#lore-and-universe
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at a resort
something like that
chilling with high comm AI
Isn't infinity going to pick him up
it's effectively a safehouse
What if the created find the planet
but it's a whole planet
he can just chill there until the created blow over
plus the world he is on is not on any navigation map
So who's in charge then
no one really
ONI?
still kicking
everyone is probably following some sort of emergency protocol or standing order
wonder if the AI are going to get their own protocol
like terminate at the sight of treason
Can the unsc switch to all dumb AIs
i really hope there isnt a "and AI and humans started magically working together again with no problems"
no
since smart ai cant be trusted anymore
The UNSC already uses Dumb AI
Sloan is not part of the UNSC
superitendent?
not a governor
Are the superintendent AIs smart ai
scratch that then
but yea the unsc need smart Ai
but after this great betrayal there probably wont be cooparatin like this for a while
they rebelled and massacred people before,whats to stop them from doing it again kind of thinkng
A dump ai can still be deseded to hack or even have there codes changed to Learn in the halo movie where you see all the Spartan 2s as kids through training the ai you see teaching them is a dump ai so they aren't dump. Compared to humans there only dump compared to smart ai
What lmao
dumb ais doesnt mean they are actually stupid
it means they can't do everything and grow
the term "dumb ai" is only to separate them from Smart AI
so they replaced the organs for IVs right?
what about giving new organs for earlier generations
the IIs and IIIs organs are already better
so multiple ships can go through one poral right?
why don't they have multiple ships go through a few portalss to save on power and time since ships going behind another ship in slipspace go faster
They all have the slipspace drive, that going faster thing only works when you go in the wake of a faster ship
Because for most ships, the size of the portal they make is relative to the size of the ship
So unless you’re a lot smaller than the ship that makes the portal, slipping in alongside is going to be hard
If a IV were to retire would they have to be replaced again
Also the individual portal closes once the generating ship is through
If spats reproduce with spatans chwnes that the kids might have the ugtions natural or be capable of traing to be a Spartan
what spartan would train their kids too become soldiers just cause they got the augs passed down
It's also pretty unlikely that any effects from augmentation would get passed down in the first place
Any gene therapy or any augments that affected the germ line would result in changes to offspring
but convinetly they did
But not a 1:1 recreation of the same augs
Well think about suprr genes get passed down to kids so high Chances the kids would be stronger dadte smarter than other kids who's parents weren't spatlrtans
what?
Or they might join muliart or something and oni may knock on the door
just cause it gets passed down doesn't mean its stronger
its not going to be suddenly better after a single generation
I know but th6gemes will effect them
I know it would take 3-5 generations but it would happen
It’s not like the exact augmentations of the Spartan 1 parents got passed down
I know that it took a few gems but it happened
Kids of two Spartan parents would maybe benefit slightly from their parents' "superior" baseline genetics
but I seriously doubt it'd have a very tangible effect
do we know any kids of spartan 1s
While born ordinary, it is suspected that they are subjected to numerous augmentations at infancy.[1] Although they were not as advanced as the cybernetically- and surgically-enhanced Spartan-IIs or IIIs, or even their own chemically augmented parents, they were still physically superior to baseline humans.
I figured that some Spartan 2 would have been related or decend from some of the Spartans from the original orion progeam
see not as advanced
no every on of the 2s was a kidnapped kid who had the right genes
Es but what if some of them were grand or great grand children or Spartan 1s
they aren't
I figured
I mean
there's the problem
there's no official info that suggests that the -IIs were descended from the -Is
You're bringing in a hypothetical that doesn't apply
Which could explain the gens az they would be similar to spatan 1s who have sleigh augmentation and gend stuff done to them
the final iteration of the projet was like a few years before the 2s
everyone from the original project died to the augs like a year after the project started
Johnson didn't
The troopers were reintegrated back into the active service; however, for reasons undisclosed by ONI, all five would die within the year, while key personnel on the ORION Project were transferred to colonization missions or terraforming research
thats because he was part of phase 2
Ok
all of phase one died
plus they were only kids of spatan 1s
these ids only got the augs passed down
while the originals got all the effects
Blob get auto correct
"This faction is a vigilante group of thirteen Spartan 1.1s who banded together on Earth to take the fight to the Covenant.[1] According to Kevin Morales, who later admitted to Janissary James that he was exaggerating slightly, they own a 100-meter yacht upgraded with everything an ONI spy ship would have" are these kids dumb
do they want to get blasted out of the sky by plasma
"I want to go deep into Covenant space. I want to do it for a purpose, and I want to do it without being under Section Three's thumb."
so does oni have any hidden bases in otherr factionns territory
i'm sure they have many hidden bases all over the galaxy
so can any faction just slipspace right to the capital?
Capital of where?
because a lotof post war stuff just bypass fleets and colonies and go straight to the capital
of a faction
earth or sanghellios
like the prophet who was going to wipe al of sanghelios out with a prototype halo ring
or when covenant remnants fought the SoS at sanghellios
or that father who bought a covenant ship planning to glass earth
i imagine slipping out too close to a planet is dangerous unless you have some really good calculations
its only going to cause a explosion.so if you have shields your probably good
no i mean, you run the risk of running into the surface or a mountain or something
but my point is that these guys went straight to the capital and didnt have to stop at other planets
oh
well
plus is there really a need for "everything hangs in the balance" plots mutple times
?
