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I am personaly wondering how the Covinant managed to get some Assult Carrier class ships past the UNSC Defences, My reason for asking this is because The Covinant Fleet was occupied Destroying it's own royal behinds, not to mention the fact that if you read the books, the amount of UNSC ships you could see in halo 2 could Easly defeat the Covinant ships from that first attack from the Prophet of Regret. And what ever happen to moving MAC cannons to cover feilds of fire that are open?

  • 05.09.2006 9:16 PM PDT

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anyone wanna reply now or ill let it die

  • 05.09.2006 9:34 PM PDT

Remember Reach

something happened. cuz um...earth looks pretty f'd up

  • 05.09.2006 9:36 PM PDT
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Lets put it this way. That ship that's MC on. Probably got HUGE lasers. HUUUUUUUUGE!

  • 05.09.2006 9:37 PM PDT
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Has anyono thougt that the ships are E controled not brute or Drone ar Jackle?

  • 05.09.2006 9:39 PM PDT

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i was kind of going more on the side of people getting into an in depth discution but i dont think i can do that on these forums considering most people cant think logicly and most people signed on these forums are just children who cant talk about theorys about the ships or anything besides one ship imposible having super wepons.....

Edit: And what do you mean by E controlled? is that suposed to mean Enemy?

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  • 05.09.2006 9:40 PM PDT
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who ever said this was 1 day after the end of h2? could it posibly be 1 year after? of course it could. we have no time reference so it is posibly that MC killed off the first invasion, and that story is told in the upcoming book/movie.

  • 05.09.2006 9:50 PM PDT
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E means Elites. And I think this takes place at least say... 2 days after the end of Halo 2.

  • 05.09.2006 9:53 PM PDT
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well, im glad you have some reasoning or logic to back that statement up.

  • 05.09.2006 9:54 PM PDT

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Posted by: WALancer
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I am personaly wondering how the Covinant managed to get some Assult Carrier class ships past the UNSC Defences, My reason for asking this is because The Covinant Fleet was occupied Destroying it's own royal behinds, not to mention the fact that if you read the books, the amount of UNSC ships you could see in halo 2 could Easly defeat the Covinant ships from that first attack from the Prophet of Regret. And what ever happen to moving MAC cannons to cover feilds of fire that are open?


Hmm, basically Bungie has said "Earth got attacked by ALL the Covenant fleet and go owned." .. So, the best way past the defenses? Blow 'em to hell.

  • 05.09.2006 9:56 PM PDT
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If you did notice that in the final cutsence of halo 2 when the BIIIGGG shhip comes to earth with the MC on, The earth is being distroyed, most of the MAC guns a on fire, and the earth's surface has a whole bunch of explotions on it. As for the human ships kicking the covie ships ass's if you have ever read the books they say like a million times that the humans do really good in a ground battle, but they lost in space. The covie ships almost always win. Look at the fall of reach

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  • 05.09.2006 9:59 PM PDT
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Well the coventent out number us probly 100,000 to 1 if you remember from h2 when the MC hade to kill that prophet and High charity came in with all those escout ships and that was a large flight
(if Spelling is incorect cry about)

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the only ship that came to earth at the end of h2 was the forrunner ship with MC. if master cheif is on that ship, and its a forrunner ship with super duper technology, how can it tip the scale in favor of the covies, because as we well know master cheif eats covies for breakfast. so master cheif must either disable or take controle of that ship because he is 1) master cheif 2) he has to get off some how, and if that covie ship is blowing stuff up, how is a UNSC ship going to get close enough to rescue him?

  • 05.09.2006 10:04 PM PDT
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exactly, thats why master chief must take over that ship then. because neither side is going to blast it, and master cheif cant escape unless he takes contorle some how. and he obviously escapes, so he must commender the ship

  • 05.09.2006 10:07 PM PDT
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I haven't read too much of the thread, but how does this scenario sound?
It's a bit far-fetched, but here goes...


