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"Q:
What was that crazy huge dome buried under Earth?
A :
We're not saying, but Halo fans may recognize something about its design."

Yes, the answer could mean the exterior of the Halos, but it could also mean this sketch found on Halo 2 Collector's Edition.

Your theory sounds very convincing, but still the plate tectonics are a huge problem in your theory. Even, when the Halo is constructed by such a civilization as Forerunners, the amount of sheer force and the unimaginable mass of a continent pushing and twisting a structure beneath Earth's crust will break it and 100 000 years should be enough. I hope you got the point of the previous, because I'm not that good in English.

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  • 05.13.2006 7:35 AM PDT
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I agree with the theory that humans are descendants of the Forerunners. They were they Forerunners, humans are the Reclaimers. After the Forerunners (or most of them anyway), were wiped out by the first activation of the Halos, some were left behind on the Ark (which I believe is the thing in the crater in the trailer). They eventually became humans after thousands of years. Humans are the Reclaimers, meant to reclaim the lost technology and advances of the Forerunners.

As for the Ark activating, I don't think that it was signaling the Halos to fire, nor shooting at the moon. Read what I think happened here.

  • 05.13.2006 7:35 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.

No, the blast from a Halo would not destroy its self. The blast only affects living beings suitable to carry the flood. Which excludes Johnson and the Hunters. Everyone else would be dead. zap.

  • 05.13.2006 7:46 AM PDT
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OK that is the best theory I've ever heard about Halo 3. Yet just because the flood can't consume Johnson does not mean that he would not die he is still sentient life and Halo was created to destroy all sentient life, which includes Hunters.

  • 05.13.2006 7:54 AM PDT

He got it right on the mark amzing BRILLIANT!!!

  • 05.13.2006 8:02 AM PDT
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Just remember that using only the Christian Bible as a sole influence for the Halo Story especially in reference to the Religious Arc of the Covenant or Noah's Ark as both these lost relics hold significance to Muslims, Jews and Christians alike as both these relics are mentioned and celebrated in the Qur’an, the Bible and the Torah. I think that Halo's story as explored in Halo2 with the player taking the role of the enemy, The Arbiter was to allow the player to see the other side of the story, so we new what the Covenant is fighting for and how the Covenant see Humans and to bring about an understanding. A understanding that is missing from the world today were in we have floored religions and political leaders on all sides doing their best to usher in an age of Armageddon and Jihad.

And No, I'm not religious. I believe in the Universe and the laws that govern its existence. Who needs real war when you can make cyber war :)

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  • 05.13.2006 8:13 AM PDT
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That is true.

  • 05.13.2006 8:20 AM PDT
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Amazing, great job!

  • 05.13.2006 8:36 AM PDT
Subject: Evidence The Earth Hides a Halo Under its Crust ***Updated***
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no offence, but i realy think you're looking too deeply into it, bye counting the plates? can't you just wait like everyone else does?

  • 05.13.2006 8:47 AM PDT

Good theory, but flawed.

You say that there is a Halo built under earth. You also said if it were fired that earth would be completely destroyed. However, the Halo's have been fired once before, and earth last time I checked is still intact. The only way I can think of for your theory to be true, and I say this only half jokingly, is if the Halo's regenerate themselves in a random position when destroyed. Or maybe there are 7 online Halo's, and if one is destroyed a backup one comes online.

  • 05.13.2006 8:49 AM PDT
Subject: Solid Evidence The Earth Hides a Halo Under its Crust
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Posted by: chunkyman9000
And the scarab gun is Covenant tech, right? So why would Earth have one?
Im not up to speed with all the other theories that have been posted and Ive only read the first book so dont scream at me if I get something wrong.


Yes, but covenant tech isn't covenant tech, it's forerunner tech. They looted it all. :p

  • 05.13.2006 8:49 AM PDT
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Posted by: Havoc208
Yes, but covenant tech isn't covenant tech, it's forerunner tech. They looted it all. :p


Covenant is imitative, but that doesn't mean that they don't develope their findings. The Scarab's main gun (which is btw used to dig tunnels, not to kill people) can be result of Covie developing their findings. They do have their own race for being the brains with technology, Engineers.

Halo Empire, have you considered, that the "flower" opening in the trailer might be more likely the Ark, than a part of a Halo's exterior?

