Ever since E3 2018, the community has been wondering what AI is in the crystal chip that Chief inserts in his helmet. I have a theory that is pretty crazy. I believe that the AI is Chakas. Chakas was an ancient Human who ended up on Installation 07, Zeta Halo. He and his friends traveled across the ring, encountering major players such as Mendicant Bias and the Primordial himself. Eventually, his body was severely damaged, and he was composed, his mind made digital and turned into an AI. Chakas helped the Forerunners in the final years of the Forerunner-Flood War. He was eventually assigned to be Monitor of Installation 04, and given the designated name 343 Guilty Spark. After the Array was fired, Chakas suppressed a good chunk of his memories, due to compartmentalization protocols put in place as a security measure against the logic plague. In 2553, the UNSC Rubicon found the remains of Guilty Spark, and began questioning him on the Didact and the history between Humanity and the Forerunners. At this point, he wasn’t really Guilty Spark anymore, but Chakas re-emerging. Chakas eventually gained control of the Rubicon, placing the crew into cryo. He took the Rubicon, hoping to find the Librarian, believing her to still be alive. This plot thread is still unanswered. In this video for the Halo 5 premiere here, Frankie says that they have a redemption arc for him planned, somewhere I think it would be interesting if Infinite takes place on Installation 07, and Chakas is Chief’s AI companion. Would love to see them reunite, especially after Chief thinking he killed him. With Chakas re-merging, he’s not really Guilty Spark, he’s his former self. I would love for them to spend the Campaign together, especially with them traveling across Zeta Halo. Chakas has a history on the ring, would love to get callbacks to Primordium and get some background info on the installation. What do you think, do you like this idea?
They would have to spend some time explaining how guilty spark got back ( because your casual halo fan thought he died in halo 3.) its not impossible in the halo universe but I’m betting it’s that second Cortana Ai hinted back in halo 4.
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> They would have to spend some time explaining how guilty spark got back ( because your casual halo fan thought he died in halo 3.) its not impossible in the halo universe but I’m betting it’s that second Cortana Ai hinted back in halo 4.
True. I think Chakas could explain it to Chief, and thus the player.
I dobt it since the game won’t bring in new characters (even though he isn’t new but it would take a lore dump to explain to casual fans)
I like this idea very much, with 343i’s love of… 343, I could see it happening.
This is actually a great idea. My thinking for Infinite was several AI would enter the Domain and try to contain Cortana onto a data chip that Chief would remove from the Domain and crush (fulfilling the Warden’s line in that Halo 5 mission). My thinking was those AI would be Roland and Isabel, but a monitor would certainly work as well.
However, given the way people don’t like having to read books to understand the games (which I only partially get) a major exposition dump would be required and it’d be up to the writers to write that so it’s not awkward.
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> I dobt it since the game won’t bring in new characters (even though he isn’t new but it would take a lore dump to explain to casual fans)
There’s going to be new characters, there just won’t be new playable characters.
I like the idea of Chakas joining the Chief, it could add for an interesting dynamic between the two seeing their pasts, both together and separate. However I feel like it’d just over complicate things, as now it’d need to be explained who Chakas is, how he became Guilty Spark, how he survived, and how he became your companion to replace Cortana. It’d be very confusing to someone unaware of the lore behind all of that, and would take an unnecessary amount of time to explain properly, and it would be hard to fit into the story properly.
For AI companions, I’ve seen someone here suggest before that in the story Halsey dies, however her brain is preserved and used to make a newer Cortana model, and that is the one Chief uses. I quite like this idea, it raises the stakes a little, provides some familiarity, and could be integrated into the story nicely.
I want it to be Chakas also. For all the reasons stated in the OP.
Chakas’ knowledge of Zeta Halo could serve as an excellent way to educate John and thus the player, about past events in 07.
And even though it might be hard for casual fans to accept Guilty Spark is alive, a terminal or an in game-terminal like cutscene, similar to the “info dump” in Halo 4 with the Librarian, could be enough.
Now, as for how to introduce him, perhaps The Rubicon crashes on Installation 07. John comes across the crash site, then there would be an awkward reunion between the two.
Why are people assuming that that final scene in the teaser is reflective of the actual game? This is sounding a lot like the E3 2013 teaser all over again.
