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Subject: The Artifact sounds like the Scarab Gun
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Give it a good listen if you dont believe me, but remember that the covanent emulate forerunner technology. Also notice how the covanent ships scatter when the artifact prepares to fire. Are the covanent suddenly afraid because the ark, i mean artifact, is behaving in ways not foretold?

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to clarify I'm not saying that the artifact looks like the scarab gun, but I am asserting that the charging sound and the firing sound are nearly identical. This is strange, because the developers chose not to make a new sound effect or adopt the firing sound of Delta Halo in the end of Halo 2.

Posted by: Grunty G0 Splat
i dont htink it has anythign to do with a scarab gun. its definaely the ark. what im confused about is the fact that if the brutes were the ones attacking hal at the end of the last game then shouldnt they be the ones that took control of the new mobassa(we know its new maobassa cuz of the part of the bridge) and destroyed it then shouldnt they be the ones ocupying it. I doubt they are other wise at least oneof the banshees would have shot at him, and the chief would have reacted in a normal way. So if its the elites are the ones in corntrol why are all the humans gone and the city utterly destroyed. and also how are we supposed to know all the stuff that happens in between this and the endgin of h2 cuz i was really lookign forward to starting from there.

remember when Regret jumped? that event obliterated New Mombasa. That new mombasa was in Africa, and that the covanent are messing with a giant crater in Africa are probably not mutually exclusive. It would tie up the loose end "why did the covanent only land here" very nicely. Regret landed next to the ark, realized he forgot his key (the index), and went to get it using a ?map? found in the artifact. Also, i doubt the game begins at the announcement trailer.

I read this in Joystiq:

After the trailer more of the announcement soundtrak could be heard on the speakers, refering to plot events that hadn't yet occured and making references in multiple languages.

Thus the trailer should not mark the start of the game

[Edited on 5/9/2006]

  • 05.09.2006 5:23 PM PDT
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ok that lightnig was from the sky not the artifact
its not a scarab gun but whatever

  • 05.09.2006 5:24 PM PDT
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How does that, IN ANY WAY, look like a friggin SCARAB GUN? That's like saying that a halo is a ring shaped nuclear bomb.


Again, read before posting, he said it sounds like the scarab gun.
-Jim


[Edited on 5/9/2006 by GameJunkieJim]

  • 05.09.2006 5:26 PM PDT

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no no no, it looks like the Quarantine Zone from halo 2

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Posted by: Garbearzero
ok that lightnig was from the sky not the artifact
its not a scarab gun but whatever


Make sure brain is in gear before engaging keyboard.

The "artifact", whatever it was, bulds up some sort of energy at the end of the trailer. He was not referring to the lightning.

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it sounds like it a little i know

  • 05.09.2006 5:26 PM PDT

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This apple is brown, and rotten. This orange on the other hand, is in relatively average shape. So the orange is definitely the preferable option.
----------You can't compare apples and oranges. You're so dumb.

1. Who says thats the ark? According to Noahs ark (what halo is based off of ) the ark was a ship used to save two of each species from the flood.

2) It does indeed sound like a scarab gun but one must remember the covenant got all there technology from the forerunners.

  • 05.09.2006 5:27 PM PDT
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OK, looks like i need to clarify.

When the artifact, the BIG THING IN THE GROUND raises its flaps and unleashes that blue bolt of energy/plasma/death, listen closely to the sound.

Now go back to halo 2 and listen to the sound the scarab makes.

They are almost identical. The effort put into the trailer makes me speculate that this similarity is not due to chance. If they were not ment to be similar, the folks at bungie would have made a new sound for something as important as the artifact.

  • 05.09.2006 5:43 PM PDT

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the giant thing in the ground is high charity. get up on the times ppl

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hahahaha
High charity my ass

The charging did sound like the scarab's firing mechanism
but thats a given,
all covenant technology is based off of blueprints or remnants of forerunner technology,
Which means that the scarab gun could have been designed in the saem manner,

BUT
the covenant started running away from the artifact which means they had no idea in hell what it was...

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Posted by: DaNome
hahahaha
High charity my ass

The charging did sound like the scarab's firing mechanism
but thats a given,
all covenant technology is based off of blueprints or remnants of forerunner technology,
Which means that the scarab gun could have been designed in the saem manner,

BUT
the covenant started running away from the artifact which means they had no idea in hell what it was...


the covanent might not even know what the "ark" is because hell they hardly know what the halos are for so if they have almost no knowledge of what the halos are for why would they know what the ark was?

