> One guy on Neogaf suggested this : “-Set on some facility that is used to carve out a planet etc”. It would be close to the idea of scrimshaw, but also tie into the Halo lore and all that very well. Think about it, we’re going to be in the middle of a shield world. The Forerunners got the resources to build it by digging into another planet and they use huge Sentinels to do so. Or maybe they actually went and hollowed out a planet and then built around that, who knows?
That’s the best suggestion for the code name I’ve heard this far. If I remember correctly, Forerunners make their worlds by carving other planets. The Ark is a prime example of this with the planet in the middle of it that has been used to build the Halo rings. After all, you have to get the material for that kind of structure somewhere.
But yes, that’s the best and the most fitting suggestion I have seen this far. It doesn’t suffer from the same problem than most suggestions do, having to deal with real bones.
Well, judging by the literal meaning of scrimshaw, it would be taking part of a large object or structure, and making something out of it. You could set up the analogy of a forerunner structure as the whale, and someone or something (The whalers) is taking apart the structure and resembling it into something else. The “whalers” could possibly be an ancient human race that was making a shrine many years ago, the UNSC taking the metal and making weapons and metal structures or vehicles, the huragok’s running out of things to do, or what ever the enemy is in halo 4. . So this could be what the map is based on. Just a theory.
Well, I think that the name could mean pretty much any kind of map, codenames are sometimes… just codenames
Interesting to read all, so different speculations.
I doubt it. Those structures do not even look Forerunner. As a whole, it actually looks like something from some fantasy game. Besides, linking to leaked content (either real or fake) is against the rules.
> > > > This is what the map looks like.
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> > > Where the hell did you find that?
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> > A friend of mine works at 343 as an environment artist. That’s an early prototype.
> I have a theory, what if it is a clue to a Forerunner map? Scrimshaw are the tusks from marine mammals, they are used by sailors. Sailors are on boats, in Cryptum and Primordium they refer to ships as sky boats. What if the map has something to do with Forerunner ships? It could be a map that is inside of a Forerunner ship. This is just my theory, we all know how Frankie can be with his name clues. He can make it very difficult to interpret.
