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Subject: A new take on the dome under the desert...
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Have you seen Stargate-SG1? In the series their is a race of aliens known as Ancients but they are really humans who evolved. in this case the forerunner died instead of evolved

  • 05.18.2006 11:27 AM PDT
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i am imparcial, so i am gona say this.

y dont we all get along...

y dont we stop posting more and more and more of the stupid therorys coming out of a 2 min trailer.
y dont u all just relax.. yes halo 3 is coming out... yes it is a very big thing in the gaming industry. BUT do we need to constantly talk about this one subject all the time? i think not.

how about story lines? multiplayer? any other resons for loving this game

and be4 u ask... im on this forum to c whether it ISNT about an ark!

  • 05.18.2006 11:27 AM PDT
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YES! Another person that thinks the Earth is the ARK, not just that thing!

  • 05.18.2006 11:50 AM PDT
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hey the guy who said a) get a life b) get a job ect, why dont you just get a grave, no one thought what you said was cool, i think everyone has a choice of what to do in thier spare time, and you obviously contradcited yourself by saying get a life, when you are on this forum too

  • 05.18.2006 11:51 AM PDT
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I don't know if this has been said or not, because I read the first page of the topic...

Nice job on the theory very scientific, only one problem science says that if the earth were one inch or so(give or take miles) closer/further away from the sun we would burn up/freeze to death. now I beileve this is the same earth we live on in halo(set in the future -obvious-) so the solar system would be the same and if any of the planets were to "misallign" that could "cause a time paradox causing the universe to cave in on itself!" so as for the "thruster theory": Probably not, but it is a video game so ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!

the idea is cool but I like to think it is more like the laser on the deathstar! nah j/k!

  • 05.18.2006 11:51 AM PDT

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I think the ark is in or on the Earth, as well, just that that thing is not the ark.

  • 05.18.2006 11:52 AM PDT

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umm, I could be way off the mark, but it seems relatively obvious to me that the thing on Earth is the Ark. It's why they went to Earth in the first place and didn't expect to find humans there. Oh, and I think it's also obvious the Forerunners, are, in fact, humans.


According to 343 the Ark is where all Halo's are remote actvated, this we know for sure. Regret landed in New Mombasa and probably found that dome, after that he left to Delta Halo with the purpose of activating it. Does nobody see what is wrong with this theory if the dome is the Ark??? Regret could have just start the Great Journey from there, he however did not. The dome is NOT the Ark.


You say it like Regret actually had a chance to activate from Earth. There was this guy that kind of stopped him...hmm...what was him name again?

  • 05.18.2006 11:57 AM PDT
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an inch closer or furhter from the sun wudnt freeze or burn us, we rotate and shift position all the time, we havnt stayed on the exact inch line for millions of years?

  • 05.18.2006 12:02 PM PDT
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I will let you know when I'm being sarcastic from now on...

give me a break and use your imagination ok a thruster that is going to move earth is going to "t-h-r-u-s-t" earth more than an inch I think<--*sarcastic*... :| ok this theory is based on moving earth out of the effective range of the halos, ALL of them. so the earth would have to move a bit<--*sarcastic* further than an inch i wasnt being serious when I typed an inch hence the () after it and that was sarcastic.

1.move earth out of way
2.earth moves out of effective range of halos which is really far (so many radi or something sound like more than an inch to me.)
3.humanity as we know it...dead

  • 05.18.2006 12:10 PM PDT
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I think it is the ARK because in another thread they posted pictures from the Halo 2 DVD which had pictures of the dome labeled as the ARK in creation. And that came straight from Bungie so.....yea

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  • 05.18.2006 12:15 PM PDT

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Well I do partially believe that it is not the ark. Because if it is the ark (the thing that activates all the Halos) it looks like it's firing. And if it is that means no more ... anything.

Regaurdless, we'll just have to wait for Bungie to tell us.

  • 05.18.2006 12:16 PM PDT
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it may not be the ark but it has somthing to with it my thoery is that is like when the covanent ships jump sapce i think it is a portal to the ark

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the guy who said moving inches and stuff, how do you know theyre moving the earth out the way of the halos radius? or are you just TRYING to argue for no reason at all

  • 05.18.2006 12:48 PM PDT

You did a good job with that theory. I still beleive the theory about it being the ark though. This is my new theory. The structure is indeed a thruster....but not a working one. It was a decoy. The activation of it sent a beam(signal) up to the moon witch opened up an identical thruster on the moon. The moon might still be considered part of earth to the "old" forerunners and the covenant wich is why we were all lead to beleivce the ark is on Earth. In the identicle structure (which explains why the dvd showed a picture identicle to the structure) lies the ark. The prophets of high importantce were sent to destroy the Abiter because of his actions and a minor prophet is who accidentaly discovered the decoy. He accidentaly activatedit and sent the signal to the moon. It would leave the rest of the game to one, figure this out and two, to get there. Well that is my theory and I'llstart a new topic on it.

