In the 6th terminal Guilty spark talks about a crashed ship what do you guys think it might be???
An intergalactic hot dog cart specializing in Chili Dogs.
Seriously though, no one knows. Only speculation at this point.
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Ancient Humans / San Shyuum
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Precursor
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One of the automated transport ships that the brought the original Flood spore to this galaxy
> An intergalactic hot dog cart specializing in Chili Dogs.
That explains the gas, it must be coming from the barbecue. Or the aftermath of some dodgy chilli dogs.
A symbol representing how Spark’s strict adherence to protocol lost him a chance to communicate with a species after the Halo array fired and that next time would be different. We all know what happened the next time.
Probably just a random ship, doesn’t need to be something big. Installation 04 is an anomaly, if a ship comes into a system and finds it, it’s entirely possible if not likely they’d go investigate it. Come on, it’s a frakking 10,000km in diameter ring, with an atmosphere and landscape. And water. And lifeforms. And did I mention that it’s a giant habitable ring in space? That’s not exactly something an alien race would ignore. They probably went to go investigate and got blown out of the sky by the ring’s defense systems. Or found it the only place to safely crash land.
> Probably just a random ship, doesn’t need to be something big. Installation 04 is an anomaly, if a ship comes into a system and finds it, it’s entirely possible if not likely they’d go investigate it. Come on, it’s a frakking 10,000km in diameter ring, with an atmosphere and landscape. And water. And lifeforms. And did I mention that it’s a giant habitable ring in space? That’s not exactly something an alien race would ignore. They probably went to go investigate and got blown out of the sky by the ring’s defense systems. Or found it the only place to safely crash land.
The Ring didn’t attack it because it was on a collision course with the Ring when Guilty Spark noticed it was there. This ship is important because it crashed there 40,000 years ago. Who could have an advanced enough ship only 60,000 years after the activation of the Halo Rings? They either evolved quickly or were never killed by the Rings. That raises the question of why weren’t they killed? Were they protected? Are they from outside the Galaxy? This ship has got to mean something or it would have been a waste of time to include them in the Terminals.
> The Ring didn’t attack it because it was on a collision course with the Ring when Guilty Spark noticed it was there. This ship is important because it crashed there 40,000 years ago. Who could have an advanced enough ship only 60,000 years after the activation of the Halo Rings? They either evolved quickly or were never killed by the Rings. That raises the question of why weren’t they killed? Were they protected? Are they from outside the Galaxy? This ship has got to mean something or it would have been a waste of time to include them in the Terminals.
And to compound these questions: where are they now? What were they doing so far into the galaxy if they apparently aren’t actually in the galaxy at all (and if they were, Covenant or humans would know)? 60,000 years have passed – are they even around anymore themselves?
could it possibly be the forerunner ship that Bornstellar and the other council members are on at the end of Cryptum? I mean the 2nd book is due to follow Chakas and Riser isn’t it? I guess we’ll not know for certain until we know the outcome of Primordium?
Well, Guilty Spark states, “My analysis shows that a mixture of gases coming from the ship matches the natural atmosphere of my Installation almost exactly.”
Cortana mentions that Installation 04’s atmosphere is nearly identical to Earth’s (http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Installation_04) (http://www.halopedian.com/Installation_04).
So, I think it’s a safe assumption that if Halo’s atmosphere is identical to Earth’s, and if the unknown ship’s leaking atmosphere is identical to Installation 04’s atmosphere…then the unknown ship might very well be of Ancient Humanity origin.
Plus, 343 stated that Halo 4 will feature an “ancient enemy”. In Terminal 6, Guilty Spark says (regarding a cure for the Flood), “The Forerunners’ ancient enemy held and used that information once.”.
According to the Halo books, Ancient Humanity was the only one to find a “cure” for the Flood. AND Ancient Humanity was also engaged in a bitter war with the Forerunner (enemy of the Forerunner).
