In light of the recent revelations from Hunt the Truth and the new ad. I’ve spent some time contemplating what could possibly be going on, so let me cut to the chase…
ONI is either directly responsible for unleashing The Guardians, possibly controlling them, but at the very least responsible for their activation.
Look how convenient this all is for ONI.
- Insurrectionist Outer Colonies have been affected.
- Sanghelios - home world of the Elites has also been affected.
- ONI can accomplish their goals of crippling the Elites and wiping out the Insurrection, all the while allowing it to appear like Forerunners were responsible.
My theory is that Master Chief has been trying to prevent this from occurring. The first mission of the game has blue team on Argent Moon an ONI vessel, it is here that I believe led John-117 into discovering the plot to awaken the Forerunner constructs and use them as tools of war. This led John and the rest of Blue team to go AWOL, trying to prevent ONI from setting their plans in motion.
ONI is aware of John’s intentions and desperately tries to find a way to discredit him and make him out to be a traitor, all the while luring him out into the open with a “failed assassination” attempt on the covenant ambassador by attacking the peace talks.
Once they become aware of his location, they don’t need to discredit him anymore and want to try to use his death to “unite” what’s left of humanity(after they viciously wipe out disloyal outer colonies) so they retract their “mistake” and make him back on good graces with the public through Ben Giraud’s public take down.
His death: Now with publicly announcing the death of the Master Chief, they are still concerned about him managing to find a way to prevent the plans they set in motion, so they assemble a team of their best Spartan-IV’s, specifically choosing Locke to lead it, due to his “noble” character that can be easily manipulated. They deliberately misinform Locke that Chief is responsible for the destruction wrought by the Guardians and make him motivated to kill the chief and give him secret standing orders to take him out (I don’t believe the rest of Osiris intends to kill the Chief.)
This is why Locke is so obviously upset in the “All Hail” trailer. He feels betrayed by his greatest hero and directly blames the Chief for what has happened; “Let us remember him as a protector and not the one who gave us…This.”
This ad is symbolic of Locke’s motivation (and a few other things we can analyse later)
The Cost ad: Symbolic of John’s knowledge of what ONI has tried to do as is talking to Locke as if he symbolizes ONI. .".is this what you wanted? Is this what you were looking for? Was everything you’ve compromised, everything you’ve done… worth it?" This quote clearly can be interpreted as John appalled at the lengths ONI is willing to go to achieve their goals. “You’ve completed your mission, Spartan Locke, Mine is just beginning” Chief’s mission is to prevent The Guardians from continuing their reign of destruction. Locke’s (ONI’s) mission was to destroy the outer colonies and debilitate the Sangheli, which was clearly accomplished (completed) in some capacity.
How could ONI be controlling the Guardians?
My best theory is that they are components of the Maginot Line (Jat-Krula), a defensive installation created by the Forerunners to protect their core worlds from attack. A defensive installation… what is something called who defends something else?..A Guardian.
-Last Light depicts ONI capturing Intrepid Eye, a monitor responsible for upkeep of the Jat-Krula.
-Intrepid Eye believes that humanity needs to be molded into Reclaimer status as it believes we currently aren’t worthy.
-I believe that ONI manipulated Intrepid Eye into “purging the weak,” by attacking the outer colonies with The Guardians. Allowing it to do their dirty work for them.
Well that’s the gist of it. I have a bit more conjecture to talk about on more minor hints and clues, but I feel I can save the minor stuff for later discussion.
Let me know what you all think. I’m looking forward to hearing feedback and precipitating a vibrant discussion about interpretation of current halo lore.
- EWOKofDESTINY