- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I posted this elsewhere but it seems to touch on a number of threads so I have re posted it to see what anyone else thinks. Please reply
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