#lore-and-universe

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lethal comet
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Anyway, where is hood after the created thing happened

humble yacht
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on Rorshach's world

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Rossbacks

cedar surge
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at a resort

humble yacht
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something like that

cedar surge
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chilling with high comm AI

lethal comet
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Isn't infinity going to pick him up

cedar surge
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why would they

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he dosn't need help

humble yacht
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it's effectively a safehouse

lethal comet
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What if the created find the planet

humble yacht
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but it's a whole planet

cedar surge
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he can just chill there until the created blow over

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plus the world he is on is not on any navigation map

lethal comet
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So who's in charge then

cedar surge
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no one really

lethal comet
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ONI?

cedar surge
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still kicking

humble yacht
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everyone is probably following some sort of emergency protocol or standing order

cedar surge
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wonder if the AI are going to get their own protocol

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like terminate at the sight of treason

lethal comet
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Can the unsc switch to all dumb AIs

cedar surge
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i really hope there isnt a "and AI and humans started magically working together again with no problems"

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no

lethal comet
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since smart ai cant be trusted anymore

cedar surge
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still need smart ai

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to hack

humble yacht
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The UNSC already uses Dumb AI

cedar surge
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to govern cities

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for logistics

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for science

humble yacht
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Sloan is not part of the UNSC

cedar surge
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superitendent?

humble yacht
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not a governor

lethal comet
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Are the superintendent AIs smart ai

cedar surge
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scratch that then

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but yea the unsc need smart Ai

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but after this great betrayal there probably wont be cooparatin like this for a while

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they rebelled and massacred people before,whats to stop them from doing it again kind of thinkng

sharp adder
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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

timber valley
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What lmao

cedar surge
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dumb ais doesnt mean they are actually stupid

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it means they can't do everything and grow

humble yacht
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the term "dumb ai" is only to separate them from Smart AI

cedar surge
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so they replaced the organs for IVs right?

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what about giving new organs for earlier generations

humble yacht
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the IIs and IIIs organs are already better

cedar surge
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so multiple ships can go through one poral right?

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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

lethal comet
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They all have the slipspace drive, that going faster thing only works when you go in the wake of a faster ship

humble yacht
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Because for most ships, the size of the portal they make is relative to the size of the ship

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So unless you’re a lot smaller than the ship that makes the portal, slipping in alongside is going to be hard

nimble crest
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If a IV were to retire would they have to be replaced again

humble yacht
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Also the individual portal closes once the generating ship is through

sharp adder
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If spats reproduce with spatans chwnes that the kids might have the ugtions natural or be capable of traing to be a Spartan

cedar surge
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what spartan would train their kids too become soldiers just cause they got the augs passed down

unique rune
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It's also pretty unlikely that any effects from augmentation would get passed down in the first place

humble yacht
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Any gene therapy or any augments that affected the germ line would result in changes to offspring

cedar surge
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but convinetly they did

humble yacht
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But not a 1:1 recreation of the same augs

sharp adder
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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

cedar surge
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what?

sharp adder
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Or they might join muliart or something and oni may knock on the door

cedar surge
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just cause it gets passed down doesn't mean its stronger

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its not going to be suddenly better after a single generation

sharp adder
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I know but th6gemes will effect them

cedar surge
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yes they did

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but they were weaker

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like the spartan who had kids

sharp adder
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I know it would take 3-5 generations but it would happen

humble yacht
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It’s not like the exact augmentations of the Spartan 1 parents got passed down

sharp adder
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I know that it took a few gems but it happened

cedar surge
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it took?

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what are you talking about

unique rune
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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

cedar surge
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do we know any kids of spartan 1s

unique rune
cedar surge
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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.

sharp adder
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I figured that some Spartan 2 would have been related or decend from some of the Spartans from the original orion progeam

cedar surge
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see not as advanced

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no every on of the 2s was a kidnapped kid who had the right genes

sharp adder
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Es but what if some of them were grand or great grand children or Spartan 1s

humble yacht
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they aren't

unique rune
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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

sharp adder
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Which could explain the gens az they would be similar to spatan 1s who have sleigh augmentation and gend stuff done to them

cedar surge
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the final iteration of the projet was like a few years before the 2s

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everyone from the original project died to the augs like a year after the project started

sharp adder
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Johnson didn't

cedar surge
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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

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thats because he was part of phase 2

sharp adder
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Ok

cedar surge
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all of phase one died

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plus they were only kids of spatan 1s

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these ids only got the augs passed down

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while the originals got all the effects

lethal comet
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Blob get auto correct

cedar surge
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"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

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do they want to get blasted out of the sky by plasma

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"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."

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so does oni have any hidden bases in otherr factionns territory

humble yacht
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i'm sure they have many hidden bases all over the galaxy

cedar surge
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so can any faction just slipspace right to the capital?

carmine sleet
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Capital of where?

cedar surge
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because a lotof post war stuff just bypass fleets and colonies and go straight to the capital

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of a faction

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earth or sanghellios

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like the prophet who was going to wipe al of sanghelios out with a prototype halo ring

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or when covenant remnants fought the SoS at sanghellios

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or that father who bought a covenant ship planning to glass earth

humble yacht
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i imagine slipping out too close to a planet is dangerous unless you have some really good calculations

cedar surge
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its only going to cause a explosion.so if you have shields your probably good

humble yacht
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no i mean, you run the risk of running into the surface or a mountain or something

cedar surge
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but my point is that these guys went straight to the capital and didnt have to stop at other planets

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oh

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well

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plus is there really a need for "everything hangs in the balance" plots mutple times

humble yacht
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?

carmine sleet
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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

humble yacht
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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

carmine sleet
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Like, I ain't going to be forced to stop at Reach if I'm travelling from Harvest to Earth

cedar surge
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well its not like that happened before

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plus i think ships can see outside slipspace

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so not entirely blind

humble yacht
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what gives you that impression?

cedar surge
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the fact that large fleets dont smash into another when we see them so close to another

