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Subject: Why did truth go to Earth

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What does truth actually think will happen when the rings are activated?
I always assumed he thought he would have some sort of superpower because if he thought he would die and go to heaven like everyone else why did he get in a forerunner ship and head to earth and not go to activate the ring with Tartarus.

  • 10.24.2012 9:56 AM PDT

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What's better? Firing one Halo ring, or firing all the Halo rings?

  • 10.24.2012 10:13 AM PDT

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Why did he send tartarus to just fire the one then? he didnt know he would be killed

  • 10.24.2012 10:15 AM PDT

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Truth probably belived in the Great Journey, and that by activating the rings, he somehow would have been granted salvation from a doomed existence. Why else would he have followed through and made Johnson activate them? EDIT: he might have known that the Ark was outside of the blast radius though?

Truth and the other Prophets that studyed the Forerunner, anything Forerunner they could find, did their best to translate it, but even so, ended up drawing the wrong conclusions; there might have been something the Forerunners called the Great Journey, but whether it was a metaphor for dying or an a actual step towards something as salvation, we do not yet know.

It is hard to know exactly, what is what without being able to place the words in their exact context, but it is safe to say that all of the concepts exist in the Haloverse, they just might not mean exactly what the Prophets/Covenant thought.

[Edited on 10.24.2012 10:48 AM PDT]

  • 10.24.2012 10:35 AM PDT

Truth knew what the Great Journey really was.

Been a while since I dug that one up - over three years ago, blimey. But it holds true today, and apparently the Encyclopedia testifies to the same effect.

  • 10.24.2012 11:14 AM PDT

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Posted by: Wolverfrog
Truth knew what the Great Journey really was.

Been a while since I dug that one up - over three years ago, blimey. But it holds true today, and apparently the Encyclopedia testifies to the same effect.
Nice thread, hadn't seen it until now.

As I later came to think; he might have known that the Arc was outside the blast radius (which your thread pretty much proves). But I still wonder what The Great Journey actually was, the concept did after all exist before Truth's time, when they still believed in it, was it just a metaphor for death? Probably.

  • 10.24.2012 11:42 AM PDT

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so basically he wanted tartarus to kill himself and everyone else while he sat safely on the ark so he could rule basically nothing? but even then if that were true he wouldnt of beaten tartarus to it I dont think

[Edited on 10.24.2012 12:34 PM PDT]

  • 10.24.2012 12:32 PM PDT

Perhaps like others have said, Truth knew the truth behind the Great Journey. Maybe he pieced it together?

If he did, then he probably knew what happened to the Forerunners and how after their death they became known as Gods.

Maybe that's what Truth meant by "ascension into Godhood". He would rule over the new primitive civilizations and become known as God.

Perhaps Truth knew he couldn't become immortal, but he wanted to be remembered as a God at the very least.

  • 10.24.2012 2:47 PM PDT
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Because it was the home world of Humans and Truth seemed to have a urge to kill Humans

That and the Ark was there.

  • 10.25.2012 2:49 PM PDT