The Forerunners as we know them were really a prior race of humans, who broke the Covenant and were subsequently attacked by the flood. In order to survive, they built the Halo Rings as a way to wipe out all life in the universe. (Duh) In order to survive, they built the Massive construct seen in the Teaser Trailer of Halo 3 to activate the rings and protect either just itself or perhaps the entire planet from the detonation. By this logic, it's no wonder that New Mombasa is both the setting for the trailer (the massive bridge from Halo 2 can be seen destroyed in the background right off the bat,) and the first point of attack in Halo 2. The Construct is the Ark. As you can see, this story is basically a rewrite of Noah's Ark, with the alien "Flood" being THE FLOOD and the "Ark" obviously being Noah's Ark.

Now, where the real "Covenant" from the game factor in is that it was their covenant that the Forerunners followed, and they have simply mis-interpreted it. Forerunner writing is still alive and well, as the rings only eliminate life, and there is no way they could know that the Humans are the Forerunners. Now, however, because the flood have arisen and they believe that the rings are their "Great Journey," they have decided to repeat the mistakes of the past and re-activate the rings.

My idea of how the story of Halo 3 will play out is that the Covenant will nearly annihilate humanity and take Earth. They will activate the ark, much to the dispare of the Humans, Elites, Grunts, and Hunters, and from here, two possible storylines could occur.

#1: Earth is destroyed, and the Chief resorts to time travel. (unlikely)

#2: Everything around the Earth is destroyed, and the Chief and his compatriots retake the Ark. (This will probably be a VERY long process) The final goal is to eliminate the Ark, and Earth with it, to prevent this catastrophe from ever occuring again. In a segment horrifically like the end of Halo, the Chief somehow sets a time bomb on the Ark and races away to escape. The remaining Humans and Covenant leave before he does, and the Chief attempts to repeat the end of the first Halo, but is unable to escape this time. After all, it's the final game, and if the matrix could do it, why not Halo? (VERY LIKELY)

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Posted by: WALancer
I am personaly wondering how the Covinant managed to get some Assult Carrier class ships past the UNSC Defences, My reason for asking this is because The Covinant Fleet was occupied Destroying it's own royal behinds, not to mention the fact that if you read the books, the amount of UNSC ships you could see in halo 2 could Easly defeat the Covinant ships from that first attack from the Prophet of Regret. And what ever happen to moving MAC cannons to cover feilds of fire that are open?


First and foremost...in the last level of Halo 2, the Arbiter forms an alliance with Commander Keyes and Johnson. Perhaps this is a little farther into the future, when Johnson, the Arbiter and Keyes return to the UNSC controlled space (kind of like the way the Halo 2 campaign started out).
One more thing, try to use Spell Check before you post, but I'm not going to make that big a deal on it.

  • 05.09.2006 10:10 PM PDT
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DUDE!!!! CORNATA!!!! My money is one her being absolutely MAJOR in the HALO 3

Key Word!!! Rampancy. If Cortana does go rampant, then a million different stories and curves in the plotline are possible.

But does Rampancy even exist in the world of HALO?

Then, also in FIRST STRIKE the first HALO book I remember there being a passage about how cortana would die or eventually just suffer a system failure due to the mass amount of information she's gathered. Does anyone happen to have the book on hand and write out the passage?

Another thing, I can't tell what she says at first something about "I have defied/Defined gods and demons" Yeah, from what she's saying there is definettley something funky going on. But I don't really see a similarity inbetween her and the cackling mad man Durndal.

Uh, just have to say this but the music is beautiful.... Yeah... WOW...


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  • 05.09.2006 10:10 PM PDT
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1)Master Cheif dies. As he does so, Kelly, who he had been fighting his final battle with, walks to his body. As he is lying on the ground, slowly dieing, he asks Kelly to remove his helmet. She does so, and we get the first(and last) look at MC's face
2)Arbiter turns out to be a traitor to the humans, gets slaughtered, but not until it's too late, (MC's already dead because of him)
3)More spartans appear, all but Kelly die.
4)Place in trailer isn't actually earth
5) Turns out Covies lived just in the next neighborhood from Earth, explaining how they didn't get annihilated by the Halo's

  • 05.09.2006 10:11 PM PDT
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i dont have the quote but "smart AI's " die in about 7 years. we dont know when cortanta was "born" so we dont know how much longer she has to live. but in the book it said being on halo shortened her life span, and if each game takes up 1 year, she probly doesnt have very long to live.

  • 05.09.2006 10:13 PM PDT