Halo 5 Trailer Interpretation

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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I’ve come up with this theory independently, if anyone shares or perpetuates this idea after getting it off of this post, please throw me a little credit. Just mention my gamer tag.

Here we go:

I have 3 major points that I’ve taken from the Halo 5 trailer. A lot is speculation, but I think it’s speculation on a solid basis.
Below you will find spoilers from: “Halo: Primordium”, “Halo: Rebirth” (Silentium’s epilogue), and possibly Halo 5 (if [BIG IF] I’m right).
Ye have been warned.

  1. The only place we’ve ever seen such an expansive desert in the Halo universe is on the Ark. In Halo 3 there is an entire level dedicated to road tripping through this thing with the UNSC and Guilty Spark. On top of this minor suspicion, the large planet in the trailer seems to bear similar features to that in the center of the Ark. So we have our potential location: The Ark.

  2. This is possible because the Ark is confirmed to be in existence in Halo: Primordium. This is where (spoiler!) the UNSC recovers a badly damaged 343 Guilty Spark, who later escapes after commandeering the UNSC ship. So we know the Ark survived the activation of Installation 04’s replacement ring, making it a possible location for Halo 5 story/gameplay.
    Source: http://www.halopedia.org/Installation_00#Post-battle

  3. (SPOILER)In Halo: Rebirth, there is a segment where the IsoDidact, the remaining handful of forerunner, and the soon-to-be Earthlings gather for a meeting on the Ark. This is after the array has been fired, and Offensive Bias has defeated Mendicant Bias. Mendicant Bias is then judged and sentenced to eternal exile with his conscious mind reduced to one thought “atonement”. He is then buried in the middle of the Ark’s desert, deep in the installation’s foundry. While he was able to help Chief and Arby via indirect methods (source: halo 3 terminals), he is obviously still physically trapped in his tomb. After being stuck there for 10,000 years, simply thinking “atonement”, he could either be extremely pissed or very helpful…
    Source: http://www.halopedia.org/Halo:_Rebirth

My conclusion: (Possible Halo 5 Spoiler)
There is a good chance the “Thing” in the trailer is Mendicant Bias being resurrected by the Chief, hence his lack of worry in the way he composes his body language during the surfacing of the “Thing”.
Obviously it could just be weapon of the Didact’s, but that would just be too obvious if you ask me.

That is the analysis of the trailer. Now the speculation:
Is Chief rouge? Hiding from the UNSC after he learns of events of the end of Spartan Ops, Season 1? This could explain his need to seek out the Forerunner’s betrayer for help?
It would make sense that such a powerful AI could have some way of resurrecting Cortana…
Point being: It was a short, teasing trailer, but upon further analysis it could be giving us a glimpse into a fascinating story that will unfold in Halo 5.

What do you think? Am I bonkers?? Let me know!

Sgrt Clober

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It seems a lot of people have come to the same conclusion (I know I did. Saw the environment, and thought “Ark”! Saw the machines and thought “it’s gotta be MB!”)

I know a lot of people want the machine to be a War Sphinx, but to me, it looks nothing like one.

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Chief appears to have a lack of worry that the big bird like creature arises from the ground mainly due to he is a spartan and that he isn’t afraid of anything. That appears to be many of the spartan’s attitudes towards the enemies

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Glad you thought so too! If it’s MB I don’t know what I’ll do, it would be so amazing… Yeah I feel like the machine is just made to look like a Promethean to fool the less informed fans…

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Theory seems very possible, but I do remmember reading in Primordium that there are 2 arks, correct me if im wrong

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> Theory seems very possible, but I do remmember reading in Primordium that there are 2 arks, correct me if im wrong

There were.

The Greater Ark get’s destroyed in Silentium.

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So many questions to be answered, and as of this moment, I feel the Forerunner machine is a (or is related to) Seeker or War Sphinx. It’s too complicated to be an AI, which usually take smaller forms, and we’ve already seen what Mendicant Bias looks like in Halo Legends. Time will tell.

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I think the planet in the trailer is Sanghelios since that is what we travel to in Halo 5

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> I think the planet in the trailer is Sanghelios since that is what we travel to in Halo 5

/s Maybe Halo 5 will take place on the moon
this thread is 3 years old bro

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> I think the planet in the trailer is Sanghelios since that is what we travel to in Halo 5

The landscape is way different. Besides, Blue Team never set foot on Sanghelios in Halo 5.

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> I think the planet in the trailer is Sanghelios since that is what we travel to in Halo 5

Woah, man. No need to revive a topic that was almost FOUR years dead. Try not to go back into the forums and revive threads that no one is talking about. This might get you in trouble. Halo 5 has been out for almost a year and we all know this speculation has been debunked and was all interpretation.

EDIT: Bro. This is like the TENTH old topic that you revived. All of them were from 2012-2013. This may lead you into some trouble. Perhaps a ban.

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It’s funny cause your prediction seems like a better story then what Halo 5 turned out to be

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> The landscape is way different. Besides, Blue Team never set foot on Sanghelios in Halo 5.

Well, there is plenty of difference between the promotional material and the final game.