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Subject: The Ark in the Halo 3 trailer

When the Ark fires in the trailer, it is not activating the 6 remaining Halos, it is destroying them. I could explain it all, but that would be too easy. Figure it out.

  • 06.09.2006 3:00 AM PDT
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The Installation 05 in Halo 2 fires to communicate with the other remaining 5 rings. What is the Ark communicating with. Are we going to be playing an apocolyptic Halo game from a 1/3 of the way through? Halo might take 24 hours to destroy all Sentient life.

  • 06.09.2006 3:02 AM PDT

You missed what I said. I speculated that the Ark destroys the remaining Halos, not that it activates them.

  • 06.09.2006 3:06 AM PDT
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Perhaps but is there any reason why it would do so?

  • 06.09.2006 3:10 AM PDT
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because otherwise it would suck

I thought that they might be engines??? that the forrunners used to put earth where it is?

  • 06.09.2006 3:15 AM PDT

Remember that after the events in Halo 2, there is a schism in the Covenant (Elites, Grunts, and Hunters v. Prophets, Brutes, Jackals, and Drones, or 1 and 2, respectively.) Remember also that due to the samurai-like code that the elites seem to follow, the Arbiter is the somewhat leader of group 1. The Arbiter is also in an alliance with the humans, because of his contact with the MC, Johnson, and Keyes. Therefore, it is my belief that the Covenant shown in the trailer belong to group 1 and, with the new undersanding of the purpose of the Halo system, have decided to unearth the Ark and use it to destroy the Halos (assuming that such a thing can be done while in standby status,) and thereby destroy the Flood aswell (because they all live on the Halos.) That would explain why the Master Chief is standing at ease (literally and figuratively) and why the Banshees fly right over his head without paying him any mind (if they saw him as an enemy, they would know better than to let him be if they had an open shot.)
Keep in mind that this is a theory based entirely off of the trailer and Frankie's statement that "There's a universe of drama in that trailer if you know what to look for." In all reality, I hope that I'm wrong, so I'll be surprised to see what Bungie comes up with, and either way, I know Halo 3 is going to roxxorz some soxxorz, so I won't be let down.

  • 06.09.2006 3:31 AM PDT
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I think the building is the arc and the blast is disarming all the other halos.

  • 06.09.2006 3:32 AM PDT

Posted by: evilc01
I think the building is the arc and the blast is disarming all the other halos.

That's almost word-for-word what I just said. (See the first and third posts.)

[Edited on 6/9/2006]

  • 06.09.2006 3:36 AM PDT
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you're naut cookin'

Its a good theory, but unforunately, its got a few things going against it.

Bungie has made obvious Biblical references throughout the Halo series. One of the most obvious being "The Flood" and now "The Ark". The spelling and everything, its hardly a coincidence, the brilliant minds at Bungie made these storylines from 1999 (The Cortana Letters).

As we know, The Ark protected Noah from The Flood, but didnt destory The Flood, or what fled The Flood (that being the Earth).

Still, kudos

  • 06.09.2006 3:40 AM PDT

Posted by: kippa
Its a good theory, but unforunately, its got a few things going against it.

Bungie has made obvious Biblical references throughout the Halo series. One of the most obvious being "The Flood" and now "The Ark". The spelling and everything, its hardly a coincidence, the brilliant minds at Bungie made these storylines from 1999 (The Cortana Letters).

As we know, The Ark protected Noah from The Flood, but didnt destory The Flood, or what fled The Flood (that being the Earth).

Still, kudos


There's a problem with your argument. Just because the game has made biblical references, that does not necissarily mean that the games must follow the bible exactly. One could make the arguement that the flood was meant to destroy humanity and due to the fact that the ark caused it to fail in that capacity, it was defeated. It is sheer lunacy to say that the games must follow a certain path becase the bible commands it.

  • 06.09.2006 3:46 AM PDT
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You might be right.

Cortana says "this is how the world ends"

If the Halos are deactivated, not hing can stop the flood. Either way we lose, it's just a matter of letting the flood win or lose to.

  • 06.09.2006 3:52 AM PDT

See, there's the beauty of it. The Flood are "stored" on the Halos, so if you were to destroy the Halos, then you would destroy the Flood. With the exception of those Flood that were in the research station that the Arbiter sent plummeting to its end, but they're already dead anyway.

  • 06.09.2006 3:55 AM PDT
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Er...no. That theory doesn't work, what about high charity?

  • 06.09.2006 3:59 AM PDT

High Charity is parked right above the Halo installation (04..?) that Halo 2 takes place on. It would be within the blast radius of the ring being destroyed.

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And the gravemind would just sit there and let that happen? Yeah, I guess he couldn't just turn the engines on.