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plus slipspace aint exact for humanity

humble yacht
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they're able to communicate with each other

cedar surge
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you could drop out hundreds of kilometers from where your going

carmine sleet
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In space, that's a relatively small distance to drop out at

jolly swift
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but planetside that can make the difference between a spaceport and the bottom of the ocean

humble yacht
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^ true

versed helm
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yep

jolly swift
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I'm guessing that Slipspace works a lot like Hyperspace in Star Wars because doesn't every light speed method

humble yacht
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lol imagine exiting slipspace in the middle of the pacific

jolly swift
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so maybe gravity is an important factor

cedar surge
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well there aremultiple dimensions

jolly swift
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like you wanna exit not too close to a gravitational body

cedar surge
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and if you slipspcae in atmosphere there is going to be a crater

versed helm
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but unlike hyperspace, giant bodies cant randomly enter slipspace

cedar surge
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with you evaporated

jolly swift
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and some killer music to boot

cedar surge
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plus there is 9 dimensions in slipspace

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and slipspace streams

versed helm
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9, including the crystal induced one?

cedar surge
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and phenominoms

jolly swift
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oh boy I'm way out of my depth on this aspect

cedar surge
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like how slipspace will just randomly kidnap someone

versed helm
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and drop stuff out anywhere

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heck, the covies had a better understanding of it

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they could do pin-pointed jumps

lethal comet
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The maginot line exists

cedar surge
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hm?

jolly swift
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I should really read up on slipspace

cedar surge
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but yea slipspace has a big article on halopedia

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here

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its very detailed

humble yacht
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The Maginot Line was an established perimeter that designated the central area of the Forerunner empire

versed helm
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slipspace is probably the only dimension that can be used as a weapon

cedar surge
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well there is the warp in 40k

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but using slipspace as a weapon doesnt seem smart

humble yacht
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Kat figured out how to do it

nimble crest
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Indeed

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Still a whole lot we don’t know about slipspace

cedar surge
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you would have to fly down into atmosphere while being shot at to use the explosion of opening slipspac

lethal comet
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The line installation shot down ships in slipspace

cedar surge
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if a ship got sent into the bottom of the ocean by slipspace you thik it could get out?

echo nebula
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Assuming it did not immediately flood or get crushed, yes

cedar surge
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like trying to open another portal

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so what happens when you open slipspace under water

lethal comet
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Could ships even survive that

cedar surge
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maybe a prowler

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i think a marathon or cruiser would take a bunch of damage though

lethal comet
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And the crew

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They are gonna have a bad time

jolly swift
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it'd probably take all the water with it in its pocket of normal space

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creating a big void of water like that would be... interesting

echo nebula
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It would be a good way to lower the oceans levels

jolly swift
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not to mention the fact that there would now be fish in the slipstream

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let's just take the ocean and push it somewhere else!

lethal comet
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What you gonna do about the pressure difference

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Its gonna be explosive

jolly swift
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gosh I'm getting back into Halo lore for the first time since before HW2 came out and I forgot how much I forgot

lethal comet
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Everything will be sucked in

jolly swift
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so uh

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this has been bugging me since forever

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why does Guilty Spark talk to Chief like he's Born Stellar?

echo nebula
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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

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Nearly every single other Monitor of the rest of the installations had stopped reporting in. They may have gone rampant themselves

jolly swift
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I saw the terminals on Halo, Truth and Reconciliation, Silent Cartographer, and Keyes

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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

humble yacht
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i think it's metaphorical, nothing more

echo nebula
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It is possible that some leftover gais of Forthencho may reside somewhere inside MC, but no way part of Bornsteller would

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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

jolly swift
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true

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CE and Reach have the biggest lore inconsistencies I think

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maybe 5 but I'm rusty

echo nebula
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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

jolly swift
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because he's Johnson

versed helm
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What do glassing beams do I know they destroy things but like what do they do

echo nebula
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MF Johnson

jolly swift
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it's a beam of superheated plasma

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it's so hot that it turns things to glass

versed helm
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So the death star but less powerful

jolly swift
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honestly yeah

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kinda like when they fire it only one core at a time in Rogue One

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but instead of one quick blast it's a continuous stream as the ships go along

versed helm
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Did noble 6 survive the glassing beams

modest bobcat
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And also with a ton more ships

humble yacht
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easter eggs obviously aren't canon

modest bobcat
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I don’t think we’ll ever see Noble Six again

jolly swift
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probably not but Six's fate is technically ambiguous

humble yacht
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no it's not

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it's confirmed

modest bobcat
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And because of New Blood we’ll never see Rookie again and I’m triple pissed deluxe

jolly swift
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Rookie deserved better

modest bobcat
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I’m not even mad he’s dead - Six being dead is fine to me

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I’m mad he’s dead in a book

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Rookie deserved a better death

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A death that served to further Buck’s character development from Nathan Fillion to Sad Spartan Nathan Fillion

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Like... lol okay

jolly swift
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Six ends up in the cave where Halsey and Blue Team are playing 20 Questions

modest bobcat
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Don’t get me wrong - I like Nathan Fillion. But he can only play Nathan Fillion

jolly swift
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so would Miranda and Chief be kinda like half siblings?

modest bobcat
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Adopted siblings?

jolly swift
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yeah

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because Halsey is basically Chief's mom

modest bobcat
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Miranda is adopted big sister to the entire Spartan program

humble yacht
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except that halsey never really acted like a mom to miranda

jolly swift
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since all the Spartans probably have the emotional maturity of children

echo nebula
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I wonder if Miranda harbored any ill feelings towards MC because Halsey spent more time and effort on the Spartans than on her

modest bobcat
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Except Jorge

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Who has the fatherly spirit of 1000 dads

jolly swift
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I miss Jorge

modest bobcat
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“He just died thinking he saved the planet. We should all be so lucky.”

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😔

humble yacht
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i mean, we should

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better to die like Jorge than to die like Daisy

modest bobcat
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Man I really hope we get to see Locke in like, a better story

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I think he’s a genuinely interesting character

jolly swift
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how/in what did Daisy die again?

humble yacht
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Legends

jolly swift
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oh right

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I'm gradually shaking the rust off

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Spartan 1337

modest bobcat
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I was just watching Legends last night

jolly swift
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The Package

modest bobcat
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I remembered I had a copy and the Xbox could play it

jolly swift
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was so good

modest bobcat
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My favorite is either Prototype or The Babysitter

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Or the Duel

jolly swift
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I'm a big fan of the hallway scene in the Package myself

echo nebula
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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.

jolly swift
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oh wait

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I was confusing her with the Spartan from the Babysitter

cedar surge
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oh boy

modest bobcat
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That’s Cal.

cedar surge
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thats just sad

modest bobcat
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I think that’s her name.

jolly swift
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the Spartan 2's were all Chief's family

modest bobcat
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Cal-141, yeah.

jolly swift
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and he's lost so many of them

modest bobcat
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I love how Cal was the best sniper the Spartans has despite her huge hair

jolly swift
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but was Cal better than Linda?

echo nebula
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Yea, I thought Linda was the best sniper

modest bobcat
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Okay, best minus Blue Team Who’s The Best At All Their Respective Things

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Like Fred and his... knife tricks.

jolly swift
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Blue Team are the anime protagonists

modest bobcat
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Man, Package is good but god I look at Arthur and

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That chin.

