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Subject: The Ancient Artifact in Halo 3
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Poll: Do you think the Covenant all this time were after the ancient arti...  [closed]
Yes. They wanted the artifact.:  86%
(6 Votes)
No. This is their artifact that they built there.:  0%
(0 Votes)
No, the just came across it.:  14%
(1 Votes)
Total Votes: 7

I beleive that the reason the Covenant hate and attack the humans is because they are after the ancient artifact in the Halo 3 Trailer. It may be something the Covenant are after, so that is why they attack all the Earth Colonies, like Reach. They might have thought the artifact was there. They also might beleive that the humans are trying to steal or hide the artifact. That might be wh the Covenant despise the humans so much and destroy their planets. They wouldnt try to attack them for no good reason, there has to be a reason, and this could be it. They tried to control the entire planet to try and find the artifact. If this isn't what the makers of Halo 3 were thnking, it would make an excellent story line and everything would make sense.

  • 05.10.2006 4:37 PM PDT
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In the last book First Strike. The Covenant had an entire fleet ready to jump to Earth but something happened to it. (READ THE BOOK) So I think that they were after something on Earth. And in the first couple of levels in H2, Cortana said something like "They didn't expect humans to be on Earth." So if they didn't know about humans being here, then why were they trying to get here so damn bad? But that's just my thoughts.

  • 05.10.2006 5:26 PM PDT
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Posted by: KingOfZing
In the last book First Strike. The Covenant had an entire fleet ready to jump to Earth but something happened to it. (READ THE BOOK) So I think that they were after something on Earth. And in the first couple of levels in H2, Cortana said something like "They didn't expect humans to be on Earth." So if they didn't know about humans being here, then why were they trying to get here so damn bad? But that's just my thoughts.


I said they wanted something from earth. As stated by KingOfZing there were numerous references to why the humans were on earth (by the prophets), and other things from the books. I personally think humans may be a subspecies of the Forerunners. Why? Because in H1 Guilty Spark was calling MC the Reclaimer. Why the heck else would he call him that. So I think the artifact is the ark to control all the other Halos as well.

  • 05.10.2006 5:34 PM PDT