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ignore him, hes probably annoyed that you're clever enough to GET a theory

  • 05.17.2006 12:28 PM PDT
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Thrusters would make sense is all when they share such a comparison with what looks to be thrusters on the halo

  • 05.17.2006 12:30 PM PDT
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the fact is, even if this is right we wont know until it comes out :(

  • 05.17.2006 12:31 PM PDT
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But why stop guessing we still have a year and a half at least to waste time

  • 05.17.2006 12:36 PM PDT
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Posted by: staphan
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Would Ark theory supporters like to justify it? I've heard the theory that it's the ark many times, but it's all based on the Covenant's motivations rather than the actual structure.


For example, in the Halo 2 limited edition DVD there is a picture on the whiteboard similar to the structure in the trailer. It says "The Ark" or something next to it. The Ark is commonly believed to be somewhere on Earth, since when the Monitor says "Well, the Ark of course" the camera switches to Earth. Etc. Etc. Etc.
If the Ark is on Earth, could the Ark be coming out of the dome? If you look at the center, you see that it appears to be opening in the center -not those things on the edges, but in the very center circle area. And before the big flash.
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If not the Ark, there could be possible be something landing there or something in there? Yeah, stupid idea, but it's the first thing that I thought when I saw the dome.

Either that or it's just some "thruster" or some giant nuke.

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  • 05.17.2006 1:05 PM PDT
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You could be right. It could be an engine of some sort, probably slipspace, like High Charity. It may move the Earth out of the Halos firing range. It may also activate the Halos when at a safe distance.

  • 05.17.2006 1:06 PM PDT

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Your point about slipspace, think of high charity at the end of 'regret', the planet jumps along with the covenant fleet. high charity was obviously a forrerunner planet because of the ship that is on it's surface. if earth was also once a forerunner planet then the thruster theory fits.

  • 05.17.2006 3:20 PM PDT

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What's to say the ship wasn't brought there by the Covenant?

  • 05.18.2006 6:35 AM PDT
Subject: A new take on the dome under the desert...

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This apple is brown, and rotten. This orange on the other hand, is in relatively average shape. So the orange is definitely the preferable option.
----------You can't compare apples and oranges. You're so dumb.

Looks like a scarab primary gun , sounds like a primary scarab gun , the stuff it shoots out looks like a primary scarab gun. Bungie (frankie) said we should reconize it's design but soem how every oen ignores this. The artifact is a digging tool and is going to fire at a planet or moon and unveil the ark ( a ship according to noahs ark). How ever people enjoy ignoreing common sense and actually believe 3/4ths of thew ay into the game the ark activates all halos killing all life in the milky way galaxy in five seconds. So I highly doubt two mintues and thirty seconds is 1/4 of a game. As for your thruster idea it's alot more believe able then the crack pot it's the ark theory. How ever it's design and sound cannot be ignored.

  • 05.18.2006 7:03 AM PDT

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That is a new take on it. It would be interesting if it, say, unearthed the Ark on the moon or Mars, but based on its design, I still think it's a thruster. The way it powers up is unknown, and the sound cuts out almost immediately as the trailer ends, though. Cool thought.

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  • 05.18.2006 7:07 AM PDT
Subject: The dome under the desert is a thruster, NOT the ark.
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Not bad.

  • 05.18.2006 7:50 AM PDT
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In the books, we learn that Halo 04 is approximately 23 miles wide at any given point. Given the ratio of how large the smaller domes are compared to the width of the entire ring, that means the small domes are about 3 miles wide. Upon close inspection, one can see that they have 14 plates covering them, as opposed to twelve on the larger domes.


What you are saying isn't right(although I like your theory). The ring isn't 23 miles wide, so the rest of your theory doesn't seem right too. To prove my point I'll quote part of a paragraph from the book, The Flood page 13:

"The ring is ten thousand kilometers in diameter," Cortana announced, "and twenty-two point three kilomteres thick.


22.3 kilometers is about 14 miles

Thickness is the space between the outside and the inside of the halo, so, from where you as MC stand on halo, and then trough the ground until you reach the outside of the halo.

