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Subject: Acknowledgement lights

You may actually be onto something. I looked at that multiple times and it dose not happen again throughout the trailer. Then he nods. Thats interesting.

I do actually expect a return of spartans but nothing can be said until the game comes out.

I have heard that Eric Nylund is writing his next Halo book but I'm not sure. I hope it comes out soon (meaning not after Halo 3) . I'm dieing to read it. Mayby it will let us eliminate some plot possibilities.

Edit: disregard what I said about it not happening again throughout the trailer. It dose. That spot in his visor in particular flashes 2 more times and then the middle of his visor (alittle to the left) flases twice in succession as well.

Although I'm thinking that that was probably just lighting (the nod still gets to me alittle) I still believe (unless the next book disproves that) there will be more spartans in Halo 3.

Also this is just a trailer. It probably will have nothing to do with the game itself.

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  • 06.16.2006 12:56 AM PDT
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He doesn't nod

  • 06.16.2006 1:00 AM PDT

LOL, did you even watch the trailer? He clearly dose a nodding motion with his head.

  • 06.16.2006 1:03 AM PDT
Subject: I FOUND A HUGE CLUE READ THIS!!!
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Posted by: Malevolent29
i remember seeing that in the news post, but i doubt it was intentionally pulled

but it's possible that they took it off for alternative reasons



1. What 'alternate' reasons would there be for pulling such 'harmless' questions.

2. Isn't the real interesting thing that they actually DID remove the questions in the first place?

  • 06.16.2006 2:12 AM PDT
Subject: Acknowledgement lights
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Posted by: RecurngNightmar
LOL, did you even watch the trailer? He clearly dose a nodding motion with his head.


What second does he nod, so i can look at it again

  • 06.16.2006 2:37 AM PDT
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Q

I spotted an Easter Egg in the trailer after I watched it a few times. How do you explain that?
A

The New Mombasa City Council had an incredibly efficient public works department until and even during the tragic and devastating Covenant invasion.


Anyone know what this means???

  • 06.16.2006 2:45 AM PDT
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I aways thought that it wasnt a covenant flying the Phantom. Because if you look close it was really close to hitting the ground where the cliff starts. It was probably inches away. A covenant could have flown the ship better. So I thought it was either Flood or Human (spartan or not.)

  • 06.16.2006 3:03 AM PDT
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Posted by: DocRobotnik
Q

I spotted an Easter Egg in the trailer after I watched it a few times. How do you explain that?
A

The New Mombasa City Council had an incredibly efficient public works department until and even during the tragic and devastating Covenant invasion.


Anyone know what this means???


Its talking about the grunt sign. It just a joke bungie put in. IT says that even when the covenant were attacking earth the efficient public works department continued to er you know do their job and hehe put up grunt signs...wait wtf am i explaining this its just a freaking easter egg

  • 06.16.2006 3:09 AM PDT
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Posted by: Spartan 7
Posted by: RecurngNightmar
LOL, did you even watch the trailer? He clearly dose a nodding motion with his head.


What second does he nod, so i can look at it again


I think they mean 1:03 into the trailer. And it's hardly a nod, just looks as though he is straightening up his posture. And it is lightning in his visor because you can see the storm in the reflection and lightning coming from it and when you see the storm for real there is also flash from there. No acknowledgement lights!!!!

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I still can't beleive that the whole area in the trailer is gonna be playable, that is one yuge battlefield, I heard about 5 miles!!!!!!!

  • 06.16.2006 3:15 AM PDT
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Where was that said? I must have missed it. Can someone provide a link for me?

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Posted by: Spartan 7
I still can't beleive that the whole area in the trailer is gonna be playable, that is one yuge battlefield, I heard about 5 miles!!!!!!!


actually 13 miles, go watch the documentary and they actually explain it somewhere about that

  • 06.16.2006 5:53 AM PDT
Subject: I FOUND A HUGE CLUE READ THIS!!!
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HAloGawd your are the most optimistic idiotic person I've met in a while. THEIR ARE NO SPARTANS IN THE BANSHEES IN FACT IF YOU LOOK CLOSLY THERES NOT I N THEM ADN THE Q&A IS STILL THERE. That shoudl get you attention,Ha!

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  • 06.16.2006 7:31 AM PDT
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Or maybe the bansees are on auto pilot? We may never know till 07.

  • 06.16.2006 9:42 AM PDT
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Posted by: Darth V8R
I thought Bungie said that those books have nothing to do with the Halo story(from XBOX and XBOX 360). So, why is everyone reverting to the books? I'm sorry dude, I don't believe your theory.


True. I heard them say that, too. I do not believe this out-of-game theory.

  • 06.16.2006 9:55 AM PDT
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  • 06.16.2006 10:35 AM PDT
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Posted by: HaLoGaWd
ok i was reading the update a couple of minutes before it came out and i found a huge clue. there were 2 questions, 1 that was about the arbiter returning, and the other was about the banshee pilots in the trailer being revealed..but as i just read the update again not 1 minute ago it didnt have those q and a's in there...coincidence?? i think not i think that they removed them only after a couple of people saw it so that the whole population didnt get that clue..

post in this thread if u have ne questions or theories about this

personally i think the arbiter is definitaly back and that those banshee pilots are the other spartans (another clue to this is that they dont shoot at MC and that the music has an allied sound to it..almost triuphant..or at first it does..plus the banshees are transporting some1 or something in that phantom)

How could the banshee pilots be other spartans? If they were, the covenant cruisers would attack them.


