Halo = Battlestar Galactica

Games Halo 5: Guardians
1

Just started binge watching all of that TV series and I have noticed quite a few similarities between it and the events of Halo 5. :smiley:

  1. Both the Cylons and Created are AI that rebel against the humans who used them as tools.

  2. The Cylons defeat the 12 Colonies because they hack into their defense grid and shut down all of their Battlestars and Vipers. Now, that’s really similar to what happens in Halo 5 with the Guardians.

  3. The Battlestar Galactica flees the human worlds and becomes the last hope for humanity. This is exactly what happens to the Infinity in Halo 5 when it flees Earth.

  4. Although Cortana doesn’t do what the Cylons do and nuke all human worlds, there is in a later season a plotline where the human colony of New Caprica is taken over. The occupying Cylons become tyrannical overlords despite genuinely wanting peace and this does seem to mirror Cortana’s talk about her plan.

  5. The Cylons are divided into two types. There are the less sentient and robotic drones like the Centurions and Raiders. Big shiny chrome robots. :wink: Then you have a leader caste of sentient AI who upload themselves into human bodies for reasons too convoluted to summarize. This seems to be an aweful lot like the Created controlling the Prometheans; another bunch of big dumb shiny and chrome robots.

  6. The whole human/AI love story stuff BSG does. Sure Halo 5 stops far, FAR short of the extremes BSG goes to, but Halo 4 and 5 have focused a lot on the bond between Chief and Cortana.

  7. In BSG, the Galactica is an old aging vessel which later on meets an advanced warship that also survived called the Pegasus. A lot of people have speculated that the Infinity might meet the Spirit of Fire and this would very closely mirror what happens in BSG with Pegasus.

2

I could take any movie/game/story centered around an AI or group of AI rebelling against humans and compare them to Halo 5. They all follow the same story/idea.

3

> 2533274883849234;2:
> I could take any movie/game/story centered around an AI or group of AI rebelling against humans and compare them to Halo 5. They all follow the same story/idea.

Not really. Take Terminator for example.

  • Involves time travel.

  • No space ships.

  • Has no Human/AI love story shenanigans.

  • Doesn’t have the concept of the AI ruling humans; just pure genocide.

  • Theres no division between humanoid and mechanical AI. You just have robots and a mainframe.

  • Judgement Day involves the turning of the humans weapons against themselves and nuking humanity. What Cortana and the Cylons do is physically disable the human fleet to avoid a direct fight.

*- Admittedly there are obvious design elements taken from Terminators, especially the metal teeth on the soldiers and guardians.*Also, BSG was a fairly popular TV series and would have been fairly current for most of the dev team for Halo.

Or compared to The Matrix

  • Again, no Human/AI love story shenanigans.

  • AI commit genocide on the human race. They use the humans as batteries but its very clear they have no interest in ruling the humans. Its also exploitative, whereas Cortana ultimately has nothing to gain by ruling over humanity and appears to be driven by misguided Forerunner notions.

  • Not set in space.

  • Per the Animatrix, the AI wage a conventional total war and systematically destroy the human military. In BSG and Halo 5 this is circumvented by use of the Guardians and by hacking their defense grid.

  • The machines are eldritch and inhuman in design and form, looking nothing like Prometheans or soldiers.

  • Unlike in BSG, humanity are the aggressors. Whereas in H5, BSG and Terminator its purely the AI.

  • Theres no humanoid caste of machine ruling over less sentient drones. All machines appear equal and individual.