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Subject: Possible Understanding of Cortana's Message
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In the trailor of Halo 3, Cortana says "I has define gods and demons...your past, your fututre... this is how the world ends", she could have used the crystal found on Reach and seen the future because the crystal has the power to warp time and space or MC or the Arbiter uses it to go back in time where the forerunners are still alive and make them stop building the ark and all the halo's? I thought of this not even 2 minutes ago so it may suck.

  • 06.24.2006 7:49 PM PDT
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are you kidding me? the crystal was destroyed, and the fragments were given to truth.

  • 06.24.2006 7:54 PM PDT

"There are fighters and there are targets. There is nothing else."

its "i have defied" not "i has define"

  • 06.24.2006 7:56 PM PDT
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Sorry, I didn't keep reading the book because I had that idea. Or... that wasn't the real crystal.

[Edited on 6/24/2006]

  • 06.24.2006 7:56 PM PDT
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*I have DEFIED gods and demons*

  • 06.24.2006 7:56 PM PDT
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Posted by: Private Enemy
are you kidding me? the crystal was destroyed, and the fragments were given to truth.

Yes the crystal was destroyed. I thought they had a fake cyrstal when they crashed the ship into the big station because the crystal was blown up on the UNSC ship, not the covie ship they crashed.

  • 06.24.2006 7:59 PM PDT
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the covenent had a second cyrstal the one that was on Cote d'Arur (not sure how it is spelled). mybe cortana found that crystal, and if she did that would make PWN E idea possible.
sorry for the spelling and grammer mistakes

  • 06.24.2006 8:14 PM PDT
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The crystal is theoretically incorrect...if it were able to warp space and time, it would essentially be the same as a black hole. Meaning everything around it would die.

  • 06.24.2006 8:16 PM PDT
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Is it too much to ask for everyone to use proper grammar and spelling?

  • 06.24.2006 8:18 PM PDT
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not nessicerly. a black hole is an object of great mass, so it has a huge gravity well. and the forrunners mastered gravity so the crystal could be a control tool.

  • 06.24.2006 8:20 PM PDT
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I have always been fascinated by Blackholes. I was once studying to become an Astronomer, but I went down a different path.
Blackholes

Some more.

  • 06.24.2006 8:25 PM PDT
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i like the websites and the google pic.

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Theoretically there are massive blackholes at the center of each galaxy, a frightening thought, to say the least.

  • 06.24.2006 8:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: Gallimimus
not nessicerly. a black hole is an object of great mass...


Great mass? I thought it was density.

I beleive I've read in OXM (not sure where they got this info, maybe Bungie) that when we hear Cortana's voice in the Halo 3 trailer its a Cortana corrupted by Gravemind. This would explain the propehtic words utterred. Perhaps Gravemind has found a way to retrieve these crystal fragments you speak of PWN E. This may also explain how he was able to transport MC and the Arbiter when in his grasp.

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  • 06.24.2006 8:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: PWN E
... the crystal has the power to warp time and space...MC or the Arbiter [may use] it to go back in time where the forerunners are still alive and make them stop building the ark and all the halo's...


Interesting prespective. But what about the Flood? What about containment?

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"Great mass? I thought it was density." Generally speaking it is high density. But blackholes can also be very, very large.

  • 06.24.2006 8:43 PM PDT
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blackholes are only percieved as huge

the actual hole bit of the black hole is about as big as a dinner plate

so it is just huge density (ie the strongest guy on earth (MC / Chuck Norris) couldnt lift 1cm cubed of it) but were going off topic

  • 06.25.2006 3:15 AM PDT

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There were two crystals theh Covenant were after. The first was on Sigma Octanus IV in the city of Cote d'Azur. The second one was on Reach in the ONI facility, I think it was CASTLE Base.

  • 06.25.2006 3:21 AM PDT
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Posted by: PWN E
In the trailor of Halo 3, Cortana says "I has define gods and demons...your past, your fututre... this is how the world ends", she could have used the crystal found on Reach and seen the future because the crystal has the power to warp time and space or MC or the Arbiter uses it to go back in time where the forerunners are still alive and make them stop building the ark and all the halo's? I thought of this not even 2 minutes ago so it may suck.

It only works in Slipspace

  • 06.25.2006 3:41 AM PDT
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OK people;

The crystal under discussion did NOT warp time, it made Slipspace jumps super fast, but chaotic and irradiated. It was destroyed by a marine on the Gettysburg who did not want to take care of it. Fragments of it were found and given to Truth. The fake crystal was just that; a fake, designed to lure as many Covenant as possible onto the captured Covenant ship, Ascendant Justice, which happened to be right next to the station Unyielding Hierophant. When they reached the bridge of the ship, nucleat devices in the Hierophant's reactors were detonated, taking out the station and over 500 Covenant vessels. This was the attack fleet headed for earth, and by sacrificing themselves, the men abord the AJ gave the Chief's team a chance to escape as well as destroying the enemy fleet and postponing the attack.

The second 'crystal' was NOT a crystal, it was a rock with Forerunner hieroglyphs on it that pointed the way to the Halo in the first game.

And how would Cortana 'find' crystals and use them? It's not as if she can walk around and pick things up, she's stuck in the High Charity computer net.

  • 06.25.2006 3:45 AM PDT

"A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide-awake, with fear, respect, and absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps."
Light Fuse, Run away......

actually it is stated in the book by Dr. Halsey that the crystal created an event path(or something like that) that put the charecters at reach in that exact point in time. This possibly time warping event can be explaned in that the forerunners mastered gravity and gravity and time are interlinked. Therefore the forerunners mastered time as well. Also the laws of physics don't work in slipspace which can make time travel possible

  • 06.25.2006 1:57 PM PDT
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She is probably foreshadowing the events to come

  • 06.25.2006 2:43 PM PDT

Posted by: Gallimimus
the covenent had a second cyrstal the one that was on Cote d'Arur (not sure how it is spelled). mybe cortana found that crystal, and if she did that would make PWN E idea possible.
sorry for the spelling and grammer mistakes


No they didnt...Maybe you should re-read Fall Of Reach again...It was a rock with -blam!- in it which had the co-ordinates of Halo in it...The covenant scanned it with their infared laser thing and obtained star charts and stuff like that

  • 06.25.2006 3:00 PM PDT
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Why not use black holes as a trash-can :P

Just throw down all nuclear waste there,in the future.
And crazy brutes.

  • 06.25.2006 3:24 PM PDT