The ending in Halo 3 makes no sence to me. Can someone please explain it to me.
This is some thing that have been on my mind for a long time.
‘‘We did it. Truth, Covenant the Flood; it’s finished’’ - Cortana
‘‘It’s finished’’ - MC
I honestly expected the Chief to use his famous line from CE at that part.
That line really suprised me.
I’ll start off with some (hopefully) simple answered questions:
How did the Chief and Arby survive?
The pre-firing of Alpha Halo 2 did destroy the ark and itself as it delivered ‘‘the great journey’’. The portal leading back to Earth were in the middle of 00, so what were Arby and Chief doing so far away from it. Slipspace traveling were impossible at those extreme distances last time i checked. So FUD would have been completely destroyed.
How did the war end by simply killing Truth?
What about the other billion covie loyalists?
How could the Flood stop being a threat by destroying the Gravemind?
A new Gravemind would be assigned and the Flood would continue their rampage. I highly doubt that every single flood-spore were at the location of 00.
Can someone here please clear up this mess for me?
Well killing Truth sparked the end of the war, so it was essentially over when he died and maybe Cortana didn’t know that another Gravemind can be made.
The reason they claim the war was finished is that after Truth was killed, the Covenant would start a Civil War, those who think it’s over vs those who still believe in the Great Journey.
The flood though, Cortana claims it is over because Truth is dead and The Ark is destroyed, there is no way to light the other Halo’s unless they do it manually with the Activation Index from there.
Getting them or finding them, is the only problem.
There is currently no threat posing to light the other Halo’s since The Covenant is pretty much over.
We don’t know how far away was the portal from the Ark, or how long takes Halo to fire once charged…
If the portal is in the same place it was when they arrived to the Ark, then it seems to have been near one of its arms, not the center.
Well, Truth was their most important leader, basically the icon of the union of the Covenant. I think that’s enough to weak a lot their alliance. Besides, Covenant Civil War was already there.
Cortana doesn’t seem to know that can be created new Graveminds, but without one, their intelligence, they’re less as oponents…
> The reason they claim the war was finished is that after Truth was killed, the Covenant would start a Civil War, those who think it’s over vs those who still believe in the Great Journey.
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> The flood though, Cortana claims it is over because Truth is dead and The Ark is destroyed, there is no way to light the other Halo’s unless they do it manually with the Activation Index from there.
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> Getting them or finding them, is the only problem.
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> There is currently no threat posing to light the other Halo’s since The Covenant is pretty much over.
Or so we think. Remember what the Arbiter said: We trade one villain for another. What’s to stop Brutes from taking over? I think the Covenant will actually strike back in vengeance because the most dangerous causes are often religious ones.
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> The Gravemind IS NOT dead. He is last known to be on the remains of High Charity
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> The flood aren’t gone ither THAT flood is but there are more, a lot more.
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> And the gravemind MIGHT be in Halo 4 w/the flood. Not for sure but i hope and its reasonable based off my post in the fiction fourms
High Charity crashed on 00, so the Gravemind as we know is for sure to be dead.
The new Gravemind may be on the same spot as MC and Cortana in H4 - H6.
I hope there isn’t flood in Halo 4 because I found the Flood to be lacking in challenge (They either charge you, or shoot their weapons like accuracy didn’t matter). The morphers were more of an annoyance than anything. Either they spam weak needles at you (Which only throw off your aim) or turn into those hulkish things that are killed with a single energy sword swipe. Even the fat pod guys are a joke because all you have to do is stick them and thanks to the corpses the Flood gives you, Brute grenades and Stickies are never in short supply. And the Gravemind wasn’t frightening at all (I will devour your BONES! Ummmmmm… okayyyyyyyyy). Seriously, his threats will only be carried out when you’ve died. What do I care if you eat my bones? I’m friggen dead! Simply put, the Flood was too easy and Gravemind was incredibly annoying (though this might be due to the amount of zombie games I play on the Xbox)
> 1. We don’t know how far away was the portal from the Ark, or how long takes Halo to fire once charged…
> If the portal is in the same place it was when they arrived to the Ark, then it seems to have been near one of its arms, not the center.
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> 2. Well, Truth was their most important leader, basically the icon of the union of the Covenant. I think that’s enough to weak a lot their alliance. Besides, Covenant Civil War was already there.
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> 3. Cortana doesn’t seem to know that can be created new Graveminds, but without one, their intelligence, they’re less as oponents…
> 1. Isn’t this the portal? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaD5MUyZhdo
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> 2. I’m sure some Truth covie Fanboy would come to uphold the Covenant.
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> 3. So the whole universe is doomed if not someone comes and save it Forerunner-style?
Oh, forget I said before, I was wrong, I had to re-watch the ending of Halo 3…
Yep, they cover such a distance… maybe Cortana used a Slipspace jump to get out from there to the portal to the Earth faster. After all, Halo constructs created a paradoxing trail in Slipstream space due to their mass. And when the fleet of humanity arrive the Ark, there is not any brilliant light like in normal Slipspace transitions, so there had to be a really big distorsion around the Ark in a thinner Slipstream space. I think that’s possible…
Prophets “dissapeared” after Truth’s death, they had been in charge of the Covenant for a long time before. And in that case the Covenant’s power would pass to the Brutes, who aren’t very good diplomatics and very selfish. Anyways, we’ll find something in Halo: Glasslands, I don’t really know what happens here.
