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A grand finale on/in the Ark would seem as the obvious ending, though do we want the obvious?

Seeing as the trailer is 1/3 into the game, it's highly unlikely that the final battle will take place at the Ark. Unless it's mearly a vision as suggested by some...

What if the final battle takes place in some kind of slip-space distortion, where you are thrown through both time and space battleing both on earth and other Halos, in the process there should be short snippets of flashbacks where you get the backstory - possibly seeing the Flood when they first appeared and when the Forerunners built the Halos. The slip-space distortion would be caused by the activation of all the Halos and could symbolize both the extermination of all sentient life in the universe (the Human perpective on the Halos as weapons of last resort) and the Covenants Great Journey - ergo, you would travel with the "divine wind" as it ravages the universe and leaves nothing behind.

You are finally swept back to Earth wich will be the last place affected by the activation, seeing as those destined to survive must have time to reach the Ark. But insteed of hiding in the Ark the Master Chief stands his ground as the obliterating light of the Halos draws closer and closer, and when it finally hits him the Mjolnir armour decays into flaming sparks and left is but a shadow, the shadow of a warrior. All is dark. The world has ended.

Yet the Halos still remain, don't they. Because they are still left since the last activation, We now discover their full purpose... - Not simply do they initiate the end of the world as we know it, the Halos are meant to repopulate the universe. The Library one each of the Halos could contain gentic codes in order to accomplish this, the index could also store some referens to species that are going to be reproduced? The Flood is a monument of all our sins and is meant to have us understand that it is time for a new beginning, that the world will not only end but also begin - in defiance to our poet Elliot not with a whimper but with a bang. A really. Big. Bang...

The world has ended. Long live the world!

[Edited on 5/28/2006]

  • 05.28.2006 11:07 AM PDT
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how do we even know how big the ark is. it could be the size of a larage house for all we know

  • 05.28.2006 11:08 AM PDT
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How do u no that it is 1/3 into the gane?

  • 05.28.2006 11:11 AM PDT
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Your point beeing...?

Sure the Ark could be tiny but it would still be large enough for, say a reclaimer, to get into it. And if it refers to an Ark as in Noah's Ark then it must have been somewhat roomy because it would house a variety of species. If it refers to the Ark of the Covenant then this would tear the ground on which my speculation stands. But then again it would seem logical that the Ark is connected to the Flood and therefore symbolizes a place of refuge and salvation.

  • 05.28.2006 12:21 PM PDT
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Somehow I think there will be a more 'potent' enemy than the flood in Halo 3. Maybe some more forms like Gravedude. At least I hope this will be the case cos' I'm tired fighting flood.

  • 05.28.2006 12:25 PM PDT

dont do drugs

I like the flood i never get tired killing them.

  • 05.28.2006 1:05 PM PDT
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Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

[quote]Posted by: Helmer Ve
The Library one each of the Halos could contain gentic codes in order to accomplish this, the index could also store some referens to species that are going to be reproduced? quote]

go to the library forum and read the definition of a library at the top.
wow. never looked at it like that before.

  • 05.28.2006 1:19 PM PDT
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Well there you have it:) (i've noticed that smileys aren't that frequently used in this forum, aren't you guys happy?)

"A collection of cloned DNA sequences whose location and identity can be established by mapping the genome of a particular organism"

I've always thought that there is something about the Halos that we don't know yet, some other purpose than killing the Floods food, have in mind that though 343 GS does state that Halo is a weapon of last resort this doesn't have to mean that he is talking about the Flood beeing stopped, the fact that the Flood exist could as Gravemind so gently put it simply be a monument to all our sins. And the Halos would then take on some sort of a Godlike role, or simply it would be meant as an instrument of Gods (Forerunners...)

This doesn't have much to do about the above but still: MCs armour is called Mjolnir (Mjölner in swedish, which actually sounds really corny)... this is the hammer of Thor, a nordic God. This would implicate that if humans are decendent from the Forerunners then Master Chief's role as a reclaimer could be justified, how others humans also are refered to as reclaimers is a tough nut to crack - perhaps Bungie is giving us a clue through the MC without beeing to obvious?

  • 05.28.2006 1:48 PM PDT