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Subject: So the artifact on Earth could be "The Arc", so.... what ...

Away from XBOX LIVE until both Doom 4 and Bungie's new game are released. The Flood will consume you.

In Halo 2, Guilty Spark claims in order to remote activate the other installations (Halo's), the arc must be found, and then the almighty Arbitor walks up behind Johnson and Miranda and asks, "...and where Oracle, is that?"

Im just speculating, but did the Prophet of Regret only make that small Covenant fleet land in Mombassa to claim this Forerunner artifact? It is, after all, the only place they decided to land. Tada! But no really, whats gonna happen when its activated and everything we, or at least we in 2556, is destroyed just to stop the Flood?

  • 05.15.2006 8:30 PM PDT
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I was thinking the exact same thing about Earth being the Arc. I htink they ripped my post of one for being to close to the truth... I better stop now!

  • 05.15.2006 8:41 PM PDT
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Posted by: DrewStickySpar
But no really, whats gonna happen when its activated and everything we, or at least we in 2556, is destroyed just to stop the Flood?

Wait and find out in 2007.

  • 05.15.2006 8:42 PM PDT

Away from XBOX LIVE until both Doom 4 and Bungie's new game are released. The Flood will consume you.

Yeah, your right... I just don't like what Bungie might go for in this game. "The end of the universe" kind of deal. Its got leaks... seems like it could just end their franchise a little to swiftly.

[Edited on 5/15/2006]

  • 05.15.2006 9:02 PM PDT
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I don't think it's The Arc, because in the Video why would the covenant crusiers be heading away from the artifact when it is opening. I think it has something to do with a Flood outbreak or something when it opens.

  • 05.15.2006 9:10 PM PDT
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Posted by: R4Rx SlaYa
I don't think it's The Arc, because in the Video why would the covenant crusiers be heading away from the artifact when it is opening. I think it has something to do with a Flood outbreak or something when it opens.


Perhaps because of the large explosion of destructive energy that comes out of it?

  • 05.15.2006 9:23 PM PDT
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2007!

I remember when they told us HALO 2s release date, then delayed it about three years. If Bungie had any sense they would do the same thing to give us the same quality they have kept.

Another theory is that the gravemind is in there, and that part we saw on HALO 2 was just a representation.

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Posted by: R4Rx SlaYa
I don't think it's The Arc, because in the Video why would the covenant crusiers be heading away from the artifact when it is opening. I think it has something to do with a Flood outbreak or something when it opens.


How would the Covenant know what it is until it's all the way open? I'm sure them turning away from the artifact has to do with the light or the energy as people have already stated. If they were running from it already that means they know something, in which case they woulnd't be near it in the first place if it was something bad.

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I'm sorry if I'm stealing anyone's idea but I haven't seen this anywhere. Now that I think about it, why does it have to be the Covenant activating the artifact? That would be a likely scenario, but it doesn't have to happen like that. What if this Covenant excavation crew was just checking the site out when someone(not going to speculate on who) activates the artifact. The Covenant not expecting this while on their way to check things out get startled. This would explain them tucking their tails and running. Just a thought.

  • 05.16.2006 12:08 AM PDT