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Subject: y did the covenant ships turn around? Anwser inside
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Hi there,

I think that the covenant ships turned around because they are taken over by the flood.

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What if the flood have taken over all of the covenant ships and earth, and the chief was ordered to activate the arc to destroy the flood (because earth is finally overrun and the humans don’t have a chance to survive anyway)

When you first see the chief in the trailer he’s looking at the covenant ship, also note that the chief doesn’t do anything to take cover or shoot at the banshee etc...

that’s because he knows that the flood are on them and they are trying to prevent the arc from firing, also cortana (who probably has been taken over by gravemind) tries to chance the chiefs mind by talking to him about that he knows him and stuff. Then the arc is activated and the ships turn around. Then you hear cortana say, this is how the world ends. Maybe she/gravemind is talking about the chance that the flood will survive.

Im convinced that this is how it goes. Although its only assumptions until h3 comes out.

  • 05.19.2006 10:48 AM PDT
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Fear brother David.

  • 05.19.2006 10:49 AM PDT
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Even if it was activated, it wouldn't kill the flood, it would just kill everything (host wise) around them.

Gravemind: Insolent creatures, you will perish, and we will suffer the pains of infinitude.

  • 05.19.2006 10:50 AM PDT
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Actually...I think it's a vision the chief is having. but your guess is good though...we still won't know the truth until halo3 is released

  • 05.19.2006 10:51 AM PDT
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plus we all saw how well the flood can drive, you remeber the start of "gravemind" on halo 2. Big angry pelican crashing and performing a half barrel roll across that platform, not even my mother parks that bad. and thats saying something

i dont think that they were flood because the phantom and its escort of banshees were flying well and held a loose formation. if it was flood. the phantom would probably have crashed into chief by accident and fallen off the cliff , promply followed by a pack of banshees in semi freefall that were fireng blindly into the air until they decided to crash into bottom of the cliff aswell.

  • 05.19.2006 11:00 AM PDT
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if u notice the ships are right above the ark and when it is activated they need to get out of the way in risk of being destroyed. and the reason the banshees do not shot might be because they dont have time to waste time fighting some guy on the ground when what they have dedicated their entire lives to finding the ark and its right infront of them. or those are the elites that have joined up with miranda keyes and sgt. johnsonnow on earth because if you remember halo 2 when they take the key out of delta halo all the rings become activated and there is only one place they can be shutdown from which may be the ark from the trailer. also the flood dont have enough the intellagence to fly a ship they are like very fast zombies, all they do is kill.

  • 05.19.2006 11:05 AM PDT
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Darkstar makes the exact point i tried to put but his made alot more sense

  • 05.19.2006 11:07 AM PDT

Well, the flood has some intellagance. If you remember in Halo 2 they could drive Warthogs, Ghosts, Tanks ext. prety well. And in the level Keys in the first game they were preping it to take off from Halo, thats why Keys was assimilated into the big bloob thing, Cap. Keys knew (well at lest a little bit) how to fly that ship, and at the end of Halo 2, they got the In Amber Clad to land in the city, and they used the Slipspace drive to do it. Know, at that time Human slipspace presistion was very inacurit, the flood must have reconfigured the Slipspace drive to do it. So, obveously they coould probable fly Ships if they wanted to. And probably with some presition, if they got Banshee/Phantom piolets to drive them.

  • 05.19.2006 11:15 AM PDT

If my calculations are correct, then Slinky+Escalator = INFINITE FUN!

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Home is were the Hog is.

Um. NO.

The covenant flagships ran away because they saw the Chief and were like "OH -blam!-! GET THE -blam!- OUTTA HERE HE'S GONNA -blam!- KILL US ALL!!!"

  • 05.19.2006 11:49 AM PDT

Oh my God, you read into everything too much. Of course they are turning around from the energy. Did you see how much damage that did to the ground? You can't assume everything is an easter egg or a spoiler! Most of the things in that trailer do not ahve hiddne meanings, they are what they are. The master chief is the master chief, cortana is with the gravemind, the ships are turning away from the energy. Stop reading into everything, you sound like a freaking idiot.

[Edited on 5/19/2006]

  • 05.19.2006 11:51 AM PDT