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Subject: Halo CEA Terminals ~ SPOILERS AND SPECULATION

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

So many of us have been eagerly anticipating seeing the Terminals of CEA, well I have a nice little treat for all who are willing to see them early. I have to say that Kevin Grace is officially solidified as the best writer 343 Industries have, he's built up a realistic and deep portrayal of the characters he's used, as well as bringing the fear factor back to the Flood.

The whole thing is rather ominous, seems like the Autumn wasn't the only thing to crash on Installation 04... something much more ancient did, and we've been right for the past 5 years about the ultimate fate of the Didact...

Oh, and beware Halsey in her pink nightgown, she'll get you every time!

Terminal 1 ~ The Pillar of Autumn

Terminal 2 ~ Halo

Terminal 3 ~ The Truth & Reconciliation

Terminal 4 ~ The Silent Cartographer

Terminal 5 ~ Assault on the Control Room

Terminal 6 ~ 343 Guilty Spark

Terminal 7 ~ The Library

Terminal 8 ~ Two Betrayals

Terminal 9 ~ Keyes (best one)

Terminal 10 ~ The Maw

Terminal 11 ~ Threshold


Happy viewing.

[Edited on 11.20.2011 4:29 AM PST]

  • 11.13.2011 4:23 AM PDT

So, Halo 4 enemy will be Forerunner after all?

  • 11.13.2011 5:07 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Well, that's yet to be seen. I noticed a sort of nod to Glasslands, Spark says that the ramifications of someone else gaining control over a Halo Ring would be catastophic and that there are "long plans" referring to that, and in Glasslands humanity have discovered Installation 03.

I can see it, if the Forerunners are the enemy then there would well be a battle for Installation 03 at5 some point.

  • 11.13.2011 5:14 AM PDT

Posted by: ElementalRunner

Posted by: Commander Stroll
Still using a pump-action shotgun over 500 years in the future I see.

omg not realistic stop game production plz

I'm not going to watch them I'm afraid as I want a surprise on CEA, but good job anyway, hehe.

I thought there were 20 by the way?

EDIT: DAMNIT. I couldn't resist it, ajw! I couldn't! Those terminals are just sitting there waiting to be watched! I ended up watching the Truth and Reconciliation terminal....Imma try to restrain myself from watching the others.

That Covie AI is interesting. It was...confused? As is the Covenant had perverted it to think itself unworthy and only a slave.

[Edited on 11.13.2011 5:25 AM PST]

  • 11.13.2011 5:19 AM PDT
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.


Posted by: ajw34307
Well, that's yet to be seen. I noticed a sort of nod to Glasslands, Spark says that the ramifications of someone else gaining control over a Halo Ring would be catastophic and that there are "long plans" referring to that, and in Glasslands humanity have discovered Installation 03.

I can see it, if the Forerunners are the enemy then there would well be a battle for Installation 03 at5 some point.

I would love it if 03's defenses come online and deem Parangosky, and only her, a threat to the installation. But the idea that the Librarian is part of the monitors, or at least connected to them, is interesting.

  • 11.13.2011 5:26 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

I thought that there were twenty too, but apparently not. :(

I'm very interested in what that crashed ship was, it seems like it landed 40,000 years before humanity arrived at Installation 04 (as Spark says he's not heard anything for 60,000 years).

  • 11.13.2011 5:31 AM PDT

Posted by: ElementalRunner

Posted by: Commander Stroll
Still using a pump-action shotgun over 500 years in the future I see.

omg not realistic stop game production plz

I heard that they vary on difficulty. Maybe there's a version for Easy/Normal/Heroic, and a version for Legendary.

I haven't got to the terminal about that crashed ship yet, I'm in such a situation...to watch or not to watch? I want to watch them now but...will it ruin CEA for me? Oh lawd.

  • 11.13.2011 5:44 AM PDT
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"Time was your ally human. But now it has abandoned you. The Forerunners....have returned. And this tomb... is now yours". - The Didact

Did Spark just said that the Didact might return to annihilate us?

Timeless One better shows up before that happens

  • 11.13.2011 6:10 AM PDT

Sumtimes i HS people o.O


Posted by: Papa Chief 6
So confused! Who are all these people you guys are naming? And who is the new enemy?


Questions?

  • 11.13.2011 6:30 AM PDT
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Damn it...i would watch it if only my internet was unlimited :( got 183 mb left :(

  • 11.13.2011 6:34 AM PDT

My new xbox live account is KING WAR710 ( Now Fazyzi)

Been playing Halo since 2001

:o

  • 11.13.2011 6:38 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.


Posted by: hotshot revan II
Did Spark just said that the Didact might return to annihilate us?

Timeless One better shows up before that happens


I think so. He said that without the Librarian to keep the Didact's behaviour in-check he's going to be super pissed off, I'll need to go over this again and I may write up a transcript.

  • 11.13.2011 6:39 AM PDT
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.


Posted by: ajw34307

Posted by: hotshot revan II
Did Spark just said that the Didact might return to annihilate us?

Timeless One better shows up before that happens


I think so. He said that without the Librarian to keep the Didact's behaviour in-check he's going to be super pissed off, I'll need to go over this again and I may write up a transcript.

What's worse; A super-angry Didact? Or the Timeless One?

[Edited on 11.13.2011 6:42 AM PST]

  • 11.13.2011 6:41 AM PDT

So tempting, but must....wait....2....more....days....

  • 11.13.2011 6:47 AM PDT
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Posted by: DonVinzone1
So tempting, but must....wait....2....more....days....

Wait, is halo cea coming out after 2 days ?

  • 11.13.2011 7:04 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.