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Mr. Jim Carrey The Mask Spartan over here.

humble yacht
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bruh, The Mask is some of Carrey's best work

modest bobcat
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Well sure

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That doesn’t make The Mask or Arthur look any less ridiculous

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Arthur’s chin could be used as effectively as a gravity hammer with a proper headbutt

jolly swift
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more like an energy sword

modest bobcat
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Also, I love how often the canon shorts in Legends use ‘this thing is huge’ for no real reason other than it looks cool.

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Like the Mega Mgalekgolo that Han slays, or the impossibly large Wraith in Prototype.

echo nebula
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Great, now I want to watch Legends

carmine sleet
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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

modest bobcat
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If you say a Spartan is best at anything it has to come with a legal disclaimer that Blue Team is better.

jolly swift
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"Arthur was the best pie eater in the corps"

  • Chief is better
modest bobcat
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Jorge is the best unicyclist
*Kelly is better

carmine sleet
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Kelly would likely be the fastest on a unicycle as well

echo nebula
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Actually, believe it or not, John was the better unicyclist

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Kelly was faster, but John was more precise

cedar surge
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but who is the best pilot

jolly swift
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Foehammer

modest bobcat
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Noble Six. RIP 😔

echo nebula
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Fred

modest bobcat
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I like to think Fred is best at everything that isn’t specified by the rest of Blue Team because he’s so unspecified

cedar surge
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corpses don't count

modest bobcat
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Like how John isn’t really the best at anything besides being exceedingly lucky.

echo nebula
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I think it is halarious that even though Fred outranks John, he follows his lead

cedar surge
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code word for plot armor

carmine sleet
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Fred's the second best sniper if I recall correctly

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Obviously though, he's not in the same league as Linda

modest bobcat
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Wait, does Fred outrank John?

jolly swift
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my theory for why John is so "lucky" is because when he's not, he dies and we load a checkpoint

humble yacht
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yes, fred outranks john

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Fred is an actual officer

jolly swift
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his "luck" is a canonization of us playing him

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experience outranks everything

modest bobcat
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Honestly Spartans having actual ranks in general is very funny to me.

cedar surge
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whu

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why

modest bobcat
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Because they generally just outrank everyone in like a 50km vicinity by virtue of being a Spartan

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Everyone sans like, the Keyes dynasty

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And Lord Hood

echo nebula
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Even Spartans need a hierarchy

nimble crest
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Did all of the odsts in alpha 9 have a specific role

modest bobcat
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Rookie had the specific role of ‘Best Boy’.

jolly swift
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Chief asks for permission because he's polite

modest bobcat
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But to actually answer your question, yeah I think so?

nimble crest
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What was Dutch’s if so

modest bobcat
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Man, there’s someone I’m forgetting

cedar surge
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explosive expert?

modest bobcat
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Dutch, Buck, Rookie, Romeo...?

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Who am I missing?

humble yacht
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Mickey

cedar surge
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micky

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dare

modest bobcat
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Mickey.

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Dare wasn’t Alpha-Nine.

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She was just kinda there for the op.

echo nebula
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Dare was their new boss

humble yacht
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^ yep. she was ONI

modest bobcat
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She was only their boss for that mission

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Alpha-Nine was a squad the way Noble was. Dare was their Colonel Holland.

carmine sleet
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explosive expert?
Mickey was explosives, Dutch was CQC according to Halopedia

modest bobcat
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Honestly I don’t know that Mickey and Dutch had really distinct roles in the game.

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I can barely remember Mickey’s mission.

cedar surge
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is being close quaters with the covenant a good idea

humble yacht
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it was the vehicle mission

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with the tank

modest bobcat
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Ah. Right.

humble yacht
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then he meets up with Dutch at the end

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and they go to ONI Alpha Site together

modest bobcat
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Dutch had the Warthog level, Romeo sniped alongside Buck.

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Rookie did cool detective stuff.

inner basin
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What was Dutch’s if so
I’m gonna assume Dutch is the heavy weapon specialist because he always had a Spartan Laser

sharp adder
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The flying warthog

modest bobcat
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Buck Nathan Fillion’d his way through it all.

sharp adder
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Buck and Dare happily get back together

carmine sleet
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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

modest bobcat
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They kiss in front of the kids who share a look.

echo nebula
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Mickey was the pilot

inner basin
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A Splaser isn’t really a good CQC weapon if you ask me

modest bobcat
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Dare kissed Buck while he was covered in Bug Guts.

cedar surge
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yea it would

nimble crest
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That’s love

cedar surge
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if anyone gets close use the heat of the laser or beat them with the weapon

sharp adder
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Dare kissed Buck while he was covered in Bug Guts.
@modest bobcat
In halo strandns that is more romantic than a sunset

modest bobcat
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Yanme’e guts have to really stink

cedar surge
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also buck and dare got married

sharp adder
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I know

inner basin
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if anyone gets close use the heat of the laser or beat them with the weapon
That isn’t going to change my mind

nimble crest
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Shotgun would’ve been better

modest bobcat
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The Splaser is definitely not an anti-personnel weapon

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Unless you’re trying to assassinate a guy from [REDACTED] meters.

humble yacht
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splaser would be a terrible assassination weapon

modest bobcat
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I’d say the Splaser also being 45 pounds loaded makes it not the best CQC weapon

humble yacht
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that targeting beam would give it away every time

modest bobcat
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@humble yacht Not according to Bungie

sharp adder
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Nah the flame thrower is perfectly cqc weapon

nimble crest
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It’s anti personnel on legendary with tilt on

sharp adder
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Like with the rocket launcher

modest bobcat
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One of the ‘UNSC Remarks’ on Halo.Bungie has a Marine talk about assassinating a key Brute target from an undisclosed distance

sharp adder
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No sniper in cqc

nimble crest
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Stanchion in infinite? Imagine

sharp adder
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No Dubbo in infinite

modest bobcat
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I’d love a Gauss Sniper in Infinite.

