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Subject: The Ark-may not be the thing we are looking at in the tralier
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Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
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if it was a halo lining the equator we would definitly see it in the ocean

that is why i dont believe its a halo under the earth


What is the forerunners just collected all the active camoflauges on the multiplayer maps and amassed them in that halo to camoflauge the whole ring!. Lol I don't know how to counter that argument about seeing the ring in the ocean, but it is definately more than coincidence, between the size of the ring and the diameter of the earth, and the artifact being near the equator, and the artifact looking exactly like a part of halo's exterior.


i see where youre coming from. and a halo in the earth would be quite a twist. but it really would be just sticking right in the ocean, completely visible it were lining the equator. thats why i dont believe it. that and the fact that i think it would be too much effort and time building a ring in a planet for no reason LoL


as to how it got there, there is a theory circulating that the forerunners used a slipspace rupture to transport the ring inside the earth, much like how when the covenent ship jumped all that stuff was brought with it.

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wouldnt a rupture of that magnitude rip earth in half??

slipspace entries and exists are devastating from what we've seen

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Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
wouldnt a rupture of that magnitude rip earth in half??

slipspace entries and exists are devastating from what we've seen

new mombasa was ruined because of the covvie ship jumping into slipstream..we know it's possible..just that it causes alot of damage..cortana also did it in first strike..maybe thats part fo the game? your left in this psot slipstream city and you have to fight your way to a ship to pursue a covvie cruiser? a bit like wat miranda keyes did

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Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
wouldnt a rupture of that magnitude rip earth in half??

slipspace entries and exists are devastating from what we've seen


True, but remember this is the forerunner we are talking about, they had technology that completely overshadows what the humans and covenent have, maybe they figured out a way to get around that.

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Posted by: PStanger
Posted by: ICEMAN ASSASS1N
wouldnt a rupture of that magnitude rip earth in half??

slipspace entries and exists are devastating from what we've seen


True, but remember this is the forerunner we are talking about, they had technology that completely overshadows what the humans and covenent have, maybe they figured out a way to get around that.



aww, now we're just assuming stuff

to me, its too convienient for the runners to just magically put stuff where it needs to be. i go with what i see in the game. and what i saw was regrets slipspace jump tearing apart an entire city. it would be too...........easy to just put a halo in the earth ( and not have us see it in the ocean )

but thats just me lol :-)

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i'm not sure the light seems to me to be al light to signal that the ark is activated

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Ark_09, right?
Well, would it bo too fortuitous to assume that the ark could be more of a sysem, rather than one transmission site?

Remember, the halos were in plurality because the forerunners lacked the necessary technology to affect the entire target region. (Most likely also as a security device)
I digress:
Obviously just as all of these things are. they must be relays or atleast have some level of beareaucracy to them.

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Posted by: SPARTEN HYBRID
ok back to being serious lol. ok if i have my calculations right... halo3 15 levels 1\3 of the game is 5 levels so if the ark was activated then whats gonna happen to those extra 10 levels? we cant just walk around disintigrated

Who said the thing in the trailers was being activated? It was only being opened,we don't know if it got activated. Also,if the earth is the ark it is most likey safe from the blast (just like the Halos aren't effected by Halos).

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My gametag is not sparda34b, it was an error, gamertag is Sparda3b.

OMG every1 get some sense it is the ark get over your wrong that is the ark

  • 07.05.2006 8:22 AM PDT
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hmmm well the idea of that light coming out of the structure could make a shield around the Earth protecting us from halo's weapon then i would believe that Earth is the ark maybe thats what happend all those years ago even we could be forerunner test subjects? just like the flood except we didnt go rong

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Ok what if the Ark is a ship lets say like noahs ark that holds every living organism in the galaxy in some sort of stasis so when all the rings activate and kill all other organisms in the galaxy the ones in the ark are not affected. so every thing can start over. And all the flood were trapped on the halos why didnt they just blow them all up.

