- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Sitting down at my Xbox tonight, I decided to start a new game on Legendary so as to see some of the hints Bungie cleverly included in the first game that could help determine a storyline for Halo 2. All was going fine - nothing caught my attention... until I got to "Truth and Reconciliation". Maybe others have noticed this and speculated, but I don't read the forums much, so I wouldn't know. Anyhow, I rescued Keyes and the others and something immediately caught my attention. In the cut-scene after rescuing Keyes, he says something to the affect of, "I overheard the guards talking about this ring-world. They call it Halo." I thought to myself, 'if Keyes heard the guards, that means he understands their language'. WHAT??!! How is this possible? How would Keyes be able to understand Covenant languages when we know from the story (especially the 3 Halo novels) that UNSC command knows almost nothing about the Covenant's culture, nature of religious beliefs, or really much at all about the Covenant infastructure. To add to this, how does Keyes immediatley know the controls of the Covenant dropship that he pilots at the end of the level? Does something about Captain Keyes bother anybody else? We clearly saw and heard the Flood infect Keyes... or did we? We know from the reimmegance of Sg. Johnson in "First Strike" that appearances can be decieving. People survived Halo other than the Chief. Is it possible that Keyes could have been one of these and he somehow transplanted his neural implants to somebody else? The supposed death and story of Keyes bothers me tremendously, but does it need to? And why did Keyes' Flood infected body look so different from any other marine who they use as a host? Does Bungie hold a secret in Halo 2 that revolves around Keyes? OK Halo 2 story speculators, I turn it over to you.