I just watched Spartan Ops episode 2 and there is a reference in it to the Infinity’s engines being based on 100,000 year old technology and installed on the ship by a war-criminal; this is intriquing but i don’t have a clue what they’re on about. It’s obviously Forerunner tech but where was it found?
Have you watched the rest of Spartan Ops yet?
They’re Forerunner engines, Halsey installed them.
No dude, why, is it explained later? I got the game for Christmas and am slowly working my way through the missions - well I’ve only finished the first one.
> No dude, why, is it explained later? I got the game for Christmas and am slowly working my way through the missions - well I’ve only finished the first one.
It’s explained in episode 3.
I can’t wait for them to explain what forerunner ship they were somehow able to take the engines off of. Then further
Explain why they didn’t just use the forerunner ship.
Why They didn’t rip anything else off of it.
How they are using technology they don’t even understand.
Why they only have one human that can understand it.
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I think it might be an upscaled recreation of Forerunner gravity lifts, as the lights on the side of the engines are similar to those found on the man cannons found on the mission Shutdown.
I’m surprised there’s no mention of the Huragok/Engineers involved with it. I mean, everyone on Infinity should be cleared enough to know.
Glasslands made it sound like there was most forerunner tech involved with Infinity than just its engines (“every scrap of Forerunner technology that the UNSC picked apart during the war”), though its never been expanded on since.
That being said, they must have had someone able to understand the tech before getting halsey, because the infinity was already under construction before they aquired her.
The one source I can think of for forerunner engines that doesnt involve a ship they could use would be from Installation 04’s wreckage. Halos do have some sort of propulsion system. As shown by the mona lisa, ONI was still operating there after it was destroyed.
What I believe they were getting at is that the engines where built by the UNSC, but forerunner in design. You would not want to take the original and use it, instead of tearing them apart and seeing how they worked and being able to build your own.
All or most UNSC warships are getting major engine upgrades along with shields and lord knows what else. Im sure that they are human in build (i know spartan ops states forerunner on infinity, see above :))as they had to be because the treasure trove at trelyvan was not really utilised yet being it a new find(Port Stanley alread had upraded engines and slipspace drives).
In regards to the engineers or Hurgrok, it was stated in glasslands that the humans were intentionally slowing them down and having them explain what they were doing, and were making sure they were understanding what was going on so they didnt get in a position like the Covenant. The humans dont want to be reliant on them for good reason in my opinion.
This is one of the issues with not reading the novels. I’m not bagging you at all, its just one of those things if you don’t read the novels there are a lot of holes in H4.
The engine tech along with a lot of other forerunner tech was discovered along with Huragok on Onyx (Glasslands), or within it to be specific. The Onyx discoveries even delayed the completion of Infinity in order to adapt the new found toys. By the Thursday War, Halsey is already aboard the Infinity assisting the Huragok with the installation etc. The Engineers are additionally improving existing hardware, slipspace communications etc.
In Thursday War, however, Halsey is secluded pretty much with them only as she is considered dead to the general public. I’m actually midway through the Thursday War, but considering how she appears to much more common knowledge to the crew of the Infinity during Sparta Ops, it looks like there has been a policy change.
As much as I enjoy the multimedia aspect to the Halo universe, for a person only playing the games, there are a lot of plot holes, perhaps the biggest is why the Elites are still fighting the UNSC.
> As much as I enjoy the multimedia aspect to the Halo universe, for a person only playing the games, there are a lot of plot holes, perhaps the biggest is why the Elites are still fighting the UNSC.
I’m pretty sure they’ll explain it eventually, they’re just waiting for the right time. They might make it seem like all Sangheili are against us to the general audience, only for those loyal to the Arbiter and the Arbiter himself to appear in Halo 5 or something and help us, in a way.
Im sure the last forerunner book and next Traviss novel (unannounced as of yet I think) will precede H5, as you said, answering a lot of questions and laying the foundation of the H5.
Then there’s Spartan Ops which is certainly a device to fill a lot of gaps depending on how much development they decide to put into it.
The books in 2013, H5 in 2014 with Spartan Ops providing even more insight along the way?
> > As much as I enjoy the multimedia aspect to the Halo universe, for a person only playing the games, there are a lot of plot holes, perhaps the biggest is why the Elites are still fighting the UNSC.
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> I’m pretty sure they’ll explain it eventually, they’re just waiting for the right time. They might make it seem like all Sangheili are against us to the general audience, only for those loyal to the Arbiter and the Arbiter himself to appear in Halo 5 or something and help us, in a way.