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Subject: Halo series Office of Naval Intelligence

We all know the people over at Bungie are masters of concealing hidden meanings beneath commonly used elements in their work. But the project that really shows this off is Halo. With all of its clashing story lines and religious undertones, these things can be pretty hard to spot. Well, I think the mysterious ONI has some more secrets than you would think.

After glancing over at the Halo: Reach controller on my desk, I noticed the ONI logo on the side and immediately thought to myself, "That looks familiar." I then realized its resemblance to another reference of religion...the Illuminati. Obviously I don't think Bungie is satanic, but rather very clever. Considering the Illuminati is a secretive group that supposedly keeps a very watchful eye over the world, these similarities are not a coincidence. I just thought I would share this discovery, thank you for reading. =)

(I am not a conspiracy theorist, please no religious flamewars!)

  • 12.01.2011 3:59 PM PDT
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Sounds like yes.

  • 12.01.2011 4:25 PM PDT

Why do people not realize that the illuminati are not satanic at all. They're just unreligious.
Also they aren't even around anymore they died out centuries ago. They weren't even an organization of super secrets. They were people who were trying avoid persecution and so had to do things in secret. If they could, they would have done everything openly.

[Edited on 12.01.2011 4:29 PM PST]

  • 12.01.2011 4:27 PM PDT

@accordingto343

Your one stop shop for all of 343's fabulous errors and ridiculous notions in the Halo lore.

You just barely noticed that? Slow much?

  • 12.01.2011 5:34 PM PDT
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Posted by: Cereal is life
Why do people not realize that the illuminati are not satanic at all. They're just unreligious.
Also they aren't even around anymore they died out centuries ago. They weren't even an organization of super secrets. They were people who were trying avoid persecution and so had to do things in secret. If they could, they would have done everything openly.


^This.
Then there are people that believe the illuminati are an alien race that has blended into society secretly controlling us. That's just a few steps more crazy than those that believe in the 2012 End of the World event.

  • 12.01.2011 5:39 PM PDT

Hey, now!

This is officially either the greatest or worst thing to ever happen to Star Wars. I'm going with the former.


Posted by: Cereal is life
Why do people not realize that the illuminati are not satanic at all. They're just unreligious.
Also they aren't even around anymore they died out centuries ago. They weren't even an organization of super secrets. They were people who were trying avoid persecution and so had to do things in secret. If they could, they would have done everything openly.

People think the same about Freemasonry as well, even though most Masons are religious.

It'd be interesting to see if the Illuminati was different in the Halo Universe, though, perhaps lasting in an organized form a bit longer, and actually taking a more 'hands on' approach to events.
Be an interesting 'conspiracy' theory in-universe.

  • 12.01.2011 5:51 PM PDT

It's possible. I believe the league of AIs in the data-drops have something to do with it all too.

  • 12.02.2011 1:52 PM PDT