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Subject: THEORY: The Swirling Vortex in the Trailer is the Great Journey
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NEWS.... the structure in the trailer might not be on Earth.... check this link out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo:_Ghosts_of_Coral

More speculation, but defiently things to ponder... basically it talks about the planet Coral, and how a huge artifact suspected to be forerunner was discovered.... sounds alot like the structure in the trailer... but it still all could be the ARK. However, this also means that MC isn't on Earth for the entirity of HALO 3.

I'd also like to point out that Coral would be a good cover name for Earth, so maybe Bungie is just covering for the book, since Ghosts of Coral is just a working title.

[Edited on 6/10/2006]

  • 06.10.2006 10:39 PM PDT
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Thats a good plan

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nope, listen to guilty spark talk sometimes, just to quote the most applicable sentance to why your theory could be construed as wrong" after exhausting all other options my creators were wiped out during the first activation of the facility" or something very similar. so basicly my forerunners died when they first fired the halos, they did not escape they and all other sentient life large enough to be able to host flood parasites were wiped out from existence.

  • 06.10.2006 10:43 PM PDT

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interesting is all I have to say, and... that so called comet that hit earth was the Forerunners jumping into slipspace! I mean jumping into slipspace can have major damage upon the planet, as seen in Halo 2 and Halo 3 Trailer.

  • 06.10.2006 10:50 PM PDT
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my buddy and i came up with this theory a while back during the release of the trailer which is, what if the artifact is not the ark, but juz a relay beacon for it? if the trailer takes place on earth, then the structure could actually just be creating a prtal through time or slipspace to the location of the real ark, away from the blast radiuses of all the halos. i makes no sense to activate the halos from way out in slipspace cos u can't remotely activate a remote activator. and besides, i dun think the forerunners need to jump into slipspace from the ark, cos since it's called the ark, it should alr shield the ones inside from the rings' effects in the first place... there's my fifty cents.

  • 06.10.2006 11:01 PM PDT
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Posted by: Carnage SWAT
pure speculation follows: Heres my theory about the ARK...it's not a weapon. Notice the swirling vortex in the sky in the trailer... what if thats thats slip space and 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 then the ARK structure on Earth, as the command center, activated the Halos after the forerunners left on the great journey (or did they... perhaps the halos never actually activated... it would explain the blue eyed floating robots problem in the first HALO game) and thats why flood only remain on the Halos.

SO, let me know what you think... expand on these ideas, argue against them it... Finish the Fight


How should i start...

Ahem...

Long ago many alien races made a covenant... and united under one belief...of the forerunners...they worshipped the forerunners as there gods... meanwhile humans were fighting this newly formed covenant and were making spartans to fight them...blah blah...
the covs believed the forerunners would bring them great glory but little did they know when they found a halo it would actually destroy them...blah blah...in the end of halo2 the Monitor says the ark is the key to all the halos ahem meaning the great journey that these covenant are on...therefore...IT IS THE GOD DAMN KEY TO THERE GREATJOURNEY...wow play halo1 n 2 over cmon buddy even i know that and i got a life...phew...hah..

  • 06.10.2006 11:01 PM PDT
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Wow Just Wow

  • 06.10.2006 11:04 PM PDT
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Aren't we getting a little bit carried away?

The structure is indeed confirmed to be on Earth and the Master Chief is walking through the ravaged ruins of Mombasa.

However, I should feel that the Artifact on Coral should be of significance in Halo 3. The Covenant must've not been aware of a buried Forerunner Artifact on that system. It's titanic proportion with an unnatural ability to withstand high explosives to the point of not even being scorched coupled with intriguing reports of sealed vaults and galleries beneath suggest importance and undisturbed relics. Worse yet, the ONI is involved.

  • 06.11.2006 12:29 AM PDT

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...if you didnt read what i said read it again!

Posted by: Jimmy01
Do none of you have a sense of humour?
We do, this just isn't funny.

So, you created this theory, which i thought was good, until you forgot 343 Guilty Sparks name... then it made it sound like you didnt no what you were one about :-(

  • 06.11.2006 2:11 AM PDT
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  • 06.11.2006 3:44 AM PDT
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Thats what i said over a week ago before... What i was saying was forunners dont just commit mass suicide, they're more likely to flee the scene leaving a massive bomb behind with the oracle there to entice whatever intelligent life thats around to activate the halos!

  • 06.11.2006 3:49 AM PDT
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Posted by: Robiot
Sorry but i think the "greate journey" is metaphorical, its a symbol of the journey to transeincy, to heaven what ever the covenant think it is. What they call the Halos, Library etc is not what the forruners called it, the covenant mainly the prophets but a twist/ spin on everything.


Good Idea.

Like they can only go on "The Great Journey" to their heaven, if they die nobelly, and the only nobel way to die is by activating the ARK.

P-S...Wasn't the ARK on shadow the hedehog?

