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Subject: Heretics?

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So the Heretics in Halo 2 are actually the good guys???

  • 08.28.2011 3:12 PM PDT


Posted by: Big_Worm
So the Heretics in Halo 2 are actually the good guys???

In a twisted way..yes. The Arbiter and the Elite's are all called Heretics once they break off from the Covenant. Unfortunately, the original Heretics were far too small and ill equipped to do anything against the Prophets, whom as we know ultimately silenced them with the Arbiter and the Spec Ops.

  • 08.28.2011 5:20 PM PDT

Hanger one I just shredded with the SMGs until ammo was out and I just threw 'nades like a boss while BRing.

My experience playing Cairo Station on Legendary

I wouldn't go so far to say that they're good, but they're definitely not bad. The Heretics still stood to defeat the Covenant, so they remain in the wrong.

  • 08.30.2011 12:48 AM PDT

I run Skirmish!!!

i think they were good, they disliked the prophets and stood for the same thing the arbiter and other elites eventually stood for later in the storyline

  • 08.30.2011 1:20 AM PDT

I <3 Halo 2 and Trombones ^.^

You just contradictiacted (<---Mispelled?) yourself, what do you think the UNSC was trying to do?
Posted by: Sector Z 157
The Heretics still stood to defeat the Covenant, so they remain in the wrong.

  • 08.30.2011 4:53 AM PDT

Hanger one I just shredded with the SMGs until ammo was out and I just threw 'nades like a boss while BRing.

My experience playing Cairo Station on Legendary

Destroying another race doesn't keep you in the right. At best, war in an entirety is a grey area where right and wrong are blurred.
Posted by: cameronxD123
You just contradictiacted (<---Mispelled?) yourself, what do you think the UNSC was trying to do?
Posted by: Sector Z 157
The Heretics still stood to defeat the Covenant, so they remain in the wrong.

  • 08.31.2011 1:01 AM PDT

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i'd say they are another form of bad, if they take over then they'd probably fight the humans as well or something

  • 08.31.2011 1:39 AM PDT


Posted by: totallymassive
i'd say they are another form of bad, if they take over then they'd probably fight the humans as well or something

Agreed, but they were too few in numbers to do anything significant to the Covenant...from what we know they probably don't even have a fleet xD

  • 08.31.2011 4:28 AM PDT

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Posted by: totallymassive
i'd say they are another form of bad, if they take over then they'd probably fight the humans as well or something


Yeah, I think they fought with the humans also.

  • 09.01.2011 8:24 AM PDT

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They were better not good.

  • 09.01.2011 12:56 PM PDT

I wouldn't say that the heretics were good, but they certainly weren't shown to be evil. The problem with determining how to view them is that, aside from knowing that they wanted to stop the Great Journey, we aren't shown their motives. All we can assume is their short term motives, which would be prevention of firing the Halo rings and breaking up the Covenant.
However, if that had happened, what then? Would the Heretics continued the war against humans or not?
They can't be labeled as "good" or "bad" by the perspective of the humans because they were never aware of the Heretics. So the best that you could label them them would be an Anti-Covenant 3rd Party.

  • 09.03.2011 1:07 PM PDT