This may be a dumb question but I’ll ask anyway… In all stories, there is always a moral or a lesson and I’m wondering what is Halo’s overall moral?
Always double check your religious prophecies…they might lead to an intra-galactic war with a side of mass genocide.
> Always double check your religious prophecies…they might lead to an intra-galactic war with a side of mass genocide.
lmao
never trust one eyed floating robots?
Religious zealotry sucks… probably just that.
We, humans, are not the most powerful thing in existence like we think we are. There are still mysteries in our galaxy and we are not alone.
> Always double check your religious prophecies…they might lead to an intra-galactic war with a side of mass genocide.
This even though he was probably being sarcastic. One of the morals of the human-covenant war (first trilogy) is religious dogma and the dangers of it.
One of the morals of the Forerunner trilogy (and maybe Halo 4, 5 and 6) is political dogma and the dangers of it. You shouldn’t be a conspiracy theorist, but you have to question everything you’re told - even if it’s something you agree with.
> One of the morals of the Forerunner trilogy (and maybe Halo 4, 5 and 6) is political dogma and the dangers of it. You shouldn’t be a conspiracy theorist, but you have to question everything you’re told - even if it’s something you agree with.
The forerunners are more religious than political since they were using the “mantle” as an excuse for their actions.
Kidnap children, train them to become soldiers so they can save the world?
> The forerunners are more religious than political since they were using the “mantle” as an excuse for their actions.
I don’t know if you could conceive of the Mantle as religious in the same way as the Covenant deity-and-worship model. It seems like more of an administration doctrine based upon their understanding of the universe, designed to keep Forerunner society strong and everyone else alive. Societal ideology (we are the best, and we’ll show everybody why) can be just as strong as doctrine imposed by a deity.
But it’s a semantic difference and I’m not arguing with you - the message is still the same. Bad things happen if you stop questioning what you’re doing.
Even in the darkest of times, you must always Believe, for light will shine through.
The moral? Don’t release the freaking Flood from containment! Stupid Covies. Screwed that up. Complete disregard for even the most basic protocols.
> The moral? Don’t release the freaking Flood from containment! Stupid Covies. Screwed that up…
I would also blame Forerunner’s poor security. They also failed at installation 05.
On topic: Prophet’s lie can be compared to how the pope led delusional Christians to crusade. Or Covenant genocide can be compared to Islam invasion to Christian world.
Well that came from Halo wiki, and I agree.
And it is revealed that Forerunners were also making mistake like Covenant did.
Great Journey is to Covenant as mantle is to Forerunner. Both great journey and mantle are misinterpreted.
We also have unethical side of Spartan program. We can find that in Karen’s trilogy.
I noticed a long-lasting theme of “desperation requires sacrifice.” I’ve seen it in Halo: The Flood, where McKay essentially blows up the Covenant Carrier infested with flood, killing every Marine onboard under orders from Silva. In Halo Reach it’s kind of a given; all of Noble Team gets wiped out from acts of valor, save for Kat of course. If you read just about every story in Halo: Evolutions, something is given up.
Headhunters: Roland and Jonah both die taking out an entire Covenant station, plus an unknown number of Sangheili Death Squads. When one of them told him he was dead, Jonah himself said it, “Maybe. Don’t matter though.”
Heart of Midlothian: after being boarded by Covenant shock troops, Smart AI Moi Ye couldn’t trigger the self destruct of the ship because the Covenant had locked herself down to factory settings, restricting her to Asimov’s three laws of robotics, one of which saying that an AI cannot harm a human or do anything that could allow harm to come to one. After convincing the Covenant to give the ship systems back to her, Sgt. Baird, being the last human alive on board, let himself get killed to free her actions.
Don’t Yoink! with religious alien fanatics, don’t Yoink! with parasitic life forms, don’t Yoink! with giant hula hoops, don’t Yoink! with Master Chief.
For the Universe fans… don’t ignore history.
Oh and to those who say “religion and its dangers” or “religious zealotry sucks,” you need to look at the people behind it. In Contact Harvest, you see that the Covenant’s religious dogma was used against them by the will of just three prophets.
There’s plenty of themes open to interpretation.
I guess halo just is, like history.
One of the things about Halo is that a lot of it is left to your own personal interpretation. What I get is more along the lines of “You can succeed no matter the odds.”