- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
If the Forerunner artifact is the Ark...
My theory is that when Truth's ship jumped into slipspace from the centre of New Mombasa, he knew that the Ark's location was just there.
The jump ripped all manner of skyscrapers into slipspace along with them, and in doing so also excavated the Ark from deep underground, ripping the soil from the earth.
Other evidence to support this is what appears to be the rings surrounding the massive tower in New Mombasa collapsed in this location.
The reason these sections of the tower were not sucked into slipspace is because they were more than 3 miles up and were simply able to fall to the ground after the lower portion of the tower was whisked away.
Of course, what is only a 3 mile radius of the hole surely does not cover the entire city-centre, and that is the major hole in my theory. Of course, it is still plausible, seeing as how the Mombasa megalopolis was left "all but destroyed"... or so Bungie says.
[Edited on 5/12/2006]