I’m no story writer, but consider this:
If they write Chakas into the story, they don’t necessarily have to reveal that he’s Guilty Spark. Chakas could perhaps take on a new form (and voice) when guiding the Chief. John himself wouldn’t even know that Chakas is Spark, and Chakas has good reason to keep it that way. They don’t exactly have a friendly history.
The average Halo fan wouldn’t even know they’re witnessing Spark’s redemption arc. To them, Chakas would just be this new mysterious character who’s helping Chief. I think this would be a great way to write him in without having to do a huge exposition dump.
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> I’m no story writer, but consider this:
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> If they write Chakas into the story, they don’t necessarily have to reveal that he’s Guilty Spark. Chakas could perhaps take on a new form (and voice) when guiding the Chief. John himself wouldn’t even know that Chakas is Spark, and Chakas has good reason to keep it that way. They don’t exactly have a friendly history.
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> The average Halo fan wouldn’t even know they’re witnessing Spark’s redemption arc. To them, Chakas would just be this new mysterious character who’s helping Chief. I think this would be a great way to write him in without having to do a huge exposition dump.
I like this. Assuming he goes by the name Chakas, it will still be a nerd out moment for lore fans and game-only/new players can just assume it’s a UNSC AI given that he came from a UNSC ship.
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> Why are people assuming that that final scene in the teaser is reflective of the actual game? This is sounding a lot like the E3 2013 teaser all over again.
Because people aren’t going to watch Chief put an A.I. into his helmet and think that it means nothing. Do you really think they would create that entire scene just for the heck of it and it turns out to be another misleading advertisement like Chief in a robe? I don’t think they would be bold enough to make that mistake again.
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> > Why are people assuming that that final scene in the teaser is reflective of the actual game? This is sounding a lot like the E3 2013 teaser all over again.
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> Because people aren’t going to watch Chief put an A.I. into his helmet and think that it means nothing. Do you really think they would create that entire scene just for the heck of it and it turns out to be another misleading advertisement like Chief in a robe? I don’t think they would be bold enough to make that mistake again.
It wasn’t misleading advertisement. It was a conceptual teaser trailer; it wasn’t even for Halo 5. It was an announcement for Halo on Xbox One, which ended up being MCC.
Plenty of announce trailers in the Halo franchise (even those by Bungie) have been concepts that never made it into a game, at least not in entirety. The announce trailers for Halo CE and Halo 2 come to mind. And Halo 4’s announce teaser similarly was a concept that was altered for the final product. So I don’t put much stake in an announce trailer representing exactly what we’ll be seeing in the finished product, because that’s not par for the course. That’s not to say it’s not possible that Chief will get another AI in Infinite; that’s totally possible and quite easy to write in. But to think that the Infinite teaser confirms this is premature.
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> > > Why are people assuming that that final scene in the teaser is reflective of the actual game? This is sounding a lot like the E3 2013 teaser all over again.
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> > Because people aren’t going to watch Chief put an A.I. into his helmet and think that it means nothing. Do you really think they would create that entire scene just for the heck of it and it turns out to be another misleading advertisement like Chief in a robe? I don’t think they would be bold enough to make that mistake again.
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> It wasn’t misleading advertisement. It was a conceptual teaser trailer; it wasn’t even for Halo 5. It was an announcement for Halo on Xbox One, which ended up being MCC.
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> Plenty of announce trailers in the Halo franchise (even those by Bungie) have been concepts that never made it into a game, at least not in entirety. The announce trailers for Halo CE and Halo 2 come to mind. And Halo 4’s announce teaser similarly was a concept that was altered for the final product. So I don’t put much stake in an announce trailer representing exactly what we’ll be seeing in the finished product, because that’s not par for the course. That’s not to say it’s not possible that Chief will get another AI in Infinite; that’s totally possible and quite easy to write in. But to think that the Infinite teaser confirms this is premature.
It was misleading because they showed Chief with a robe (which never happened) and a hyperbolic representation of the rivalry between Locke and Chief, basically misleading the consumer base into thinking it would be this huge part of the game when It wasn’t. How can you just deny such obvious things ? Are you saying the myriad of people who said they felt mislead by those ads are just lying ?
