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Subject: Solid Evidence The Earth Hides a Halo Under its Crust
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I have to disagree with your logic on this halo ring under Earth;s crust and all. It would make sense but think about it a lil bit more. At the end of halo 2, what is it the oracle orb of light flashing said to the arbiter on where to activate halo? "Why, the ark". yes yes, that could still be a ring, but that would seem a waste of the forerunners time and power.... unless of course forerunners=humans........heres my thoughts...

...anywho, that glowing thing would more than likely be the ark, where the activation key thing needed to activated halo is. In the faith of the Jewish people, excuse me if i have this wrong, cant find page that says this in my book anymore, but it says that the ark was a box that held the 10 commandments...Please correct me if im wrong but i so far have a good memory....

...so to this, i say that the structure is the ark, and that the excevation covenant team peeps are only there to find the thing needed, then bring it back to the covenant leaders for activation...

..also, just because something has the word arc in it, doesnt mean its related, it would more than likely be a way that bungie came up with names or somethin, or even when antartica was named itself....

Lets go to the webster's.......

artic-- pertaining to the regions about the north pole; frigid; cold
Ark---A chest; a large floating vessel
Antarctic--- relating to the south pole or to regions near it

That puts in first that ark is spelled with a K not a c, and that it is either a forerunner ship that will come out of that thing in the trailer, or that the forerunner ship that was launched from the covenant homeship thing is the key. But even though thinking they relate is stupid, Cortana has been thought to be related to the angel Kortana. K for a C, C for a K........

one of bungies first games was pong named backwards, just a thought but... maybe they have something backwards here too....
olah?
anatroc?
i'll stop now...

...also, as you said that"Also remember in the Forerunner Installation under the old titanium mines of Menachite Mountain mentioned in First Strike. The Master Chief and the other Spartans Trained for most of their lives in this area of Reach and apart from possibly a few ONI agents no one ever new about this Installations existence, not even Dr Halsey Who’s Spartan program was situated in the ONI Installation built above and amidst the titanium mines under the Menachite Mountain."
We have never seen Master chief without his helmet, and it has been well hidden. I'd like to put a simular topic from another post of mine that possibly, he, is, a forerunner? It could explain why in utmost secretcy, the spartans trained in that area.

..Sorry i havent read the books yet if this is already known as false to you, but i'd also like to say that at the beginning of halo 2, MC says to the guy next to him, in almost an annoyed way,"you told me there wouldnt be any cameras", he probally just hates them but its a thought theres somethin there....

......HaLo iS believed to blow up everything, clensing the world, destroying the flood, and sending the worthy to the paradise of which they believe. but if halo WAS activated, forerunners dead, flood suddenly larger?, or halo was actually not, in fact activated, and the forerunners travelled to Earth, which was one of the few inahbitable planets out of the reach of the flood, then joining into humanity, or just being captured by humanity maybe, and made into the spartans we know and praise today...


Overall....im just pickin at your theory and namin my own, i did like yours a bit though, except the part that its a ring, i think that parts wrong, but in a few short words, forerunners=humanity, the thing in the trailer is the ark, the thing in the trailer looks like the one in the coveant home ship(hence the thing the guy said we'd know), the chick is a dude, master chief might be a forerunner, humanity is just about doomed, and i think either halo will be activated or the flood will take over the covenant and humanity. GRAVEMINDS THE FORERUNNERS NOW maybe....

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  • 05.13.2006 6:05 AM PDT
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That's right. My plumage is brighter than yours.

Halo Empire, I applaud you. Neither I nor our old Eagle_117 could have come up with a better theory.

  • 05.13.2006 6:07 AM PDT

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Well your logic works out, the town of Voi has some rather familiar looking hills behind it, & if you can estimate that sise of the dome/crater, then you cane pretty much line up the entire scene in the distance between the outskirts of Mombasa & Voi. So if this is right, Master Chief is walking through the ruins of Voi & the remains of the space tether are sitting on the outskirts of Voi on the edge of the hills.

here, look at how the wreckage lines up with the hills behind Voi. Done in Google Earth.

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  • 05.13.2006 6:08 AM PDT
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thats amazing. I bet bungie are crazy to know someone may have cracked their puzzle

  • 05.13.2006 6:11 AM PDT

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I doubt it. Bungie can be devious in many a crazy & spurious way

  • 05.13.2006 6:14 AM PDT
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you know i heard that theory from my stupid friend

  • 05.13.2006 6:24 AM PDT
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Posted by: EliteSlapPer
Isnt it interesting that delta halo has a land mass on it which very closly resembles Africa?
i think that was just what they used as a picture so we could see the HEV's re-entry. i don't think we were supposed to notice it was the same as africa.

