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Subject: The Mystery of Terminal 5 - Assault on the Control Room

I find this very cryptic. Out of all the CEA terminals I find that I understand this terminal the least, yet speculate the most about. If you haven't seen the terminal you can watch it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld130BO4tLc&feature=relate d

Can anyone shed any light on what the ship that crashed could possibly be? Theories even? But one thing I did notice that I found extremely interesting is that 1:20 into the video, 343 Guilty Spark shows a screen that is assumed to be him attempting to translate the distress call from the ship, but if you look at the symbols that he is trying to translate, they are neither human, forerunner, or Covenant in nature. Does anyone have any idea what these symbols could be?

  • 11.27.2011 9:49 PM PDT

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I hate how the ship looks just like a Reaper from Mass Effect. I see it, and can't think of anything else.

But, it may be a Precursor ship. I doubt 343 would introduce this plot point for no reason.

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  • 11.27.2011 10:56 PM PDT


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Hey, if EA ever wanted to do Xbox/PC exclusive DLC, Master Chief as Squaddie/LI


-blam!- that! JAMES VEGA ALL THE WAI! That or Garrus...Mmm..love me some turian.

OT: That ship also bothered me, I was thinking the exact same thing "REAPER!" XD

[Edited on 11.27.2011 11:33 PM PST]

  • 11.27.2011 11:32 PM PDT

"Dude, what are you doing right now?"
"Uhh... Heh, my mom."
"Dude... What?"

Early Covenant, most likely. Either that, or some surviving Forerunners? GS mentions the process being completed, so the crash had to have been after the initial firing of the Halos.


I'm curious as well.

  • 11.28.2011 12:26 AM PDT

The ship will likely be linked to a new species introduced in Halo 4.

EDIT: 343 GS needing to translate the symbols probably indicates that they were not Precursor.

[Edited on 11.28.2011 12:32 AM PST]

  • 11.28.2011 12:28 AM PDT


Posted by: McSwishy
Early Covenant, most likely. Either that, or some surviving Forerunners? GS mentions the process being completed, so the crash had to have been after the initial firing of the Halos.


I'm curious as well.


It just doesn't tie together of what those symbols are. You would think that if they were early covenant or forerunner they would have shown up somewhere else in the halo universe, or been identified as forerunner by 343 GS. The actual ships architecture is also very puzzling.

  • 11.28.2011 1:09 AM PDT

"Dude, what are you doing right now?"
"Uhh... Heh, my mom."
"Dude... What?"


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Posted by: McSwishy
Early Covenant, most likely. Either that, or some surviving Forerunners? GS mentions the process being completed, so the crash had to have been after the initial firing of the Halos.


I'm curious as well.


It just doesn't tie together of what those symbols are. You would think that if they were early covenant or forerunner they would have shown up somewhere else in the halo universe, or been identified as forerunner by 343 GS. The actual ships architecture is also very puzzling.


Early Covenant haven't been clearly shown (albeit as of recently) and their language has not been explored. This leads me to believe that(without a culmination from the other species) the ship could be from any of the connecting seeds. Most of them could be possible San Shyuum insignia?

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  • 11.28.2011 1:23 AM PDT

It's very plausible that it could be from one of the connecting seeds, but would that really be a interesting plot device? I have a hard time believing that they would have devoted an entire Terminal Video to the mystery if it was just a early Covenant vessel. I guess thats why I suspect it to be something far more mysterious. But I just thought of this just now too; what are even the chances that a ship of that size "crash landing" on the Halo array with no crew flying dumb through space? Like 1 in a quadrillion? It's obvious that it was intelligently controlled at some point and most likely had to have had the coordinates of the Halo array. But with the little info that is given on the subject it's a total mystery I guess until something else comes up.

  • 11.28.2011 2:20 AM PDT

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Posted by: McSwishy
Early Covenant, most likely. Either that, or some surviving Forerunners? GS mentions the process being completed, so the crash had to have been after the initial firing of the Halos.