Slipspace travel allows you to cover long distances because slipspace is another dimension basically. There's no force that would suddenly pull you out of slipspace if you go near a planet
if you exit slipspace on a planet where you don't know the topology well, you might make the exit portal somewhere you shouldn't
Like, I ain't going to be forced to stop at Reach if I'm travelling from Harvest to Earth
well its not like that happened before
plus i think ships can see outside slipspace
so not entirely blind
what gives you that impression?
the fact that large fleets dont smash into another when we see them so close to another
plus slipspace aint exact for humanity
they're able to communicate with each other
you could drop out hundreds of kilometers from where your going
In space, that's a relatively small distance to drop out at
but planetside that can make the difference between a spaceport and the bottom of the ocean
^ true
yep
I'm guessing that Slipspace works a lot like Hyperspace in Star Wars because doesn't every light speed method
lol imagine exiting slipspace in the middle of the pacific
so maybe gravity is an important factor
well there aremultiple dimensions
like you wanna exit not too close to a gravitational body
and if you slipspcae in atmosphere there is going to be a crater
but unlike hyperspace, giant bodies cant randomly enter slipspace
with you evaporated
and some killer music to boot
9, including the crystal induced one?
and phenominoms
oh boy I'm way out of my depth on this aspect
like how slipspace will just randomly kidnap someone
and drop stuff out anywhere
heck, the covies had a better understanding of it
they could do pin-pointed jumps
The maginot line exists
hm?
I should really read up on slipspace
The Maginot Line was an established perimeter that designated the central area of the Forerunner empire
slipspace is probably the only dimension that can be used as a weapon
Kat figured out how to do it
you would have to fly down into atmosphere while being shot at to use the explosion of opening slipspac
The line installation shot down ships in slipspace
if a ship got sent into the bottom of the ocean by slipspace you thik it could get out?
Assuming it did not immediately flood or get crushed, yes
like trying to open another portal
so what happens when you open slipspace under water
Could ships even survive that
it'd probably take all the water with it in its pocket of normal space
creating a big void of water like that would be... interesting
It would be a good way to lower the oceans levels
not to mention the fact that there would now be fish in the slipstream
let's just take the ocean and push it somewhere else!
gosh I'm getting back into Halo lore for the first time since before HW2 came out and I forgot how much I forgot
Everything will be sucked in
so uh
this has been bugging me since forever
why does Guilty Spark talk to Chief like he's Born Stellar?
Did you see the terminals? He kept blinking red. He may have been alone for so long, he was starting to go rampant. At least a little bit
Nearly every single other Monitor of the rest of the installations had stopped reporting in. They may have gone rampant themselves
I saw the terminals on Halo, Truth and Reconciliation, Silent Cartographer, and Keyes
I mean yeah he definitely seems like he's going Rampant, but I just can't shake the idea that there's more that's missing
i think it's metaphorical, nothing more
It is possible that some leftover gais of Forthencho may reside somewhere inside MC, but no way part of Bornsteller would
Try to remember, some parts of Halo CE lore simply do not make sense. They had NO way of knowing Halo would take off like it did
true
CE and Reach have the biggest lore inconsistencies I think
maybe 5 but I'm rusty
Like SGM Johnson, literally in hand to hand combat less than 30 seconds from the Autumns detonation. Somehow ended up onboard a Pelican dropship with a bunch of Marines and an Oni officcer
because he's Johnson
What do glassing beams do I know they destroy things but like what do they do
MF Johnson
So the death star but less powerful
honestly yeah
kinda like when they fire it only one core at a time in Rogue One
but instead of one quick blast it's a continuous stream as the ships go along
Did noble 6 survive the glassing beams
And also with a ton more ships
easter eggs obviously aren't canon
I don’t think we’ll ever see Noble Six again
probably not but Six's fate is technically ambiguous
And because of New Blood we’ll never see Rookie again and I’m triple pissed deluxe
Rookie deserved better
I’m not even mad he’s dead - Six being dead is fine to me
I’m mad he’s dead in a book
Rookie deserved a better death
A death that served to further Buck’s character development from Nathan Fillion to Sad Spartan Nathan Fillion
Like... lol okay
Six ends up in the cave where Halsey and Blue Team are playing 20 Questions
Don’t get me wrong - I like Nathan Fillion. But he can only play Nathan Fillion
so would Miranda and Chief be kinda like half siblings?
Adopted siblings?
Miranda is adopted big sister to the entire Spartan program
except that halsey never really acted like a mom to miranda
since all the Spartans probably have the emotional maturity of children
I wonder if Miranda harbored any ill feelings towards MC because Halsey spent more time and effort on the Spartans than on her
I miss Jorge
Man I really hope we get to see Locke in like, a better story
I think he’s a genuinely interesting character
how/in what did Daisy die again?
