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But you were dead a thousand times. Hopeless encounters successfully won. A man long dead, grafted to machines your builders did not understand. You follow the path, fitting in to an infinite pattern.
Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.
Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.
I know who you are.
You are Destiny.

I'm sure that most of you have seen the Halo 3 trailer and noticed Cortana's somewhat quirky behavior. While most of what she says appears to be gibberish, it's really not. http://marathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html"]http://m arathon.bungie.org/story/cortana.html
That link will show a series of e-mails which are confirmed to have originated from the Old Bungie Offices. These became known as the Cortana Letters. These e-mails are adressed from 'Cortana.' Notice how the first e-mail gives direct quotes from the Halo 3 trailer...and the e-mail was written in 1999...
The one line in the first Cortana letter says "Oh, and your poet Eliot had it all wrong:
THIS is the way the world ends." Isn't 'this is the way the world ends' from the Halo 3 trailer? It is. If you read the letter you can see other correlations but the startlingly obvious implication is the last line. By 'your poet Eliot' we can infer that she means T.S. Eliot who wrote a poem called "The Hollow Men", the poem's final verse goes...
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
So when Cortana says that your poet Eliot had it wrong, she's implying that the world will end with a bang! What's this mean for Halo 3? Does it mean it ends with a bang? A select few people will get saved in the 'ARK' and that's why the Covenant are trying to find it? Frankie will grow hair? John really was the reclaimer of the past and the ARK is somekind of time machine and the story involves a crazy time paradox I can't comprehend?!?!?! Wish I knew.

-Jsanchez21

Note: I don't know if anyone else has come up with a theory like this, if they have please post a link or something. I'm not trying to take other people's ideas. Thanks.

[Edited on 6/15/2006]

  • 06.15.2006 12:27 PM PDT
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its what my thread is all about DUDE!!!

i agree that the halos activate and ......everyone not in the ark is vaporized and the flood starve off

  • 06.15.2006 12:28 PM PDT

XBL: FTG Spartan
But you were dead a thousand times. Hopeless encounters successfully won. A man long dead, grafted to machines your builders did not understand. You follow the path, fitting in to an infinite pattern.
Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.
Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.
I know who you are.
You are Destiny.

Did someone correlate the Cortana Letters with the halo 3 ending also?

  • 06.15.2006 12:30 PM PDT

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Posted by: J Sanchez 21
Did someone correlate the Cortana Letters with the halo 3 ending also?


I was about to say that. Has it occured to you that Bungie made what Cortana said in the trailer around those letters? The letters were made in the late 1990s. This is 2006. We can recall things from not too long ago.

  • 06.15.2006 12:32 PM PDT

XBL: FTG Spartan
But you were dead a thousand times. Hopeless encounters successfully won. A man long dead, grafted to machines your builders did not understand. You follow the path, fitting in to an infinite pattern.
Yours to manipulate, to destroy and rebuild.
Now, in the quantum moment before the closure, when all become one. One moment left. One point of space and time.
I know who you are.
You are Destiny.

It has occured. I think they've had Halo's story since 1999. The Eliot referrence was a hint for the end of the series.

  • 06.15.2006 12:34 PM PDT
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Way to be totally original AND avoid stating the really obvious. Thanks.

(extreme case of sarcasm)

  • 06.15.2006 12:55 PM PDT