I'm curious as well.

Can't be Covenant as the ship crashed on Halo 40,000 years before 2552. The Covenant did not form until around 852 BC LONG after the ship crash.

  • 11.28.2011 3:29 AM PDT


Posted by: McSwishy

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Posted by: McSwishy
Early Covenant, most likely. Either that, or some surviving Forerunners? GS mentions the process being completed, so the crash had to have been after the initial firing of the Halos.


I'm curious as well.


It just doesn't tie together of what those symbols are. You would think that if they were early covenant or forerunner they would have shown up somewhere else in the halo universe, or been identified as forerunner by 343 GS. The actual ships architecture is also very puzzling.


Early Covenant haven't been clearly shown (albeit as of recently) and their language has not been explored. This leads me to believe that(without a culmination from the other species) the ship could be from any of the connecting seeds. Most of them could be possible San Shyuum insignia?


The Covenant is only 3,000 years old. This ship crashed their 40,000 years ago. I doubt it's them. And it isn't Precursor because it doesn't have a crystaline appearance (as was briefly described of Precursor architecture in Cryptum). And it got destroyed. It's probably a new race, before unmentioned.

I agree it probably has something to do with H4 though.

  • 11.28.2011 4:03 AM PDT


Posted by: Sigma617
There is some fleeting evidence, albeit small, of another (possibly multiple) different Tier 3 (minimum) species encountering the Halo installations.

The biggest example could be that of Installation 05. The Flood have been battling that installation's sentinels for centuries or even millennia. How else could the Flood have sufficient growth to combat the Installation's security forces?

Maybe a large colony ship crash-landed or an exploratory fleet landed there? The Flood couldn't have kept up a battle for centuries without any source of Fuel.

this could not be so, as the Halo's have been stated by GS in the terminals to have defense systems that would not allow for any foreign ship to land. The only reason why GS let this one land was because of his curiosity.

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When I saw the tail section of the ship, and looked at the general shape and thought, UNSC Infinity??? How'd you time travel?

Then I saw the full view of the ship and thought, Reaper?

But when it comes down to it I think it's just a random alien race we haven't seen yet.

But the question is, why didn't they come out?

  • 11.28.2011 7:19 AM PDT


Posted by: Sandtrap
When I saw the tail section of the ship, and looked at the general shape and thought, UNSC Infinity??? How'd you time travel?

Then I saw the full view of the ship and thought, Reaper?

But when it comes down to it I think it's just a random alien race we haven't seen yet.

But the question is, why didn't they come out?

well, they DID make a crash landing, and the Inside looked to be quite on fire. I would say that if any survived they were merely incapable of getting out, or had some way of knowing that they were being watched by something from the outside (GS and his sentinels) and preferred to stay inside.

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My favorite theory is ancient human.

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My favorite theory is ancient human.


Which is instantly shot down because.


1. They don't exist at that point

2. 343 has never seen that type of ship

3. 343 has never seen the language

And several other reasons.

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Posted by: Sandtrap
When I saw the tail section of the ship, and looked at the general shape and thought, UNSC Infinity??? How'd you time travel?

Then I saw the full view of the ship and thought, Reaper?

But when it comes down to it I think it's just a random alien race we haven't seen yet.

But the question is, why didn't they come out?

well, they DID make a crash landing, and the Inside looked to be quite on fire. I would say that if any survived they were merely incapable of getting out, or had some way of knowing that they were being watched by something from the outside (GS and his sentinels) and preferred to stay inside.


But think about it. The ship crashed on Halo. Just randomly finding a halo out of the blue to crash on has quite the odds piled up against it. The ship was broadcasting a short range signal that stopped likely when all occupants died.

Whoever was in there knew what they were doing.

Sinister ship and occupants is sinister.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?


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Posted by: Sandtrap
When I saw the tail section of the ship, and looked at the general shape and thought, UNSC Infinity??? How'd you time travel?

Then I saw the full view of the ship and thought, Reaper?