nimble crest
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“What the heck am I gonna do with this inside a covenant ship”- Romeo, minutes before drop

sharp adder
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Use it as axclub

modest bobcat
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Romeo clearly never played Truth and Rec.

inner basin
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Turned out that the Sniper Rifle saved his life

nimble crest
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Yep

modest bobcat
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Covenant ships are just long corridors.

sharp adder
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Yeah it's useful agast hunters

nimble crest
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Pretty defensive against hammers

inner basin
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Well it’s not the most effective defence against the blade side of the hammer as it still punctured his lungs

cedar surge
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hey the splaser would be great

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one shot and they no longer exist

sharp adder
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Brute vs kylo ren both in ultimate temper tantrum contest

nimble crest
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If he didn’t have it it would’ve completely damaged his insides

modest bobcat
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A poor brace is better than no brace, I suppose

inner basin
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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

nimble crest
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Yes

modest bobcat
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Man, I really hope we can customize Rook when the ODST season comes out.

nimble crest
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I think so

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Hopefully

modest bobcat
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I know it was literally just like a single stripe of color, but still.

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It was nice.

nimble crest
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And the armor customization of 360

inner basin
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Nah, I’d prefer it I was just our FF ODST we can customise

cedar surge
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i would like to see him try to block a enegy hammer

nimble crest
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Come again?

sharp adder
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squads of minor brutes led by a veteran special forces grunt is what a i want to see

modest bobcat
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I don’t know if the ODST customization carried over to Campaign. I think the color you could put on Rookie was just Firefight.

inner basin
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It was

nimble crest
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No, I remember it. I think.

cedar surge
#

so the odst gun

nimble crest
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Hm?

cedar surge
#

smg

nimble crest
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What about it

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What about it

cedar surge
#

did t get bigger from two to odst?

inner basin
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I don’t think so

nimble crest
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A lot of the gun sizes are inconsistent

modest bobcat
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No, it just went from Chief’s hands to Rookie’s.

inner basin
#

I mean maybe the suppressor on the end of the one in ODST adds length

modest bobcat
#

That too.

nimble crest
#

The sniper rifle in reach drastically changes because it looks like a .22 in the hands of a marine

modest bobcat
#

Man, Marines are ludicrously strong.

nimble crest
#

But a “wyrwafd” in the hands of a spartan

modest bobcat
#

They fire these Anti-Materiel Rifles that weigh some 35~ lbs.

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Standing up.

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No brace.

nimble crest
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Romeo did

modest bobcat
#

Not even an inch of recoil.

nimble crest
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In rapid succession

cedar surge
#

well

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maybe just light push back

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like in landfall

modest bobcat
#

I think informing people of canon weapon weights is fun.

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The Beam Rifle is 40 pounds.

cedar surge
#

but unsc tech made it barely have recoil

nimble crest
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W h a t

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Jackals are swole

modest bobcat
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The Gravity Hammer was some 80~ if I remember right.

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Spiker was 15.

nimble crest
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Fr the models of the sniper rifle looks different in the hands of a marine

cedar surge
#

can rookie use the gravity hammer in odst?

nimble crest
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Yes

cedar surge
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he is strong

modest bobcat
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There are no useable Gravity Hammers in ODST proper but probably in Firefight?

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Similarly, no battle rifles or energy swords.

nimble crest
#

But ingame weight Is usually inconsistent

modest bobcat
#

Energy Swords are flashlights and thus a mere five pounds.

nimble crest
#

Why wasn’t the br in ODST? So weird

modest bobcat
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Because it’d make things less tense maybe? Dunno.

cedar surge
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because its overpowered

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like in 2 it anilated people

nimble crest
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The cop had it on skyline in the last cutscene

unique rune
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Pretty sure it was because Bungie wanted to encourage people to use the M7S and M6C/SOCOM

modest bobcat
#

I can’t wait for the M7S and M6C in H3 MP.

nimble crest
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Please

modest bobcat
#

And the actual Brute Plasma Rifle.

nimble crest
#

I think it’s coming out on 22nd

cedar surge
#

how do the odsts take the landing of their drop pods

nimble crest
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Which is conveniently

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My birthday

cedar surge
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like their legs must kinda hurt

modest bobcat
#

Drop Pod fatalities are pretty high if I remember right.

humble yacht
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probably not

modest bobcat
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They’re very unsafe.

cedar surge
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cherry thats only 30 percent

humble yacht
#

drop pods appear to have lots of shock absorption. also they have seats

nimble crest
#

They’re perfectly safe man-cans

cedar surge
#

the fatalities from drop pods are only 30 percent

#

plus the drop pod is pretty tal

modest bobcat
#

That’s still 3 out of 10 guys, not negligible.

nimble crest
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And the parachute thingy to break the initial impact

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If ODST comes out on my birthday I’ll cry

cedar surge
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out of 100 odsts its only 30

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it comess out on the 22nd

nimble crest
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And infinite is prolly having odsts

modest bobcat
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I’m excited for the ODST season to drop because I have 50 points saved up from this season.

nimble crest
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You could see the symbol in the trailer on a ship

modest bobcat
#

I’ll just buy the whole season out immediately.

lethal comet
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Consider how much it costs to train and equip 30 odsts

modest bobcat
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Yeah, ODSTs are, beyond just being you know, people, very expensive also.

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Seeing as they’re the best forces Humanity has to offer without genetic augmentation.

humble yacht
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drop pod deaths are due to equipment failure. so long as everything works, the drop is safe

modest bobcat
#

Still, 30 percent of Drop Pods just breaking?

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Jeez.

cedar surge
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and as time goes by its going to go down

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oh wait

humble yacht
#

i mean, what's the rate of parachute failure in modern day?

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high enough that all parachute bags come with a backup

cedar surge
#

you made me remeber a bad arguement

modest bobcat
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One in eleven thousand.