Without the Gravemind and during the time before a new one is created, the Flood won’t be able to left High Charity or wherever they are, so it’s not doomed (yet), it could be saved destroying one by one those locations, but isn’t impossible in places were the Flood has broken Quarantee to create a new Gravemind before all the galaxy is cleaned, places where they can consume live as much as they want and learn…
The elite’s fleet, after Truth and the Brute fleet went to Earth, made sure nothing got off Delta Halo’s surface in one peice. I think they may have even destroyed part of Delta Halo’ surface. Im not sure how High Charity escaped, unless it jumped immedietly after Truth left. So I don’t think the Flood are much of a problem now… and the Gravemind just gives the Flood a more coordinated advantage, losing him wouldn’t change much. Truth was the last Heirarch, and hes gone along with the rest of the Prophets… leaving the Brutes alone to fight the elites with whatever loyal troops were left. The Brutes will probably go back to being barbarian, fighting each other.
Truth, who has been lying to the Covenant and sparked the war against humanity, is dead.
The Covenant fell apart when the Elites left. Without a leader, the Jackels have no interest in fighting, the Grunts have no interest in fighting, the Brutes are interested at fighting anything and themselves, the Drones will just be annoying, and the Elites are going to go back home and kill whatever Covie is left on their planet.
The “Current” flood threat is killed off. Without a Gravemind telling them what to do, the Flood is just mindless. However, with no real way to get off whatever rock they are on, they are not much of a threat. Any flood that was on Earth is burned.
John was right. The war is officially over. Humanity can get back on track and rebuild, and everything can mostly leave them alone.
However, John’s story isn’t finished. He needs to find a way back home.
> The ending in Halo 3 makes no sence to me. Can someone please explain it to me.
> This is some thing that have been on my mind for a long time.
>
> ‘‘We did it. Truth, Covenant the Flood; it’s finished’’ - Cortana
> ‘‘It’s finished’’ - MC
>
> I honestly expected the Chief to use his famous line from CE at that part.
> That line really suprised me.
>
> I’ll start off with some (hopefully) simple answered questions:
>
> 1. How did the Chief and Arby survive?
> The pre-firing of Alpha Halo 2 did destroy the ark and itself as it delivered ‘‘the great journey’’. The portal leading back to Earth were in the middle of 00, so what were Arby and Chief doing so far away from it. Slipspace traveling were impossible at those extreme distances last time i checked. So FUD would have been completely destroyed.
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> 2. How did the war end by simply killing Truth?
> What about the other billion covie loyalists?
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> 3. How could the Flood stop being a threat by destroying the Gravemind?
> A new Gravemind would be assigned and the Flood would continue their rampage. I highly doubt that every single flood-spore were at the location of 00.
>
> Can someone here please clear up this mess for me?
The Portal was located above the ark and the new ring. That is how they survived.
Those “billions of covenant loyalists” you mentioned, were all killed either near the cartographer, above the ark, or defending the Prophet of Truth. After the first battle of High Charity, Truth’s army numbers went down a lot.
The flood could stop being a threat if Gravemind died because without a centralized intelligence guiding the whole species, the flood would just act as they did in the first halo game. Crazily and random. By the time they would’ve developed a second proto gravemind, the ring would’ve already been activated.
> The ending in Halo 3 makes no sence to me. Can someone please explain it to me.
> This is some thing that have been on my mind for a long time.
>
> ‘‘We did it. Truth, Covenant the Flood; it’s finished’’ - Cortana
> ‘‘It’s finished’’ - MC
>
> I honestly expected the Chief to use his famous line from CE at that part.
> That line really suprised me.
>
> I’ll start off with some (hopefully) simple answered questions:
>
> 1. How did the Chief and Arby survive?
> The pre-firing of Alpha Halo 2 did destroy the ark and itself as it delivered ‘‘the great journey’’. The portal leading back to Earth were in the middle of 00, so what were Arby and Chief doing so far away from it. Slipspace traveling were impossible at those extreme distances last time i checked. So FUD would have been completely destroyed.
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> 2. How did the war end by simply killing Truth?
> What about the other billion covie loyalists?
>
>
> 3. How could the Flood stop being a threat by destroying the Gravemind?
> A new Gravemind would be assigned and the Flood would continue their rampage. I highly doubt that every single flood-spore were at the location of 00.
>
> Can someone here please clear up this mess for me?
Both were aboard the Forward Unto Dawn. The Dawn entered the slipspace portal, but the portal was collapsing. The Dawn was split in two, with the Arbiters half making it to Earth, and the Chief’s half only making it part of the way (at the end, he is clearly in a different part of the galaxy)
The War didn’t just end, but with Truth dead, the remain Covie forces were in disarray. It’s like when -Yoink!- was killed in Berlin during WWII. Without a proper leader, the remain -Yoink!- forces could do nothing but surrender. In the Covenant’s case, any Brutes remaining were hunted down by the Elites
When the Gravemind arrived on the Ark, it brought with it the majority of its forces. While a new gravemind can always be created (and Cortana is very much aware of this), the current threat of the flood was gone.
> I hope there isn’t flood in Halo 4 because I found the Flood to be lacking in challenge (They either charge you, or shoot their weapons like accuracy didn’t matter). The morphers were more of an annoyance than anything. Either they spam weak needles at you (Which only throw off your aim) or turn into those hulkish things that are killed with a single energy sword swipe. Even the fat pod guys are a joke because all you have to do is stick them and thanks to the corpses the Flood gives you, Brute grenades and Stickies are never in short supply. And the Gravemind wasn’t frightening at all (I will devour your BONES! Ummmmmm… okayyyyyyyyy). Seriously, his threats will only be carried out when you’ve died. What do I care if you eat my bones? I’m friggen dead! Simply put, the Flood was too easy and Gravemind was incredibly annoying (though this might be due to the amount of zombie games I play on the Xbox)
Yes because they can totally not improve from these things in the upcoming Halo games…