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Subject: NEW ARK THEORY. HOW HUMANITY SURVIVES THE HALO DETONATION
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We already know that the covenant (and therefore almost certainly forerunners) have awesome technology. More specifically, teleportation. Well maybe the Ark is actually a teleport point to a twin planet outside the halo's blast radius. Then a massive portion of humanity including animals and the like could survive.

One argument i forsee is: "if it was teleporters, why wouldn't the covies use them in ground-based warefare? (not to be confused with slipspace jumps) Then they could just appear behind our defences." Well I think to do it, it needs a reciever point. The forerunners were gonna use this as a contingency plan and built a reciever point (maybe even an identical ark) to appear at.

"But thats too far for the crappy teleporters that 343 GS uses " i hear you say. Well the forerunners had supreme technology so maybe they found a way to rig a constant slipspace portal instead. I seriously dont think this is out of the question.

This is my first theory that i really think could work. Why? Because it actually seems possible and doesnt rely on something like time travel. Tell me what you think Bungie fans!


EDIT: Ok some people were getting hung up on points like whether i know the difference between teleporting and slipspace jumps. Ive changed some words around so it sould make more sense now.

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  • 06.05.2006 3:14 AM PDT

the Arc is a Teleporter?
Naahhh, that's way to lame for Bungie

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  • 06.05.2006 3:17 AM PDT

...and too similar to the DOOM movie...

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  • 06.05.2006 4:58 AM PDT
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i think its unexpected, if you had some sort of evidence then id love to keep an eye on this one :D
you mean a constant wormhole, like a stargate or something?

  • 06.05.2006 4:58 AM PDT
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it doesn't make any sense the forerunners r all dead, it said so in the first halo and usualy dont make lyin games

the ark activates all halo rings at 1ce thats wat guilty spark said in halo 2

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  • 06.05.2006 5:02 AM PDT
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Ermm...how do i say this.........
the ark is a device tats the main place where when it activates........
it works with the power of all the halos.........
Understand...!

  • 06.05.2006 5:22 AM PDT
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Posted by: Stabby Nife
it doesn't make any sense the forerunners r all dead, it said so in the first halo and usualy dont make lyin games


Lets not get confused. I'm not sayin the Forerunners are still alive. Maybe someone activated the halos prematurely. I'm thinkin like a rogue monitor or something. Well not necessarily rogue but maybe overzealous in his programming.

E.g.

Programming: If the flood escapes, activate the halos
343 GS: Ok. Oh look! The Flood has escaped. Better activate them halos.
Forerunners: But we're not safe yet!
343 GS: But the flood will spread. Activating Halos.

You get the picture.

  • 06.05.2006 5:25 AM PDT

The Master of Stealth ......I am the SILENCE

if what i belive ur theory is based on is that the covinent uses telporters in space for there ships (i cant see any other thing they do that uses teleporters unless u mean what guilty spark and gravemind do but thats forerunner tech any way

if u are using the "crappy teleporter" as what the covenent space ships do its not a teleport at all its a slipspace jump which the humans can do just as well now

so unfortunatly yes the ark could be a for runner teleporter but even guilty spark couldnt teleport long distances on the halo's (then again it could just be a good teleporter but i doubt it would be so trivial from somthing bungie made)

so yes to clarify the covenant never teleport the slip space jump like we do its teh old forrunner teleporters that move mc around the halo and i doubt there is one that would do what your sugesting as its just to easy a way for the story to go

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Posted by: Stabby Nife
it doesn't make any sense the forerunners r all dead, it said so in the first halo and usualy dont make lyin games


That could mean all the Forerunners that were left behind. Someone had to stay and activate the rings.

  • 06.05.2006 5:41 AM PDT

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Posted by: Stabby Nife
it doesn't make any sense the forerunners r all dead, it said so in the first halo and usualy dont make lyin games


Lets not get confused. I'm not sayin the Forerunners are still alive. Maybe someone activated the halos prematurely. I'm thinkin like a rogue monitor or something. Well not necessarily rogue but maybe overzealous in his programming.

E.g.

Programming: If the flood escapes, activate the halos
343 GS: Ok. Oh look! The Flood has escaped. Better activate them halos.
Forerunners: But we're not safe yet!
343 GS: But the flood will spread. Activating Halos.

You get the picture.


also the rings were activateed and all the forrunners died the only reason there are humans elites grunts etc is because it only kills sentient life or life that the flood can absorb meaning single celled life is still around and after billions of years those singal cells become insects fish etc etc and then poof u have humans and all the flood have starved and are dormant making the new humans and life safe again

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Hey Inviso i have another the theory,from the preview you know when that large forerunner artifact started to open. Well the shape in the centre of the opening looks similar to the shape of the forunner ship that the Prophet of truth caught and masterchief had to get onto it before it took off. Maybe that ship is the key to unlocking the arc or have some great significance of the unleashing of the rings.(any arguments?)