If they know what good marketing is, they’ll start making then trailers and teasers more honest and true representations of what’s actually in the game. Unless they just want another huge amounts of disappointed fans like there were at the release of Halo 5.
And fans are always going to speculate on things they see in trailers. Why wouldn’t they? lol did you honestly think that people were gonna sit back and think that Chief putting a blue glowing chip into helmet meant nothing ? It’s called curiosity.
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> It was misleading because they showed Chief with a robe (which never happened) and a hyperbolic representation of the rivalry between Locke and Chief, basically misleading the consumer base into thinking it would be this huge part of the game when It wasn’t. How can you just deny such obvious things ? Are you saying the myriad of people who said they felt mislead by those ads are just lying ?
By that same vein, Halo CE’s announce trailer was misleading because Elites never held plasma shields and Chief didn’t have an antenna. Halo 2’s announce trailer was misleading because the Earth level didn’t play out the way it did in the trailer. Halo 3’s Starry Night trailer was misleading because Cheif never faced a large Brute and Wraith army in an open plain. I could go on, but the point is that trailers (esp announce trailers) are not representative of final products. I’m not denying anything. The “Hunt the Truth” trailers and the E3 2013 teaser are different scenarios, especially given that the E3 2013 teaser wasn’t even for H5, as I said. Nobody was really complaining that H5 didn’t feature a cloaked Chief or red Guardians.
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> If they know what good marketing is, they’ll start making then trailers and teasers more honest and true representations of what’s actually in the game. Unless they just want another huge amounts of disappointed fans like there were at the release of Halo 5.
H5’s marketing was quite successful, despite the ultimate controversy between the trailers and the game. “Good marketing” rarely has to be a 1:1 representation of the final product to be effective, and marketers know that. That’s less about the marketers, though, and more about the consumers who actually believe that marketing is an accurate representation of the final product.
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> And fans are always going to speculate on things they see in trailers. Why wouldn’t they? lol did you honestly think that people were gonna sit back and think that Chief putting a blue glowing chip into helmet meant nothing ? It’s called curiosity.
While speculation is fine, putting too much stock into unsubstantiated ideas can lead to trouble. I prefer to keep expectations tempered. While I personally doubt that if a new AI is given to Chief that it would be Chakas, the point is that we don’t even really know that Chief will get a new AI. This whole thread is predicated on the assumption that everything we see in the Infinite trailer is a solid confirmation of what we’ll get in the final product, which as I said before is premature thinking.
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> Ever since E3 2018, the community has been wondering what AI is in the crystal chip that Chief inserts in his helmet. I have a theory that is pretty crazy. I believe that the AI is Chakas. Chakas was an ancient Human who ended up on Installation 07, Zeta Halo. He and his friends traveled across the ring, encountering major players such as Mendicant Bias and the Primordial himself. Eventually, his body was severely damaged, and he was composed, his mind made digital and turned into an AI. Chakas helped the Forerunners in the final years of the Forerunner-Flood War. He was eventually assigned to be Monitor of Installation 04, and given the designated name 343 Guilty Spark. After the Array was fired, Chakas suppressed a good chunk of his memories, due to compartmentalization protocols put in place as a security measure against the logic plague. In 2553, the UNSC Rubicon found the remains of Guilty Spark, and began questioning him on the Didact and the history between Humanity and the Forerunners. At this point, he wasn’t really Guilty Spark anymore, but Chakas re-emerging. Chakas eventually gained control of the Rubicon, placing the crew into cryo. He took the Rubicon, hoping to find the Librarian, believing her to still be alive. This plot thread is still unanswered. In this video for the Halo 5 premiere here, Frankie says that they have a redemption arc for him planned, somewhere I think it would be interesting if Infinite takes place on Installation 07, and Chakas is Chief’s AI companion. Would love to see them reunite, especially after Chief thinking he killed him. With Chakas re-merging, he’s not really Guilty Spark, he’s his former self. I would love for them to spend the Campaign together, especially with them traveling across Zeta Halo. Chakas has a history on the ring, would love to get callbacks to Primordium and get some background info on the installation. What do you think, do you like this idea?
Seems pretty far fetched but I wouldn’t be surprised since halo is taking a pretty far turn from badassness to broken soldier sort of thing