Legends
I was just watching Legends last night
The Package
I remembered I had a copy and the Xbox could play it
was so good
I'm a big fan of the hallway scene in the Package myself
Later career and death
At some point during the Human-Covenant War, Daisy participated in a battle on a war-torn planet where she assisted several Marines pinned down by Covenant fire. She then assisted the Marines in getting to the evac point, where she met up with Ralph-103, a Spartan who had escaped with her in 2525, now as a serving Marine after his dismissal from the program As their evac Pelican landed however, Daisy was impaled by Needler rounds. Ralph, who was now aboard the Pelican with the Marines, tried to help Daisy, but she told him to go. Daisy used her pistol to fire on a Covenant Sangheili, but the Pelican was destroyed by Fuel Rod Gun fire, killing all aboard. Daisy, wounded and helpless, died where she lay, unable to move. Her body was later found by John-117, who laid Daisy's teddy bear chain in her hands and closed her eyes.
oh boy
That’s Cal.
thats just sad
I think that’s her name.
the Spartan 2's were all Chief's family
Cal-141, yeah.
and he's lost so many of them
I love how Cal was the best sniper the Spartans has despite her huge hair
but was Cal better than Linda?
Yea, I thought Linda was the best sniper
Okay, best minus Blue Team Who’s The Best At All Their Respective Things
Like Fred and his... knife tricks.
Blue Team are the anime protagonists
Man, Package is good but god I look at Arthur and
That chin.
Mr. Jim Carrey The Mask Spartan over here.
bruh, The Mask is some of Carrey's best work
Well sure
That doesn’t make The Mask or Arthur look any less ridiculous
Arthur’s chin could be used as effectively as a gravity hammer with a proper headbutt
more like an energy sword
Also, I love how often the canon shorts in Legends use ‘this thing is huge’ for no real reason other than it looks cool.
Like the Mega Mgalekgolo that Han slays, or the impossibly large Wraith in Prototype.
Great, now I want to watch Legends
but was Cal better than Linda?
Linda is the best sniper of the S-IIs, it's more than likely Blue Team was busy on a different mission and Cal was selected for the op
If you say a Spartan is best at anything it has to come with a legal disclaimer that Blue Team is better.
"Arthur was the best pie eater in the corps"
- Chief is better
Jorge is the best unicyclist
*Kelly is better
Kelly would likely be the fastest on a unicycle as well
Actually, believe it or not, John was the better unicyclist
Kelly was faster, but John was more precise
but who is the best pilot
Foehammer
Noble Six. RIP 😔
Fred
I like to think Fred is best at everything that isn’t specified by the rest of Blue Team because he’s so unspecified
corpses don't count
Like how John isn’t really the best at anything besides being exceedingly lucky.
I think it is halarious that even though Fred outranks John, he follows his lead
code word for plot armor
Fred's the second best sniper if I recall correctly
Obviously though, he's not in the same league as Linda
Wait, does Fred outrank John?
my theory for why John is so "lucky" is because when he's not, he dies and we load a checkpoint
Honestly Spartans having actual ranks in general is very funny to me.
Because they generally just outrank everyone in like a 50km vicinity by virtue of being a Spartan
Everyone sans like, the Keyes dynasty
And Lord Hood
Even Spartans need a hierarchy
Did all of the odsts in alpha 9 have a specific role
Rookie had the specific role of ‘Best Boy’.
Chief asks for permission because he's polite
But to actually answer your question, yeah I think so?
What was Dutch’s if so
Man, there’s someone I’m forgetting
explosive expert?
Mickey
Dare was their new boss
^ yep. she was ONI
She was only their boss for that mission
Alpha-Nine was a squad the way Noble was. Dare was their Colonel Holland.
explosive expert?
Mickey was explosives, Dutch was CQC according to Halopedia
Honestly I don’t know that Mickey and Dutch had really distinct roles in the game.
I can barely remember Mickey’s mission.
is being close quaters with the covenant a good idea
Ah. Right.
Dutch had the Warthog level, Romeo sniped alongside Buck.
Rookie did cool detective stuff.
What was Dutch’s if so
I’m gonna assume Dutch is the heavy weapon specialist because he always had a Spartan Laser
The flying warthog
Buck Nathan Fillion’d his way through it all.
Buck and Dare happily get back together
I’m gonna assume Dutch is the heavy weapon specialist because he always had a Spartan Laser
Beast, I literally already answered it a few seconds ago
Mickey was explosives, Dutch was CQC according to Halopedia
They kiss in front of the kids who share a look.
Mickey was the pilot
A Splaser isn’t really a good CQC weapon if you ask me
Dare kissed Buck while he was covered in Bug Guts.
yea it would
That’s love
if anyone gets close use the heat of the laser or beat them with the weapon
Dare kissed Buck while he was covered in Bug Guts.
@modest bobcat
In halo strandns that is more romantic than a sunset
Yanme’e guts have to really stink
also buck and dare got married
I know
if anyone gets close use the heat of the laser or beat them with the weapon
That isn’t going to change my mind
Shotgun would’ve been better
The Splaser is definitely not an anti-personnel weapon
Unless you’re trying to assassinate a guy from [REDACTED] meters.
splaser would be a terrible assassination weapon
I’d say the Splaser also being 45 pounds loaded makes it not the best CQC weapon
that targeting beam would give it away every time
@humble yacht Not according to Bungie
Nah the flame thrower is perfectly cqc weapon
It’s anti personnel on legendary with tilt on
Like with the rocket launcher
One of the ‘UNSC Remarks’ on Halo.Bungie has a Marine talk about assassinating a key Brute target from an undisclosed distance
No sniper in cqc
Stanchion in infinite? Imagine
No Dubbo in infinite
I’d love a Gauss Sniper in Infinite.
