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Subject: Africa is on Installation 05........I wonder why
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It makes perfect sense.

  • 07.12.2006 9:24 PM PDT

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Meh, has anyone really noticed, (Btw, please don't flame. I don't read all the posts in here. This might have been mentioned before.) that there are 7 continents and 7 halos??? 1 continent per one halo. Although I can't really tell that the first one is. Maybe North America.

  • 07.12.2006 9:31 PM PDT
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Posted by: Scythe252
Meh, has anyone really noticed, (Btw, please don't flame. I don't read all the posts in here. This might have been mentioned before.) that there are 7 continents and 7 halos??? 1 continent per one halo. Although I can't really tell that the first one is. Maybe North America.


That doesnt work really, a continent wouldnt fill up a whole halo ring (I dont think). Good idea though.

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  • 07.12.2006 9:32 PM PDT

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I wonder... Can I see my house from that picture?

  • 07.12.2006 9:33 PM PDT

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Maybe......

  • 07.12.2006 9:35 PM PDT

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Meh, has anyone really noticed, (Btw, please don't flame. I don't read all the posts in here. This might have been mentioned before.) that there are 7 continents and 7 halos??? 1 continent per one halo. Although I can't really tell that the first one is. Maybe North America.


That doesnt work really, a continent wouldnt fill up a whole halo ring (I dont think). Good idea though.


Does it though? We don't know that all halo's are the same size.

  • 07.12.2006 9:36 PM PDT
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I can see my house in Google Earth.....

  • 07.12.2006 9:36 PM PDT
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Meh, has anyone really noticed, (Btw, please don't flame. I don't read all the posts in here. This might have been mentioned before.) that there are 7 continents and 7 halos??? 1 continent per one halo. Although I can't really tell that the first one is. Maybe North America.


That doesnt work really, a continent wouldnt fill up a whole halo ring (I dont think). Good idea though.


Does it though? We don't know that all halo's are the same size.


I was jsut looking at that pic of the "Africa" one, and it certainly dont fill up the whole ring. Also it has pieces of asia and europe on it, if thats what those are

  • 07.12.2006 9:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: Twinfire0
The Halos aren't big enough to recreate the entire continent of Africa. The continent is over 3000 miles (5000 km approx.) wide, nearly half the diameter of a Halo. There's no way a narrow ribbon of metal (Halo) can support something that massive.

umm maybe they just ratioed it down a notch

  • 07.12.2006 9:41 PM PDT
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Maybe Bungie just likes Africa, or they ran out of continent designs, or it's an Easter Egg...

  • 07.12.2006 9:44 PM PDT

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Well. I'm sure they might have not included everything. Who wants miles and miles of sand. Ok, let me be more specific. Each halo represents a continent.

  • 07.12.2006 9:45 PM PDT
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or MAYBE it was an accident? it wasn't made to look like Africa on Purpose? after all... Africa's a pretty easy shape to draw......

either way i'm off to mcdonald's!! be back soon!!




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  • 07.12.2006 9:46 PM PDT
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I dont see Africa in the cutscene nor do i think the developers were thinking about putting Africa on a Halo. Its just a coinsdence.




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I was under the impression that the Forerunner are definitely our ancestors. Before the first detonation of the rings, they took the Ark to Earth, and used it to save themselves whilst they set off the rings remotely. Africa is on the Halos because is the Forerunner's (and our) home planet. Also, if you have read the Ringworld books by Larry Niven (upon which this game is based...loosely), the Halos are massive, and could easily contain continents. The rings in that book also copied Earth's structure closely.

  • 07.12.2006 10:02 PM PDT
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Posted by: xXdeathomenXx
Personally... i'm getting sick of all this speculation... people seeing things that aren't there and what not.... what i want is some cold hard fact from Bungie to talk about.


Why? we dont need any more details about halo 3. the less we know the better.....thats my two cents

  • 07.12.2006 10:07 PM PDT
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Isnt it possible that it is just a texture and it was put there to save time?

  • 07.13.2006 8:34 AM PDT
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Posted by: SGTSizzle
Isnt it possible that it is just a texture and it was put there to save time?


why did they make it so detailed?

they could have just programmed a big mass of land instead of africa and that apparent part of asia

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Posted by: xXdeathomenXx
Personally... i'm getting sick of all this speculation... people seeing things that aren't there and what not.... what i want is some cold hard fact from Bungie to talk about.


Why? we dont need any more details about halo 3. the less we know the better.....thats my two cents



so why do we need this forum??

if what youre saying is true they should just delete this whole piece of bnet and have us all talk about Halo 2 all day. whoopee

  • 07.13.2006 8:51 AM PDT
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Posted by: SGTSizzle
Isnt it possible that it is just a texture and it was put there to save time?

Seems like to much of a coincidence. It looks exactly like Africa.

  • 07.13.2006 8:54 AM PDT

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i recon its an easter egg and its nothin todo with halo 3 cos they didnt right the story 4 halo 3 till after h2 was made

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safe to say that theres a connection between earth and the halos

seeing as how the halos mimic earths continents, i would have to assume (conclude) that the forerunner landed on earth first, maybe set up ' base' (ark) then built the halos, making their land structures look like the continent they were inhabiting

still seems a bit unclear tho

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Posted by: wiplash06
i recon its an easter egg and its nothin todo with halo 3 cos they didnt right the story 4 halo 3 till after h2 was made


no theyve had the halo 3 plot already done when H2 was finished

  • 07.13.2006 8:59 AM PDT
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Posted by: COYOTE J
Good point. The only reason that I could see the forerunners doing this is that they are actually the forefathers of the human race and were from earth so they created earth-like climate and continents so that the forerunners working on the instalations would feel at home. Maybe a crazy idea, but it does make some sense.

That could be true and also since the Forerunner structure that we see in the trailer is on Africa, maybe thats why they took Africa. Btw, nice linking Iceman. ; )

  • 07.13.2006 8:59 AM PDT

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I guess bungie couldn't come up with new land masses.

  • 07.13.2006 9:01 AM PDT

I have too noticed this. Though i think they were A. hinting at something or B. They just put a random continent in the background to show the land.

  • 07.13.2006 9:01 AM PDT