These are some pictures that have been floating around in my head for a few days, so I made them. Ever since Bungie mentioned that the shape of the Halo 3 Ark should be reminiscent of something else from the Halo universe, I’ve been trying to think of what that might be. I think I may have found the answer in High Charity.
Both are big. Both are circular. Both have a big glowing thing above them. We don’t really know what either of them does or why they are there and, as Lewis Black would say, they are both big f***ing things.
The scenario I am thinking of is this: First, obviously, the theory assumes that there is more than one ark. For whatever reason, an ark happens to be on a Covenant planet – possibly the home world of the prophets or the elites. The Covenant find it probably by chance and build their religion around the find. They also build a city on top of their ark.
The covenant become a space-faring collective, or at least once of their species does… maybe the actual Covenant hasn’t formed yet. Again, for whatever reason, they decide they want to take their ark and the city they’ve built on top of it with them into space. They build an atmosphere container and protective barrier for their city (the ark needs no protecting itself as its pretty much indestructible as we know). They blast out the ground that their ark is buried in, slap a few engines on it and… well… you get High Charity.
Maybe the Covenant found their ark and their forerunner ship in a package deal.
I see some problems in my own design – namely scale. High Charity is implicitly much BIGGER than Earth’s ark, but they seem to fit so well otherwise that I’m temped to just ignore that part. If you look at their sizes relative to Covenant ships… do they really look that much different? Compared to a Halo they look very different.
These pictures have been created using Halo 3 announcement trailer screen shots and many different HUD-less images from the newly reinstated www.halouvre.org. They are hosted by photobucket so if they give out, that’s why.
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