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According to USPA.

cedar surge
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where somebody said that odsts are trash because they get shot down

modest bobcat
#

As opposed to 3 in 10.

humble yacht
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

cedar surge
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and are not trained from birth

humble yacht
#

it's a fictional job designed to sound dangerous

modest bobcat
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Are we not in the lore channel to discuss the fiction?

humble yacht
#

high death rate is there to emphasize how dangerous being an ODST is

modest bobcat
#

Just being in the UNSC is dangerous.

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At least two Pelicans shot down per game.

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Actually, except Reach.

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The Pelican doesn’t play much of a role in Reach.

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All about the Falcon.

fringe robin
#

carter 💥

modest bobcat
#

I think Carter is the single Pelican casualty of the entire game.

humble yacht
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the Pelican that transported the slipspace bomb

fringe robin
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^

modest bobcat
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Oops.

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Said a cuss.

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But, right, okay. Yeah.

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Reach has its mandated ‘at least two’.

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CE has three total? I think.

nimble crest
#

3 has like 5

modest bobcat
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One on Cartographer, one on 343, and Foehammer.

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Yeah, 3 really hates Pelicans.

nimble crest
#

Fr

modest bobcat
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2 has a bunch as well.

fringe robin
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you forgot AotCR

modest bobcat
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Oh, you got it.

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I forget AotCR and Two Betrayals because I hate them.

humble yacht
#

The Pelican Chief leaves on Requiem eventually gets destroyed

modest bobcat
#

RIP to that Pelican that Lasky so lovingly put together for Chief.

versed helm
#

Would it make sense if ONI used Forerunner tech before the rest of the UNSC learned about the Forerunners?

modest bobcat
#

There’s also those two Pelicans who got way too cocky and got obliterated by the Requiem Defense Lancer.

humble yacht
#

yep

modest bobcat
#

And the other one that got clipped but still went down.

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So 4 has... at least 4!

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@versed helm Yeah for sure. They have their fingers in all sorts of Forerunner pies across known UNSC space.

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Now, whether they have? I can’t say for sure

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But it would make sense.

fringe robin
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Reach has 3, the one after you give Cortana to keyes

modest bobcat
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Let’s up that to ‘at least 3’.

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2 has the two that get shot by the Scarab, every Pelican that was possibly on In Amber Clad...

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I’m racking my brain for any other ones, I just played through 2 last night for the Terminals.

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Oh, the one on the beach in Outskirts, but that could still be one from the cutscene.

fringe robin
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flood pelican crash on high charity

versed helm
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What about 5?

modest bobcat
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I counted the Flood Pelican as one of them from In Amber Clad.

fringe robin
#

ah

modest bobcat
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I think Tsavo Highway has one somewhere but I might also be thinking of a crashed Phantom instead.

versed helm
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Wasn't there a Pelican that was stranded on Genesis?

fringe robin
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the one that was shot down in the Ark Cutscene

modest bobcat
#

Yep!

plain oak
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RIP FoeHammer. 😦

modest bobcat
#

Ark Cutscene, Covenant, the one stranded on High Charity and then lost on Installation 08.

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Several lost in Sierra 117

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Man, Cortana is not a good level.

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But Arbiter showing up at the end with a Flamethrower makes it all worth it.

plain oak
#

Its either Great or Horrible, depending on how you look at it.

versed helm
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Wasn't there one that crashed on Requiem when the UNSC Infinity first crash landed there?

plain oak
#

I STILL get turned around in flodo infected HIgh Charity.

versed helm
#

In all honesty,i would so work for ONI if i was in the Halo universe

modest bobcat
#

I’d work alongside Chips Dubbo. Nothing bad ever happens for be Dubbos.

plain oak
#

I would do Laundy for Kilo Five and be a happy camper.

versed helm
#

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

modest bobcat
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ONI is handling the Created crisis the same way everyone else is.

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Ignoring it for the Banished.

humble yacht
#

nothing bad happens to Chips, just to the people around Chips

modest bobcat
#

When’s the Chips spinoff game?

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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.

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You now have to figure out how to use this new gun.

cedar surge
#

purgatory

modest bobcat
#

I wonder what a Halo VR game could be like.

humble yacht
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it'd be like Halo Recruit

modest bobcat
#

Time to google that.

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Oh, it’s not a game.

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Not really anyway.

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It’s like every other VR shooting range.

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Just with Halo.

plain oak
#

I would be down for a REAL VR Halo title... 100%

versed helm
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that would be dope

modest bobcat
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Microsoft is rich as all get out.

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Real VR title for Halo with foot and hand tracking so I can fully highjack a Wraith in VR please.

winter trail
#

That sound expensive

modest bobcat
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Microsoft is rich as all get out.
Yes

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But it can’t be that expensive, to be prohibitive to even Microsoft, I mean. BoneWorks has hand and feet tracking.

plain oak
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Most systems will track multiple sensers, the cost is the burden of the VR Consumer.

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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

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Were kinda drifting out of Lore into Gear though...

cedar surge
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doesn't every halo game have to be made for xbox consoles

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i dont think there is a halo game not made for or on xbox

modest bobcat
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@plain oak Haha, you’re right, my mistake

humble yacht
#

Fireteam raven

modest bobcat
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Raven is neat.

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Glad it incorporated stuff from The Flood

plain oak
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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...

modest bobcat
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Kilo-Five is Karen Traviss right?

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Haven’t read any of her stuff.

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Got halfway through the Forerunner trilogy.

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I don’t think I enjoy book series so much as I enjoy the episodic format of the older books.

winter trail
#

I haven’t read any of the novels I really want to are they worth the read?

gilded mason
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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.
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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.)
humble yacht
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or don't. Dex really likes the Kilo 5 trilogy

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can't take any one person's opinion on its own

plain oak
#

I really like K5 too, but YMMV.

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THe ealier books read like popcorn sillyness to me.

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But they are genuine.

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They arent what I would call literature until Greg Bear gets involved.

versed helm
#

Then there's Broken Circle

gilded mason
#

One of the best Halo books. 👌

plain oak
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oooooo going to read this! TY!

humble yacht
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One of the best Halo books. 👌
Typical hingehead response

gilded mason
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Squidhead, brainiac.

versed helm
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Will we ever return to Heian?

humble yacht
#

Hinge head is also used to refer to elites

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3 citations, in fact

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squid head has 0 citations

plain oak
#

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.

gilded mason
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Must've been an in-game marine term.

