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Subject: Obsessed with the paranormal?

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Has anyone noticed that many covenant vehicles have names to do with Ghosts?

Check this out. Taken from dictionary.com.


apparition, appearance, banshee, daemon, demon, devil, eidolon, ethereal being, haunt, incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, phantasm, phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spirit, vampire, vision, visitor, wraith, zombie

Now, we have the Ghost which is the named looked up. We havethe banshee, the phantom, the wraith, the specter.

There's also Demon, which is the Master chiefs nickname that was given by the covenant.

Now thats H2, what about H3. Theres many other words that can be used. The Soul, Revenant, kelpie. Some of these good be vehicles, or animals on a covie planet, if we go there. People have wanted new vehicles so why not keep witht the Paranormal theme?

What do you think? Will bungie keep with the Super natural Theme of naming stuff? or will they change it?

Good find FightingRaven.

human vehicles are named after animals. Warthog, pelicans, scorpian.

and also the anticipated mongoose ATV. All animals.

[Edited on 5/24/2006]

  • 05.24.2006 7:37 PM PDT

You know, Hitler was obsessed with the paranormal.


But seriously, I like the ghostly names that they have for the Covenant's vehichles, helps them keep their ominous-ness.

  • 05.24.2006 7:40 PM PDT

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Yes, it's pretty cool how they name the vehicles. but will they continue to do it like that in H3?

  • 05.24.2006 7:42 PM PDT
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its like a large force of win going through fusion, thus creating a chain reaction of a huge asplosion of win destroying any fail within its awesomeness.

Animals for Human vehichles, Warthog, Scoripian, Pelican...

  • 05.24.2006 7:43 PM PDT

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Posted by: FightingRaven531
Animals for Human vehichles, Warthog, Scoripian, Pelican...


Hmm, thats true actually/ Good find.

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  • 05.24.2006 7:44 PM PDT

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Animals for Human vehichles, Warthog, Scoripian, Pelican...


wtf is a scoripian? is that the fish they found with deformed feet that they say is a missing link? or do you mean scorpion?

  • 05.24.2006 7:45 PM PDT

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Posted by: FightingRaven531
Animals for Human vehichles, Warthog, Scoripian, Pelican...


wtf is a scoripian? is that the fish they found with deformed feet that they say is a missing link? or do you mean scorpion?


no idea what your talking about but I think he meant scorpion.

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The humans have animal vehicle names. The Warthog, Pelican, Scorpion and...wow that's pretty much it.

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Wow I never noticed that nice find

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I have never really clued in on that, nice find, but i like the names that they are giving to the cov vehicles

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this is interesting, but i think the names for the covenants ship are much more odd.

take the Unyeilding Heirophant for example, i looked it up when i found it in the books. if i remember correctly its a very devoted priest or religous figure that will stop at nothing to fulfill his beliefs (i.e. the covenant and the great journey)

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Those aren't the Covenant names for the vehichiles, they are the human designations for Covenant Vehichles. Still interesting why the humans chose those names for the vehichles.

Yes, you hear the Covenant call it a "Ghost" in the game....But that is for the same reason they say "Elite" instead of "Sangheili". It would make the speach awkward to us, to have a fully translated dialouge but then throw in the Covenant word for names. Same with the vehichles.

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Don't forget, the names of the Covenant vehicles are the names which the humans call them. This doesn't mean they are specifically what the Covenant name their vehicles.

Also, the Covenant equivalent of a light attack spaceship is the Seraph, which is a type of angel. The Covenant plasma turrets are also called Shades, which is included in your list of synonyms for ghost.

I think the main premises for naming the vehicles as such is due to how they are viewed: the Banshee makes a "wailing" sound as it is flying, the Ghost is extremely fast and can often seem to "disappear."

Edit: Damnit, High Truth beat me on the human-naming thing >_<

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What about the "Scarb" that's not a Ghost-y name

  • 05.24.2006 8:43 PM PDT

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What about the "Scarb" that's not a Ghost-y name



you mean Scarab? what else do you call an insectoid looking walking tank?

  • 05.24.2006 8:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: High Truth
Those aren't the Covenant names for the vehichiles, they are the human designations for Covenant Vehichles. Still interesting why the humans chose those names for the vehichles.

Yes, you hear the Covenant call it a "Ghost" in the game....But that is for the same reason they say "Elite" instead of "Sangheili". It would make the speach awkward to us, to have a fully translated dialouge but then throw in the Covenant word for names. Same with the vehichles.


A common mis-conception.

The Names for the vehicles are rough translations. Just like covenant is a rough translation of what they are really called.

and about the scarab.

I consider it a walking base.

  • 05.24.2006 9:06 PM PDT

All i know is that Scarab has nothing to do with any of the other names. Though if you look up ghost in a thesoraus, you can find any of those other words used for covie vehicles.

  • 05.24.2006 9:22 PM PDT

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good call sir_briliant. Did ya get that from my first post?

  • 05.24.2006 9:25 PM PDT

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See any similarities in these names:

Grunt, Jackle, Elite, Hunter, Brute, Drone?

They're almost all descriptive words. And, they are all (as other people have said) human designations for the different races.

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You know that the Halo 1 Covie Dropship was called the Apparition right? If not, well it is called that.

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And if you have Halo 2 guidebook, you can see what the actual alien names are.
Grunt = Unngoy
Jackal = Kig-Yar
Elite = Sangheili
Drone = Yan-me
Brute = Jiralhanae
Hunter = Lekgolo

If ya didnt know...

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well what about the longsword fighter that MC takes off in at the end of halo 1? i'm not aware of any animals named the longsword

  • 05.24.2006 10:18 PM PDT

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Posted by: FightingRaven531
Animals for Human vehichles, Warthog, Scoripian, Pelican...


wtf is a scoripian? is that the fish they found with deformed feet that they say is a missing link? or do you mean scorpion?



This is coming from someone who doesn't capitalize his own sentences? Jackass.

  • 05.24.2006 10:46 PM PDT

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  • 05.24.2006 11:00 PM PDT

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