In Response To: Re: The Theory that Starts a NEW Discussion (Summa (Aginor)
Hello from my dark corner. As with Metatron, this is my first post here but let’s see if it’s worth it. Since I don’t really know where to start I can only start at the beginning of Halo, the game. As I haven’t read the books, but read many speculations. So here goes my uneducated ‘guess’, I think calling it a theory would be hoping for too much.
Firstly, the POA gets to Halo: Installation 04 and finds Covenant nearby. Due to the time fluxuation, maybe Dr. Halsey and her probable ‘dead’ Spartans went to Halo and the Covenant tracked her to that area. I might’ve said something about AOTCR’s whittling Marines but that may be paranoia. So, onto the level “343Guilty Spark”.
As you make your way to the crashed Pelican, it’s obviously from the past raid that came through. There are no bodies around, just ammo (And a shotgun for the lucky ones) so they must’ve gone inside. Or were the ones attacked by the Flood when the MC is reviewing that recording from Jenkins. Soon enough, there’s a crashed Covenant Dropship, that’s certainly explainable, especially with it’s odd positioning. Seems instead of being shot down in flight, it was dropping off some troops as it was attacked. The drift of the anti-grav might send it into that vertical position…backwards…against a tree like that. So apparently (and obviously when you watch the movie) the Flood were already out. The Covenant were there before you and the other Marines, and when the Marines moved through the Covenant locked door, they unleashed the spores. The spores couldn’t have all died, and there aren’t any Marine bodies lying around in there, just lots of blood and ammo(Don’t you just love the way we get supplied?). But then, why are so many Covenant bodies lying around the place, were they too dead? There are some Covenant still in the facility, so they must’ve picked off the spores. But let me step back to being outside the facility before moving forward. After the dropship, Jackals, and Grunts the MC makes his way valiantly across a big tree that fell over, the trunk of it. Well, for those with a quick eye and ability to move even faster, a big Flood Warrior is standing on the top of that hill…directly in front of you. He merely turns away and you never see him again (Unless you look, like you would for Mendoza in the trees; find a dead Flood Warrior). So, that image to me proves that the Flood are already out and moving around. Plus, via the route you get Mendoza and can then drop down at the entrance of the facility, although Marines are not there. Certainly there guns are (floating by telekinesis of the advanced Spartan-III’s? …No.) And so some group of humans were going down. I say humans even though I’ve seen a Flood, because a frag grenade goes off. I don’t know any Flood that used grenades. Just to support that humans came in right before you, as soon as you come to the room with the faulty ‘blinking’ lightbridge, two Marines are getting slaughtered across the way or underneath you (You know, with the double Camoflauges). Wow, I think I rambled on that and lost my focus… Oh, maybe the Marine that starts shooting at you is there to tell a part of the behavior of the Flood. But, he may also think you could be infected, as no one would be able to tell with that armor over the MC. Due to so many Marines seemingly left to die…3…I doubt the Master Chief came back through from the future-to-the-past because as a soldier he wouldn’t leave a man behind, let alone three. Possibly when 343GS greets you, Metatron is right, possibly not. He may be simply taking a precaution to meeting you. For in the ‘past’ he might’ve spotted multiple Spartans and not recognized you until he heard your voice, as he can’t see your face. Or something similar.
The time loop is indeed a problem. It depends on what thought of time travel you’re going with. It appears to me there are three. One is that when you go to change the past, it is the past, so in reality you changed nothing because it was supposed to happen like in (In Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, weren’t they able to think of doing something and have it happen for them as if reminding themselves to do it in the future which is their past?). Second is the “Back to the Future” that is when you go to change the past, you change the future because the past is changed. Where the third, meets in between them as the Harry Potter version. You may go to the past and know the past for what it is supposed to be, but have to make sure that it is the past it’s supposed to be and doesn’t fumble. Hrm. As far as I can tell you’re either going in Number One or Three’s perspective. For the Number One, if MC goes back to Installation 04 in the future-to-be-past then he has nothing to worry about and will do as he does. Which is why 343 Guilty Spark eventually treats you as if you had done it before. Maybe those blue beams coming from the towers in the level “Halo” are actually the Ring preparing to fire. But that would mean the Index would have to be taken back to the Library, maybe not something too hard to do…but no one wants that level again, right? Or, Number Three: MC knows what he has to do because he’s seen it happen out of the corner of his eyes, so to speak. So then he keeps the strand together because he’s merely doing as he feels was done.
But, not to worry, as the MC wouldn’t forever be stuck in a continuous time loop. Look at it this way: POA arrives, MC destroys Halo and leaves, comes back to Halo in the past, leaves before Halo explodes after doing what he was supposed to, and goes on his way from there while the other MC goes back in time and does it again without the knoweledge of doing it twice. He wouldn’t reset to going back in time repeatedly(even if he did, his mind would eventually crack from doing the same thing over and over that he would drive himself insane, thus destroying the loop...if his body didn't wear down first)
That seems like enough, and I’m tired. You can totally diss me on this, just felt like pointing something out.
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