  • 06.09.2006 4:06 AM PDT
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High Charity had slipspace capabilities in Halo 2. Perhaps it does not have power or slipspace options now (disengaging of Forerunner ship) but perhaps it does. Why did Gravemind use In Amber Clad to transport Flood to High Charity and then he teleports there? Why not use In Amber Clad to get completely off the installation 05. He needs more information and that is why he asks Cortana at the end of Halo 2. Gravemind knows more than us about Halo but he does not know where the Ark is or he would have used In Amber Clads slipspace capability to reach Earth and subsequently the Ark.

  • 06.09.2006 4:08 AM PDT

I'm sure that someone will come along and make the argument that the Master Chief wouldn't let Cortana die and all of this business, but you have to remember, as Cortana herself said in the Conversations of the Universe, that loyalty is bred into the Spartans, meaning that the Master Chief has a duty to protect the human race, regardless of feelings. I'm not sure how Cortana plays into the theory, but I figure that she'll help hold Gravemind at bay so he can't cause too much damage. I don't think that she'll go rogue.

In response to that slipspace business, High Charity lacks power without the Forerunner ship. That, and Gravemind has yet to show what part he plays, so you can't neccisarily say he's planning one thing or another.

[Edited on 6/9/2006]

  • 06.09.2006 4:10 AM PDT
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Also dont forget that no one knows that there IS an ark apart from the the Arbitor, Miranda and Sgt J.

I think that the gravemind is in control of Cortana, he may use the chief to get what he wants through cortana.

  • 06.09.2006 4:50 AM PDT
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i think that there are two grave minds that like we have adam and eve the flood have the two grave minds and the 1 covvies and the humans will kill the first and the second one that is with cortana get pissed off. I always wondered what would happen if cortana was a human maybe just maybe she gets a body from the forrunners but is infected. I will explain...

I think that the forrunners are not all dead they where the ultimate race they built the fortress worls(halos) there for it would stand to logic that they would know of dead zones that the rings will not effect. If the rings weapon is a pluse that destoys all centian life there would be small gaps that the pulses did not/ would not reach.SO some of the forrunners survive they give cortana a body ( I dont know why because they can) but it is infected by the flood and she has to leave the body with that experience leaveing her matrix in taters the forrunners realise that they need to leave the humans and covanant to it and watch but they need it to move along so they give Cortana visions of the futurethat is what you see in the H3 trailer. Now the device that you see in the trailer is a control room of sorts it means that the conanant and humans can adjust the way the rings work to only kill flood. they then activate it MC is there to see it activate ending not only the covanant war but the flood war aswell the covvies and the humans getalong and well the flood they are just dead.


Just a big thought.

  • 06.09.2006 5:47 AM PDT
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Yo Guys... it's not a weapon. Check out my theory, its pure speculation, but its pretty sweet. Notice the swirling vortex in the sky in the trailer... thats slip space, not a storm. Think of the Ark as a massive slip space generator that the forerunners used to escape this portion of space. They went on a "great journey" using the ARK. This is the great journey that the cov have been looking for.

THe forerunners built the halos with the idea of destroying that entire portion of space and the flood. They needed to get out of that portion of space before activating the halos. They hitched a ride and the Halos auto-activated after they left (or did they) and thats why flood only remain on the halos.

In First Strike, they talk about the object the Spartans took from the relic the cov were excavating on Reach. Dr. Keeley talked about how it seems to bend time and gravity. Perhaps the forerunners used this to power the ARK and somehow transcend time and space, being able to teleport themselves to another era... probably more likely they're on the other end of the universe though. Perhaps a few returned... human adam and eves and cov adam and eves, so that life could begin anew in that portion of space

Anyways, activating the halos together destroys everything except for the forerunner structures, such as earth and the halos... thats whey they're still around. Such a cataclismic event could be taken to be the end of the world... as they know it.

I def. think we get to meet some forerunners at the end of this game.

[Edited on 6/9/2006]

  • 06.09.2006 6:22 AM PDT
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Destroy them=activate them, yeah

  • 06.09.2006 6:54 AM PDT
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Whos to say we havent already met the forerunners? What I am saying is I think that it becomes a little clearer with every new shred of evidence that the humans built the rings. I think one of the most important things to note is when guilty spark says that during the first firing of the halos...the creators as well as all other sentient life died ... "AS PLANNED". Therefore what we were assuming to be true all along is correct...It really is a weapon...however new evidence then comes to light...the ark. Why would the forerunners plan for their entire race to become exterminated at their own hand just to stop the flood? What point is there in exausting all the resources, time, and effort to build the halos if there will be no future after the firing. Seems irrational. So they created the ark...whatever that may be...as a safe haven for the beings that would continue their species into the future after the halos were fired. I personally feel that the ark is either Earth (a place outside of the deadly radius of the halos) or a structure on earth that keeps them safe. But my main point is that there had to be a place of safety. There doesnt seem to be any logical reason to build 7 gigantic superweapons to commit suicide. Think of the biblical flood. Was it a weapon...partly so...but what it truly was, a punishment of sins, and a means to a new beginning. I think for our story the latter of the two is more relavent. A means to a new beginning. Just something to nibble on. Or mabey im stupid.

  • 06.09.2006 11:38 AM PDT