  • 06.05.2006 5:47 AM PDT
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Posted by: SILENCE UK
if u are using the "crappy teleporter" as what the covenent space ships do its not a teleport at all its a slipspace jump which the humans can do just as well now


Yes i know that. The "crappy teleporters" i'm talking about are, what you said yourself, what 343 uses which is forerunner technology. Duh, the forerunners built the ark. why wouldn't they use their own technology?

As for slipspace jumps. Yes i know that what their battleships use. Thats why i said "rig a constant slipspace portal". That is the other possible option if "crappy teleporters" dont have enough range.

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Hey Inviso i have another the theory,from the preview you know when that large forerunner artifact started to open. Well the shape in the centre of the opening looks similar to the shape of the forunner ship that the Prophet of truth caught and masterchief had to get onto it before it took off. Maybe that ship is the key to unlocking the arc or have some great significance of the unleashing of the rings.(any arguments?)


Ye i noticed that too but didn't think anything of it. Good point. Your theory is very possible at this point.

  • 06.05.2006 5:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: Stabby Nife
it doesn't make any sense the forerunners r all dead, it said so in the first halo and usualy dont make lyin games

the ark activates all halo rings at 1ce thats wat guilty spark said in halo 2


it hints at it that they used time travel to go to a time after the flood is gone.

  • 06.05.2006 6:40 AM PDT
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Posted by: Stabby Nife
it doesn't make any sense the forerunners r all dead, it said so in the first halo and usualy dont make lyin games

the ark activates all halo rings at 1ce thats wat guilty spark said in halo 2


it hints at it that they used time travel to go to a time after the flood is gone.


With drinking and quaffing and banqueting :)

A place to escape the Flood? Transcendence maybe? Moving onto paradise? Think about it...

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Posted by: SILENCE UK
Posted by: Inviso
Posted by: Stabby Nife
it doesn't make any sense the forerunners r all dead, it said so in the first halo and usualy dont make lyin games


Lets not get confused. I'm not sayin the Forerunners are still alive. Maybe someone activated the halos prematurely. I'm thinkin like a rogue monitor or something. Well not necessarily rogue but maybe overzealous in his programming.

E.g.

Programming: If the flood escapes, activate the halos
343 GS: Ok. Oh look! The Flood has escaped. Better activate them halos.
Forerunners: But we're not safe yet!
343 GS: But the flood will spread. Activating Halos.

You get the picture.


also the rings were activateed and all the forrunners died the only reason there are humans elites grunts etc is because it only kills sentient life or life that the flood can absorb meaning single celled life is still around and after billions of years those singal cells become insects fish etc etc and then poof u have humans and all the flood have starved and are dormant making the new humans and life safe again


after that much time for evolution to happen all over again, all of the forerunner facilites would of worn away and wouldnt even exist for us to be playing these games. heck, the sun would of blown up and earth wouldnt even exist!

  • 06.05.2006 6:45 AM PDT
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Hey Inviso guy, just to tell you,but the monitors can't activate halo, remember? u need a reclaimer to do that.

  • 06.05.2006 7:11 AM PDT
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if i go down ill take some gamer with me

i think the ark would be some sort of a base/ship.

now because they used the myth of the flood and the arch, what if the arch was infact. ATLANTAS. (location) we know about the myth of the supper city, what if it was a forerunner base that after the rings were used, activated and spread the seeds of the human race, along with the seeds of all the animals ect.

and in 10000000 years, humans will become forerunners.
(perhaps we were what they were 10000000 years ago?)

  • 06.05.2006 7:19 AM PDT

Wormhole... teleportation for large starships such as the covenants, Yea makes sense.

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  • 06.05.2006 7:21 AM PDT
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If the Forerunners began their timetravel a long time ago, wouldn't that make them arrive in our present?

  • 06.05.2006 8:04 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

good ideas

  • 06.05.2006 8:28 AM PDT
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If the Ark is an obvious reference to the Bible, which of course it is, than this theory makes little sense. It is, at most, a ship, where humans/ forerunners repopulate the Earth after the Flood.

I would say it is possible the Ark is the planet Earth, which is one big ship, maybe moving about the universe after the Halos are activated until it finds a suitable place to settle in, releasing the humans in stasis and thus repopulating it with humans.

Anyway, teleporter is a bit out there and really has little to back up the theory... but again, anything is possible I suppose.

  • 06.05.2006 9:18 AM PDT
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couldnt all of humanity go into the blast zone of the first halo that was blown up? then cortana could activate the remaning 6 and kill the covenent and the flood

  • 06.05.2006 10:13 AM PDT
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dude ur way late on this one i posted it last week and i was late. stop acting like you came up with this theory.

  • 06.05.2006 10:21 AM PDT
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Look. Alot of people seem to be getting hung up on the unimportant facts like the difference between teleportation and slipspace jumps. I'll get one thing straight. I'm saying thet either is a possibility. Maybe it's teleporting. Maybe it's a constant slipspace portal. But that's not the main point.

The point i'm trying to make is that a twin ark on another planet seems like a very bungie-like thing to do.

Btw, i've edited the original post to clear things up a bit.

  • 06.05.2006 5:45 PM PDT

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