Posted by: Xd00999

Posted by: ajw34307

Posted by: hotshot revan II
Did Spark just said that the Didact might return to annihilate us?

Timeless One better shows up before that happens


I think so. He said that without the Librarian to keep the Didact's behaviour in-check he's going to be super pissed off, I'll need to go over this again and I may write up a transcript.

What's worse; A super-angry Didact? Or the Timeless One?


I'd go for the Timeless One. The Didact may be a master strategist but the TO is a complete mystery, a master of manipulation and is at the centre of a cosmic game where he controls everything.

  • 11.13.2011 7:29 AM PDT

Posted by: ElementalRunner

Posted by: Commander Stroll
Still using a pump-action shotgun over 500 years in the future I see.

omg not realistic stop game production plz


Posted by: ajw34307

Posted by: Xd00999

Posted by: ajw34307

Posted by: hotshot revan II
Did Spark just said that the Didact might return to annihilate us?

Timeless One better shows up before that happens


I think so. He said that without the Librarian to keep the Didact's behaviour in-check he's going to be super pissed off, I'll need to go over this again and I may write up a transcript.

What's worse; A super-angry Didact? Or the Timeless One?


I'd go for the Timeless One. The Didact may be a master strategist but the TO is a complete mystery, a master of manipulation and is at the centre of a cosmic game where he controls everything.

Master Chief vs Timeless One vs The Didact?

It sounds god damned epic.

  • 11.13.2011 7:40 AM PDT


Posted by: FTW 1997

Posted by: DonVinzone1
So tempting, but must....wait....2....more....days....

Wait, is halo cea coming out after 2 days ?
It comes out on the 15th.

You have now made the wait more agonizing. I'm trying to avoid watching them, and I shall stay strong. I'm looking forward to seeing them more than I am playing the remastered campaign at this point.

  • 11.13.2011 8:24 AM PDT

I am alpha, i am omega.

I am the last of the primes.

So didact is a war thirsty forerunner who needs his girlfriend to keep his rage in check...

I can't wait till mc slaps that fool silly.

Ot: That covie ai seems like it is forced to work for the covies.

  • 11.13.2011 9:06 AM PDT

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Terminal 3: it seems to be talking to a construct possibly the one from Halo 2 but is getting answers from the gravemind. Do not know what the construct is, as of yet.
It sounds as if something stopped Guilty Spark from sending its sentinels to clear the area, or something was allowing them to spread and did so on purpose. Was it the proto gravemind or something else.

Terminal 4:
Something stopped the procedural meetings between the monitors. This may show that the gravemid in Halo 2 had shut down the comm system throught the delta halo. So that it could grow easy and make sure no sentinals from other installations may come and take it out.

There may be outbreaks in the other installation and the only one able to communicate is the one from 09. This could mean they were unable to communicate or something went wrong on the other installations.

Next Penintant Tangent, was the only one communicating with the other monitors. And it was not functioning properly. Meaning the gravemind had got hold of it, and used it to shut down the comm array or block the signals between other monitors.

During this time it was learning from what happened in the past, and what was going on.

This could mean there are more outbreakes on other installations.

Terminal 5:
Question is what is this ship, is it from the installation where the gravemind is, or is it the covenant. If not them then is it some other ship from some other space faring nation, running from their doom.

Terminal 6:
Ship from before, looks not anything of any faction of halo. Although the gas venting from it looks suspicously flood like. May be a transport ship from pre halo firing infected or another space faring race not discovered infected.

Or a plan by the gravemind to get suspicous onlooker and witnesses to study and try to find the source, whereby when they land they are captured and their ships used to recolonize the planet.

Terminal 7:
Guilty Spark is showing signs of rampancy, but not because of age but because of something that would happen to a human if given a duty and left isolated for years with no help. It looks like Guilty Spark is trying to control himself trying to rid himself of these procedural doctrines placed on him and do what he believes should be done.

Terminal 8:
Guilty Spark says and notes that there may be more than 7 actually 12 even after their destruction in the Capital as noted in the book Cryptum. 7 was enough to clean and purify the world but there could be more still around inactive.

Another thing that was noted was that the Halo's could be used against them as medicant bias tried to do.

Terminal 9:
Keyes trying to fight for his own independence. trying to remain sane while the flood tries to assimilate it. Make it become one of them and forget the world. This may be why when he died the flood could not use his memory against earth, because what he knew were not given as of yet and the flood had not assimilated him.

Terminal 10:
Guilty Spark is still stuck in his own protocol, and believes that the only way to save this universe and destroy the flood is by activating the flood, that which the humans do not dare to do, but they would rather destroy, the ring. Guilty Spark shows no understanding of this procedure as the normal way of defeating the flood and only sure way is via the halo firing.

Any other way, including destroying the halo only allows the flood to spread if another release happens and the flood enter this sector.

Conclusion:
There may be more terminals on other levels and just have to be found, maybe there are 20 but the ones you found are not the only one's maybe, some may be hidden.

  • 11.13.2011 9:23 AM PDT
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Do not waste your tears, I was not born to watch the world grow dim. Life is not measured in years, but by the deeds of men.

Posted by: goldhawk
We should know better, because we are better.

Keyes is easily the best. Makes me sympathize with him more than ever. Now we know where 343i hid the awesome.

  • 11.13.2011 9:51 AM PDT

Why are you here?

Must...resist.....watching....

  • 11.13.2011 10:27 AM PDT

I felt so sorry for Spark when he started talking about wanting another Moniter with him. :(

Oh, in the Two Betrayals terminal (I believe), it showed some kind of creature with a green eye with slit pupil.

Was that Flood or something else?

[Edited on 11.13.2011 10:32 AM PST]

  • 11.13.2011 10:31 AM PDT