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Subject: why does the chief know covy an forrunner symbols????
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interesting......

  • 05.19.2004 8:16 PM PDT
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He doesn't. Hell even I took a good look at those symbols and knew what they meant. They are extremely obvious in design and function.

  • 05.19.2004 8:17 PM PDT

Yeah, this is one of theories that I absolutely disagree with. There is nothing special about John knowing those symbols.

  • 05.19.2004 8:18 PM PDT
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but in the books it kept commin up how the spartans knew how 2 operate alien harware an where did u c them?

  • 05.19.2004 8:19 PM PDT
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The symbols? They are all over the freaking game. Take a look at them. Very obvious what they do. Heck I even translated a few symbols on the Truth and Rec. Very obvious IH8TEps2. Just take a more careful look.

  • 05.19.2004 8:21 PM PDT
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He's seen them on Earth, that's why they're so familiar to him.

  • 05.19.2004 8:22 PM PDT
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how the hell wuld he see them on earth when hes never been there till h2

  • 05.19.2004 8:24 PM PDT
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Okay, let me specify. He's seen them on Reach, and on Sigma Octanus 5 (or wherever he was born). Okay???

  • 05.19.2004 8:26 PM PDT
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how did he c them who showed them 2 him an where did he 1st c them

  • 05.19.2004 8:27 PM PDT
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or like in what situation

  • 05.19.2004 8:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: IH8TEps2
how did he c them who showed them 2 him an where did he 1st c them


I might answer you if you edited that post and translated it to english. That was pitiful.

  • 05.19.2004 8:29 PM PDT
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omg meaning where did he see them when he was young and being trained who showed them and/or how he came in contact with the symbols

  • 05.19.2004 8:31 PM PDT
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I don't remember where he fist seen them (none of the books specify his first sighting of the symbols). And it's been so long since I've read the books (Im currently involved in the Ender's Series) that I don't remember what situation it was in, but I think he mostly remembers them from his childhood training on Reach.

  • 05.19.2004 8:32 PM PDT
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We did not know of the Covenant when he was young. Now in 2525 on the first ship he boarded he saw some Covie symbols and again later in 2552 on Sigma Octanus IV he saw some Forerunner stuff. Those are his first two encounters with such stuff.

  • 05.19.2004 8:32 PM PDT

John had been fighting for some twenty-odd years before the events at Halo and Reach. I hope that he could have learned at least a couple Covenant words and been able to pilot a few Covenant vehicles with all of that brain augmentation he had done to him.

So that proves the Covenant part wrong...

[Edited on 5/19/2004 8:34:43 PM]

  • 05.19.2004 8:33 PM PDT
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well thats very tru and johns a smart bastard 2 so he wuld have noticed something

  • 05.19.2004 8:35 PM PDT

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i always thought cortana translated them and he had a good idea what they meant because he had fought the covenant for so long

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seriously tho have u every noticed really how fukin intelligent some of the spartans are including john in general are im like a monkey compared 2 those people

  • 05.19.2004 8:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: IH8TEps2
seriously tho have u every noticed really how fukin intelligent some of the spartans are including john in general are im like a monkey compared 2 those people


Its a video game they make stuff up

  • 05.19.2004 8:39 PM PDT
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Hello and welcome to the forums, IH8TEps2.

I am just curious if you read the Halo books, fall of reach, the flood, and first strike because I am pretty sure some of that is mentioned in Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric Nylund. if you haven't read them you should check them out.

  • 05.19.2004 8:40 PM PDT
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i know that im talkin bout it the books compared 2 an average odst or unsc personel or even high command there really stupid compared 2 him

  • 05.19.2004 8:41 PM PDT

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Posted by: IH8TEps2
i know that im talkin bout it the books compared 2 an average odst or unsc personel or even high command there really stupid compared 2 him


And where exactly would you be in this comparison? Please type out your responses. This isn't a fanboy forum. Anyway all prodding aside - Master Chief / John-117 does NOT know exactly what all the symbols mean. Part of it is logical deduction from context clues, part of it is pure luck - The Fall of Reach touched a bit on the luck aspect. Otherwise it was common sense. Case in point - In the Halo level - the first time Master Chief actually has to manipulate Forerunner technology, he only does so because he has nowhere else to go. To quote Cortana " There has to be some kind of way across. As the switch is the only thing in the room he can manipulate, from this context it is logical that the switch will activate some way across. Ipso Facto. And Master Chief isn't particularly smart... Anybody with average or higher intelligence should be able to figure out basic context clues. I don't speak a word of Italian but I could figure my way around Venice - using common sense and context clues.

  • 05.19.2004 9:07 PM PDT
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Well I think the Cov. controls are simple thats why he knows them and Cortana helps him with them (i think?) But with the Forerunner Controls, in the Book the Flood it talks about how the Controls stump Cortana but the MC some how knows which button to choose.................
It says He didnt figure it out or anything, but just knew some how........ He couldnt even explain it in the book.
He also talks about how it kinda looked like Mayan Symbols from Earth that he studied about.
I havent read the other books but ordered them today so I hope they talk more about this. its all very interesting..........

  • 05.19.2004 9:26 PM PDT
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ok guys, Hes seen the symbols before on Sigma Octunas IV, and He's been on Mars before, as the SPARTANS had trained there in their childhood, so maybe's he has been to earth m'kay.

  • 05.19.2004 9:28 PM PDT
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i got a feeling that humans be forerunner descendants while covies found and copied forerunner tech, so mebbe there would be like an "ancient memory" or sumting

  • 05.20.2004 4:14 AM PDT

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