But when it comes down to it I think it's just a random alien race we haven't seen yet.

But the question is, why didn't they come out?

well, they DID make a crash landing, and the Inside looked to be quite on fire. I would say that if any survived they were merely incapable of getting out, or had some way of knowing that they were being watched by something from the outside (GS and his sentinels) and preferred to stay inside.


But think about it. The ship crashed on Halo. Just randomly finding a halo out of the blue to crash on has quite the odds piled up against it. The ship was broadcasting a short range signal that stopped likely when all occupants died.

Whoever was in there knew what they were doing.

Sinister ship and occupants is sinister.



There isn't enough info to even speculate in all honesty.

Life is randomly organized or you can say it is organized randomly. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a ship crashing on halo. There could be thousands of lifeforms with ships around any given ring so it is expected if anything.


The ship crashing is fine, the occupants not having human curiosity to go poking their noses around is fine. If you think this is an issue i really want to see your mind wrapped around the sigma crystal.

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Posted by: Sandtrap
When I saw the tail section of the ship, and looked at the general shape and thought, UNSC Infinity??? How'd you time travel?

Then I saw the full view of the ship and thought, Reaper?




But when it comes down to it I think it's just a random alien race we haven't seen yet.

But the question is, why didn't they come out?

well, they DID make a crash landing, and the Inside looked to be quite on fire. I would say that if any survived they were merely incapable of getting out, or had some way of knowing that they were being watched by something from the outside (GS and his sentinels) and preferred to stay inside.


But think about it. The ship crashed on Halo. Just randomly finding a halo out of the blue to crash on has quite the odds piled up against it. The ship was broadcasting a short range signal that stopped likely when all occupants died.

Whoever was in there knew what they were doing.

Sinister ship and occupants is sinister.



There isn't enough info to even speculate in all honesty.

Life is randomly organized or you can say it is organized randomly. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a ship crashing on halo. There could be thousands of lifeforms with ships around any given ring so it is expected if anything.


The ship crashing is fine, the occupants not having human curiosity to go poking their noses around is fine. If you think this is an issue i really want to see your mind wrapped around the sigma crystal.


All I'm saying is, I got a sinister vibe going from that ship and it's occupants.

Also, Sigma Crystal? need a bit more context on that.

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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

We are all going to get banned aren't we?

In that case thats fine. I just want to point out that we honestly shouldn't even waste time talking about it until we get more info.


http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=33381763

  • 11.28.2011 7:55 AM PDT

Since where on the topic of terminals I have a stupied question in terminal one when 343 was going to shoot down the piller of autumn for coming close to halo but saw they where humans (some way related to forerunner) how come 343 diidnt shoot down the covenant ships for coming close to halo? Was it cuz they worshiped the forerunner?

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Since where on the topic of terminals I have a stupied question in terminal one when 343 was going to shoot down the piller of autumn for coming close to halo but saw they where humans (some way related to forerunner) how come 343 diidnt shoot down the covenant ships for coming close to halo? Was it cuz they worshiped the forerunner?


We don't know.


Not to mention he should have picked up that ship approaching the installation but he didn't.

  • 11.28.2011 8:45 AM PDT

I thought he didnt shoot them down because they had the status of "reclaimer". Like what 343 GC said at the end of Halo 3 "You are the child of my makers, inheritors of all they left behind. You ARE forerunner." I would assume that is why he didnt shoot them down. But as to why he didnt shoot the "meddlers" aka the Covenant is unknown to me at least.

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Its obvious the ccrew of the ship died on impact, i mean come on look at that huge crater they left. The distress beacon was on a loop and atmosphere was venting. The ship then eventually started losing power and so cut the distress beacon then the atmosphere either finally stabilized or power to life support was also cut out.

But its definitelly a race we havent seen. Look at the design the language and even the color of the lights coming off the ship. Neon green... where have we seeen taht before?!??!?

  • 11.28.2011 12:39 PM PDT