- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I've said it once on my space, and i'll say it again: Halo 3, in summation.
Ok, so I figured I'd get to writing a big thing on the Halo series, the bestseller on the Xbox, because I would, indeed, like to figure out what the plot of the third one will be. Yes, I'm both a nerd and a loser, but I've resigned myself to that already, and you don't need to inform me of it.
For a start, Halo is the story of Noah's Ark, or a derivative of such a story. This can be inferred from any number of ways, such as the fact that you are fighting the Flood and the Covenant. And, at this time, I realize that fighting the Covenant may seem to be in opposition to what both would be best for us and what God wanted us to do, I trust that you'll continue reading until the end, because it will be explained later. In addition to this reason, there's the fact that the Master Cheif, or Noah, and his wife, Cortana, were the only ones to survive the destruction of the first Halo. However, if one had read the Halo books, one would discover that there was a Pelican with a few soldiers (including Sargent Johnson, which is why he becomes a hero in Halo 2) remaining in Halo's remains, which had slipped beyond Cortana's scan because it was not moving.
In addition to these points, there's also the fact that to destroy the Flood, one must activate the ring and sacrifice all life in the universe. However, at the end of Halo 2, when the Master Chief asks 343 Guilty Spark where the Prophet of Truth is heading in his Forrunner starship, Guilty Spark responds with "why, the Ark, of course." And, as I'm sure most of you remember, the Ark is what saved all of humanity in the first place. In addition, with the release of the Halo 3 announcement trailer, we get a glimpse of the Ark itself, a giant UFO-like object embedded into the Earth's crust.
As can be seen from the Brute ursurpation and the fact that Johnson teams up with the Arbiter in the final level of Halo 2, the series will most likely end up with the Elites and the humans joining together to defeat the Flood, presumably by activating the Halo again. Also, with the fact that Bungie wouldn't like to support an annahilation on a galactic scale, the humans, who had been at this point losing the war, would join with the Elites and rally to victory over the Flood, even if it means retreating to the Ark. This would effectively create a covenant between the two races, showing that they were in the fold of the species that were destined to survive the Flood.
However, I'd like to go off on a limb with this story. Suppose that since the Forerunner were the first to discover and be overrun by the Flood, that the Forerunner were the objects of Noah's Ark, and that the Forerunner saved 2 of every species in the galaxy and took them to the Ark. After they brought all the species into the Ark, they activated the Halo, effectively destroying the Flood. The Halo games would effectively show a second story, one that occurred far after the story of Noah's Ark. An extension of the Bible, if you will.
Or even, suppose that the humans are the Forerunner. That would explain why the Covenant hierarchs wanted complete extinction of the human race and would not settle for any negotiations, because the Covenant Prophets want to have supereme power over the galaxy. Plus, it would make sense that the Forerunner would have their home planet be the location of the Ark, both for convenience and for if ever the Flood should return again. Also, the Covenant are said to be "immitative, and not innovative," which would explain why they seek Forerunner relics with an insane desire.
In any case, this has been my first draft of my Halo paper, and I intend to revise it a few times. ...Well, it's about time for me to be hitting the old dusty trail.