Spark did say that "once this ring is activated and the others folloe suite" or perhaps there were also other guilty sparks on the other rings and ascendant justice had captured one of them, just specualtion

  • 09.06.2004 9:25 AM PDT