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I think that the artifact shown in the Halo 3 trailer is a shield generator that generates an energy shield around earth. This shield protects all sentient life on earth from the halos when they are activated. Therefore the earth as a whole is the ark. I came to this conclusion through logic which I will explain below.

It is known that the halos were last activated about 100,000 years ago (Guilty Spark mentions this). Humans and other sentient life must have been protected by the ark when the halos were last activated. Humans (and therefore the other alien races) have been evolving for over than 100,000 years; we have in fact been evolving over millions of years. If we (and other alien races) had not been protected by the ark, we would have been destroyed and our evolutionary process would have had to start all over again. In this case we would still be in a relatively early stage of the evolutionary cycle and we would not be where we are now. But this information is probably nothing new. My main point is below.

The key factor here that I havn't seen addressed are the millions of species of ANIMALS LIVING ON EARTH. Most animal species on earth have been evolving for over 100,000 years, like humans. Animals are sentient life (sentient=conscious), and therefore would have been wiped out when the halos were activated 100,000 years ago, unless they too were protected by the ark. Therefore, animals must have been protected by the ark when the halos were activated. But how do you explain this? Do you think the forerunners went through the super-tedious process of collecting all the different animal species on earth and gathering them in the ark to be saved? I do not think the forerunner would have had the passion or time to perform such a job. I think the forerunner made the entire earth the ark, and this is the only way to explain why so many animal species still exist on earth.

Also, we have not encountered a large amount of alien wildlife, and this lack of alien wildlife is probably due to the fact that the halos killed all alien wildlife when the halos were last detonated. Wildlife still exists on earth because earth is the ark.

In the trailer I think the light being emitted by the artifact is the beginning of the generation of the shield (or whatever it is, I don't know exactly) that will protect earth from the halos. The artifact is part of the ark but it is not THE ark. It is probably also the control room from which the halos can be remotely set off.

Anyway, I think the earth must be the ark in order to explain what I have just discussed. Otherwise bungie has a hole in its story.

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  • 06.20.2006 5:44 PM PDT
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  • 06.20.2006 5:46 PM PDT
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Rong.
If the earth was the ark, than the humans and earth would just sit back and let the Covenant kill themselves and the flood while they just sit there protected from the Halo's, because Halo's don't whipe out whats in the ark.
Also, Cortana has been in the core, she knows everything about halo, and maybe the ark, and she's like... a super smart Artificial Inteligance cloned from the scientist who made the spartan program, I think she would have known earth is the ark, and she wouldn't risk blowing herself and high-charity up just to destroy a halo that wasn't even a threat, its obvious that earth is infact, not the ark.

  • 06.20.2006 6:10 PM PDT

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Why cant anyone accept the fact that 343 GS was not lying when he says that it activates the halo remotly he means it nothing more...

  • 06.20.2006 6:13 PM PDT
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That is a good idea, but we all have to wait for the game to come out and find out the real story. Doesnt this drive ppl crazy readin all these theories, it just makes me want Halo 3 to come out tomorow lol.

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This has got to be the theory that has gotten very close to perfection.

One question: If Earth is the Ark, does that constitute that Bungie is putting a type of Gaia theory into the game?

  • 06.20.2006 6:14 PM PDT
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Why cant anyone accept the fact that 343 GS was not lying when he says that it activates the halo remotly he means it nothing more...


Rong. Whatever activates Halo from the ark is protected.

  • 06.20.2006 6:15 PM PDT

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Proof plz.

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GezaB,

I never said that humans know that earth is the ark, otherwise yes, we would just sit back and let the covenant kill themselves.

You do bring up a good point about Cortana though. She has been in the core, but this does not mean she knows EVERYTHING about halo and the ark. She is a super-advanced AI by human standards, not necessarily by forerunner standards. She doesn't necessarily have easy access to all information on halo just because she is in the core. She is in a forerunner system, a system she is not necessarily used to and could have trouble navigating through.

And wouldn't Cortana have mentioned the existence of an ark (whether on earth or not) back in Halo 1 when she would have received that information? We don't learn of an ark until Guilty Spark says so at the end of Halo 2. If Cortana had known of an ark at all, she would have told us. She either knows little to nothing of the ark or she has her own agenda. Thanks for the constructive criticism though.

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halo04,

I don't have any hard proof, just my logic. However, this is the only way I can explain the existance of all the animal species on earth and how they were protected from the halos. This is my logical conclusion. But as sx117 said, we will just have to wait for Halo 3 to come out for all the questions to be answered.

Thanks for everyone else's support.

Oh, and sorry about the double post.

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A: Sentient= aware.

B: Agreed.

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Good theory, its a shield, making the Earth itself an Ark. Its kinda like how in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Earth's a big super computer, just that in this case, Earth is the only safe haven when the Halos are activated.

This would explain why life on the rings is similar to Earth such as plant life.

However, the Covenant couldn't have evolved in the 100,000 years since the last activation. Something else must have protected the Covenant species the first time, but it can't a second. So maybe the Ark (Earth) can activate the rings, but there are other safe havens with the shield thingy.