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oh maybe the beam activates some thing on the moon creating a death star and then darth vador will show up and destroy every planet

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its funny also how the clouds were swirling around like that too.must be alot of power

  • 07.06.2006 2:45 AM PDT
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Um, all your "theories" lack evidential proof and everything else. The Forerunner object is obviously an ancient, long lost Jewish swimming pool, founded by the Forerunners, moved to Earth and clamied by the Africans. Can the proof be screamed and louded?

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Posted by: SPARTEN HYBRID
dosent sound to bad the beams fairly big though to send a few aliens or humans to the other side of the universe haha.


or...

To send survivors outside the Halo's killzone. The beam may not be designed to send only a few beings away it might be designed to send many.

Another possibility is that their may still be some forerunner's at the other end.

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even so, it couldn't be high charity, because its dead in the water. and putting the ark on another halo is really dumb. i think it would have to be outside the galaxy, because halos destroy al life within the galaxy.

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However, the structure is more likely to be the Ark. In the Collector's edition DVD, two screens pulled from the disc show early concept art that looks nearly identical to the structure seen in the Halo 3 trailer. The concept art also shows the words Earth_Ark_09. This refers to the original 9-level Halo 2 concept. In the DVD, Joseph Staten explained the original 9 level design of Halo 2 and mentioned a "grand conclusion" on Earth. The other words in the screen capture (Chief/Dervish) refers to the characters involved. Dervish was the Arbiter's original name. In the next screen capture, a clearer picture of the Ark can be seen. Both the Halo 3 trailer and the concept art here show clear similarities in geographical surroundings and structure. Other aforementioned clues lead to evidence in favor of the theory that the Forerunner object in the Halo 3 trailer could be The Ark.


i dont see why it wouldnt be the ark

did anyone not see the concept sketch in the bonus dvd?

well it had a sketch that said "ark" and it clearly showed the same thing we saw in the trailor......i dont see any other way considering the whole "and where orcale is that?" then pans to earth at the end of H2 (pardon my grammer)

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it may not be by chance that humans are on earth who knows the human race may have even been made by the forerunners to protect earth or maybe the humans are the forerunners and they erased their memorys to stop anyone from finding something that they themselves could not control and threatned their lively hoods

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the area of the beam was pretty well hidden i mean who would bother looking under billions of tonnes of sand not me for sure

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anyone care to share why they think the ark just randomly opened up???

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the covie obviously dont know what is supposed to happen. they knew nothing (or ever even considered) about a possible failure, and a fail safe. basically, the prophets assumed that all would go perfectly when they went to activate the halos. however, they didnt expect that they would be interrupted, and as a fail safe, the ark would have to be activated.

also, when the ark opened up, the covenant ships at the bottom closest to the masterchief and the ark (the cruisers) were tossed a little bit before they flew away

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Well it isn't random, that's for sure.

The covenant fleet that approach it, only just get to it before it begins to open... to me, that says that they either triggered the opening, or they caught word of it and were racing to it so they wouldn't miss the show.

A third verision might be that they wanted to find it BEFORE it opened, which is why when it did open, they backed off. Maybe.

IF connected, Cortana's words 'this is the way the world ends' seems to back up the notion that the structure is the ark... I doubt it's a dream or flashback sequence, but it may not be all that it seems.

Consider what Bungie could do with the story, if the Halo's were activated a 1/3 of the way through the game. Suddenly, rather than playing to the end to see a 'will they, won't they' finish, it happens early. Something doesn't go to plan and people are still alive... Could the great Journey have some substance? Who knows, but we would have 2/3 of the game to find out. They could introduce forerunners (whatever they are), create conflicts, resolve differences... introduce surprise elements (other spartans? (please no flaming)).

That sounds like a plan to me.



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  • 07.06.2006 5:43 AM PDT

I think that the whole bright light coming out of the forunner structure thing is just for dramatic effect in the trailer. I think that it is the ark, but just to end the trailer, the bright lights engulf the screen. Thats it.

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Posted by: DarkMageGL
I think that the whole bright light coming out of the forunner structure thing is just for dramatic effect in the trailer. I think that it is the ark, but just to end the trailer, the bright lights engulf the screen. Thats it.


Yeah, probably :)

EDIT: love the sig DarkM. I couldn't agree more.

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