The Prometheans and Chess (Theory)

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So, in the latest Sparkscast, they were talking about the Promethean enemies seen at E3. A lot of it was stuff we already know, but on bit caught my eye (or ear, I suppose).

Frankie (either him or David) said that they’d try not to use the old code names for the Promethean enemies because it could give something away (or something along those lines). When one of the designers (I think his name was Matt?)was talking about the Watcher, he mentioned that the Watcher spawns pawns. Obviously he’s talking about the Crawlers, and at first I just thought he’d used that word to describe how the Watcher commands the Crawlers or something, but when they were talking about the design of the Knight he mentioned that it launches the Bishop(Watcher) out of it’s back.

So in my mind, something clicked and I was reminded about something I’d read in the Bulletin:

> If you had the opportunity to hang out with Master Chief for a day, what activities would you do? –Kalamari
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> Obviously me personally, I would do a bench press contest, or wrestle. But you guys? Chess.

Pawn, Bishop and Knight? I wonder if there’s a Promethean enemy named after each chess piece? The actual enemies, the Crawler, Watcher and Knight are sort of similar to the chess pieces in function, so I wonder if there’s a Promethean counterpart to each piece? What do you guys think?

Here’s a couple of things to think about:

> King and Queen. Gee, I wonder who those could be…

cough Didact cough Librarian cough

> Queen Cortana? Could be a cool plot change as she’s going rampant, right?

Here’s another thing, the Queen, King and Rook could be Promethean vehicles (King could be a mobile command centre/unit (maybe the “Cryptum”, the large Orb from the trailer), while the Queen could be something similar to a Scarab.

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That… is actually a pretty clever hint. I didn’t notice at all!

You, sir, win one Internets.

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So this means that there is a Rook, Queen, and King left to be revealed.

King and Queen. Gee, I wonder who those could be…

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Sounds relly intresting… Could be like a Reach chessboard or alot of new promethean classes are yet to be anounced. Maybee with the king as the ancient evil? possibly the timeless one?

Qeen Cortana? Could be a cool plot change as she’s going rampant, right? So the ancient evil might somehow get her to trust him(gravemind, precursor or the librarian all to me seems to be able to pull of such a trick as Cortana’s getting weaker)

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Nice find. I wonder if the orange and blue prometheans represent the white and black pieces going against each other!

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> King and Queen. Gee, I wonder who those could be…

You’re thinking of a certain couple of Forerunners right?

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6 chess pieces, 7 Promethean classes? Hmm… I’m actually kind of scared of what the king and queen counterparts will be. :S

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> > King and Queen. Gee, I wonder who those could be…
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> You’re thinking of a certain couple of Forerunners right?

Was I that obvious?

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> > > King and Queen. Gee, I wonder who those could be…
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> > You’re thinking of a certain couple of Forerunners right?
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> Was I that obvious?

Now that I think about it, there’s always the chance that the King, Queen and Rook could be Promethean vehicles, though the King would probably the big Orb of Doom (which is supposedly a Cryptum) or whoever is inside it. So like you said, could very well be a certain couple.

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> > > > King and Queen. Gee, I wonder who those could be…
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> > > You’re thinking of a certain couple of Forerunners right?
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> > Was I that obvious?
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> Now that I think about it, there’s always the chance that the King, Queen and Rook could be Promethean vehicles, though the King would probably the big Orb of Doom (which is supposedly a Cryptum) or whoever is inside it. So like you said, could very well be a certain couple.

Is very possible now that I think about it. But the big ball of doom seems to me more like a Rook to me. I suppose that the Queen and King could be a lot worse.

And the thing about blue and orange prometheans… so, maybe an enemy civil war between AI’s?

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Double post, sorry

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> And the thig about blue and orange prometheans… so, maybe an enemy civil war between AI’s?