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Ah, I was right, Johnson refers to them as squidheads in CE.

cedar surge
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rude

gilded mason
#

It's a cute term

stiff creek
#

Myeh.

cedar surge
#

so were the innies more of a threat before or after the war

versed helm
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before, in my opinion.

nimble crest
#

Is shadow of intent worth getting

humble yacht
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

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i'm sure most would say yes

cedar surge
#

thats the one where prophets are on the run from rtas

humble yacht
#

Prof. Fett

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(that's what Boba Fett goes by after he got his doctorate)

gilded mason
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@nimble crest
It’s fully included in Fractures, as an FYI

cedar surge
#

sanghelli bounty hunter part of a warrior clan

modest bobcat
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THe ealier books read like popcorn sillyness to me.
@plain oak

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Halo is Popcorn Sillyness.

cedar surge
#

aint that a nickname for the library

modest bobcat
#

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.

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That opening tidal wave of Infection Forms is good fun.

plain oak
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Halo is Popcorn Sillyness.
@modest bobcat I was talking about the books specifically, not gaming experience.

modest bobcat
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Yeah, I was saying those books fit.

plain oak
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A deeper universe lends itself ot more interesting game play.

modest bobcat
#

Eh.

plain oak
#

for me anyway, YMMV.

modest bobcat
#

Halo 5 has really fast TTK. I wouldn't call it more interesting.

nimble crest
#

The ODST trailer thingy came out

modest bobcat
#

Ooh.

cedar surge
#

that specific part of the odst soundtrack always feels good

modest bobcat
#

Deference for Darkness is a masterwork track.

plain oak
#

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.

modest bobcat
#

I mean, those books weren't without interesting new concepts.

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Halsey was a book invention, wasn't she?

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Reach was just a throwaway line in CE.

humble yacht
#

book invention?

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her first appearance was in a book, if that's what you mean

modest bobcat
#

Halsey didn't come about til the books, right? Am I misremembering?

humble yacht
#

but technically, so was Chief's

modest bobcat
#

Yeah, a book invention.

#

??

#

How so?

humble yacht
#

Fall of Reach novel came out before Halo CE

modest bobcat
#

Really?????

humble yacht
#

yes

modest bobcat
#

That's crazy.

gilded mason
#

Yes

modest bobcat
#

I didn't know that.

humble yacht
#

Now you know. And knowing is half the battle.

plain oak
#

GI JOOOOOHHNNNN 117

modest bobcat
#

Oh yeah, by half a month.

#

That's really wild.

#

I was always under the impression The Flood was the first tie in novel.

humble yacht
#

nope

plain oak
#

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.

modest bobcat
#

Back when the only lore that was to be had was Fall of Reach and dubious multiplayer map descriptions.

plain oak
#

Thank God for blood gultch....

modest bobcat
#

Spartan Clone Training Complex.

Like Chiron TL-34.

#

This sure never came up again.

plain oak
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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.

inner basin
#

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

modest bobcat
#

I think it's hysterical that Bungie never let us use Black after CE.

plain oak
#

I think it's hysterical that Bungie never let us use Black after CE.
@modest bobcat Reason for this?

modest bobcat
#

"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.

cedar surge
#

In 4 and 5 they shine like diamonds the Spartans

inner basin
#

I’d just even love for 343 to canonise this Spartan, but have him in a canonical position

cedar surge
#

Or better yet

#

We can kill the Spartan

inner basin
#

No

karmic hemlock
#

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?

nimble crest
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The black in reach is ok

inner basin
#

@karmic hemlock Halopedia has timelines of all the battles and events that took place as early as the Human-Forerunner war

west silo
#

Halo canon is good

karmic hemlock
#

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

west silo
#

The coordinates to halo

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Its how they found it

plain oak
#

Doesn't reach lead them to the cradle in one of the books wiht the Junior Spartan club?

west silo
#

Not the cradle just an anchor

inner basin
#

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)

plain oak
#

Ahman, 04. CHakkas is such a tool man...

karmic hemlock
#

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

west silo
#

The real disprancy is that the game stretches a event that takes a day over the course of months

karmic hemlock
#

This is true

west silo
#

And the explanation makes everyone stupid

cedar surge
#

@west silo well you see

inner basin
#

Blame Bungie for that one. 343 tried their best to make them fit, and they done a decent job considering the task

cedar surge
#

The covenant was on reach months before that day

karmic hemlock
#

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

cedar surge
#

And no one noticed the unsc and covenant having massive battles because they were too busy

karmic hemlock
#

And the games never touch on the time disparities, but a lot of events happen weeks or months apart

west silo
#

Oh I don't blame 343 if I was in there shoes of probably make something worse

karmic hemlock
#

For instance, reach and CE happen almost a month apart

west silo
#

The fact that no one found it suspicious that all there ships were moved to other side of the planet

inner basin
#

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

west silo
#

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

karmic hemlock
#

Linda was on the autumn

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Change my mind

west silo
#

Yep

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Dead

karmic hemlock
#

"Dead"

west silo
#

Got killed on reach

karmic hemlock
#

She got better

west silo
#

True

#

Made the best trick shot 1 book later

inner basin
#

She’s the best Sniper in the UNSC. She even went as far to forge her own Sniper

gilded mason
#

She even went as far to forge her own Sniper
Hm?

humble yacht
#

Linda didn't make Nornfang

#

she "borrowed" it

gilded mason
#

In fact, it's implied she stole it from Misr- yeah

cedar surge
#

Wait what?

#

She made her own sniper?

gilded mason
#

No, she didn't. We just went over that lol

cedar surge
#

I wonder if we going to meet other Spartans who carves stuff onto their visrs like emille

inner basin
#

Wait, she didn’t? What was it then? She made modifications to it or something

humble yacht
#

at most she modified Nornfang so the radar would always be up

gilded mason
#

She "hand-tuned" it

versed helm
#

"Just some modifications ma-"

karmic hemlock
#

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

west silo
#

Actually she see just fine

#

And she looks all right

gilded mason
#

I assume he's just making a serious-sounding joke.

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(I hope)

west silo
#

Oh

inner basin
#

I assume the "joke" is based on her helmet from Halo 5 and the various attachments it has

cedar surge
#

Just to spite the covenant,she got 4 scopes

west silo
#

Man it's crazy that Linda turn all her class mates into spies at the age of 6

cedar surge
#

Is there any reason to have that many scopes?

