Why 343 guilty spark helped master chief during halo 3? Why stop Truth from firing the Halo array?
He explains his reasoning at the end of the level Floodgate. Without his own Installation, his only purpose was to help the Reclaimer. Since Chief wanted to stop Truth, Spark helped. It was only after he got his Installation back and was told that it would be destroyed again that he lost it.
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> He explains his reasoning at the end of the level Floodgate. Without his own Installation, his only purpose was to help the Reclaimer. Since Chief wanted to stop Truth, Spark helped. It was only after he got his Installation back and was told that it would be destroyed again that he lost it.
But why he needed to help him? He says it in Floodgate, but does not give a good explanation of why. Spark always talked about the protocol, in some sort of way Truth was helping him achieving the eradication of the flood outbreak.
Ok lil buddy ur thinking to hard into it…Spark wanted the halo and his programming was for that of the “reclaimers” to be helped (humans). He wanted his ring and he would have been fine with firing the ring but once again 117 intended to blow it up. So he helped the humans because if u recall halo CE he was not programmed to integrate the index to the core that was only for a reclaimer…which gets a call out with Truth having Tarturous push Sgt. Avery’s hand on the button…whew hope that helps.
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> Ok lil buddy ur thinking to hard into it…Spark wanted the halo and his programming was for that of the “reclaimers” to be helped (humans). He wanted his ring and he would have been fine with firing the ring but once again 117 intended to blow it up. So he helped the humans because if u recall halo CE he was not programmed to integrate the index to the core that was only for a reclaimer…which gets a call out with Truth having Tarturous push Sgt. Avery’s hand on the button…whew hope that helps.
But it was a safer bet from 343 Guilty Spark to help Truth. He didn’t needed the humans, as you said, they captured Jhonsson and forced him to initiate the firing. Even more, if he has just stayed apart from the battle, away from the conflict, the covenant would had fired them anyway. Covenant happy means, no flood and hence a happy Spark.
so here’s the simplest way I could explain it
primary program: protect installation 04
secondary program: help reclaimers
with the ring gone he’s left with his second objective
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> > Ok lil buddy ur thinking to hard into it…Spark wanted the halo and his programming was for that of the “reclaimers” to be helped (humans). He wanted his ring and he would have been fine with firing the ring but once again 117 intended to blow it up. So he helped the humans because if u recall halo CE he was not programmed to integrate the index to the core that was only for a reclaimer…which gets a call out with Truth having Tarturous push Sgt. Avery’s hand on the button…whew hope that helps.
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> But it was a safer bet from 343 Guilty Spark to help Truth. He didn’t needed the humans, as you said, they captured Jhonsson and forced him to initiate the firing. Even more, if he has just stayed apart from the battle, away from the conflict, the covenant would had fired them anyway. Covenant happy means, no flood and hence a happy Spark.
There are a few reasons Spark wouldn’t work with the covenant:
- They always seem to break protocols. Spark mentions this in Halo 1 during The Library that the “other species on the ring seem to neglect containment protocols and mess with the installation” (paraphrasing). So Spark probably doesn’t like the idea of working with the group that constantly meddle with forerunner protocols and disable key installation or defenses (ie: the shield over the sentinel wall on Insatllation 05 for another example), even if they want to fire the rings. - The covenant did capture and either torture or hack into Spark in Halo 2 so he may be holding a grudge about that. Not sure if his monitor programming allows him to hold a grudge but if by that point his rampancy / loneliness was letting Chakas memories back out than he may be able to hold a grudge through his human side. - Even though Truth wanted to fire the whole remaining array, that doesn’t instantly get Spark on his side. Spark was only meant to care about Installation 04, any local flood outbreaks and keeping the installation in firing condition for if ever needed, he wouldn’t give a dang about the overall firing of the array as the forerunners limited his memory of forerunner installations (or at least that what the CEA terminals said). Also there was not a galaxy-spanning flood threat to warrant the array being fired, just an infected High Charity which was being hunted down by the the Shipmaster (I’m pretty sure thats what he was doing before coming to Africa to glass the flood wreckage). So Spark probably wouldn’t see that as a “kill everything in the galaxy”- worthy threat yet (I don’t know the criteria the forerunners put in place to allow the full array to be fired) and if he did, then why wasn’t the array put on alert after 2401 PT let the flood get so powerful on installation 05? - And if he let Truth kill everything then he would just get hopelessly lonely on Installation 04B and so maybe his masterplan was to just have people to talk to again like before the first firing…