“What the heck am I gonna do with this inside a covenant ship”- Romeo, minutes before drop
Use it as axclub
Romeo clearly never played Truth and Rec.
Turned out that the Sniper Rifle saved his life
Yep
Covenant ships are just long corridors.
Yeah it's useful agast hunters
Pretty defensive against hammers
Well it’s not the most effective defence against the blade side of the hammer as it still punctured his lungs
Brute vs kylo ren both in ultimate temper tantrum contest
If he didn’t have it it would’ve completely damaged his insides
A poor brace is better than no brace, I suppose
If he didn’t have it it would’ve completely damaged his insides
Nah, he’d be dead if he didn’t have it, also can we talk about how the second swing literally almost killed him
Yes
Man, I really hope we can customize Rook when the ODST season comes out.
I know it was literally just like a single stripe of color, but still.
It was nice.
And the armor customization of 360
Nah, I’d prefer it I was just our FF ODST we can customise
i would like to see him try to block a enegy hammer
Come again?
squads of minor brutes led by a veteran special forces grunt is what a i want to see
I don’t know if the ODST customization carried over to Campaign. I think the color you could put on Rookie was just Firefight.
It was
No, I remember it. I think.
so the odst gun
Hm?
smg
did t get bigger from two to odst?
I don’t think so
A lot of the gun sizes are inconsistent
No, it just went from Chief’s hands to Rookie’s.
I mean maybe the suppressor on the end of the one in ODST adds length
That too.
The sniper rifle in reach drastically changes because it looks like a .22 in the hands of a marine
Man, Marines are ludicrously strong.
But a “wyrwafd” in the hands of a spartan
They fire these Anti-Materiel Rifles that weigh some 35~ lbs.
Standing up.
No brace.
Romeo did
Not even an inch of recoil.
In rapid succession
I think informing people of canon weapon weights is fun.
The Beam Rifle is 40 pounds.
but unsc tech made it barely have recoil
Fr the models of the sniper rifle looks different in the hands of a marine
can rookie use the gravity hammer in odst?
Yes
he is strong
There are no useable Gravity Hammers in ODST proper but probably in Firefight?
Similarly, no battle rifles or energy swords.
But ingame weight Is usually inconsistent
Energy Swords are flashlights and thus a mere five pounds.
Why wasn’t the br in ODST? So weird
Because it’d make things less tense maybe? Dunno.
The cop had it on skyline in the last cutscene
Pretty sure it was because Bungie wanted to encourage people to use the M7S and M6C/SOCOM
I can’t wait for the M7S and M6C in H3 MP.
Please
And the actual Brute Plasma Rifle.
I think it’s coming out on 22nd
how do the odsts take the landing of their drop pods
like their legs must kinda hurt
Drop Pod fatalities are pretty high if I remember right.
probably not
They’re very unsafe.
cherry thats only 30 percent
drop pods appear to have lots of shock absorption. also they have seats
They’re perfectly safe man-cans
That’s still 3 out of 10 guys, not negligible.
And the parachute thingy to break the initial impact
If ODST comes out on my birthday I’ll cry
And infinite is prolly having odsts
I’m excited for the ODST season to drop because I have 50 points saved up from this season.
You could see the symbol in the trailer on a ship
I’ll just buy the whole season out immediately.
Consider how much it costs to train and equip 30 odsts
Yeah, ODSTs are, beyond just being you know, people, very expensive also.
Seeing as they’re the best forces Humanity has to offer without genetic augmentation.
drop pod deaths are due to equipment failure. so long as everything works, the drop is safe
i mean, what's the rate of parachute failure in modern day?
high enough that all parachute bags come with a backup
you made me remeber a bad arguement
where somebody said that odsts are trash because they get shot down
As opposed to 3 in 10.
¯_(ツ)_/¯
and are not trained from birth
it's a fictional job designed to sound dangerous
Are we not in the lore channel to discuss the fiction?
high death rate is there to emphasize how dangerous being an ODST is
Just being in the UNSC is dangerous.
At least two Pelicans shot down per game.
Actually, except Reach.
The Pelican doesn’t play much of a role in Reach.
All about the Falcon.
carter 💥
I think Carter is the single Pelican casualty of the entire game.
the Pelican that transported the slipspace bomb
^
Oops.
Said a cuss.
But, right, okay. Yeah.
Reach has its mandated ‘at least two’.
CE has three total? I think.
3 has like 5
Fr
2 has a bunch as well.
you forgot AotCR
The Pelican Chief leaves on Requiem eventually gets destroyed
RIP to that Pelican that Lasky so lovingly put together for Chief.
Would it make sense if ONI used Forerunner tech before the rest of the UNSC learned about the Forerunners?
There’s also those two Pelicans who got way too cocky and got obliterated by the Requiem Defense Lancer.
yep
And the other one that got clipped but still went down.
So 4 has... at least 4!
@versed helm Yeah for sure. They have their fingers in all sorts of Forerunner pies across known UNSC space.
Now, whether they have? I can’t say for sure
But it would make sense.
Reach has 3, the one after you give Cortana to keyes
Let’s up that to ‘at least 3’.
