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Subject: I HAVE THE MEANING OF THE TRAILER!!!!!
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Posted by: SPARTAN III 001
Gravemind wanted to speak and have cortana listen. so cortana is excerpting quotes gravemind taught her... SHE IS SPEAKING FOR/AS GRAVEMIND PRETTY MUCH!!! She knows the covenants reasons of... and whats going to happen because graveminds been around so long and he implied knowledge to Cortana and let her in on what he knew!!! She is his shield and sword/source (its a 3rd voice over. it says I am your shield, i am your sword (voiceover-Source) thats why it sounds like swordS) meaning that only she knows what will happen!! She is the chief's most immediate source of knowledge. Gravemind told Cortana Chief's future!! and the reason the covie fleet to earth was so small in Halo 2 is because they didnt go to earth to destroy humans... EARTH IS ACTUALLY A LAST RESORT USED BY THE FORERUNNER!!!! It contains the last piece to the puzzle, not an ACTUAL Halo RING....its activated and once the covenant knows the truth and side with the chief and fill him in... its too late.... and the world ends!!!!!!!!!!! eventually...

MOST IMPORTANT CONNECTION- THE EARTH IS THE ARC THAT REMOTELY ACTIVATES ALL THE RINGS....
"So, where would one go to activate the rings then?"
343 Guilty Spark replied, "Why, the Arc... of course!".........

The eight human worlds are the more primitive "Halos" kinda like experiment 1, the halos are the final experiment before the forerunner are all wiped out... They are still alive, some escaped BTW HINT HINT!!

All the screenshots represent something important
1st pic-The activation of the arc
2nd pic- Master chief seems to be on earth but notice he's under an arc? CLUE!
3rd pic-before cortana's speech part two, hes all light and holy looking because he is the key and he will be saved!!
pic 4-2nd hint, he looks at the disc with familiarity
pic 5- cortana is protcting the chief, LIKE A SHIELD


I am your shield. I am your sword. Maybe it's a metaphor. Maybe shield means defense and sword means offence. So that means she could hold information on how to stop the world form ending.


er... that was kinda the point of the quote. you didnt think cortana would actually stab somebody.... did you?

  • 05.11.2006 7:36 PM PDT
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The trailer is cortana/gravemind showing the Chief what will happen if he fails in his mission, its a vision. I think this for a few reasons. One, at the end of Halo 2, the covenant hasnt taken over Earth yet. Two, the story this time is obviously going to pick up where Halo 2 left of, not like between Halo CE and Halo 2 where there was the book First Strike to tie things in. Three, the Covenant hate the Chief, do you really think all those Banshees would just fly straight past him without taking a few shots??? 4, as everyone has mentioned, Gravemind has foresight, and when connected to Cortana, uses her to contact the Cheif and show him this 'vision' of what will happen if he doesnt prevent this.

Just my thoughts, would be interested to hear what yas think.

  • 05.11.2006 7:51 PM PDT

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hey smart one, you know, the covenant learn the truth. they are now his ally. so hah!

  • 05.12.2006 12:19 PM PDT
Subject: I HAVE THE MEANING OF THE TRAILER!!!!!
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have you read the cortana letters? those are all quotes from the letters sent in emails "by cortana" before halo combat evolved even came out. there's gotta be a link on h.b.o somewhere. read those, then revise your theory.

  • 05.12.2006 12:27 PM PDT
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"You must face the truth squarely and without flinching from duty. Our enemies are mortal no longer. Mercy for such as they is a chimera, self-deception is its only ally. Dedicate this weapon, given unto your hand at the behest of the Emperor, to their destruction. Regard its function as your only duty: you live only to bring cleansing fire."

something i found a bit odd in cortana was the fact that she never addressed the chief. what if she wasnt talking to/about him but to someone or somthing else along with the help or influence of gravemind

  • 05.12.2006 12:29 PM PDT
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I think a lot of folk are forgetting something.
Remember the H2 trailer? MC floating in space all suiperman like but in the game he has a bomb attached. Don't forget the voice over "Some said this day would never come.......... etc etc" was from a different section of the game.
That trailer, like this one, pulls different elements from the game together and not necessarily all 100% of the parts in order to give a taste and a tease.
I'd put good money on the Cortana part of the trailer being in a completely different scene/section of the game from the MCs stroll.
Therefore she may not necessarily be speaking to MC. Her words could be out of context and therefore totally undeciferable. It might not even be Cortana as we know her.

  • 05.12.2006 12:48 PM PDT
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Omg, your theory is so pro.

You are officially famous!

  • 05.12.2006 12:54 PM PDT
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im not sure if anyone else notcied this but it seems that when the ark opens and the large flash of blue light comes out of it, it resembles the large object you can see on the level gemini....you know the thing that looks like its in the middle of a city its by the shotguns. Im not sure if this could be useful but i just tought id bring it up

[Edited on 5/12/2006]

  • 05.12.2006 1:06 PM PDT
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For some reason, I think the flood are nice :)

  • 05.12.2006 1:08 PM PDT
Subject: I HAVE THE MEANING OF THE TRAILER!!!!!
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nice, i think your right, and thanks that "i am your sheild, i am your sword" line was really bugging me- cuase i 've never finished halo 2. i dont even have it so i dont know the story.

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Posted by: SPARTAN III 001
Gravemind wanted to speak and have cortana listen. so cortana is excerpting quotes gravemind taught her... SHE IS SPEAKING FOR/AS GRAVEMIND PRETTY MUCH!!! She knows the covenants reasons of... and whats going to happen because graveminds been around so long and he implied knowledge to Cortana and let her in on what he knew!!! She is his shield and sword/source (its a 3rd voice over. it says I am your shield, i am your sword (voiceover-Source) thats why it sounds like swordS) meaning that only she knows what will happen!! She is the chief's most immediate source of knowledge. Gravemind told Cortana Chief's future!! and the reason the covie fleet to earth was so small in Halo 2 is because they didnt go to earth to destroy humans... EARTH IS ACTUALLY A LAST RESORT USED BY THE FORERUNNER!!!! It contains the last piece to the puzzle, not an ACTUAL Halo RING....its activated and once the covenant knows the truth and side with the chief and fill him in... its too late.... and the world ends!!!!!!!!!!! eventually...

MOST IMPORTANT CONNECTION- THE EARTH IS THE ARC THAT REMOTELY ACTIVATES ALL THE RINGS....
"So, where would one go to activate the rings then?"
343 Guilty Spark replied, "Why, the Arc... of course!".........

The eight human worlds are the more primitive "Halos" kinda like experiment 1, the halos are the final experiment before the forerunner are all wiped out... They are still alive, some escaped BTW HINT HINT!!

All the screenshots represent something important
1st pic-The activation of the arc
2nd pic- Master chief seems to be on earth but notice he's under an arc? CLUE!
3rd pic-before cortana's speech part two, hes all light and holy looking because he is the key and he will be saved!!
pic 4-2nd hint, he looks at the disc with familiarity
pic 5- cortana is protcting the chief, LIKE A SHIELD



Good one but what if Gravemind took Cortana and fabricated his voice with hers?
Ever considered that?

  • 05.12.2006 5:03 PM PDT
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Cortana could be going rampant, and her words could have little meaning at all.

  • 05.12.2006 5:22 PM PDT
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Right....... but Cortana may be rampid but remember she copied herself in the books what if she copied herself in Halo3 as a messenger to cheif and it died? Work with me people!

[Edited on 5/17/2006]

  • 05.13.2006 8:05 AM PDT