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  • 05.13.2006 8:59 AM PDT
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isnt it wierd that the covenant think that earth is very important? they didnt expect to find humanity on earth(see halo2) maybe it is a control room of all the halos

  • 05.13.2006 9:07 AM PDT
Subject: Evidence The Earth Hides a Halo Under its Crust ***Updated***
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I think that it might be the ark.. hey but you never can be sure... you could be on something here. Like your reasons, so i dont fully doubt your idea's. Nice going.

  • 05.13.2006 9:13 AM PDT
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Posted by: Wick3d Monkey
isnt it wierd that the covenant think that earth is very important? they didnt expect to find humanity on earth(see halo2) maybe it is a control room of all the halos


It isn't that weird that Covenant thinks Earth is important :P We've just seen it: Earth is more important than any of us could've realized.
Yes, the shooting dome in the ground is more than likely the place to remote activate all Halos - or at least that's what I think. It has so much resemblance to the Halo 2: Collector's Editon's "Ark-sketch", that it almost has to be the Ark.

If you haven't seen the sketch, go here.

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  • 05.13.2006 9:17 AM PDT
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I dont believe that there is a Halo under the earth's crust. I believe that the moon, or some other heavenly body that passes over Voi, is the Ark and the structure on earth is designed to reveal it. I have a program on my computer that tracks the location and movement of stars, planets, and our moon from any location on earth. I looked up the latitude and longitude of Voi and put them into the program. I looked straight up, in the direction that the structure would fire. I sped up time and ran an entire year and found that the moon passes directly over Voi about 4 times a year. So the idea that the moon is the arc could work. As to how the covenant knew that/ figured that out, i dont know, unless the information was in the computers of the other halo's. This would explain why the covenant ships were leaving in a hurry...they were heading for the moon. Now in the movie, you can't see if the moon is above Voi because of the storm, but the way the storm is orbitting directly above the middle of the structure, it is definitely going to fire at something passing over Voi. Whatever it fires at is either going to be the ark or reveal exactly where the ark is.

  • 05.13.2006 9:21 AM PDT
Subject: Evidence The Earth Hides a Halo Under its Crust ***Updated***
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Some one has tooooo much time on his hands..... I KNOW! i'll go dig and find out if your telling the truth

  • 05.13.2006 9:26 AM PDT
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thanx me800...it wasn't much time at all...i had the program on my computer from school and i simulated and entire year in 5 minutes.

  • 05.13.2006 9:28 AM PDT
Subject: Solid Evidence The Earth Hides a Halo Under its Crust
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I think that the thing we saw in the trailer wasn't Ark, because Bungie is rarely known for showing us vital parts of their story lines. It was probably the entrence into the Ark. I like the theory of a Forerunner facility or artifact being inside the Earth, but maybe the giant beam thingy that we saw in the trailer was like a huge gravity lift that brought you to the actual control room of the Ark. Before you say I'm wrong, think about the fact that recent studies have shown the moon to have once contained some sort of life, as remnants of water were found on the surface of the moon. Consider that while the thing was opening, above it, clouds were drawn together in a sort of hurricane way and a hole jutted out in them. In the weekly update, there is a question about the clouds, and the responce is that it was some sort of never-before-encountered seething subatomic energies did that, and then the last few seconds before the black out in the trailer, the blue light seemed to jut upward in a flash of light. Also, the core of the Earth has molten lava but in the very centre there is some sort of hard ball of some metal material. It could be a power source that energizes the giant grav lift.

Look, maybe I'm wrong, but I believe that the thing we saw was a connection beam to something that will be very important later on. Maybe to the Ark, maybe to the north pole, for all I know.

In conclusion (this feels like a school essay), I think that the thing is either a grav lift that leads upward, into the Ark maybe, or it goes down into the earth where, like Halo Empire said, might be something like a Halo or the Ark.

Comments and/or critisism welcome.

  • 05.13.2006 9:29 AM PDT
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a quiet interesting theory i like it. but remember, the halos have already been fired once, so why isnt earth gone.

