Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect
:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.
343 tells Johnson that The Ark is on Earth. Obviously it's only the Portal. As 343 says on The Ark, the Forerunners limited his, and each monitors, knowledge on other installations, so he obviously couldn't have known exactly where the Ark was, nor that the entrance was on Earth.
Virgil tells him what exactly it is the Covenant are looking for, and where it's located exactly since 343 was with the Carrier Shadow of Intent. Humanity had no idea that the entrance to The Ark was underneath New Mombasa, and that's why the Covenant were committing practically all their forces there.