#

What

karmic hemlock
#

Her eyes were injured at any rate

west silo
#

Fall of reach

cedar surge
#

How do you turn classmates into spies

west silo
#

To get better grades

karmic hemlock
#

Forget which video covered that comic

inner basin
#

How do you turn classmates into spies
Easy, you tell them "turn into spies"

west silo
#

Lone wolf

karmic hemlock
#

Trying to write a story. Not too serious, but want to get my facts right

gilded mason
#

HaloFollower

karmic hemlock
#

?

gilded mason
#

He's not exactly a good source of information

karmic hemlock
#

Is anyone?

inner basin
#

He's not exactly a good source of information
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

gilded mason
#

Halo Canon is fairly good, for the most part.

karmic hemlock
#

Ooh! More videos to watch!

#

😁

inner basin
#

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

humble yacht
#

just read halopedia

inner basin
#

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

karmic hemlock
#

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

humble yacht
#

i prefer halopedia because it's a resource that's not tied to a particular person

#

so nobody gets idolized

west silo
#

Halopedia has gotten things wrong sometimes or use outdated information

#

Plus its more fun to watch videos than read about it sometimes

inner basin
#

I like to do both. It can act as double confirmation, even though I trust Halopedia most of the time (minus minor discrepancies)

west silo
#

Pretty much

#

Man remember when unsc ships were lighter than Styrofoam

cedar surge
#

valiant class floating on the water would be a sight to behold

west silo
#

Hmmm could a unsc ship move under water ? Like the ship in star trek

inner basin
#

I mean yeah, but depending on the class, some wouldn't be able to hold their own weight and lift themselves back up

west silo
#

Like an Autumn class?

humble yacht
#

i don't see how a space ship could handle underwater

inner basin
#

I mean it can handle the vacuum of space

humble yacht
#

spaceships are rated to handle the negative pressure of space

#

but underwater is positive pressure

west silo
#

Then that's a dumb space ship😋

#

Would the gee forces that a space ship have to handle be more powerful than pressure

cedar surge
#

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

west silo
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The infinity can handle anything as long as plot

gilded mason
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yup lol

cedar surge
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demands it

west silo
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The greatest threat to the infinity to this day is the crew

cedar surge
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at this point if the infinity were to have more forerunner technology

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such as shields or weapons

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i wouldnt be suprised

west silo
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Just get an upgrade seed

cedar surge
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no ship in the entire halo galaxy has as much plot armor it has

west silo
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The keyship is a close runner up

cedar surge
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multiple times it should have been boiling metal

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i mean who in their right minds hang their flagship all alone ouside of friendly and safe territory to fend for itself

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all it takes isa few large fleets or just a cso

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to wipe it from existance

west silo
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Obviously they watched too much star trek

cedar surge
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aint the enterpirse magnitudes smaller

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and you know

west silo
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Well it does have a bunch of escorts in its gut

cedar surge
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more technolgically equal with its allies

west silo
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And yes it is

cedar surge
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those are frigates

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the class the unsc just throw at the enemy

west silo
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That can beat covenant capital ships

cedar surge
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onin groups yes

west silo
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Remember post war

cedar surge
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alone no

west silo
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The stridents can

cedar surge
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against a cas

west silo
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And anlance frigates that uses lasers

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No ccs

cedar surge
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well covenant remnants have a lot of cas to spare

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like a huge number

west silo
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Not anymore

cedar surge
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and i sincearly doubt the infinity can handle more than a few

west silo
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There literally using pre covenant ships now

cedar surge
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no they still use cas

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mercenary groups

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jul mdama

west silo
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Yes but there rare now

cedar surge
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sos

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since when

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and why

west silo
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The blooding wars

gilded mason
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To be honest, the idea that CAS are "rare" now in some texts doesn't make much sense to me

cedar surge
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that was between the arbiter and some groups of elites

vague scroll
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*Blooding Years

west silo
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Yes thank you

vague scroll
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np

cedar surge
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my point still stands

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any large fleet will destroy the infinity

west silo
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Well no

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Remember escalations?

cedar surge
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yes

vague scroll
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Infinity's capabilities are a bit all over the place, given that every encounter has its nuances - kind of like real life

cedar surge
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and in the same series a single covenant space station nearly destroyed the infinity

west silo
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Where the infinity fought a large fleet for 6 hours and left with no problem

gilded mason
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Infinity's capabilities are a bit all over the place
Yeah.

vague scroll
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all these statements are in fact, correct

cedar surge
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the infinity nearly got murked by a single space station

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i would say there are still a few of those still around

west silo
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That beam is stated to glass continents in a single shot yes

cedar surge
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and how is it different from other covenant ships

gilded mason
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Wasn't that one of Hood's infamous hyperbolic statements?

west silo
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They usually take hours

cedar surge
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oh it could be

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ya know

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hood being overdramtic as usual

vague scroll
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"and you shipmaster, just glassed half a continent"

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was the quote

cedar surge
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"the fleet that detroyed reach was 50 times this size"

vague scroll
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but yes it takes a long time to glass a planet, weeks even

west silo
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Please are we really gonna take the meme seriously after halo 3

vague scroll
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@cedar surge Hood wasn't hyperbolic about that one

inner basin
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Glassing planets are usually described as "glassing campaigns"

vague scroll
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yes 😛 @west silo

west silo
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I really doubt 343 meant for him to come off hyperbolic

vague scroll
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that was Bungie not 343i

inner basin
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*Bungie lol

west silo
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Especially since he's only hiperbolic in halo 3

inner basin
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Well it can be argued he was in Halo 2 too with the quote:
the fleet that destroyed Reach was 50 times this size

west silo
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Where bungie couldn't even keep consistant for half that game

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Oh yeah well they were attacking the entire system

cedar surge
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315 covenant ships attacked reach

vague scroll
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Halo 3 was fine as a story, we're getting really nitpicky if we start judging all the minor differences

cedar surge
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50 times would be 750 ships

