How do we know the when Cryptum is placed? I know there are a ton of side articles that place it in the distant past, but what’s to say its not set in the furure? Just a thought.
(And before any of you get angry when writing your reply, just remember I am only putting this out there as food for thought)
Then there couldn’t have been any reference to the Didact in Halo 3… and why would the Forerunners make exactly the same God’s-own-son-of-a-Yoink!-killing-machines from the past?
> Then there couldn’t have been any reference to the Didact in Halo 3… and why would the Forerunners make exactly the same God’s-own-son-of-a-Yoink!-killing-machines from the past?
Remember that he was asleep for thousands of years. We have no time frame of reference.
> > Then there couldn’t have been any reference to the Didact in Halo 3… and why would the Forerunners make exactly the same God’s-own-son-of-a-Yoink!-killing-machines from the past?
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> Remember that he was asleep for thousands of years. We have no time frame of reference.
Oh, right. I confused the Didact with Bornstellar, sorry…
No worries at all. I’m not sure that I believe that this is the case. Just an interesting thought. Maybe the “Blue Lady” in the back of everyone’s armor is Cortana, still replicating herself.
it’s highly improbable that it takes place in the future, cuz if you look in cryptum all of human kind is degraded, with primitive tech, two the earth was called erde-tyrene before it was called earth, and three, it is confirmed that the forruners left the orion arm of the universe never to return 100,000 years bce.
> it’s highly improbable that it takes place in the future, cuz if you look in cryptum all of human kind is degraded, with primitive tech, two the earth was called erde-tyrene before it was called earth, and three, it is confirmed that the forruners left the orion arm of the universe never to return 100,000 years bce.
For the sake of argument, what if the Forerunner did return? That very thought has been the speculation for Halo 4?
acctually that is my speculation to or atleast in some form maybe but what i said earlier as referenced to the book. plus the chief isn’t even in the milky way anymore
You should see my face right now.
Because it is illogical and it’s timeframe has been stated by numerous refrences such as articles, interviews and such.
> You should see my face right now.
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> Because it is illogical and it’s timeframe has been stated by numerous refrences such as articles, interviews and such.
True, and I have stated, several times now, that even I don’t really believe this theory. It’s out there for discussion’s sake alone. But, even by your statement, you show that there hasn’t been anything explicitly stating, in the book, when it is placed.
Don’t think you read Cryptum that efficiently:
1). Bornstellar, Chakas and Riser all witness the newly constructed Halo rings, they witness them decimating the San 'Shyumm homeworld as a test fire.
2). Bornstellar, Dusk and Glorious Dawn not only see the destruction of several halo ring but exit a portal to a location where the Librarian is, someone who perished in the activation of the Halo array.
3). As of Chapter 39 of Cryptum; Mendicant Bias and the Halo of Charum Hakkor have been missing for 43 years already, so it is not logically possible to assume that the book is in the future.
4). Greg Bear the Author has on several occasions described his book to be a Prequel to the Halo (game) universe.
5). Read the pre-note on page nine, it clearly shows the Didact speaking in past tense, reminiscing the Forerunner ecumene.
6). "You have asked me to tell you about that time. Since you are the last true Reclaimer, I must obey. Are you recording? Good. Because my memory is failing rapidly. I doubt I’ll be able to finish the story.
Once, on my birth-world, a world I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now is called Earth, my name was Chakas…" The blurb from Primordium suggests Chakas speaking to 117, looking back on the events of post-Cryptum. -Of course this is but speculation, however the previous five points are enough to dispel your argument altogether.
> How do we know the when Cryptum is placed? I know there are a ton of side articles that place it in the distant past, but what’s to say its not set in the furure? Just a thought.
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> (And before any of you get angry when writing your reply, just remember I am only putting this out there as food for thought)
It takes place about 100,000 years before Halo CE, 300 years after the Forerunner’s First Contact with the Flood. Basically, a short time before the firing of the Halo Array.
> Don’t think you read Cryptum that efficiently:
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> 1). Bornstellar, Chakas and Riser all witness the newly constructed Halo rings, they witness them decimating the San 'Shyumm homeworld as a test fire.
> 2). Bornstellar, Dusk and Glorious Dawn not only see the destruction of several halo ring but exit a portal to a location where the Librarian is, someone who perished in the activation of the Halo array.
> 3). As of Chapter 39 of Cryptum; Mendicant Bias and the Halo of Charum Hakkor have been missing for 43 years already, so it is not logically possible to assume that the book is in the future.
> 4). Greg Bear the Author has on several occasions described his book to be a Prequel to the Halo (game) universe.
> 5). Read the pre-note on page nine, it clearly shows the Didact speaking in past tense, reminiscing the Forerunner ecumene.
> 6). "You have asked me to tell you about that time. Since you are the last true Reclaimer, I must obey. Are you recording? Good. Because my memory is failing rapidly. I doubt I’ll be able to finish the story.
> Once, on my birth-world, a world I knew as Erde-Tyrene, and which now is called Earth, my name was Chakas…" The blurb from Primordium suggests Chakas speaking to 117, looking back on the events of post-Cryptum. -Of course this is but speculation, however the previous five points are enough to dispel your argument altogether.
Oh I did read it several times. I am just pointing out that we could be making an assumption. And all I said is that there is very little in book that places it in a specific when. But on retrospect, there is a big one, that surprisingly no one has brought up, so shame on all of us. It details the finding and development of the Flood. So, that settles it. I was just exploring possibilities within the Halo universe.