  • 05.18.2006 1:09 PM PDT
Subject: The dome under the desert is a thruster, NOT the ark.
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This is a good theory, but it IS a theory, for all we know this dome may be a huge galactic turn signal, or the reason the area around it is a desert, or Earth may have been constructed by the Forerunner, or maybe some idiot has already figured the plot out and has ruined it for a lot of people. Curiosity killed the cat, eventually someone is going to figure it out and make the game much less than it could be for a lot of people, and when it comes down to it, do you really want to know what happens before you play the game?

  • 05.18.2006 1:21 PM PDT
Subject: A new take on the dome under the desert...
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i think that it is the dome wich allowed the foreunner to travel to earth and then devolve into mokeys(so that they wouldnt be affected by the blast of the ring that killed all sentient life)wich eventually into present day humans.and since they where trying to escape the halo,they had enough food and supplies to start a new life. please comment by posting here or by sending me an email.i also have many more theries so if u want to talk just send me an email or send me a message on xboxlive.oh ya back to my point......the dome IS THE ARK!!!!

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  • 05.18.2006 1:58 PM PDT
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Ok I will give Omega big props for a clever theory and doing some homework. But I think the thruster idea falls apart for a number of reasons:

1) Size - It may be huge, but it's a tad small scalewise. Albeit, if the hurrican vortex is an atmospheric opening that would help... but not enough to move the Earth a signifigant distance in any short amount of time, much less outside the galaxy to escape the Halo blast radius. You are comparing the dome on Earth to the (suspected) thrusters on a Halo. While the Halos would need some sort of active thrust to remain stationary at Lagrange Point 1, those may not be them, and the Halos are tiny compared to the Earth. They are smaller than our moon.

2) Number - There is only one of these. That's the only place on Earth the covenant went, so this must be a unique item. One thruster, easpecially located where that is, would not allow any real control over the Earth, it would just send disrupt the planet's orbit.

3) Structure - Say you did have a huge plasma thruster or something with enough force to push the Earth, what would it push against? The Earth is not solid object, it has a molten core. A thrister that powerful would be more likely to cause massive seismic disruptions rather than any useful thrust. Also, you would need some sort of fuel or power source of immense proportions. Anythingt that large or powerful would likely be dangerous to the planet itself.

4) Interrelation - The Earth is only habitable because of its relation to other celestial bodies, namely the sun. Even if the drive was say a slipspace engine to move the Earth lightyears away, that act would render the planet uninhabitable, making the whole effort pointless. You'd be better off just building a large ship.

So there we have it, I think we can pretty much conclude it's not a thruster or drive engine. The fact that the opening object matches the design of the "Earth Ark" drawing in the DVD seems to make it pretty obvious that the dome is at least connected to the Ark. Is it the whole Ark, a door or accessway? Is the ark small or the whole Earth? What exactly does the Ark ACTUALLY DO? Those are the kids of questions we need to ask. There's still so much leeway there that I think Bungie can surprise us all.

  • 05.18.2006 2:22 PM PDT
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It was really well thought out and seems plausable. But Bungie said that this structure was something halo vets will recognize, and I don't think that thrusters are one of those things.

  • 05.18.2006 2:28 PM PDT

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Well I read something saying that "viewers will recognise the forerunner artifact because it is similar to the scarab main weapon" or something to that effect. And if the Scarab is a huge mining machine then this forerunner installation is a huge digging device, plus the huge vortex above the artifact (i heard) was from Covenant excavation devices, but what if its the other way around? After all the covenant nick their technology from forerunners, what if the artifact is going to fire upwards at say... the moon?

But then I have no idea why it might be a massive digging device.

  • 05.18.2006 2:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: DarthYodi
I think it is the ARK because in another thread they posted pictures from the Halo 2 DVD which had pictures of the dome labeled as the ARK in creation. And that came straight from Bungie so.....yea

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Here are the links to the pictures.
http://img54.imageshack.us/img54/2737/halo2docark27dt.jpg
http://img157.imageshack.us/img157/209/halo2docark12yv.jpg

  • 05.18.2006 2:36 PM PDT
Subject: The dome under the desert is a thruster, NOT the ark.
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Not really. Because...When MC left in Halo2, stowed away on the prophet's ship...If you look @ the ship's three wings(I think its 3) then look @ the dome...Its an identical "lock and key" fit. On the dome...You can see two visible places where two of the wings would go...but if you look behind the light beam...you can see wat appears to be the third wing slit. So, in theory... The prophet's ship is to land directly into the dome. A perfect fit. And by the way...I've heard some retarded ideas about his dome, but a thruster? wat a noob.

  • 05.18.2006 2:51 PM PDT
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That's from the Halo 3 script that Bungie confirmed as fake.

It is.....

Wow, I am not thinking correctly as I forgot I had read that. Never mind me then.

  • 05.18.2006 3:31 PM PDT
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i just read the topic...the dome is a thruster...roflmao. aah pervy thoughts...

  • 05.18.2006 3:38 PM PDT
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haha

  • 05.18.2006 3:39 PM PDT
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umm... the Ark is on Earth not halo.
remember at the ending halo movie.
maybe this will refresh your memory.

[Edited on 5/18/2006]

  • 05.18.2006 3:41 PM PDT