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Subject: The Ark Of The Covenant
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I think we have been looking at the ark in the wrong way. What if the ark does not represent somthing similar to noahs ark but what if it is more like the ark of the covenant in the old testiment: all mankinds sins are put into this box and one day god will judge them. SO basically instead of this Ark being a safe haven from the Halos instead when they open it all hell will break loose. I think this is why they say the Ark is the control room and also why Cortana says that this is the way the world ends. Also, this might be why the Gravemind says the Covenant are deluded because they don't realise what it is. Look at this page

http://www.domini.org/tabern/arkcovnt.htm

I think this is what bungie mean by the ark, please post you views.

  • 05.25.2006 9:18 PM PDT

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I bet you are right. Maybe that hole isnt a beam to signal the other Halos but rather a transport for another race of beings....ie the Forerunner....maybe we are not the Forerunner or related to them but they are actually being kept preserved on the Earth in the Ark until it is opened....maybe the Covie and Flood are not the worst threats...

  • 05.25.2006 9:23 PM PDT
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But why then have "the flood" and "the Ark"

  • 05.26.2006 2:14 AM PDT

More religious terms? I dunno.

  • 05.26.2006 2:24 AM PDT
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isn't the ark just remote to activate the halo rings
as said my 343 guilty spark at the end of halo 2

  • 05.26.2006 4:23 AM PDT
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The ark obviously refers to the earth, thats why the covenant visited it in Halo 2 and were surprised to find humans there. The ark I think means that earth was once a refuge for life in the galaxy where the makers of the ring worlds preserved life from the the flood the last time the halo rings were activated. From this 'seeding' all life arose on the earth. Anyone familiar with geology will have heard of the Cambrian Explosion where the number of life forms on planet earth exploded into millions of different wierd and wonderful designs............ and noone is really sure how it happened. I suspect that Bungie will somehow tie this into the storyline and it turns out that the covenant and mankind evolved from the same starting point but became very different organisms physically but shared a similair degree of intelligence.
I would much rather the story followed a scientific / Darwinian thread than a Neo Christian, pseudo religious ridiculous one.

  • 05.26.2006 4:38 AM PDT
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He said they could be activated from the ark. But that doesn't mean that thats its sole use. Seems like a waste to build something that size to just switch halos on, you could make a box with a big red button on it. (mind you the fore-runners don't seem to do things small)

Here's the thing though. The first time the halos fired up wasn't from the ark it was from the original halo (destroyed)

  • 05.26.2006 4:38 AM PDT
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Posted by: Mr bishi
The ark obviously refers to the earth, thats why the covenant visited it in Halo 2 and were surprised to find humans there. The ark I think means that earth was once a refuge for life in the galaxy where the makers of the ring worlds preserved life from the the flood the last time the halo rings were activated. From this 'seeding' all life arose on the earth. Anyone familiar with geology will have heard of the Cambrian Explosion where the number of life forms on planet earth exploded into millions of different wierd and wonderful designs............ and noone is really sure how it happened. I suspect that Bungie will somehow tie this into the storyline and it turns out that the covenant and mankind evolved from the same starting point but became very different organisms physically but shared a similair degree of intelligence.
I would much rather the story followed a scientific / Darwinian thread than a Neo Christian, pseudo religious ridiculous one.


Well the ark is almost certain to be on Earth but wether the Ark is Earth? And the Halo plot is following a more scientific thread but them religious types misunderstood the message even more then the Covie's.

  • 05.26.2006 5:29 AM PDT

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Posted by: spartanclone117


http://www.domini.org/tabern/arkcovnt.htm

I think this is what bungie mean by the ark, please post you views.


must..resist...urge...to...close...eyes...

right, ive had my coffee

erm...oh yes...what was i gonna say?

the ark could have another purpose other than to activate the halos
i really don't see why everyone has to think the ark saves those inside it.
wouldn't it be logical that if that's whta the ark did, that's what the halo control rooms would do?

i like the idea about covies and humans related but how would the covies get off earth?



