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Subject: ABOUT THE ENDING
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I got this from a post on my site, newmombasa:


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
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.

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Hes right. BANGGG! Discuss? Discuss there?

  • 06.15.2006 12:39 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.

Well, I definetly agree. They obviously had to have the story planned out back in 1999 to make the first game. It just makes sense. Unfortunately most people won't read this or understand the implications of the Cortana Letters...

  • 06.15.2006 12:43 PM PDT
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So the ring gets activated?

  • 06.15.2006 12:55 PM PDT
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THat sounds like a whimper to me, the bang would be the ring going off.

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  • 06.15.2006 1:06 PM PDT
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Hey does anyone know if Halo 3 will be released for Xbox, as well as xbox 360?

  • 06.15.2006 1:18 PM PDT
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I don't thinks so because it takes a better engine to show those graphics

  • 06.15.2006 1:19 PM PDT
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ok.......Darn....... should i buy an xbox 360 just for halo 3?

  • 06.15.2006 1:21 PM PDT
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YES I PLAN 2

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  • 06.15.2006 1:22 PM PDT
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Lol, y wouldnt they make h3 for xbox, they could lower the graphics a little bit

  • 06.15.2006 1:22 PM PDT
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they will make so much more money from guys like u and me only buyin a 360 for halo3

  • 06.15.2006 1:23 PM PDT
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i know, thats what i was thinking, but it sucks because halo IS for XBOX it started on xbox and i think they could atleast make something that we could buy to enhance the quality of our graphics on xbox so that we could play h3

  • 06.15.2006 1:25 PM PDT
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I don't know, but so far i'm planning to buy an XBox 360, Xbox live, and Halo 3: It's Dying Time -blam!-es.

  • 06.15.2006 1:29 PM PDT

Down, down to hell and say that I sent you there...

I came into the world with my legs forward and a woman cried "he was born with teeth!"

"I had no father I am like my father...I had no brother I am like my brother...And this word, "love" which old farts call divine be resident in men like you -blam!-. But not in me, I am my mother-blam!- self, alone."

You Are an Idiot

Posted by: Justjosh4you
i know, thats what i was thinking, but it sucks because halo IS for XBOX it started on xbox and i think they could atleast make something that we could buy to enhance the quality of our graphics on xbox so that we could play h3

What's wrong? Your mom and dad not going to give you the money to buy one? Good, one less kid I have to listen to on LIVE.

  • 06.15.2006 1:30 PM PDT
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if you have xbox live already and then buy an xbox 360, do you have to buy a different xbox live for that too?

  • 06.15.2006 1:31 PM PDT

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If Team Swat became ranked, would there still be no shields?


Amazing!

Posted by: Justjosh4you
if you have xbox live already and then buy an xbox 360, do you have to buy a different xbox live for that too?

Think next time before you post.

  • 06.15.2006 1:31 PM PDT
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I mean, if you have an xbox, with xbox live already enabled, and then you get an xbox 360, can you switch your account to the Xbox 360?

  • 06.15.2006 1:33 PM PDT

Down, down to hell and say that I sent you there...

I came into the world with my legs forward and a woman cried "he was born with teeth!"

"I had no father I am like my father...I had no brother I am like my brother...And this word, "love" which old farts call divine be resident in men like you -blam!-. But not in me, I am my mother-blam!- self, alone."

You Are an Idiot

Posted by: Justjosh4you
I mean, if you have an xbox, with xbox live already enabled, and then you get an xbox 360, can you switch your account to the Xbox 360?

Were you dropped on your head or born this way?

  • 06.15.2006 1:35 PM PDT
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ok thank you, thats all i needed to know

  • 06.15.2006 1:39 PM PDT