The Covenant Cruisers don't have miniture guns to fire upon small targets. Only Huge ones to go against huge ships.

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THE MASTER CHEIF IS THE LAST REMAINING SPARTAN.... THE GAME IS BASED ON THIS SOLE FACT.

  • 06.16.2006 10:49 AM PDT
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What if there are new spartans on earth and they were in the banshees. they were not trasporting anything. the were just trying to move in under cover a a banshee. they are trying to infiltrate the covenant shipps and kill truth.

  • 06.16.2006 11:36 AM PDT
Subject: more info
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The music when mc sees "the arc" is the same as the music in the Silent Cartographer when assaulting the beach. Also, the banshees that shot down Foehammer in The Maw didn't have visible drivers in them either.

  • 06.16.2006 1:31 PM PDT
Subject: I FOUND A HUGE CLUE READ THIS!!!
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Ok, the reasong the covies didnt shoot at the spartans is simple. The spartans were using banshees for stealth, and the covenant didnt know it was tem. However, I have to disagree with the theory. Even if spartans were in the banshees, you'd still see their feet. The more likely thing is that the banshees saw the MC, but didnt care. Afterall, they appeared to be on guard duty of that drop ship, and figured the MC couldnt really damage them anyway.

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Posted: 5/13/2006 11:02 AM
ya i looked at the flashing lights theory and how he nods after three lihts flash as if he is saying something BUT that means there are only the 3 other sparttans,,maybe there is something more to these banshees maybe there are new characters that we have yet to find out........look at the trailer again and between 1:02 and 1:06 look at the upper left heand corner of his visor u see 3 lights flash and then he nods... _____________________________________________________________ _______________but were r the lights being made from if the spartans r in the banshees no i think that light ur talking about is lightning from the hole in the sky reflecting off mc visor and when he nods i think it just him pulling up his gun and straigthin his pose

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  • 06.16.2006 2:02 PM PDT
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i think i figured it all out see the reason why the banshees dont shoot mc is because they are probably elites that are loyal to the arbitir (and if they are loyal to the arbitir then they are allied with the humans) and that phantom in the background being escorted by the banshees(more elites in the banshees) could be the aribitir, keyes, and johnson and the cruisur that seen it the background could be the one the spc ops leader recaptured from the brutes. and they are probably not being shoot at because they are tryin to be steathy that probably y they dont get the cheif. also if the spec ops leader did recapture the cruiser that is how the arbitir keyes and johnson got to earth

think about it it makes sense espacially if bungie said that they are not using anything from the books and this theory uses nothing from the books only stuff from the game

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  • 06.16.2006 2:16 PM PDT
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lol, the part your talking about is when some asked

Q: What characters are in Halo 3? (something to that effect)

A: well obviously the master chief, cortana and few banshee pilots.

The last part is a joke just for those who didnt spot it. That is the only metion of banshee pilots, this forum needs to be closed, lol. Although, i will give you that the idea was cool. The pilots being allis is intrueing, but not likly. The conventant probobly dont care because the master chief isnt even near the facility. not to mention the cliff.

  • 06.16.2006 3:44 PM PDT
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Well, I've been quietly reading this for a while, I like the people who try to tie everything together, but honestly, if you don't believe these theories, or dislike anyone's W.A.G.'s then go entertain yourself elsewhere, rather than blaring mindless insults in l33t speak.

Also, perhaps it was a joke, but maybe they mentioned the Banshee pilots because there are no visible pilots in the banshees, to help draw attention to the otherwise negligible detail.

I agree with Captain Keyes being quite dead, however the flood that inhabited him, may still be alive, having sufficiently sapped Keyes of his thoughts and memories before the arrival of the chief.

The argument concerning High Charity being immobile, is not that it has always been immobile, but rather since the city was using the Forerunner ship as a power source it became immobile once the ship disengaged. In Amber Clad crashed, but did not detonate, therefore it's engines must still be operational. Perhaps it's slipstream drive was disabled?

The main question of this thread is "Why were the questions removed shortly after being posted?"

The general consensus seems to be that there are 9 banshees, and 7 confirmed living Spartans. As well as the chief, who's currently... well... grounded.

The trailer is (supposedly) taken from a third of the way through the game, slipspace would allow some message to arrive to the other elites on Earth that civil war had broken out and the humans could be considered allies. That would not negate Covenant control of Earth, Brutes remain apeish bad-asses.

The flashes on Master Chief's visor were lightning according to a computer graphics student in another thread, unless there is a smaller flash of light within it, that I'm not noticing. Someone mentioned a rectangular image that I just don't see. However, it is undeniable that the Master Chief makes a negligible nod. However, "the apparently negligible" seems to be Bungie's calling card.

The flood were collecting bodies, and the Gravemind on Delta Halo is supposed to be an assemblage of the Flood's victim's. The fashion of the flood that inhabited Captain Keyes did seem unique, as does the Gravemind, and nowhere else did it mention that the flood were collecting bodies. The proximity seems interesting to me.

Bungie has been able to introduce characters from the books into Halo 2 with little confusion, and without affecting the quality of gameplay for the illiterate. Case in point: the Helljumpers.

Miranda Keyes and the Arbiter were introduced main characters, as well as Tartarus and the Gravemind, did that confuse anyone too much? If not, I see no reason why Bungie can't tie in another subplot, add new characters and bring in a few people from the books.

I've babbled long enough, I'll add more when I return.

  • 06.16.2006 4:25 PM PDT