- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
here is my theory, you may not believe it but it makes sense. OK, the prophet of truth knows what halo does, he knows that it kills all life yet he does not inform any others. he instead tells them that controlling halo will begin the "great journey". He finds out about the ark and discovers that it contains unimaginable power, he wants this power to himself and no others (this explains why he basically let regret and mercy be killed).
However, the heritics come along and will spoil the whole plan because they know halo and the arks real purpose, which they learned from the oracle. Truth realizes this and decides to send the arbiter, a disgraced elite who is a great warrior and also very intelligent. he knows that the arbiter will destroy the heritics and hopes that he will be killed in the process (because the arbiter is too smart to be used as a pawn). he uses the arbiter to retrieve the index and eventually betrays him. believing that the arbiter is dead, and the knowledge of halos purpose with him, he uses the stupid loyal brutes to stage a civil war and kill off all of the elites who were loyal to either the arbiter or half jaw (who do not trust the prophets) in high charity and delta halo.
Meanwhile truth has sent the massive fleet to attack earth. the covenant, including the elites on these ships have no idea about the civil was and do not know they have been betrayed. therefore, to them, the covenant is still intact. he then sends taurtarus to delta halo to activate the ring because he knows it will kill off all the remaining elites and tartarus brutes. (truth wants tartarus killed because he knows that tartarus would want some of the arks power). now, truth being the complete dictator over all of the covenent, with noone to oppose his authority, he travels to earth to destroy it and claim all of the arks power for himself. remember in the bible the ARK OF THE COVENANT contains much power.
evidence of truths betrayal
he tells tartarus to activate the ring with the index and also sends all the council there, if he belived in the great journey would he not be there to witness it?
he lets the flood take over high charity, if you listen to his quotes during the level gravemind, he seems very nonchelant and noncraing about the flood on high charity.
he lets mercy die from an infection form
he lets regret be killed by MC
the covenant civil war seems to be started with no real motive, meaning it had to be staged by someone (prophets) they knew that the elites were to intelligent to be used if they were to discover any evidence of the truth
[Edited on 5/25/2006]