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This is meant to be a open debate about the artifact featured in the trailer. Post your theories, speculations and ideas in here. Add rebuttle to others in here as well, and be prepared to defend your own position. Use logic, intuition and process of thought to uphold your view, and be open to other peoples point of view!

I am afraid that I will be locking new Artifact theory threads. There are many reasons for this. Mostly it's the separate threads made simply to attack another point of view. So it all goes in here now.

  • 05.17.2006 4:31 PM PDT
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well lets all look at it a little bit at a time.....its like a dome thing on the exterior part of a halo...big blue light, and their are alot of those in halo but it sounds like a scarab gun could lead to sumthing or be the generic death beam sound oh and all the ships turn around as soon and the thing starts to open but the MC just relaxes his stance but what do any of us really know..
oh and i think the forerunners are the bungie staff

  • 05.17.2006 4:39 PM PDT
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they opened the ark and maybe the forerunners are inside even thought that totally contradicts all my theories but heres something i found

I googled "Halo Movie" and the movie and the www.imdb.com was first on top. I signed up so i could read all the topics about the movie and story that are compiling there and one post was the following. I know there are tons of ideas but I never heard this one before. Enjoy and remember...it is not my words.

Here's all the answers you'll ever need. The forerunners were a hyper advanced race of humans. They met up with the covenant and formed an alliance. At this time the forerunners were way superior to the covenant in means of technology. One day, they stumbled upon the flood who had infested some random planet. They got into both forerunner and covenant ships and infested their homeworlds. In order to contain them, the forerunners built super high tech Halo rings and lured the flood to them. Knowing they wouldn't be able to contain them forever, the forerunners equipt the rings with super destructive capabilites, able to wipe out all life advanced than an insect (the flood parasites would survive). Knowing they would become extinct if this happened, the forerunners and covenant found Earth, some random backwater planet, and built the arc under it's surface. The arc is the only place that can protect you from the flood (Noah's Arc, the flood, 40 days, you know...) and the ring's power. Also, they built the monitors so that if the flood ever were released again, they would make sure the rings were activated. So, some of the forerunners and the covenant stayed inside the arc so they would be able to repopulate after the ring killed everything, and from the arc, they activated the rings, destroying all sentient life. After the ring's deactivated, the Prophet of Truth (not yet in the position he is now) betrayed the forerunners, stealing the technology they had left and escaping Earth with his followers. The forerunners were left with nothing and began new life on Earth as we know in history. Since the Prophet had a head start because he had some technology, the covenant race became more advanced than the humans. Obsessed with controlling the entire universe, the Prophet banded together the covenant we all know of today, convincing them that reactivating the rings would start "the great journey", when all he plans on doing is completely wiping out the human race for good. He is known as the prophet of Truth because he KNOWS the truth about Halo. that is why he is going to Earth in Halo 3, to finish what they started back when they left the forerunners on Earth. They didn't know the Master Chief would come kick their asses though, hehe.

That is what it said there.

  • 05.17.2006 4:45 PM PDT
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I came to the conclusion that it is not the Ark, simply because the way the Covenant and John react to the Artifact opening.
I've said it quite a few times and I'll say it again, it doesn't make sense that the Covenant who are hell bent on fullfilling their Great Journey, would turn and run away from its Holy Light.(this is explained in my thread, check the sig for linkage.)
And if you want to bring up the H2:LE DVD Ark Concept Art, when you see something in a Bungie video you shouldn't take it as reality, anyone remember the "ONP" Marathon 4 drawing in the New Bungie Office tour a few months back? Sure there are certain similarities but not enough to conclude that the Concept is what we see in the trailer.

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  • 05.17.2006 4:45 PM PDT
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or maybe it is a signaling device to other plants like earth with a control panel because it looks like the beam from the things in halo 1 in lvl halo

  • 05.17.2006 4:47 PM PDT
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okay, so we know the dome isnt the ark. why? because bungie stated that the trailer is depitcing events which are 2/3 through the game so that makes you wonder,, what is it.
well as many other good theories beofre mine it is a halo, yes its a halo - insert a gasp here - buried in Earth
who put it there im not gunno say thats a completly different theory that has been covered before.
okay so back on topic how do we know its a halo? bungie hinted at it syaing "HALO FANS MIGHT RECOGNIZE SOMETHING ABOUT ITS SHAPE" now if u didnt know it was a halo before go get ur copy of Halo, and watch the starting where the ring moves. if u can count ull see that those small domes have 14 plates covering them, as opposed to the 12 covering the large domes
now look at the trailor, there are 14 plates, each in what appears to be a 2 to a group pattern. Now this is where my thoery comes into play, that blue/white beam isnt a marker or a beacon to the ark, it is a propulsion system. Yes thats right a massive eninge. Why? in Halo youll see Alpha Halo in the middle or Threshhold and Basis, now with that kind of gravity the ring would have been pulled apart unless if it was able to move and adjust its orbit. Another thing the halos have seasons, if the ring werent rotating and moving that wouldnt be possible, and for that you need engines. Back to H3 the covies uncovered just one of multiple engines, and again on speculation it isnt firing, its more like accelerating the Planet Earth towards a destination, the Ark?? who know

know im not sure if i added everything to this so dont get angry and mad, just tell me as you did so kindly in my other topic. if you find my logic hard and sutble then do the things i told you to, and peice it together using you brain, and it just might make sense

  • 05.17.2006 7:00 PM PDT
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isnt it possible too that the coveanat knew of something that like a prophecy tells them their "great jorney will be reached by the help of their enemy? the enemy of course being the human and the great journey leading to the ark where the covies would be able to destroy all life and advance to teh great beyond liek the prohet of whatever talks about? and how come the humas never notcied that giant space with the supposed ark in it if it is in fact next to new mambosa i mean someting like that just doesnt go unnotcied
one last thing if this is arc thing is similar to the lieks of noahs arc that would make more since being that noah brought many types of animals with him and the coveanat are composeed of many different races of aliens

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  • 05.17.2006 7:26 PM PDT
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Earth = Ark
Past = MC Destroying a ring
Future = Earth is not destroyed in terms of it Blowing up, But all artifacts of the ark are destroyed!
Now = All other ring on stand by for activation by Ark!

  • 05.17.2006 7:31 PM PDT