  • 05.13.2006 6:25 AM PDT

I hate to burst everyones bubble...but there are 7 halos, there was a map of them with the first Halo 2 flash site, Earth was on there, but there were 7 halos too.

Good theory however, alot of research done on it.

  • 05.13.2006 6:27 AM PDT

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Perhaps its not a halo at all. but something much more important & mysterious...

  • 05.13.2006 6:28 AM PDT
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Posted by: DuBbLe_U_tOo
Perhaps its not a halo at all. but something much more important & mysterious...
Like say... i dunno... the ark?

  • 05.13.2006 6:40 AM PDT
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good ideas

  • 05.13.2006 6:42 AM PDT

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I'd say so. but it could be anything at this stage

  • 05.13.2006 6:43 AM PDT

this theory sounds good but when u think about it a couple of things dont make sense one the structure isnt deep enough to have been undiscovered and reaserched also even if humans hadnt found it geological process over thousands of years would have either destroyed it or uncovered it in some areas.

if u think about what global mapings like just now in another 500 years the whole planet would have been thouraly maped out even the oceans.

  • 05.13.2006 6:44 AM PDT
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have you actually thought about if many halos were formed together to form a sphere, which was sued for soemone to build the earth, like fixing rings together to amke a ball,

  • 05.13.2006 6:48 AM PDT
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Posted by: FInnallyHalo3
Halo Empire got it. It makes total sense and about the plate tectonics. If the forerunners could build articicial worlds(The Halos) along with having to fight the flood and also them being billions of years ahead of technology they've already porbably learned how to predict plate movement along with completly securing the halo under Earth against the movement.

Anyway I mainly agree with Empire Halo due to the ,that's kind of what I've been thinking and with Empires theory and evidence i've decided what i'll say.

In the first Halo I think that while the covenant where exploring Halo they found a map of another Halo. So they probably called the prophets(I know the prophets weren't ever mentioned in the first Halo but since you see High Charity in the beggining of Halo2 probably a day or so after Halo's destruction the prophets would of had to have been there.) Anyway they called for the prophets and showed prophet Mercy this map. After Halo's destruction the Soliders that showed Mercy the map had either been killed by the explosion or massaacured by flood. After that Mercy was on his own so with the map of the other Halo and around 15 ships of a covenant excavation ships they moved to this Halo.Once there though they discovered that we were there. A fully devoloped planet of the heritcs. Now I think we were stumbled on by accident. The forces we at the end of H2 are the reinfrocements Mercy probably asked for. Anyway, after they landed the covenant had to secure the city since it was actually on top of a control center. Like what we see in the H3 trailer and the last cutscene of H2. At the beach of outskirts when Cortana says "The heaveist concentration of men is directly beneath the ship, I guess they don't want you on board." It really means that they don't want to be interupted form their holy work on this new Earth Halo. Along with the fact that they don't want the master Cheif to blow it up(that is a really big fear of theirs now isn't it). Once they finished their work their they probably found another map which leads me to beleive that each Halo leads to another Halo so the reclaimer has no trouble finding and activating the rings if the cordinates ever become lost which did happen. Anyway once they found Earth Halo they also found a map to Delta Halo which is where they jumped too and this can be proved since what would the chances be of them jumping straight to a Halo if they guessed meaning they would have had to have found a map. Also since there's this Earth Halo, like what Empire Halo said chances are the arc is there since well pretty much what Empire Halo said.

But the thing with the Prophet of Mercy-wasn't he killed by a Flood infection by In Amber Clad, and Truth told the Brutes to leave him to die?
He looked dead to me...

  • 05.13.2006 6:55 AM PDT
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XBladeSpartan exactly. Thats the way the halos are in dormant form before activation.

  • 05.13.2006 6:57 AM PDT
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This is a good theory, but I have several problems with it. Namely ARCtic/antARCtic. First of all, ark is spelled with a K, not a C so that changes the meaning from the Hebrew word for "basket" of "container" to the modern english word that names a certain part in the ring of a circle. Also humans named these places without knowledge of any Forrunner technology below the surface of their world. You could also want to look into weather or not Reach had an asteroid belt nearby. Afterthought: why would they glass Reach if it had a Halo in it, but not Earth? I know they didn't glass it right away, but they've been on Earth for about the same amount of time.

  • 05.13.2006 7:05 AM PDT
Subject: Solid Evidence The Earth Hides a Halo Under its Crust ***Theory Upd...
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Just thought I would let every one know following this thread that I have updated my original post with some new comparrisons from the Halo novel "First Strike" especially info about the Crystal of Reach and its possible function in line with this theory. Worth checking out.