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so yea

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being overdramatic

west silo
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Man is unsc best admiral really known as the biggest hyperbole person as well

vague scroll
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when you go from counting hundreds from only 15 ships, it's not really being in excess

cedar surge
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there was 15 ships in the first battle of earth

vague scroll
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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

cedar surge
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he said the one at reach was 50 times larger

vague scroll
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yes, and what I'm trying to say is that it's getting really nitpicky

west silo
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Well anyways remember that time the infinity outran a super nova

vague scroll
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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

cedar surge
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well its not that uncmmen

west silo
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Plus this is bungie

vague scroll
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as if Bungie is a bad thing

cedar surge
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bungie might have not liked the EU

vague scroll
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they certainly didn't like Nylund's contributions being forced on them

inner basin
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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

cedar surge
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they certainly didn't like ensemble

west silo
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They ran for a good 30 seconds

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Poor ensemble

inner basin
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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)

cedar surge
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its not like it was their fault

west silo
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An were forced to

vague scroll
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Microsoft owned the IP, whatever Mister Gates says, goes

cedar surge
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ensamble was forced to make halo wars

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they wanted to make a different game

west silo
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And Microsoft said no

inner basin
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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

west silo
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Didn't have to be a butt about it

inner basin
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That is true

west silo
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Plus it was a very minor genra

inner basin
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I still feel bad for Ensemble as they were literally closed down after HW was made

west silo
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But we're then reborn

cedar surge
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B ungie was shooting at the messenger

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Why didn't they realise it wasn't ensembles fault

west silo
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Bungie became a diva

inner basin
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They were pretty stubborn about anyone, even authors for books, touching their precious franchise

west silo
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Literally didn't want background lore for there game

vague scroll
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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.

gilded mason
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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.

west silo
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Well at least he wasn't being overdramatic this time

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Didn't bungie also try to sue marty

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Why?

vague scroll
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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

west silo
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That's very scummy on bungie part

vague scroll
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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.

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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.

west silo
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It reminds me of another person that went from shooter to online genre it didn't end well

inner basin
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I'm glad Bungie appear to be a different company now from what they were back then

humble yacht
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Bungie was wrong to withhold Marty’s fair severance dues, but they were within their right to fire him

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Those are separate matters

cedar surge
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B ungie isn't perfect like some people say

timber ridge
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Dude, no way 😳

cedar surge
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So the SoS is buying food from the ueg right

gilded mason
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They might be doing trade, yes.

cedar surge
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So how does the currency translate

gilded mason
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No idea

cedar surge
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Do elites have their own internet

fair hazel
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network of some type? Waypoint and chatternets are two networks used by humans

gilded mason
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It'd make no sense for 'em not to, so I say yeah.

cedar surge
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Honornet

terse lava
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Just watch, in honor of the forerunners, the covenant called their internet the domain

cedar surge
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But that would be copying the forerunners

gilded mason
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The name, at least

cedar surge
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And that's a bad thing in the religion

leaden minnow
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it was a bunch of old dudes in high tech laser floaty chairs who brainwashed 7 civilizations into beliefs not even their own

west silo
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Did the covenant even know that the domain existed or that the forerunners believed in something called the domain

leaden minnow
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yes

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i believe in one of the games you a squadron of zealots directly address it

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hear**

nimble crest
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What are you guys favorite covenant Space fairing ship

gilded mason
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I guess either the CAS or CCS

nimble crest
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I like the corvette

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A tad small but a nice design

terse lava
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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

gilded mason
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👍

terse lava
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Though I figure there are corvettes which do away with that shield anyway

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Maybe lose the bottom ring too. Wasnt fond of that at first when reach came out

karmic hemlock
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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?

terse lava
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They were, they helped pilot ships, calculate pathways through slipspace, target enemies for weapons, and just basic logistics

gilded mason
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They're probably a huge reason why humanity was able to survive for so long.

terse lava
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Yeah

nimble crest
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Didn’t Athena aid in the creation of the Spartans? Halseys ai in FoR

faint stone
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can someone explain guiltys spark entire history

west silo
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Thats very long

faint stone
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i only remember that he was once an ancient human friends with the iso didact i think?

west silo
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Just read halopedia

faint stone
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then iso slapped his brain copy into the shell

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well

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a nutshell lol

west silo
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He's soul actually

terse lava
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Yeah it wasnt a copy of him, it was him

west silo
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Forerunners don't use fakes fortunately

terse lava
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Well they can make copies, they did that with the lord of admirals and other ancient humans

faint stone
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yeah

terse lava
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But its implied Chakas was himself, not a copy

faint stone
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so was he friends with a forerunner still or not?

ebon mauve
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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.

faint stone
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before becoming sparky

karmic hemlock
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he had a job opportunity with his didact friend and got his brain dumped into a tea pot

ebon mauve
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That's 343/chakas. I think I got it all

terse lava
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The link I gave to the halo wiki will answer it for you

karmic hemlock
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chakas was his original name

faint stone
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and now he's some robot

west silo
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Pretty chill robot

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He likes fishing

faint stone
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so in a way when he went all crazy at the end of h3 was that rampancy or just pure rage at protocol breach

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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

west silo
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Oh its rampancy the terminals make it very clear

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100,000 years of loneliness will do that to you

faint stone
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yerp

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plus it was a human mind too

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meaning the effects were much greater lmao

terse lava
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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

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One nice thing about that, Chakas was able to have company with others for those eons

west silo
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Well he was aware of it to some extent

terse lava
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Yea but it didnt affect him, he and the others were more passengers

west silo
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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

terse lava
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Come to think of it on that topic

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I found it interesting the librarian personality talked of his friends current fate. Asleep in the domain if I recall

west silo
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But wasn't the domain basically wiped when the halos fired

terse lava
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I will have to find my book but I dontt think it was the domain

faint stone
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domain should get fleshed out more

terse lava
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Let me check

west silo
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I know its theorized that it repaired it self but wouldn't those souls have been lost

faint stone
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the halo rings only destroy organic matter right

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and those souls wouldn't have being wiped out

west silo
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She did mention that she wouldn't be able to rest

faint stone
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since they're souls

west silo
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The halos destroy neural physics
Which is basically soul energy

faint stone
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rip souls

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but to not be wiped out by the halos wasn't there specific armor or metal needed?

west silo
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Well halo never outright states souls since you know sci fi

faint stone
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void plating iirc

terse lava
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Ok cant find the book, plan B

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@gilded mason you happen to have Fractures?

west silo
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Just be in slipspace or in a criptum