  • 06.11.2006 4:18 AM PDT
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Posted by: Carnage SWAT
pure speculation follows: Heres my theory about the ARK...it's not a weapon. Notice the swirling vortex in the sky in the trailer... what if thats thats slip space and 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 then the ARK structure on Earth, as the command center, activated the Halos after the forerunners left on the great journey (or did they... perhaps the halos never actually activated... it would explain the blue eyed floating robots problem in the first HALO game) and thats why flood only remain on the Halos.

SO, let me know what you think... expand on these ideas, argue against them it... Finish the Fight


How should i start...

Ahem...

Long ago many alien races made a covenant... and united under one belief...of the forerunners...they worshipped the forerunners as there gods... meanwhile humans were fighting this newly formed covenant and were making spartans to fight them...blah blah...
the covs believed the forerunners would bring them great glory but little did they know when they found a halo it would actually destroy them...blah blah...in the end of halo2 the Monitor says the ark is the key to all the halos ahem meaning the great journey that these covenant are on...therefore...IT IS THE GOD DAMN KEY TO THERE GREATJOURNEY...wow play halo1 n 2 over cmon buddy even i know that and i got a life...phew...hah..


Yea, you've really gotta have a life to be posting something as dumb as that.

first off the monitor simply tells them thats theres 7 halos and that they need to go to the ARK if they want to activate/ disable all of the Halos. Now, why would the forerunners build a single complex to control the Halos if they were going to kill themselves? If the structure in the trailer is infact the ARK, then that swirling vortex could be slipspace, as I've mentioned before, providing truth to idea of a "great journey." Lets face it, its pretty hard to mistake mass death for a great journey to heaven. The forerunners probably viewed the region of space they were going to as a heaven because it was free of flood (if they did indeed flee this region of space). Perhaps before they were able to flee, they were betrayed by an ancestor of the prophets who activated the Halos before anybody got through the slipspace.

Anyways, my theory explains the swirling vortex, and I havent seen anyone else really spit any ideas out there, but I'd be interested to hear some of them. My theory also gives a new explaination for why the forerunner just disappeared.

I like the one dudes theory that the ARK is sending out a signal to the other Halos through slipspace, which explains the gas. It could also be that the ARK is destroying the Halos in the trailer.

  • 06.12.2006 12:51 PM PDT
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Isn't the great journey just a mass extinction of the covenant and all other sentient life that occurs when they activate the ring? because thats what it said in the game, at least I'm pretty sure.

  • 06.12.2006 12:58 PM PDT
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Thats what we're lead to believe in Halo 2.

As I've said before, the Halos would activate after the forerunners went through the slip space, so the activation of the Halos is the final part of the Great Journey, and the whole reason there has to be a Great Journey across the universe to escape the Halos.

I'm just making the point that the forerunners probably wanted to live (survival instinct, anyone?) and they decided to go on a roadtrip across space to avoid being killed, based on what I've read, played in the games and scene in the trailer.

[Edited on 6/13/2006]

  • 06.13.2006 6:20 AM PDT
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So heres some more hypothesis, dealing with why the COV are all lined up above the structure and below the vortex.

I believe the cov are all lined up because they're getting ready to catch a ride throught the slipspace..

In the trailer, we see a phantom move towards the center of the structure, but then it breaks off when the beam of light comes out of the structure. I'm willing to bet Truth is in the phantom, and he didn't know that this would happen. I have no idea what the light is... could just be the structure depressuring, or perhaps its opening to form sort of intermediate passage into the slipspace, or maybe its sending a signal out to the Halos / across space to where ever the forerunners went.

Idk, give me your thoughts

  • 06.14.2006 8:27 AM PDT

Quick as a razor, sharp as a bullet.

what if the forerunners come out of the slipspace above the ark (hence those things in the behind the scenes docu, only to be annihalated as the ark is activated again
forerunners: "D'oh!"

  • 06.14.2006 8:45 AM PDT
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Nice theory, a little farfetched but it could happen.

Only thing I could say is that ignoring biblical references, an ark is basically a bunker. So unless good ol' Noah kicks up a chair beside MC, I don't think our favourite hole in Africa will be taking us far.

  • 06.14.2006 8:57 AM PDT
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you just need to think about the names of these things

The Ark protects from The Flood in Noah's ark

So i dont know what, but i think something is gonna happen at the ark which will protect earth, maybe move it? create a shield around it? 2 of every species will be there, covenant and human.

A new galaxy will be built from the ark with covenant and human in peace.

May seem crazy but makes senes to me!

  • 06.14.2006 9:22 AM PDT
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I thought the saem thing in the past that perhaps the Halos/Ark is really a portal of somekind and that is what the Arks function is. But then again we won't know (Hopefully) until 2007 what the deal is.

  • 06.14.2006 9:43 AM PDT
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Nice theory, we'll see.

  • 06.14.2006 10:01 AM PDT

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