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Subject: Halo 3, the end to the trilogy.

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. That hope is three little numbers: 1 - 1 - 7.

There is hope in us all. We gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do the thing which we think we cannot do; stand with the Master Chief and Finish this Fight!

After what I could say was years of speculation, pondering and analyzing, Bungie have finally announced that they are indeed of development of their next project, Halo 3. This might come as a suprise to those who do not follow Bungie or know what they are up to next, but even so they do have the tendancy to suprise whenever possible.

This trailer is no different.

It does not answer any question besides "Is Halo 3 in development?", other than that it opens more questions than it answers.

First up the return of the Assult Rifle, now to those who are familliar of Halo 1 system link-up days we all loved the AR, it was a great gun complemented by my personal favourite the pistol (which most people thought it to be a little bit powerfull then ti should of been). In Halo 2 we saw the downgrade of the pistol and the somewhat upgrade of the AR to the Battle Rilfle, will the same thing happen to Halo 3 only the reverse? Well my fellow Spartans that is indeed up for debate.

Second is the plot twisting Cortana/Gravemind relationship. There are going to be so many theories coming out there from now until the Halo 3 launch day that it will be hard to dertemine what is fiction to fact. Even if you did read all the books, played all the games, there is no specific pattern that Bungie is following to determine Cortana's fate. Could be a Cortana evil clone? Or has Gravemind actually bypassed all of Cortana's primary protocols (one of the is the protection of Earth) to ally herself with Gravemind, to forget about the Master Chief and disregard all that they have fought for? I like to think that Cortana will put up more of a fight before giving up Earth.

Third is the grand scale of things. The map in the trailed is huge and something that will obviously take part in Halo 3. Huge Multiplayer maps that will support 50 Vs 50 wars.

Finally the Master Chief. Alas for a true hero to be a true hero the hero must die for what he is fighting for. The last of the Spartans will fall after fighting most of the war on his own, but it was always a losing battle. The Covenant have conquered Earth and the Flood are right behind him. There is always a way that gave the advantage to John, he always found a way to win. But now without Cortana, options are running out fast, he has to save Earth or all of his Spartans will have died a death that has no meaning, and the Master Chief will never allow that to happen.

So whatever happens, no matter what Bungie come up with, we are all looking at the end of one tremendously written story, one that will be sad to see end, but the ending will be just as grand as when the story begun. A story of a lone soldier and his friend to save the Earth and ulimetly the galaxy from destruction. Go get'em Master Chief, you made us all proud.

  • 05.10.2006 3:15 AM PDT
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they might make a halo game based of a differnet part o fthe story, like fall of reach, it might be kool!!

BUT THE HALO MOVIE BEING MADE THAT LOOKS AWESOME!!!!!!

  • 05.10.2006 3:20 AM PDT
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I nearly cried reading that...you make a lot of sense in what you say...and its obvious for it to be the last in the trilogy MC might have to be no more...

If it is true that MC goes down with this ship to say, I can forsee it to be the best endings in the history of gaming where many gamers who are touched will cry...

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I think I might cry if that happend.Probably need therapy for depression as well.

  • 05.10.2006 3:25 AM PDT
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My pre-cognitive powers tell me......yes, the Master Chief will die. In a heroic way of course.

  • 05.10.2006 3:28 AM PDT
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Second is the plot twisting Cortana/Gravemind relationship. There are going to be so many theories coming out there from now until the Halo 3 launch day that it will be hard to dertemine what is fiction to fact. Even if you did read all the books, played all the games, there is no specific pattern that Bungie is following to determine Cortana's fate. Could be a Cortana evil clone? Or has Gravemind actually bypassed all of Cortana's primary protocols (one of the is the protection of Earth) to ally herself with Gravemind, to forget about the Master Chief and disregard all that they have fought for? I like to think that Cortana will put up more of a fight before giving up Earth.
The more information Cortana received within the books, the more hostile and chaotic she became. The flood, according to Gravemind have "defied gods and demons", and thus, they will have a great deal of information to assimilate. Cortana could well have tapped into that reservoir and been practically destroyed by it (as she nearly was in First Strike). Additionally, given that she knows she is reaching the end of her 7 year life could mean she has become a self-serving individual, and perhaps Gravemind offered her the chance for immortality. On the other hand, she, like Dr. Halsey, whom she is a facsimile of (and shares many quirky personality traits with), may have seen a greater truth (link to Kelly, and perhaps Sgt. Johnson's immunity to the flood?) and could simply be using Gravemind to get to Earth and stop the war.