Well, when I saw the different colour schemes I thought of it as the Orange Prometheans are being controlled by Mr Doom Orb while the Blue ones are friendly/neutral ones. Orange or red has usually been used when an AI is angry or rampant throughout the Halo games (Cortana, Guilty Spark). The Sentinels always had blue lights so maybe the blue Prometheans are part of Requiem’s defenses, like the Sentinels were, while the orange Prometheans have sided/gone rampant/been taken over by the new bad guy.

Either way, I’m pretty sure they’ll be against each other. I don’t think they’d add two different coloured versions of each enemy just to have them fight along side each other. There could very well be some kind of civil war.

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What a coincidence! I was going to name and theme my custom load outs after Chess pieces. But I sorta got the Idea from an anime I watched :stuck_out_tongue:

OT: Good find OP! I think this is very plausible!

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The Players: Mater Chief/Cortana VS Didact/Faber/Offensive Bias/ Other Unknown Enemy

The Game: The Ultimate form of Chess.

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> > And the thig about blue and orange prometheans… so, maybe an enemy civil war between AI’s?
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> Well, when I thought of this I thought of it as the Orange Prometheans are being controlled by Mr Doom Orb while the Blue ones are friendly ones. Orange or red has usually been used when an AI is angry or rampant throughout the Halo games (Cortana, Guilty Spark). The Sentinels always had blue lights so maybe the blue Prometheans are part of Requiem’s defenses, like the Sentinels were, while the orange Prometheans have sided/gone rampant/been taken over by the new bad guy.
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> Either way, I’m pretty sure they’ll be against each other. I don’t think they’d add two different coloured versions of each enemy just to have them fight along side each other.

Yeah… but, where does this leave Chief and Cortana? If the whole game is but one giant chess game… And the Covenant… Maybe a Four-Way chess game?

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Epic Chess. Everything that used to be considered geeky is now in fashion. Oh how the times have changed.

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> > > And the thig about blue and orange prometheans… so, maybe an enemy civil war between AI’s?
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> > Well, when I thought of this I thought of it as the Orange Prometheans are being controlled by Mr Doom Orb while the Blue ones are friendly ones. Orange or red has usually been used when an AI is angry or rampant throughout the Halo games (Cortana, Guilty Spark). The Sentinels always had blue lights so maybe the blue Prometheans are part of Requiem’s defenses, like the Sentinels were, while the orange Prometheans have sided/gone rampant/been taken over by the new bad guy.
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> > Either way, I’m pretty sure they’ll be against each other. I don’t think they’d add two different coloured versions of each enemy just to have them fight along side each other.
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> Yeah… but, where does this leave Chief and Cortana? If the whole game is but one giant chess game… And the Covenant… Maybe a Four-Way chess game?

It’d be like Chess, Checkers and Battleship combined into one.

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> > > > And the thig about blue and orange prometheans… so, maybe an enemy civil war between AI’s?
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> > > Well, when I thought of this I thought of it as the Orange Prometheans are being controlled by Mr Doom Orb while the Blue ones are friendly ones. Orange or red has usually been used when an AI is angry or rampant throughout the Halo games (Cortana, Guilty Spark). The Sentinels always had blue lights so maybe the blue Prometheans are part of Requiem’s defenses, like the Sentinels were, while the orange Prometheans have sided/gone rampant/been taken over by the new bad guy.
> > >
> > > Either way, I’m pretty sure they’ll be against each other. I don’t think they’d add two different coloured versions of each enemy just to have them fight along side each other.
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> > Yeah… but, where does this leave Chief and Cortana? If the whole game is but one giant chess game… And the Covenant… Maybe a Four-Way chess game?
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> It’d be like Chess, Checkers and Battleship combined into one.

Now… I would Lol if they actually added the chess game from Reach into Halo 4.

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I just got nerd chills. Always loved the way things were named in Halo. Birds, Animals and Ghosts being the obvious ones… but Chess? Yea. Sounds amazing.

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I bet they want an excuse to use Cortana’s first words as a one-liner somewhere in the game:

“When the game is over, the king and the pawn go in the same box.”