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u guys have ok theories but i think its not the artifact that was making the the beam, cuz in the halo books it says that there is a artifact thats like a purple crystal and that it holds the key to all the forerunner technology, but then again i might be wrong, but thats wat it said in the books so im guessing they put that in the game.....it only makes sense......and by the way that blue beam might have been a security mechanism built in the thing so no one can get it, but its only a guess, but it makes sense to me

  • 05.09.2006 6:00 PM PDT
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WHAT THE HELL IS THE ARK????!!!!!!

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Anyone notice that the artifact looks exactly like High Charity?

  • 05.09.2006 6:02 PM PDT

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(10:20:17 PM) Pezza: You were the one with the video camera breathing heavily. Of course you saw.

Don't be stupid.. The scarab Gun firing? AHahhahhahha....

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i dont htink it has anythign to do with a scarab gun. its definaely the ark. what im confused about is the fact that if the brutes were the ones attacking hal at the end of the last game then shouldnt they be the ones that took control of the new mobassa(we know its new maobassa cuz of the part of the bridge) and destroyed it then shouldnt they be the ones ocupying it. I doubt they are other wise at least oneof the banshees would have shot at him, and the chief would have reacted in a normal way. So if its the elites are the ones in corntrol why are all the humans gone and the city utterly destroyed. and also how are we supposed to know all the stuff that happens in between this and the endgin of h2 cuz i was really lookign forward to starting from there. also the quote form the update "We are using her transmissions in the demo to give the viewer a few subtle clues to her situation and state of mind, without revealing any specifics we want to save for the game itself." shows that he is obvously talking about cortana and her going rampant

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Anyone notice that the artifact looks exactly like High Charity?


You might be onto something. Remember that Hight Charity itself is partially a forerunner ruin. If it is high charity, that means that the flood have now contaminated the earth itself. As for the ark, i would conjecture that the ark stores ogranic life to repopulate the galaxy after the rings have fired. That would explain why life re-emerged only 100,000 years after the first mass sterilization. That would also explain the covanent ship's flight from the blue plasma/light/beacon

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I bet it is a bomb like the one on the spacecraft in Halo 2

  • 05.09.2006 6:16 PM PDT

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Yeah, I was also thinking about the artifact in the books... maybe some connection?

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Posted by: Grunty G0 Splat
i dont htink it has anythign to do with a scarab gun. its definaely the ark. what im confused about is the fact that if the brutes were the ones attacking hal at the end of the last game then shouldnt they be the ones that took control of the new mobassa(we know its new maobassa cuz of the part of the bridge) and destroyed it then shouldnt they be the ones ocupying it. I doubt they are other wise at least oneof the banshees would have shot at him, and the chief would have reacted in a normal way. So if its the elites are the ones in corntrol why are all the humans gone and the city utterly destroyed. and also how are we supposed to know all the stuff that happens in between this and the endgin of h2 cuz i was really lookign forward to starting from there. also the quote form the update "We are using her transmissions in the demo to give the viewer a few subtle clues to her situation and state of mind, without revealing any specifics we want to save for the game itself." shows that he is obvously talking about cortana and her going rampant


remember when Regret jumped? that event obliterated New Mombasa. That new mombasa was in Africa, and that the covanent are messing with a giant crater in Africa are probably not mutually exclusive. It would tie up the loose end "why did the covanent only land here" very nicely. Regret landed next to the ark, realized he forgot his key (the index), and went to get it using a ?map? found in the artifact.

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Posted by: gorrilaismynm
the giant thing in the ground is high charity. get up on the times ppl
i dont think it is high charity, but it shur has a similar design

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Okay, I'm new to the board, but I think I can answer some questions (The really easy ones)
First of all: "WHAT THE HELL IS THE ARK????!!!!!!" Did you follow the storyline of Halo 2?
"Then where?" "Why the Ark, of course." *Cut to chief on the forerunner ship*
The ark is where all the rings can be activated, and it is speculated that it is one place that is safe from the Halos, or at least can bring back sentient life. Second, it is almost certainly not a bomb, it is almost certainly the ark. When I saw it opening, I thought, "that looks familiar." It opened up like the halo did in Halo 2 before firing.
Also, I see (hear) what you mean. There is the sound from the scarab gun in there.
Edit: Hmm... Africa is the birthplace of humanity or something, isn't it? Eh, I heard something like that...
Edit2: If that is the Ark, what is on Coral?

[Edited on 5/9/2006]

  • 05.09.2006 6:47 PM PDT