2 has the two that get shot by the Scarab, every Pelican that was possibly on In Amber Clad...
I’m racking my brain for any other ones, I just played through 2 last night for the Terminals.
Oh, the one on the beach in Outskirts, but that could still be one from the cutscene.
flood pelican crash on high charity
What about 5?
I counted the Flood Pelican as one of them from In Amber Clad.
ah
I think Tsavo Highway has one somewhere but I might also be thinking of a crashed Phantom instead.
Wasn't there a Pelican that was stranded on Genesis?
the one that was shot down in the Ark Cutscene
Yep!
RIP FoeHammer. 😦
Ark Cutscene, Covenant, the one stranded on High Charity and then lost on Installation 08.
Several lost in Sierra 117
Man, Cortana is not a good level.
But Arbiter showing up at the end with a Flamethrower makes it all worth it.
Its either Great or Horrible, depending on how you look at it.
Wasn't there one that crashed on Requiem when the UNSC Infinity first crash landed there?
I STILL get turned around in flodo infected HIgh Charity.
In all honesty,i would so work for ONI if i was in the Halo universe
I’d work alongside Chips Dubbo. Nothing bad ever happens for be Dubbos.
I would do Laundy for Kilo Five and be a happy camper.
So how is ONI handling the Created crisis?,other than Osman bumming it out with Hood,Black Box,and that Spartan on Rossbach's World
ONI is handling the Created crisis the same way everyone else is.
Ignoring it for the Banished.
nothing bad happens to Chips, just to the people around Chips
When’s the Chips spinoff game?
The Chips spinoff game is the first VR Halo game. It’s mostly just you standing there with a gun until Master Chief comes up and gives you a new gun.
You now have to figure out how to use this new gun.
purgatory
I wonder what a Halo VR game could be like.
it'd be like Halo Recruit
Time to google that.
Oh, it’s not a game.
Not really anyway.
It’s like every other VR shooting range.
Just with Halo.
I would be down for a REAL VR Halo title... 100%
that would be dope
Microsoft is rich as all get out.
Real VR title for Halo with foot and hand tracking so I can fully highjack a Wraith in VR please.
That sound expensive
Microsoft is rich as all get out.
Yes
But it can’t be that expensive, to be prohibitive to even Microsoft, I mean. BoneWorks has hand and feet tracking.
Most systems will track multiple sensers, the cost is the burden of the VR Consumer.
However, with excellent attention to lighting and good direction of the AI, the flood will be SERIUOSLY hard to deal with in good VR! LOL
Were kinda drifting out of Lore into Gear though...
doesn't every halo game have to be made for xbox consoles
i dont think there is a halo game not made for or on xbox
@plain oak Haha, you’re right, my mistake
Fireteam raven
Id say by FAR the best books for me were the Kilo Five stuff... Follow that with Greg Bears take on the Pre-curser/Forerunner universe...
Kilo-Five is Karen Traviss right?
Haven’t read any of her stuff.
Got halfway through the Forerunner trilogy.
I don’t think I enjoy book series so much as I enjoy the episodic format of the older books.
I haven’t read any of the novels I really want to are they worth the read?
I haven’t read any of the novels I really want to are they worth the read?```
A lot of them are pretty good, yeah.
Kilo-Five is Karen Traviss right?
Haven’t read any of her stuff.```
Should probably keep it that way. (Except for Human Weakness in Evolutions. That was nice.)
or don't. Dex really likes the Kilo 5 trilogy
can't take any one person's opinion on its own
I really like K5 too, but YMMV.
THe ealier books read like popcorn sillyness to me.
But they are genuine.
They arent what I would call literature until Greg Bear gets involved.
Then there's Broken Circle
One of the best Halo books. 👌
oooooo going to read this! TY!
One of the best Halo books. 👌
Typical hingehead response
Squidhead, brainiac.
Will we ever return to Heian?
Hinge head is also used to refer to elites
3 citations, in fact
squid head has 0 citations
I think we could also discuss the Huragok at length. They get my vote for coolest characters in the universe. Id like to know more of their lore.
Must've been an in-game marine term.
Ah, I was right, Johnson refers to them as squidheads in CE.
rude
It's a cute term
Myeh.
so were the innies more of a threat before or after the war
before, in my opinion.
Is shadow of intent worth getting
thats the one where prophets are on the run from rtas
@nimble crest
It’s fully included in Fractures, as an FYI
sanghelli bounty hunter part of a warrior clan
THe ealier books read like popcorn sillyness to me.
@plain oak
Halo is Popcorn Sillyness.
aint that a nickname for the library
You can't play a game where a guy can rip a turret off its hinges and carry it around like he's in Predator and think, "This is high art."
I'd say 343 Guilty Spark.
That opening tidal wave of Infection Forms is good fun.
Halo is Popcorn Sillyness.
@modest bobcat I was talking about the books specifically, not gaming experience.
Yeah, I was saying those books fit.
A deeper universe lends itself ot more interesting game play.
Eh.
for me anyway, YMMV.
Halo 5 has really fast TTK. I wouldn't call it more interesting.
The ODST trailer thingy came out
Ooh.
that specific part of the odst soundtrack always feels good
Deference for Darkness is a masterwork track.
Yeah, I was saying those books fit.
