- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I beleive I can explain both of those quotes.
When he says "Last time you asked, if it were my choice, would I do it? Having considerable time to ponder your question my answer has not changed, we must activate the ring," he may just be refering to an unseen part of the game. For example they may not have directly teleported back to the control room after getting the index. May have sidetracked. Maybe 343 took Chief to get a couple sentinels because they got the index and they could've just talked about it and Cheif may have asked him then. May have just been an unseen part of the game.
As for "Why are you hesitating to do what he have already done?” It might not be in the litteral sense. It could be in the meaning that, Cheif took the index and brought it so close to activating Halo, and that 343 was confident Chief wasnt going to escape alive, that he was sure that Halo would be activated. So, in the mind of 343, it was already done and Cheif did his part.
Just trying to let you see all sides of what could be.
[Edited on 7/6/2006]