In Halo CE, Keyes said the Covenant believed that “whoever controls the rings controls the fate of the universe.” Is this an enormous plot hole, or the original idea of the Great Journey (both of them are plot holes, actually)?
time will tell
I think it’s a plot hole, the Covenant thought the Great Journey was transcendence.
I think bungie didn’t expect to make halo 2 after halo ce
Keyes could have misunderstood.
I don’t get what you mean by an enormous plot hole. It is true that whoever controls the rings, controls the fate of the universe. If someone fires off the Halo rings then they’re going to eliminate all sentient life. As for the Great Journey I believe that the religious crazy covenant thought that by activating the rings that they would reach transcendence, but they were so religiously crazy that they didn’t realize the rings would wipe out all life. As FrozenWinter77 said Bungie probably never expected to make a sequel. They worked on the game since the late 90’s and they didn’t know how successful Halo would be. With the way Halo CE ended you can tell they never setup for a sequel like Halo 2 and 3 did. It probably wasn’t until Bungie saw that Halo CE was getting 9s and 10s out of 10 that they thought “Hey! Lets make a sequel!” If Keyes was misunderstood in any place it was on the Pillar of Autumn when he says he doesn’t know what the structure is, Halo, yet when you look at the panel projection behind him you can see in one spot it says “Halo”.
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> In Halo CE, Keyes said the Covenant believed that “whoever controls the rings controls the fate of the universe.” Is this an enormous plot hole, or the original idea of the Great Journey?
Probably the original beta concept of the great journey.
well it was incorrect, because the rings weapon can only reach a certain amount of light years, so not really the entire universe, just a small portion of it
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> well it was incorrect, because the rings weapon can only reach a certain amount of light years, so not really the entire universe, just a small portion of it
If you’re putting it that way then Keyes was wrong, but the radius of Installation 04 was pretty big. What settlements of sentient life wouldn’t be within the blast radius of Installation 04?
One halo, or Alpha Halo had a destructive radius of 4000 light years, universe-4000 light years. Captain Keyes you are hereby demoted for not knowing the number one UNSC rule, space is an infinite playground. Although apparently the ark was on the edge of space.
Poor Keyes is now a broccoli monster 
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> Poor Keyes is now a broccoli monster
A dead broccoli monster to be precise. Lol
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> I think bungie didn’t expect to make halo 2 after halo ce
If you watch this, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBi_xx26ClM, Bungie originally had the entire Halo trilogy planned out from the beginning, though.