The wideness of the halo is probably more close to 500 kilometers, as you can see while playing the game, it's far from 22.3 kilometers.

  • 05.18.2006 8:17 AM PDT

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Good point. I don't own the books, so I tried to remember the exact quote. However, we still don't know the exact proportions of the domes on Halo itself, and the design of the small ones is identical to the one on Earth.

  • 05.18.2006 8:20 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.

What?!? 500?!? That would be closer to a sphere!

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  • 05.18.2006 8:20 AM PDT
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Could it just be part of the ark that goes under new mombasa and is part of a Installation 01 which lies underneth the surface of earth untill it is time to deploy which is when it could expand and leave the surface of earth creating a large ring around earth.

  • 05.18.2006 8:35 AM PDT

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That's from the Halo 3 script that Bungie confirmed as fake.

  • 05.18.2006 8:36 AM PDT
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Unfortunately, any thruster with a force of a magnitude of moving a planet wouldn't make any sense.

Such a thruster would generate more then enough thrust to push anything above it, atmosphere, in this case, right outside of the gravitic envelope that keeps the atmosphere hugging the planet's surface. As a result, so long as the thruster was firing, the atmosphere, all breathable air, would be leaking out of the planet like a popped balloon.

In short order, the planet would be completely unliveable and incapable of being terraformed to support a human friendly biosphere.

Mind you, it could be any number of things. It could be the slip space antenna assembly for example, or a slip space fold assembly. All we really know is that it emits a great deal of light in addition to its true function.

Remember the last announcement trailer, that of Halo 2. There was no bomb when he originally opened the airlock and was sucked out by venting atmosphere. It was heavily modified and the circumstances surrounding it altered tremendously before the game's release.

(I still wish the original announcement trailer's concept was held. I liked the idea of jumping from the MAC station to a Covenant ship, fighting inside and to the hangar bays, stealing a Phantom and flying out as the ship exploded due to the energy build up you'd initiated in the ship's core....)

  • 05.18.2006 10:04 AM PDT
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Remember this is a game and we still don't know the full extent of the forerunners powers/ technology. Or everything that cortana learned while onboard halo ( ticks me off to this day) I would've loved to play through halo 1 on legendary just to get a look at all of the historical and data files she downloaded

  • 05.18.2006 10:11 AM PDT

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See the swirling in the sky? Perhaps that area is a vacuum, so the thrust has no effect on the atmosphere. We were told that it was caused by subatomic particles, perhaps the technology also clears a path to prevent the atmosphere from being effected. Shields the atmosphere from the thruster, if you will.

  • 05.18.2006 10:40 AM PDT
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ty thats a very good explanation

  • 05.18.2006 10:45 AM PDT
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very interesting :D i like it when people use thier noggin

  • 05.18.2006 11:00 AM PDT

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Posted by: ghostvirus
Looks like a scarab primary gun , sounds like a primary scarab gun , the stuff it shoots out looks like a primary scarab gun. Bungie (frankie) said we should reconize it's design but soem how every oen ignores this. The artifact is a digging tool and is going to fire at a planet or moon and unveil the ark ( a ship according to noahs ark). How ever people enjoy ignoreing common sense and actually believe 3/4ths of thew ay into the game the ark activates all halos killing all life in the milky way galaxy in five seconds. So I highly doubt two mintues and thirty seconds is 1/4 of a game. As for your thruster idea it's alot more believe able then the crack pot it's the ark theory. How ever it's design and sound cannot be ignored.


It's going to have a hard time hitting the moon in the afternoon.

  • 05.18.2006 11:06 AM PDT
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person who made this post get a) a life b) a job c) learn to care about things othert than game storylines d) study useful things not game clips e) dont flame for telling you what you should do...:-)

  • 05.18.2006 11:15 AM PDT

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I have a life, taking some time on B.net doesn't hurt.

I have a job, it sucks, so I'm looking for a new one.

I'm not the only theorist here, and this theory is far simpler than many of the others out there ex: Clones and Lies.

There are hundreds of other people that other message could apply to (threads about Look at this one frame in the trailer and reaaally squint)

[/not a flame] ;)

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  • 05.18.2006 11:17 AM PDT