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Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great Journey
Posted By: RagashingoDate: 12/8/05 3:34 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great Journey (mrbananas)

: regrets a higher arch, which means if he ever suspected truth of doing
: something against it. he would use his authoerity and influence to convict
: truth of heresy, and thusly a huge political debate would develop between
: the to and whos the heretic and whos not.

Well Truth did more or less order Regret's death, that cuts Regret's political options down a bit doesn't it? Take a look at what happened to Regret:

1. Regret either is sent to Earth or goes there on his own looking for Forerunner artifacts. Somehow one of the three most powerful leaders in the Covenant doesn't know that he's going to the Human's homeworld. We know that the Covenant knew where Earth was from First Strike, so how did Regret manage to not be told that's where he was going? Perhaps Truth had a hand in that?

2. Regret apparently finds something on Earth that leads him to Delta Halo, once there he is chased by the Humans (including a Demon, who the Covenant thought all died on Reach based on comments in The Flood). Regret is planning on activating the Halo.

Side note: I think this is important. Most likely the activation of the Halo was something to be done with ceremony, with the council there to watch and so on, not by one Prophet on his own.

3. High Charity, a huge Covenant fleet, and Truth arrive, though they might have been too late to prevent Regret's death. Very oddly Truth orders the Elite's Phantoms to turn around, thus sealing Regret's fate. Sure maybe that was just a play to get the Elites out of power, except the entire temple including Regret is Energy Projection Beemed to death. So much for not firing upon Forerunner stuff...

Anyway, a lot of bad things happened to Regret, and at least one and maybe more of those bad things were ordered by Truth. I think Truth had Regret killed, possibly for political reasons (maybe Regret was suspecting something), and/or possibly for Regret's past failures (maybe Regret was the one responsible for losing the Covenant station in First Strike), and/or possibly because setting off the Halo would have totally mucked up Truth's plan, whatever it is.

Later on we have the last person close to Truth's political power is left to die when saving him was a light squeeze away. Time might have been a factor in Truth's mind, not wanting to be blasted by the Halo, but time was not a factor in the end. Cortana kept the Forerunner ship from leaving for several minutes, far longer than it would have taken to pop the floodling, and sit Mercy back into his chair.

I think Mercy's death was not planned, but was simply a convenient occurrence that Truth seized to eliminate someone that he would have had to share power with. Yes, I have no answer to how you do or don't share power after wiping the galaxy clean of life, but there you go.


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Prophet of Truth and the Great Journeymrbananas 12/6/05 4:04 p.m.
     Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great Journeyjman571 12/6/05 9:08 p.m.
           Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great Journeymrbananas 12/6/05 10:00 p.m.
                 Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great Journeyjman571 12/6/05 10:25 p.m.
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     Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great JourneyHalolover34 12/6/05 11:04 p.m.
           Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great JourneyCapt_Thanas 12/7/05 6:46 a.m.
                 Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great JourneyPeptuck 12/7/05 8:12 a.m.
                       Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great JourneyCapt_thanas 12/7/05 1:30 p.m.
                             Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great JourneyUriah 12/7/05 1:40 p.m.
           Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great Journeymrbananas 12/7/05 12:42 p.m.
                 Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great JourneyUriah 12/7/05 1:46 p.m.
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                             Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great Journeymrbananas 12/7/05 2:46 p.m.
                                   Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great JourneyPeptuck 12/7/05 3:16 p.m.
                                         Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great JourneyRagashingo 12/7/05 3:23 p.m.
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                                                                 Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great JourneyUriah 12/9/05 1:10 p.m.
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                                               Re: Prophet of Truth and the Great Journeymrbananas 12/7/05 4:25 p.m.
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