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  • 05.26.2006 7:21 AM PDT
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I was hoping the Ark would be the moon...

Maybe that devise on earth opens the moon!

Nah...

  • 05.26.2006 7:24 AM PDT
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The light will reveal a map that leads to the Ark in Israel. No..Ok.

It is big like a city so people can live inside. It looks like the side of the Capital ships with all those square lights/rooms.

  • 05.26.2006 7:35 AM PDT
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hey, no discussion of scripture on the halo 3 forums, buddy... I come here to discuss cortana's cup size, not judgment day.

  • 05.26.2006 8:25 AM PDT

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lol

  • 05.26.2006 8:30 AM PDT

Damn snipers!!!

I have now read the books...

your stupid makes my brain sad

in HCE MC was referd to as RE-claimer......does that mean humans are decendants of the forerunners..left on earth to esure the race would survive....mabey the stucture is, or it makes the earth a safe haven from the rings desructive power.

  • 05.26.2006 8:36 AM PDT

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deja vu...

how many times has this been discussed?

  • 05.26.2006 8:38 AM PDT
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Why does everyone keep saying Re-claimers are Forerunners what evidence to we have to say that they are the same thing

  • 05.26.2006 8:39 AM PDT

Damn snipers!!!

I have now read the books...

your stupid makes my brain sad

none...just looking at the wording and speculating......instead of looking way too deep into little things just keeping it simple and wondering why they would use the term RE-claimer...and im sure it has been discussed but not by me so im trying to discuss it

  • 05.26.2006 8:47 AM PDT
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343 says that he is glad that some forerunners managed to multiply or something, I'm too lasy to look it up.

  • 05.26.2006 8:49 AM PDT
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Just a thought I think this is going to be more religious than anything. The Covies are HUGE in religion so the terminoligy we use (the humans) on the name of things is comming straight from the Covies so this will be more religious than I think we think. I personally would follow that path.

  • 05.26.2006 8:49 AM PDT
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Yea good find bro. I agree with the poster.

  • 05.26.2006 8:50 AM PDT

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Posted by: ObsidianAura
Why does everyone keep saying Re-claimers are Forerunners what evidence to we have to say that they are the same thing


YES!!
perhaps forerunners looked at early humans, liked them, and called them reclaimers, giving them the responsibilty of activating the ark and halos. maybe that's what the gods of prehistory missing-link humans were

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  • 05.26.2006 8:52 AM PDT
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Posted by: ceebee r
none...just looking at the wording and speculating......instead of looking way too deep into little things just keeping it simple and wondering why they would use the term RE-claimer...and im sure it has been discussed but not by me so im trying to discuss it


No dude, it's cuz in the game 343 talks to the Master Chief (the Reclaimer) like he's known him before... saying things like "why do you hesitate to do what you've already done?" [Activate Halo]. The only other people that have activated Halo were (we assume) the Forerunners. So, that's the connection between the Reclaimer and the Forerunners, and that why I think the Forerunners were human.

  • 05.26.2006 8:53 AM PDT
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Re-claimers shouldn't be forerunners you wouldn't call your race by either name really would you. And as Guilty Spark was made by forerunners he'd know what to call them.

It's interesting that guilty spark cant identify the covenant but can idenify humans

  • 05.26.2006 8:55 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

read my last post

  • 05.26.2006 8:58 AM PDT

Damn snipers!!!

I have now read the books...

your stupid makes my brain sad

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Posted by: ceebee r
none...just looking at the wording and speculating......instead of looking way too deep into little things just keeping it simple and wondering why they would use the term RE-claimer...and im sure it has been discussed but not by me so im trying to discuss it


No dude, it's cuz in the game 343 talks to the Master Chief (the Reclaimer) like he's known him before... saying things like "why do you hesitate to do what you've already done?" [Activate Halo]. The only other people that have activated Halo were (we assume) the Forerunners. So, that's the connection between the Reclaimer and the Forerunners, and that why I think the Forerunners were human.


exactly.........wait, youre agreeing with me rite???

  • 05.26.2006 9:04 AM PDT

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