@modest bobcat Fair enough. What makes the universe STAY interesting for me was the expansion of the lore. The fun popcorn factor definitely drew me in years ago.
I mean, those books weren't without interesting new concepts.
Halsey was a book invention, wasn't she?
Reach was just a throwaway line in CE.
Halsey didn't come about til the books, right? Am I misremembering?
but technically, so was Chief's
Fall of Reach novel came out before Halo CE
Really?????
yes
That's crazy.
Yes
I didn't know that.
Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.
GI JOOOOOHHNNNN 117
Oh yeah, by half a month.
That's really wild.
I was always under the impression The Flood was the first tie in novel.
nope
Man the filters are aggressive on this chat.
I had no idea the book predated the game.
I envy whomever read it before playing OG Halo.
Back when the only lore that was to be had was Fall of Reach and dubious multiplayer map descriptions.
Thank God for blood gultch....
OH yeah, that weird teleporter mess map
I seem to remember some battle box stuff from H3 multiplayer too.,.. but I tended to stay in the campaign mode.
I’d honestly love for 343 to include a Spartan-III donning black Mk. V armour as an Easter Egg in Infinite. It’s just one of the mysteries in Reach to this day
I think it's hysterical that Bungie never let us use Black after CE.
I think it's hysterical that Bungie never let us use Black after CE.
@modest bobcat Reason for this?
"For visibility", my butt.
You can see a Spartan real easy, and I don't think there's ever been a super dark multiplayer level.
Plus, the Visor gives them away, if not some other bright detailing.
In 4 and 5 they shine like diamonds the Spartans
I’d just even love for 343 to canonise this Spartan, but have him in a canonical position
No
I'm in the middle of doing research on the halo universe as a whole, and I've gotten a fairly decent understanding of the primary events. One thing I'm having trouble with tho is finding relevant data on the books and comics, that being there's too flippin many of them. Are there any videos that cover these events?
The black in reach is ok
@karmic hemlock Halopedia has timelines of all the battles and events that took place as early as the Human-Forerunner war
Halo canon is good
There's also something else, it has to do with reach. I'm aware that Cortana split herself off, but can't find for the life of me what exactly she was analyzing that was so important
Doesn't reach lead them to the cradle in one of the books wiht the Junior Spartan club?
Not the cradle just an anchor
She was with Halsey gathering data from the Forerunner ship in Halo Reach. When she was brought to Keyes and put into the Pillar of Autumn console (and obviously being whole again) she used data gathered from the Forerunner ship below Sword Base and glyphs from a Forerunner artifact on Sigma Octanus IV to generate the co-ordinates for Alpha Halo (Installation-04)
Ahman, 04. CHakkas is such a tool man...
Only discrepancy with that is that she was already on the Autumn and all B-312 was ferrying was an emotionless copy, but that makes sense
The real disprancy is that the game stretches a event that takes a day over the course of months
This is true
And the explanation makes everyone stupid
@west silo well you see
Blame Bungie for that one. 343 tried their best to make them fit, and they done a decent job considering the task
The covenant was on reach months before that day
And give the impression that chief and Cortana have known each other for years, when from the time Keyes introduces them, by the end of halo 4 they have only known each other for a little over a month
And no one noticed the unsc and covenant having massive battles because they were too busy
And the games never touch on the time disparities, but a lot of events happen weeks or months apart
Oh I don't blame 343 if I was in there shoes of probably make something worse
For instance, reach and CE happen almost a month apart
The fact that no one found it suspicious that all there ships were moved to other side of the planet
I remember there was this website created petitioning that Halo: Reach (the game) isn’t canon. I still don’t understand Bungie’s philosophy for the lore. They just made it unnecessarily awkward
The game is great its just that it feels like they tried to kill all sense of lore consistanty in it just to spite lore nerds like us
"Dead"
Got killed on reach
She got better
She’s the best Sniper in the UNSC. She even went as far to forge her own Sniper
She even went as far to forge her own Sniper
Hm?
In fact, it's implied she stole it from Misr- yeah
No, she didn't. We just went over that lol
I wonder if we going to meet other Spartans who carves stuff onto their visrs like emille
Wait, she didn’t? What was it then? She made modifications to it or something
at most she modified Nornfang so the radar would always be up
She "hand-tuned" it
"Just some modifications ma-"
Yeah, during the reach campaign, blue team was sent to destroy the unsc navigation data. On the way out she got shot in the back, three more in the chest, and a final one in the head. She had to get her face replaced, which in why she has the different visor.
It's not an aesthetic choice, those are her flippin eyes
Oh
I assume the "joke" is based on her helmet from Halo 5 and the various attachments it has
Just to spite the covenant,she got 4 scopes
Man it's crazy that Linda turn all her class mates into spies at the age of 6
Her eyes were injured at any rate
Fall of reach
How do you turn classmates into spies
To get better grades
Forget which video covered that comic
How do you turn classmates into spies
Easy, you tell them "turn into spies"
Lone wolf
Ah, found it!
https://youtu.be/Fb-ppUn3fkw
Trying to write a story. Not too serious, but want to get my facts right
HaloFollower
?
He's not exactly a good source of information
Is anyone?
He's not exactly a good source of information
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Halo Canon is fairly good, for the most part.