One of the drawbacks to an Ancient Humanity theory is the question if any of them could have survived being devolved by the Forerunner…and then would those survivors be able to survive the firing of the Halo array. I find it hard to believe that a handful didn’t escape the Forerunner’s devolving. And, if they could escape the Forerunner wrath, then they can probably escape the firing of the Halo array.
The other drawback is that Guilty Spark doesn’t recognize the language of the distress call. However, the unknown ship landed on Installation 04 tens of thousands of years after the firing of the Halo array. IF this ship indeed belonged to Ancient Humans, I think that it’s very plausible that their language evolved to a point where Guilty Spark couldn’t recognize it.
i dont remember the chronology of all the events, but there is another mystery involving missing fragments of mendicant bias, that they were sent out to different locations but never made it there. i dont know how long it took offensive bias to fragment mendicant and send his parts away but is it possible that the primordium survived, and over the last 60,000 years made his own space ships and intercepted fragments of mendicant somehow crashing on the ring as a result?
also could this event possibly be linked to the mystery of the 5 missing halo rings?
also, why was there a protocol established to build a sarcophagus around ships that landed there?
did the forerunners expect whatever this ship was to visit the rings one day?
> also, why was there a protocol established to build a sarcophagus around ships that landed there?
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> did the forerunners expect whatever this ship was to visit the rings one day?
I think it was because of the gasses it was expelling and in memory of whatever beings were inside.
I’ve started reading Silentium (at about 18%) and I believe there is some relevance to this mystery terminal ship within the first chapter or two. I’ll wait a while before discussing the book content here though.
> > also, why was there a protocol established to build a sarcophagus around ships that landed there?
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> > did the forerunners expect whatever this ship was to visit the rings one day?
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> I think it was because of the gasses it was expelling and in memory of whatever beings were inside.
I figured it was a way to contain it for study but to also deny a potential flood outbreak access to a potentially functional ship.
> A symbol representing how Spark’s strict adherence to protocol lost him a chance to communicate with a species after the Halo array fired and that next time would be different. We all know what happened the next time.
This is what I figured. It’s just a device to show how lonely he is, like when he starts hallucinating that he has another monitor as a friend. Whether or not they then exploit that open end and turn it into something significant remains to be seen.
> > A symbol representing how Spark’s strict adherence to protocol lost him a chance to communicate with a species after the Halo array fired and that next time would be different. We all know what happened the next time.
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> This is what I figured. It’s just a device to show how lonely he is, like when he starts hallucinating that he has another monitor as a friend. Whether or not they then exploit that open end and turn it into something significant remains to be seen.
They should look into it someday. This was a civilization with space travel when Humanity was in its Upper Paleolithic stage, (Late Stone Age). Who were they? Where are they now? These are questions worth having answered.
The fact that this ship visited the Halo so early isn’t really all that strange. It’s very possible that there was a species that was more advanced than Humans at the time of the activation of the Halos, as not all species were devolved like Humanity was.
The strange part is that they speak Digon, shich is a Forerunner language used by the Warrior-Servants. I’m starting to think that this is iust because 343i already created Digon, so it was easier to just use that. Plus, at the time nobody knew what Digon was, so it would be just as mysterious as a brand new language.
But that still begs the question of where are they now? It’s quite possible we’ll never know the answer, or at least we won’t know for a while.
If I remember correctly, no-one exited the ship. I’m assuming this is because everyone on board was dead, possibly from the crash… or more likely from the firing of the rings.
Maybe they were on a course to intercept the ring during the time of its firing, and simply continued to drift toward it after the entire crew was killed by the event?
I do find it strange that the monitor didn’t enter the ship though.
We do know that Forerunners survived, a handful of them, including Bornstellar, the ship could of been of Forerunner origin and it could of been something 343GS simply had forgotten just like his own life before being a Monitor.
It could of been one of the Ancient Ships that laid abandoned, in the debris field near the planet the exiled Forerunners lived on. Perhaps it was being used by Forerunners attempting to escape and warn others, since its Code does spell out Earth. The Precursors themselves may have found them once again after all that time.