- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: x Lord Revan x
In the original Halo on the level Truth and Rec. when you rescue captain Keyes he informs you that he overheard his guards speak about the ring world. Keyes states that his guards spoke about how they call it "Halo" and how they believe it to be a weapon.
Then why exactly in Halo 2 do the Covenant believe the Rings to pocess some spiritual journey? The Aribiter surely would have known the rings were weapons as he was the commander of the fleet at alpha halo.
I honestly cant find an answer, other then perhaps the Arbiter never was at Halo, but commanded the Fleet from High Charity. The fleet at Halo was completely destoryed according to Cortana at the end of the original Halo which makes little sense if the Arbiter escaped in tact.
According to the novels, ships arrived on the scene of its destruction too late and began searching the remains. Perhaps that was the fleet that the Arbiter led but no one can know for sure. As it is, its kinda a flaw in the storyline, and it makes me wonder what will happen in Halo 3 reguarding the story.
note that she said "if im reading this correctly..."
also note that she only obtained proper covenant data translation software after the events of halo 1.
so, in an extreme twist of irony, she mistranslated the covenant data from something that was completely wrong into something that was semi correct.