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Haters are going to hate.
Praisers are going to praise.
The Bungie Forums are what keeps my mind sharp and my fingers active, between writing my own movie scripts, drawing, and studying industrial design. At the moment I'm working on miniatures for a short movie that I'll hopefully be able to film once I've saved up for a camera... That's me, with the mug, trying to have a conversation with Konoko.
Yeah, this doesn't make any sense to me either.. And from reading the posts here, even the most hardcore don't seem to be able to wrap their heads around it. I haven't found a theory that I'm ready to defend, at least.
So I'm going to be the cynic again... Cause I'm not sure logic applies anymore. Can we be sure that any of these new introductions remain consistant to previous Halo lore? What happens if, when Halo 4 is released, 343's reimagenated the entire thing? Like Reach was a reimagination of The Fall of Reach? On top of that, everything told -from a storytelling standpoint- is completely out of character, just listen to 343, way too talkative... And why is he even near that thing, isn't he afraid of being captured, I though put some wight on that, shound't he send a sentinel or something???
/cynic
theory
Some dismiss the theory of it being human cause of 343 not being able to identify the symbols. However, 343 didn't say that he didn't understand the symbols, he said that he had a "limited data set". So it could just as well be human symbols. I don't know, have we seen any before?
If it is, how -the hell- did it end up there? I assume it's sometime between the Forerunner-Flood war and the begining of the Covenant(?).
Also, I always try to emphasize how important it is to try and see things from a storytelling perspective. Everything that is mentioned should be taken into concideration. The bare fact that 343 says something about blocking the signal, makes it important, and just cause he mentions it, it's fairly likely that there in fact are other ships. Why else mention that in the monolouge? It's not that there aren't other logic things to comment on; ramndom realistic things surrounding the consequence of having an unidentified ship crash of the installation...
Anyway, my guess is that we'll have to wait until Primodium -since the ship looks like the one on its cover- for some light to be shed on all of this; don't think we're meant to figure out anything from what we have. It's all part of a grand plan to keep Halo mysterious and exiting..