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It's sounds ok, I just think having earth as the Ark would be a little boring. I mean, everyone jumped to that conclusion as soon as they beat Halo 2. Either that, or the moon is the ark, and it somehow protected the earth. IMO, it would be cool to have MC think that the earth or the moon is the ark, right up till the end, then he figures out his mistake and has to somehow get to the ark before the covenant realize the same thing. MAybe the chief would bring the Ark to earth, activate the Halos to destroy the majority of the Covenant, and start a grassroots rebellion against the Covenant occupation army on earth. that would be cool.

And GezaB, for crying out loud, it's spelled wrong. pardon the pun.

  • 06.21.2006 11:53 AM PDT
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God damn you and ruining the surprise... party pooping fish

  • 06.21.2006 11:54 AM PDT
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how do you know it was fired 100,000 years ago and not more?

  • 06.21.2006 11:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: UNSCsilver 1
how do you know it was fired 100,000 years ago and not more?


Here is a quote from an article on Wikipedia.org:
"Installation 04 is confirmed to be, at the minimum, 101,217 local years old, a local year being the amount of time it takes Threshold to orbit its star. In an interview with Joe Staten of Bungie Studios, Staten also confirmed that the previous firing to which 343 Guilty Spark alludes occurred around 100,000 years previous to the events in 2552 at Installation 04."

BTW, wikipedia has some surprisingly in-depth and interesting articles on all things halo. Nothing new to fanatics, but helpful if you're trying to increase your knowledge of the halo universe.

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yea, so do you think thats what the ARK is doing in the trailer... creating a massive shield...? Secondly, whats up with the vortex? Third, how did the elites, prophets, etc. survive the Halo's activiation.... are there more ARK's?... if the forerunners had this ARK, why are there no forerunners left? Where they just protecting Earth...? ALso, Guilty SPark says that the Halo installations where for research as well that was vital to the forerunners survival (he mistakes MC as being a forerunner)... why were the flood vital to the forerunners surviving? How have the flood survivied on the Halos for 100,000 years, and don't say in a dormant state, because if the Halos only kill sentient life, the flood could of survived in there dormant state anywhere...

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343 never said ALL halos were activated, isn't it? Or am I wrong? I think he only said the activation 100000 years ago killed all the forerunners and all life within 25000 lightyears of installation 04.

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He never said all the forerunners died. He just said he was glad to see some of them survived to reproduce.

  • 06.21.2006 12:31 PM PDT
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He never said all the forerunners died. He just said he was glad to see some of them survived to reproduce.

This is what he said: "After exhausting every other strategic option, my creators activated the rings. They, and all additional sentient life in three radii of the galactic center, died ...as planned."

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The key factor here that I havn't seen addressed are the millions of species of ANIMALS LIVING ON EARTH. Most animal species on earth have been evolving for over 100,000 years, like humans

You fail. Horribly. Not only is their no evidence of this in the game world, but it also is increadibly untrue in the real world. Google "human evolution" and see how you are wrong in the keystone of your theory. -blam!- Erectus , an early step in the -blam!- genus, existed at least 2 million years ago and up until about 400,000 years ago. Since nothing in the game world contradicts this, we must assume this to be true in the game world, as well.

EDIT: Amusingly, the filter also blocked the genus name. Heh.

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  • 06.21.2006 12:37 PM PDT
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I think you read the halo 3 leaked script, which turned out to be a fake.

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  • 06.21.2006 12:39 PM PDT

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Thats bad logic, you don't even know what the Halos do. It kills their food, thats all we know. It could turn everything into ice to kill sentient beings or it could send out some kind of beam. We just do not know so the only real logical explanation is to wait for the game to come out.

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Carnage Swat,

I actually have a theory that answers most of your questions, but it is very long and I don't feel like posting it yet. And its just a theory anyway: it makes sense to me but there is no way of knowing its accuracy.


Ad_hominum,

If I interpreted your reply correctly, you are arguing that humans have been evolving for over 100,000 years; you say the home-erectus has been around for over 100,000 years, specifically 2,000,000 years. This evidence that humans have been evolving for over 100,000 years supports the theory that humans were protected by the ark. If they were destroyed by the halos, the evolutionary process would have had to start all over, and we wouldn't be where we are now.

Here is a quote from wikipedia:
"The evolutionary process can be exceedingly slow. Fossil evidence indicates that the diversity and complexity of modern life has developed over much of the history of the earth. Geological evidence indicates that the Earth is approximately 4.6 billion years old."

The evolutionary process is very slow for animals as well as humans, and if animals on earth have been evolving over the history of the earth, then they have definitely have been evolving for over 100,000 years. Animals must have survived the halo activation or their evolutionary process would have been halted just like humans, and they wouldn't be where they are today. How would animals have survived the activation of the halos? By being protected by the ark. The ark is earth, and that is how earth's animals are still here. This is my theory.

If I interpretted your argument incorrectly, you can correct me.


Masterbawny121,

You're right, we don't know exactly what the halos do. We do know they kill sentient life (humans, animals, covenant etc.) in order to starve the flood. I believe that the artifact in the movie creates something that will protect earth from whatever the halos use to kill sentient life.

  • 06.21.2006 1:26 PM PDT

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