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Subject: The Ark From the trailer
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.Since I asumme that everyone accepts that, the forerunner structure in the halo 3 trailer is the ark, also that the "main" ark's function is sending a ballistic blah blah blah signal to all the other Halo installations to begin the... "cleaning protocol" I want this thread to become a place where you express you theories about:

1) What does the ark looks like?
Frankie said that halo fans would recognize the Structures architecture, i.e., what does that thing looks like between forerunner artifacts, constructions etc...?

I find 2 posible conclusions,
it looks a lot like a library (play halo 1 or 2 the sacred icon if you imagine your local bookstore :P )
Or the one i think it is.... a teleporter. Remember the multiplayer map called sanctuary? well... when you open the teleporter that is below the base, it really looks like the structure in the trailer, three peaks open the same way the structure does, and then it glares with the green light that teleports, probably the structure is the same thing but at larger scale, teleporting forerunners from some lost place in a galaxy far far away.... and... this will also make sanse since the halo 3 cover shows a halo over the earth.... (or at least the shadow) so this huge teleporter brings a 8th halo from somewhere to earth full of forerunners, and make sense for the trailer to be happening 1/3 of the game

2)What could be the secondary function of the ark?

Taking Frankie in consideration, i dont think this is a "main halo firing room" (like the one where you kill Tartarus in H2) because that room has a big belly :P

So it teleports if it is a teleport or it stores DNA and index and stuff to fire the halosif it is a library or maybe it hides a time machine, or holds the entire forerunner civilization in hibernation

3)Some people think this ark is a halo buried below earth, that maybe grows scalating its size so it breaks earths surface, and leaving the earth looking like saturn, but i really really dont think so, cause... in the halos all the structures lie in the halo surface (inner side of the halo) and this thing would be in the outter side of the "buried halo"

So .... kill me, make me feel like a fool, tell me how stupid my theories are... but.... i want to hear your opinions :P

[Edited on 7/15/2006]

  • 07.15.2006 5:23 PM PDT

Only people who jump to conclusions think its the Ark. It could be anything in 'reality'. No-one except Bungie really knows. I don't agree or disagree with your suggestions as to what it might br or do, since they may be absolutely right or the most wrong thing possible. All I know is that its Forerunner and its building up somekind of charge to do..... something. I doubt very much its a Halo beneath the Earth though. But it could be.
(PS this isn't a flame, just trying to get across that not everyone assumes its the Ark)

  • 07.15.2006 5:46 PM PDT
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well.... i just assumed :P i thought it was obvious because of the scene change in halo 2 ending where guilty spark is gonna begin saying where is the ark, and the leaked sketches where it says earth_ark_09 but..... if you dont think it is the ark.... then... what is it?

  • 07.15.2006 5:53 PM PDT

A good question, but I don't really have an answer. If it was the Ark then to me that would be kinda obvious and Bungie is know for making things surprising. On the other hand Earth is the centre of humanity, and we are the supposed next-evolution of the Forerunners. It would seem likely or 'poetical' then that the Ark, the Forerunners most important installation, would be there too. So its hard to decide what to believe. If it isn't the Ark, maybe its the doorway to the Ark. Who knows.

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  • 07.15.2006 6:30 PM PDT