  • 05.13.2006 7:05 AM PDT
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Posted by: Elaxel Terra
EDIT:
It was built there because if there was no life in the Universe there would be nothing to live it, its there cuz they made teh mistake by experimenting with life, they created teh flood and needed something to wipe them out whilst preserving life, so thats why they built the main Halos and one with a planet they made for it so the life on earth has a shield and a sword


Cortana says she's your shield, your sword.Maybe the Gravemind sent her to that halo in earth to activate it and destroy something, maybe the ark itself?(I don't mean activate the halo, but its defence systems against spaceships, if it has those)

[Edited on 5/13/2006]

  • 05.13.2006 7:06 AM PDT
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There is no, "SOLID PROOF." We have only seen a trailer and VERY little info from bungie. It is a no brainer that the huge thing is probably the Ark.

  • 05.13.2006 7:09 AM PDT
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Posted by: ghostvirus
Actually it looks and sounds like a very large scarab primary gun. Also it never seems to amaze me how in october 2004 joseph staten the head of cinimatics stated the forerunners don't remain in our galaxy any longer and eyt people still say humans are the forerunners. You ARE NOT A FANboi. Every person that has ever been in the forums have said or thought atleast once we are the forerunners which is enough proof to me we not. Then we have a bungie staff member say this.

The point is it's a large scarab gun . Notice the things around the side and the hole in the middle resemble a large scarab gun and it has the same sound but louder then a scarab gun. It doesn't look like a halo at all halos have no middle. Ask any of the "elders" of plot theorization many months ago came to the conclusion that the scarab gun was a mining tool. Which makes sense based on what an actual scarab it. It's firing at the moon and it is going to uncover a ship. THAT ship is the ark . You seem to forget about noahs ark and in there the ark being a ship. Also halos are disks that fly over the head of angels and the halos from halo float over planets not inside planets.

P.S some people have a hard time using logic to make comparisions the thing showed us what halo we were on and in halo 2 were on the second smallest halo. The first smallest is maybe 3/4 of the one were on. That was 3 miles wide and in no way resembled a halo.

that really is too farfetched to work, because if you haven't noticed, the scarab gun is a COVENANT weapon, and this is a FORERUNNER device....
so ...
NO

  • 05.13.2006 7:20 AM PDT

Q. What do you get when you add 1 man, 1 car, and 1 rocket built for a jet?

A. A black smudge on the side of a cliff.

Now, why would the halo have to be INSIDE earth? Think about it this way; not a halo in earth, but earth IS a halo. Would there just be some panel you could walk up to and push a button to end all life in the universe? I think that would be much more convineint.

  • 05.13.2006 7:23 AM PDT
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I have some theories that agree with Halo Empire's theory...
a) There are seven known rings, but who's to say the Forerunners didn't conceal another one, a last resort, inside the Earth? I mean they probably thought they'd be around to activate it, but then they blew themselves up. And where better a place to hide a huge ring that can cause destruction on a galactic scale than inside a planet?
b) This is a long and highly unlikely theory, but maybe a rebel who knew the Forerunners were going to die if they activated a ring, hid inside the Ark before the detonation of the ring that destroyed the Forerunners, seeing as the Ark could be not only a huge remote control for the Halo's but also a sanctuary which was immune to even the blast of one of the rings. Then that lone rebel moved one of the seven rings to the inside of the Earth after the cutscene at the end of Halo 2, trying to stop it being found and detonated. The last Forerunner then plans to do the same to the rest the rings, but needs to charge up more energy from a giant power source, possibly the Ark, before doing so, because moving 6 huge rings millions of lightyears across space needs more than a few AA batteries, right?
c) This is just another thing on my "More than seven Halo's theory", and is highly more likely than the first one(although still fairly crazy), but at the end of Halo 2, you actually see seven UNDAMAGED rings, and we know that one of the rings, the one that the MC destroyed in Halo: CE is torn to pieces and is floating across the galaxy. And how about the ring the Forerunners activated? The blast it created must have been pretty big, maybe big enough to destroy the Halo it was fired from. So thats two rings we can be pretty sure are completely destroyed. Like I said, the hologram in the ending cutscene showed seven unharmed rings, so maybe they are seven OTHER rings, and they do not include the two rings aforementioned.
d) Another one of my stupid theories, but this one is quite likely. Maybe the construct we see in the Halo 3 trailer, is not another Halo (although that said, I do agree with Halo Empire) but in fact another Library, and the artifact the Covenant are looking for is an Index, as the rings are useless without the Index's.


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My feeling is that, rather than having a halo under the crust, there is the dome, I think that due to the shape and moving-ness of the dome it being a halo would be improbable. As 343, at the end of halo 2 said that one would have to go to the ark to activate all of the halos then logically the arc, as (I believe) we se here, could not be a halo.

  • 05.13.2006 7:24 AM PDT
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I don't think that there is an actual Halo in the Earths crust, i just think that there is some place where u can activate the rings on Earth.

  • 05.13.2006 7:27 AM PDT