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Here is something I thought of after compliing info from halo 2 and the
halo 3 announcement trailer. I know, your probably thinking
" not another ark theory ", this is a little long and drawn out but just
hear me out.

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If your notice in the H3 trailer a light beam is coming up from
out of the center of the ark. I believe that this beam will somehow connect to
the forrunner ship and together they will do something amazing.
It was most likely an automated feature built into the ark that caused it to open
in conjunction with the forerunner vessel. Like an index...

Cortana says that the forerunner ship is a type of energy source,
that provided high charity with electricity. Perhaps it does the same
thing with the ark, powers it.THAT would explain why the covenat
was not prepaed for the ark to open. It was becuse the forerunner
ship is close by, and was powering it up.

That is why the covenant want to uncover the ark, so it can be
conncted with the forerunner ship through the beam going up
into the sky can hook up with the ship in space and let it function properly.

Then we have to go from their saying

" what is the purpose of the forunner ship powering the ark from space."

If you noticed in halo 2, at the end it talks about the ark
beinga activated, when one of the halo's becomes active.
Perhaps the forerunner ship acts as a power source AND
satellite reciver to communicate with the rings over a great
distance, while whowever is in the ark controls the rings
from a protected bunker.

{ EDIT ) OTHER THEORIES

perhaps the ark in combination with the forerunner ship could also...

1 Form a shield
2 propel erath though slipspace ( hense the great journey )
3 protect bill gates house from flood attcks : O
4 power bungie studios : O

What do you think. Did i provide some good evidence, of
this theory, or am I just another crackpot ?



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  • 07.27.2006 12:48 PM PDT
Subject: THE ARK IS ACTIVATED BY PRESENCE THE FORERUNNER SHIP !!!!
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That looked way bigger than the ship though, besides the fact that the trailer occurs about 1/3 into the game

  • 07.27.2006 12:49 PM PDT
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thats stupid

  • 07.27.2006 12:50 PM PDT
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The forerunner ship is bigger than you think. And i am not saying it connects directly to the ark. It may use the beam going up into the sky as its link. Read my post carefully.

  • 07.27.2006 12:52 PM PDT
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your theory is stupid

  • 07.27.2006 12:54 PM PDT

Posted by: Logical Thinking
I think you should burn your halo disc for wanting something this skill free, host dependent, repetative, stupid, and overall bad. I hope you burn in the hottest fires of hell for presenting such a terrible idea. In conclusion, jesus died for everyone but you.

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i liked THE ARK IS ACTIVATED BY PRESENCE THE FORERUNNER SHIP !!!!, but i dont think it surprised the covvies, u made a whole new topic.

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  • 07.27.2006 12:55 PM PDT
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I guess not too bad of a theory for now.......

  • 07.27.2006 12:58 PM PDT
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Perhaps the forerunner ship is the Ark's index or something, I imagine the Ark would at least require an index, it would make no sense for the halos to be harder to activate than the ark.

  • 07.27.2006 1:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: xXpillageplunder
your theory is stupid
Code of Conduct. Play Nice.

It's not a bad theory and one I think was suggested before. The forerunner ship was emitting a beam of light so who knows. This thread suggests that the forerunner ship is some sort of index for the Ark.

  • 07.27.2006 1:05 PM PDT
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Posted by: xXpillageplunder
your theory is stupid
Code of Conduct. Play Nice.

I think that you need to keep count of everything you do like that, so that in a few months you could post about your "1000th time posting about the TOS" landmark or something :D

  • 07.27.2006 1:08 PM PDT
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dont you ever wonder how the arbiter is probably going to find out what the ark is in the beginning of the game and master chief wont

  • 07.27.2006 1:17 PM PDT
Subject: THIS IS WHY THE COVENANT WAS SURPRISED THE ARK OPENED UP !!!
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Yeah, then Will Smith can save the day by shooting it down with a single maverick from a fighter jet, after saying "You did not just shoot that blue -blam!- at me".


This one goes to eleven.

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  • 07.27.2006 1:25 PM PDT
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Its not a bad theory and you have evidence to back up your claim. good job

  • 07.27.2006 1:28 PM PDT
Subject: THE ARK IS ACTIVATED BY PRESENCE THE FORERUNNER SHIP !!!!
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I want to say "wow that theory is stupid," but, as it was while waiting on the forum for Halo 2 to come out, i dont know. You may be rite. But I would guess that you are not.

  • 07.27.2006 1:29 PM PDT
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Well, at least this theory isnt completely stupid like the other MILLION polls in the Halo 3 forum. Maybe you are close, but I doubt that is te whole reason.

  • 07.27.2006 1:32 PM PDT

"There are fighters and there are targets. There is nothing else."

one small problem with this theory. if indeed the forerunner ship powers the ark why is the light going from the ark into space? shouldn't it be the other way around? and besides, the forerunner ship wasn't powering high charity with its thrusters, the white light you saw when it blasted out of high charity were its engines pushing it out. the green beams coming out the side are what powered high charity, thats why they cut off after the ship detaches. why would it decouple, and yet still continue to power high charity? it wouldn't.

  • 07.27.2006 1:50 PM PDT
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To play or not to play....

High Charity wasn't forerunner technology. So it stands to reason it might operate ina sub stanadard manner. However I think this over all theory has some truth in the sense that the Forerunner ship is important to the Ark but I don't think it is the primary power source. Maybe that forerunner ship becomes the Ark *half joking*.

The Ark we see on the ground could just be a sort of controlling station but the ship could be the means to SURVIVE the rings activation.

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Posted by: xXpillageplunder
your theory is stupid


And I'm sure you could come up with something that made more sense, pen0r.

  • 07.27.2006 2:09 PM PDT
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Posted by: Shaymus22
That looked way bigger than the ship though, besides the fact that the trailer occurs about 1/3 into the game


How do you know this?

  • 07.27.2006 2:12 PM PDT
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I have my own theory on all this but I'm not going to get into it here, but of the theories I've read (ignoring the fact it's just a trailer and probably won't happen exactly like we've seen) this is probably the most realistic of them I've seen. Hats off, it sounds alot more plausable than the other crap I've heard in that regards and theres a very good chance you're at least pointed in the right direction.

Consider Halo 2 at the end, when it almost looked like it was firing but it was simply prepping and contacting the other Halos. I wouldn't be suprised if we were seeing something simular here as well and it very well could have something to do with the forerunner ship.

I doubt it's directly powering the Ark, but it could be communicating with it or have something to do with it in some regards.

My theory was different, but I do like where you're at least going with this.

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  • 07.27.2006 2:13 PM PDT
Subject: THIS IS WHY THE COVENANT WAS SURPRISED THE ARK OPENED UP !!!
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It would have to be a different forerunner ship because the Chief was on the one that was on High Charity, so that means its either crashed or was landed someone where else.

  • 07.27.2006 2:27 PM PDT
Subject: THE ARK IS ACTIVATED BY PRESENCE THE FORERUNNER SHIP !!!!
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I agree. the beam coming out of the ark doesn't necisarrily have to a be a power connection, however my point is that the beam more than likely conncts to the forerunner ship in some shape or form.

the reason i wrotebeam being used as a power conduit, is beacuse the forerunner ship was used as a power source before and it seemed logical.

  • 07.27.2006 2:34 PM PDT