The last of the Spartans
Just to point out: he isn't.

Finally the Master Chief. Alas for a true hero to be a true hero the hero must die for what he is fighting for. The last of the Spartans will fall after fighting most of the war on his own, but it was always a losing battle. The Covenant have conquered Earth and the Flood are right behind him. There is always a way that gave the advantage to John, he always found a way to win. But now without Cortana, options are running out fast, he has to save Earth or all of his Spartans will have died a death that has no meaning, and the Master Chief will never allow that to happen.
The games have never really been about winning the war with the covenant. The whole story revolves around the flood and the activation of the halos, hence the name Halo. The war with the covenant is a story device that stops it being so clean-cut like Resident Evil's humans vs. zombies (which is btw, just how the game plays for the most part, there are of course other factions in that particular series as well), to give it more depth, and to give you an idea of just how powerful Master Chief is. Yes he has to die, but given the nature of the force he is fighting, so may everything else in the galaxy. Catch my drift?

  • 05.10.2006 3:35 AM PDT

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. That hope is three little numbers: 1 - 1 - 7.

There is hope in us all. We gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face. We must do the thing which we think we cannot do; stand with the Master Chief and Finish this Fight!

First up, i lke what you say and maybe just maybe you might be right.

But look at this, in the books there are indeed other Spartans, but there is a loop hole between the second book and the second game where some of the Spartnas survived but did not make it in the game, hence the last Spartan. The consisntency will continue I think in the third instelment where the MC saves all.

As far as the galaxy being destoryed then yes that is another valid theory, one that I fear the most but I have in the Master Chief to save the galaxy with his last breath, it maybe down to Master Chief Vs Cortana in an emotional last epic battle.

Either way you look at it, we are all part of something big, something worth sacrificing your life for, so many heroes have died protecting the location of Earth, and now the last thing standing in the evil powers way is the MC, thats what it all was about, a fight of one many to save his friends, allies and his home.

Will the galaxy fall when the MC falls?

Bungie are the only force that can answer that.

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but there is a loop hole between the second book and the second game where some of the Spartnas survived but did not make it in the game
Out of sight, out of mind. The fact that they do not make an appearance in the game is only proof that Master Chief doesn't interact with them, not that they don't exist. They could well have been on other orbital platforms, or on Earth, we just don't know because we don't have an account of their actions (I'm waiting on news as to whether Halo 2 is being novelised, as they will no doubt be included within that).

Despite the eloquence of your plot ideas, and yes I do agree that Master Chief is motivated to protect his family and friends, I still believe that Master Chief, when left with no other option, and given the fact that being part of the flood is supposedly worse than death - remember Captain Keyes - may realise that the only way to defeat the flood would be to activate the halos. This would be the explosive ending with a twist of melancholy that the series seems to be moving towards. The theme of futile resistance fills the story.

There is of course one other fact that I've realised just now. Guilty Spark told Master Chief in the first Halo that there were many simulated tests of the halos and one actual. And yet the flood survived. Maybe this will stop him from activative the rings because he may believe that even the rings can't defeat the flood. Though that would be a terribly anticlimatic irony.

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It's not going to be the last game unless MC dies. If he lives, then Bill Gates will be able to force Bungie to make another one.

  • 05.10.2006 7:27 AM PDT

I always thought the Master Chief would die choking on a chicken bone.

  • 05.10.2006 7:30 AM PDT
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There is of course one other fact that I've realised just now. Guilty Spark told Master Chief in the first Halo that there were many simulated tests of the halos and one actual. And yet the flood survived. Maybe this will stop him from activative the rings because he may believe that even the rings can't defeat the flood. Though that would be a terribly anticlimatic irony.


lovely reading, i agree with you on many things but there was no sign of life on the ring itself and the planets surrounding it, maybe it was not supposed to kill the flood but only stop them from getting out of there?

They say that the ring will destroy all life in a specific radious, is earth or the milkyway within this radious?, you never know... when jumping from REACH the pillar of autum made a jump that Cortana had calculated from the artifacts master Chief had retrieved on REACH and this may possibly be aoutside the space that humans have discovered yet?


excuse my spelling im swedish and a huge fan of this awsome game!

Thank you Bungie for making this a dream comming true!

  • 05.10.2006 10:39 AM PDT