HiddenXperia is sound if you like Halo speculation, but keep in mind most of his videos are speculation
But for highly accurate canon (for the most part), HaloCanon is a good shout
He also adds in if he is speculating or hazarding a guess too so there is no confusion
just read halopedia
Yeah, Halopedia is a good source, but why not do both? I read Halopedia a lot but I also watch YT videos on Halo lore and speculation
I do plan to do both. I just like videos for a quick reference
And I've been watching xperia for a long time now, he's awesome
i prefer halopedia because it's a resource that's not tied to a particular person
so nobody gets idolized
Halopedia has gotten things wrong sometimes or use outdated information
Plus its more fun to watch videos than read about it sometimes
I like to do both. It can act as double confirmation, even though I trust Halopedia most of the time (minus minor discrepancies)
valiant class floating on the water would be a sight to behold
Hmmm could a unsc ship move under water ? Like the ship in star trek
I mean yeah, but depending on the class, some wouldn't be able to hold their own weight and lift themselves back up
Like an Autumn class?
i don't see how a space ship could handle underwater
I mean it can handle the vacuum of space
spaceships are rated to handle the negative pressure of space
but underwater is positive pressure
Then that's a dumb space ship😋
Would the gee forces that a space ship have to handle be more powerful than pressure
i think the infinity could handle it
big ship with tons of armor and comes with shielding
and if that fails just slipspace out of the ocean
The infinity can handle anything as long as plot
yup lol
demands it
The greatest threat to the infinity to this day is the crew
at this point if the infinity were to have more forerunner technology
such as shields or weapons
i wouldnt be suprised
Just get an upgrade seed
no ship in the entire halo galaxy has as much plot armor it has
The keyship is a close runner up
multiple times it should have been boiling metal
i mean who in their right minds hang their flagship all alone ouside of friendly and safe territory to fend for itself
all it takes isa few large fleets or just a cso
to wipe it from existance
Obviously they watched too much star trek
Well it does have a bunch of escorts in its gut
more technolgically equal with its allies
And yes it is
That can beat covenant capital ships
onin groups yes
Remember post war
alone no
The stridents can
against a cas
Not anymore
and i sincearly doubt the infinity can handle more than a few
There literally using pre covenant ships now
Yes but there rare now
The blooding wars
To be honest, the idea that CAS are "rare" now in some texts doesn't make much sense to me
that was between the arbiter and some groups of elites
*Blooding Years
Yes thank you
np
yes
Infinity's capabilities are a bit all over the place, given that every encounter has its nuances - kind of like real life
and in the same series a single covenant space station nearly destroyed the infinity
Where the infinity fought a large fleet for 6 hours and left with no problem
Infinity's capabilities are a bit all over the place
Yeah.
all these statements are in fact, correct
the infinity nearly got murked by a single space station
i would say there are still a few of those still around
That beam is stated to glass continents in a single shot yes
and how is it different from other covenant ships
Wasn't that one of Hood's infamous hyperbolic statements?
They usually take hours
"the fleet that detroyed reach was 50 times this size"
but yes it takes a long time to glass a planet, weeks even
Please are we really gonna take the meme seriously after halo 3
@cedar surge Hood wasn't hyperbolic about that one
Glassing planets are usually described as "glassing campaigns"
yes 😛 @west silo
I really doubt 343 meant for him to come off hyperbolic
that was Bungie not 343i
*Bungie lol
Especially since he's only hiperbolic in halo 3
Well it can be argued he was in Halo 2 too with the quote:
the fleet that destroyed Reach was 50 times this size
Where bungie couldn't even keep consistant for half that game
Oh yeah well they were attacking the entire system
315 covenant ships attacked reach
Halo 3 was fine as a story, we're getting really nitpicky if we start judging all the minor differences
Man is unsc best admiral really known as the biggest hyperbole person as well
when you go from counting hundreds from only 15 ships, it's not really being in excess
there was 15 ships in the first battle of earth
it's not like there was an actual hard number for how many ships were at Reach at all times, 315 was from a specific point at the end of the campaign
he said the one at reach was 50 times larger
yes, and what I'm trying to say is that it's getting really nitpicky
Well anyways remember that time the infinity outran a super nova
one number is taken from a author who wrote a book 5 years prior to Halo 2, and Halo 2 was written without any consideration for the book - I feel like this is an unfair assessment
well its not that uncmmen
Plus this is bungie
as if Bungie is a bad thing
bungie might have not liked the EU
they certainly didn't like Nylund's contributions being forced on them
Well anyways remember that time the infinity outran a super nova
Well I wouldn't call opening a slipspace portal and going through "outruning" a Supernova
they certainly didn't like ensemble
they certainly didn't like ensemble
Well tbf, another company was creating a game with their IP (while they were still in a contract with MS)
its not like it was their fault
An were forced to
Microsoft owned the IP, whatever Mister Gates says, goes
And Microsoft said no
I know Ensemble was forced to, and I'm glad they cared for the Universe, but I mean Bungie was probably not happy someone else was working on their IP
Didn't have to be a butt about it
That is true
Plus it was a very minor genra
I still feel bad for Ensemble as they were literally closed down after HW was made
But we're then reborn
B ungie was shooting at the messenger
Why didn't they realise it wasn't ensembles fault
Bungie became a diva
They were pretty stubborn about anyone, even authors for books, touching their precious franchise
Literally didn't want background lore for there game
does it really matter? It's a corporate squabble, it's not like Bungie or Ensemble or Microsoft are individuals with feelings. There are people that work in them that probably care but it's not really a pointed matter that one ended up working on one thing or another or preferred one thing over another.