  • 05.13.2006 9:30 AM PDT
Subject: Evidence The Earth Hides a Halo Under its Crust ***Updated***
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I would have to say that no one has ever seen what happens to the outside surface of a Halo when it fires, for that matter no one has ever seen what happens when a halo fires full stop. So all this talk of it firing from the centre outward is based solely on the cut scene at the end of Halo2. Physically speaking these domes would have to fire as well or otherwise there would be a blind spot effect with no coverage of whatever type of emission comes from the Halo's. Unless of course it fires some sort of neutrino resonating wave front that is attuned to the frequency of protein stings (what DNA is made from) in order to destroy all life in its range. Neutrinos pass through all known matter as if it were empty space and these rays were an emission characteristic from Crystal of Reach mentioned in “First Strike”. Normally Neutrinos won't do anything to anybody though we humans have never been able to alter any of their characteristics so maybe the Forerunners worked that out and made this normal physical phenomenon into a weapon. AlsoThe control rooms on the Halo’s are in only one location for each Halo. So if these domes also act as access into the core of a Halos superstructure this would support the theory for the need to unearth just the one dome located closest to the library then the Covenant after recovering the index could use a single Phantom Troop Carrier to navigate the inner conduit systems of Halo to access the Control Room and with help from a lone human prisoner they could then activate our Halo.

  • 05.13.2006 9:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: seth247
a quiet interesting theory i like it. but remember, the halos have already been fired once, so why isnt earth gone.


Because the Halos have some sort of energy explosion that kills sentient life. In other words, the activation of the Halos theoritically shouldn't have any effect on landscape, other wise, if they did have that effect, then they wouldnt exist anymore. They were already used, as Penitant Tangient said that Delta Halo have about 3 million test activations and ONE actual. So they have been used.

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Great reasoning and solid use of facts, but I can't buy it for many of the reasons stated above.

That being said, the whole moon concept is a bit ridiculous as well. Granted, it would be cool as crap to play a few levels on the moon, but think about the logistics.

You need to get to the ark now; the ark is in the moon; the moon doesn't pass overhead for another two months; crap, screwed that one up.

Of course the structure resembles Delta Halo; both were constructed by the Forerunners.

And for everyone who has said that humans are Forerunners... you're WRONG, Bungie has all but said that humans are not Forerunners, and some simple logic on the matter proves that point definitively. I'm not saying that Forerunners didn't have a say in our evolution, or that they didn't put a genetic marker in some or all humans, or whatever (I actually believe that humans were a slave race to Forerunners, but I'm not retyping that theory here), but Forerunners were NOT HUMAN.

Finally, what would be the point of building or placing a Halo inside Earth's crust? Your theory of it guaranteeing use of the Halos in last resort measures doesn't work for several reasons. First, Forerunners weren't human and clearly did not call Earth home. Second, Earth is within at least Alpha Halo's firing range and probably others, so having one on Earth is moot (if you really want proof of this I can get you a link to a great theory on the matter... actually, not even a theory, a fact analysis).

Solid work, great analysis, but I disagree.

  • 05.13.2006 9:34 AM PDT
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This is impossible
Read my topic
http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=6926454

  • 05.13.2006 9:36 AM PDT
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Posted by: icantfindaname
Great reasoning and solid use of facts, but I can't buy it for many of the reasons stated above.

That being said, the whole moon concept is a bit ridiculous as well. Granted, it would be cool as crap to play a few levels on the moon, but think about the logistics.

You need to get to the ark now; the ark is in the moon; the moon doesn't pass overhead for another two months; crap, screwed that one up.

Of course the structure resembles Delta Halo; both were constructed by the Forerunners.

And for everyone who has said that humans are Forerunners... you're WRONG, Bungie has all but said that humans are not Forerunners, and some simple logic on the matter proves that point definitively. I'm not saying that Forerunners didn't have a say in our evolution, or that they didn't put a genetic marker in some or all humans, or whatever (I actually believe that humans were a slave race to Forerunners, but I'm not retyping that theory here), but Forerunners were NOT HUMAN.

Finally, what would be the point of building or placing a Halo inside Earth's crust? Your theory of it guaranteeing use of the Halos in last resort measures doesn't work for several reasons. First, Forerunners weren't human and clearly did not call Earth home. Second, Earth is within at least Alpha Halo's firing range and probably others, so having one on Earth is moot (if you really want proof of this I can get you a link to a great theory on the matter... actually, not even a theory, a fact analysis).

Solid work, great analysis, but I disagree.


Well, regret wanted was on Earth and he probably wanted to activate the Ark, but since the moon wasn't in the right position, he couldn't do it so he resorted to activating Delta Halo, 'cept MC stopped him. But maybe I'm wrong, maybe the grav lift leads somewhere else than the moon. I do admit that the moon thing is a tad far-fetched.

  • 05.13.2006 9:39 AM PDT