Posted by:ScubaToaster
Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect
:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.
Posted by: the real Janaka
Posted by: HipiO7
Alright, that we know. But how did the outbreak occur?How the outbreak within the Sentinel Wall occured I do not know, haven't found any clues on that whatsoever, but what if the Gravemind is the same Gravemind that spoke to MB, the one present during the war, he might not have started out on Installation 05. To quote Cortana:"This lake couldn't have been created by volcanic action, which means it was either built this way on purpose, or was created by some other cataclysmic event. Sorry... were you trying to kill something?"And what do we find beneath the lake?
But then they covered it up; rebuildt structures here and there:"You know, I think the Forerunners built these new structures around the old, to protect them, to honor them. Pure speculation, mind you. I'd need to make a thorough survey to be sure."Did the captured 2401 order the sentinls to rebuild? (The Graveming is after all able to teleport John and Thel to various destinations on the ring, something I doubt he would have been able to do before he somehow got a hold of 2401, so he does have some kind of control).
Pure speculation, mind you...
Although I really like your theory, the Gravemind was not found under the lake. His tendrils seem to reach across the majority of Halo, as it did in High Charity.
In the level High Charity you can see his tendrils all over the places, plus in the scene where he speaks with Thel and John, it has a metal sort of surrounding which would mean he is effectively underneath The Library or some other part of Delta Halo.
Although 2401 may have gone rampant, in the cutscene he seems sane enough to notice the outbreak, a reclaimer and the urgency to put the containment protocol in effect.