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Subject: I FINALLY FIGURED OUT EVERYTHING THAT IS IN THE HALO 3 TRAILER!!!!!...
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Okay I was sitting here watching myself owning Covenant on Halo 2 and I was thinking, If Cortana is controlled by the Gravemind, and she says, "This is the way the world ends", The Gravemind may be speaking through her and he might be saying the world ends for him, he is saying that this is the the way the world ends for the Flood. He's saying that he is going to go away either in a whimper or a bang, (remember the Cortana letters online?), He is saying his time has come to be extirminated, that's why he let the Chief and the Arbitor go, he knew that Cortana would be left in the system of High Charity and not come out from the system, because remote detonation. That's what the structure is in the middle of the canyon is, a weapon to destroy only the Flood once and for all. So that must mean that the trailer was at least half way through the game, because Master Chief's armor is the Mark VII armor, and the only way he would obtain the armor and get it battle damaged is for him to switch armor and fight through alot of hell to get to where he is in the trailer, and that's when he finds the Covenant opening the structure in the canyon. The structure and whatever is inside is meant to destroy the Flood, the Structure is the ARK. Because at the end of Halo 2 343 Guilty Spark says the only place to activate all the installations is at the ARK. But they can't activate an installation without using an Index/Sacred Icon. Truth didn't take an index to Earth though. So the structure can't be to wipe out all life in the universe, only Flod. The Installations kill life and starve the Flood, so the ARK must kill the Flood and leave other life at peace.
If you have anything to say, say it, please, and reply to my guess of what the structure is.

  • 07.07.2006 2:48 PM PDT
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how do flood speak through AIs?

  • 07.07.2006 2:50 PM PDT
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Some stuff old, some new, anyway nice thinking dude!

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Gravemind is in control of Cortana remember?!

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Interesting side note, i apologise if its been said but the line cortana says "this is the way the world ends" coudl be form T.S Eliot's Hollow Men poem which has the lines
"This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper."

I thought this might be an indication of something major happening but it not affecting events, instad something insignificance could undo earth and not the halos.

  • 07.07.2006 3:11 PM PDT

that which is not dead can eternal lie, but with strange aeons even death may die.

ok, then if the ark kills all the flood once and for all, then why "if the structure in the trailer is indeed the ark" is it activating, 1/3 in the game? I mean, maybe they kill the flood then go back to humans vs covies?

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I'm sure that your right. You got it all down straight. Bungie is probably shocked at the level of your intellect, being that you completely blew away the plot of their new game.

  • 07.07.2006 3:52 PM PDT
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Posted by: Narodnik
Interesting side note, i apologise if its been said but the line cortana says "this is the way the world ends" coudl be form T.S Eliot's Hollow Men poem which has the lines
"This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but a whimper."

I thought this might be an indication of something major happening but it not affecting events, instad something insignificance could undo earth and not the halos.


they talk about this in the IGN documentary of the trailer; you should watch it

  • 07.07.2006 3:55 PM PDT
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wow u really thought about that. that could be a good guess.

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Who said anything about the structure being activated? It was just a flash of light

WOW i didn't even know they had a documentary, i thought they just had the trailer

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  • 07.07.2006 4:25 PM PDT
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I beleive its been determined that the Structure in the Earth, is indeed the Ark.
However, I would have to disagree with your point about the Index.
One, The index is required to activate a Halo. Without it, nothing happens.
Two, The Ark controls all the Halos. It is the only place you can activate all of them.
Three, There might not be a need for an Index.
Four, Where on Earth are the Flood going to come from, I doubt there will be any flood on the planet.

On an interesting side note. In the Book, Halo: First Strike, the Cheif and the other Spartans recover an artifact from "In the Hall of the Mountain King", This artifact was the main goal and reason for the Covenant destroying Reach. This Artifact altered how ships traveled through Slipspace.
So, How does that artifact play into the Great Journey.
And could the Ark possibly contain another Artifact?
Those are points I would like to see answered.
I hope Bungie doesn't throw out these parts of the Halo story. (Eric Nylund is a Genius)

  • 07.07.2006 4:35 PM PDT
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Posted by: XworstpirateevaX
I'm sure that your right. You got it all down straight. Bungie is probably shocked at the level of your intellect, being that you completely blew away the plot of their new game.


somehow i doubt that

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But why would they make it so damn easy to activate the Ark then if it indeed didn't require an index? Then anyone could activate it!

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they wouldnt, or shouldnt, to activate something as big as the ark, u would almost need something even more powerful than an index.
the ark cant be simply activated without an index or something.

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Posted by: Darth Nubius
Gravemind is in control of Cortana remember?!


i dont, think, it seems impossible for a flood form to infiltrate a Smart AI

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Thats my point, maybe that is the artifact that the Master Chief founf in the first strike, or maybe its something more than that, and the Covenant own it. Why else would Truth be going to Earth unless he had the artifect/item to activate the ark

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Gravemind is the main source of the Flood, its not a specific form... Anyway, he could access High Charity's AI system and control Cortana, he is in complete control of the Covenant World., Plus, everyone go back to the trailer and listen closely when Cortana is talking, you can hear the gravemind say demon through her. He is talking through her body... Everyone go back and listen closely...That proves that Earth will NOT be destroyed.

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the prophets may be smart, but that doesnt mean that truth knows the ark is on earth, even so, he has only one index from what we know, so how can he activate that. it seems to me, the object to activate the ark would be found on earth, like the indexs on their halos

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No Miranda Keys took the index out of the halo, remember?...Because Truth gave Tartarus the index to activate 05... But Master Chief owned him then Miranda pulled the index out...so as far as we know, the humans have 1 Index... Plus Tartarus had control of Guilty Spark for a while, and most likely they made him cough up all the info Truth needed to know...So there is the part where he knows how to activate the Ark.

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riddle me this:

if the structure only kills the flood, why didnt the forerunner use it instead of halo's mass suicide??

  • 07.07.2006 5:01 PM PDT
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im assuming u played halo 1

quote from cortana
"you just dont get i do you, why the forerunners built this ring. halo doesnt kill the flood, it kills their food. humans, covenant, whatever, we're all equally edible. the only way to kill the flood is to starve them to death. and that's exactly what halo is designed to do, wipe the galaxy clean of all sentient life."

the opening movie to "two betrayals" in halo 1

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Probably just incase all the Installations were somehow destroyed, plus, the forerunners cant use the index's and things like that...They have to have a reclaimer to do so.

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thats why humans cant be forerunners, because forerunners cant use indexes

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Exactly, plus if humans were forerunners, the forerunners would have passed down throught th ages on how to activate Halo, and what Halo is. So...There you have it.

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Posted by: Darth Nubius
Probably just incase all the Installations were somehow destroyed, plus, the forerunners cant use the index's and things like that...They have to have a reclaimer to do so.


that doesnt make much sense to me

why cant the forerunner use the rings that they built?

they were the ones who activated the rings, listen to guilty sparks he says it in the game

  • 07.07.2006 5:10 PM PDT

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