Oh yeah, by the way. Found the "continent" remark from Hood. He said:
"Captain Clayton has a Covenant glassing cannon - a weapon built to melt continents."
So he did not say it melts continents in a single shot. Also, the station that fired it was relatively small. Smaller than a Covenant corvette.
Well at least he wasn't being overdramatic this time
Didn't bungie also try to sue marty
Why?
they removed Marty at the end of his contract without advance notice, and he argued they docked pay they owed him and he sued the company for damages
That's very scummy on bungie part
Bungie has shareholders and a board of directors to report to, and Marty has a known headstrong, director-type personality - he probably rubbed people the wrong way or some other matter. The Bungie of Destiny 1 and Halo CE are not the same company, organizations change. Marty won his civil case so I think it's a done deal.
Yeah the reported hold off of pay and the end of contract without notice is pretty bad if it is true but I'm not sure if it is a certainty, even after the case was resolved.
It reminds me of another person that went from shooter to online genre it didn't end well
I'm glad Bungie appear to be a different company now from what they were back then
Bungie was wrong to withhold Marty’s fair severance dues, but they were within their right to fire him
Those are separate matters
B ungie isn't perfect like some people say
Dude, no way 😳
So the SoS is buying food from the ueg right
They might be doing trade, yes.
So how does the currency translate
No idea
Do elites have their own internet
network of some type? Waypoint and chatternets are two networks used by humans
It'd make no sense for 'em not to, so I say yeah.
Honornet
Just watch, in honor of the forerunners, the covenant called their internet the domain
But that would be copying the forerunners
The name, at least
And that's a bad thing in the religion
it was a bunch of old dudes in high tech laser floaty chairs who brainwashed 7 civilizations into beliefs not even their own
Did the covenant even know that the domain existed or that the forerunners believed in something called the domain
yes
i believe in one of the games you a squadron of zealots directly address it
hear**
What are you guys favorite covenant Space fairing ship
I guess either the CAS or CCS
Likely either the CCS, or the corvette. The cruiser is iconic and a good size, but the corvette is a nice small nice and perfect for exploring. Just get rid of that shield above the coms room
👍
Though I figure there are corvettes which do away with that shield anyway
Maybe lose the bottom ring too. Wasnt fond of that at first when reach came out
question - halo has AI, from small and stupid to I AM BECOME DEATH. they have compact, highly advanced computer systems. they have full capability of autonomous action. So... why weren't AI more involved in the war?
They were, they helped pilot ships, calculate pathways through slipspace, target enemies for weapons, and just basic logistics
They're probably a huge reason why humanity was able to survive for so long.
Yeah
Didn’t Athena aid in the creation of the Spartans? Halseys ai in FoR
can someone explain guiltys spark entire history
Thats very long
i only remember that he was once an ancient human friends with the iso didact i think?
Just read halopedia
He's soul actually
Forerunners don't use fakes fortunately
Well they can make copies, they did that with the lord of admirals and other ancient humans
yeah
But its implied Chakas was himself, not a copy
so was he friends with a forerunner still or not?
Human on earth. Human on earth with bornstellar. Human on earth with Didact and bornstellar. Human on spaceship. Human on halo. Monitor on halo. Monitor on another halo. Monitor on ark. Monitor on another halo. Monitor on yet another halo. Monitor on the ark again. Monitor on spaceship. Monitor on planet. Robot on planet. Robot on spaceship. Robot on earth.
before becoming sparky
he had a job opportunity with his didact friend and got his brain dumped into a tea pot
That's 343/chakas. I think I got it all
The link I gave to the halo wiki will answer it for you
chakas was his original name
and now he's some robot
so in a way when he went all crazy at the end of h3 was that rampancy or just pure rage at protocol breach
because the red has people saying rampancy and others just say it's because another ring he's meant to monitor just ruins his entire existence as a whole
Oh its rampancy the terminals make it very clear
100,000 years of loneliness will do that to you
Yeah and technically that wasnt Chakas suffering that, it was the guilty spark personality. Chakas's mind was buried deeper along with many other ancient humans
One nice thing about that, Chakas was able to have company with others for those eons
Well he was aware of it to some extent
Yea but it didnt affect him, he and the others were more passengers
Well he was still a little crazy willing to kill a bunch of people to bring back his friends who have been dead for eons
Come to think of it on that topic
I found it interesting the librarian personality talked of his friends current fate. Asleep in the domain if I recall
But wasn't the domain basically wiped when the halos fired
I will have to find my book but I dontt think it was the domain
domain should get fleshed out more
Let me check
I know its theorized that it repaired it self but wouldn't those souls have been lost
the halo rings only destroy organic matter right
and those souls wouldn't have being wiped out
She did mention that she wouldn't be able to rest
since they're souls
The halos destroy neural physics
Which is basically soul energy
rip souls
but to not be wiped out by the halos wasn't there specific armor or metal needed?
Well halo never outright states souls since you know sci fi
void plating iirc
Just be in slipspace or in a criptum