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	Re: youse read the new Halo 3 terminals?
	Posted By: Andrew------WebKitFormBoundaryJ+HlLDShbX46pbI9	Date: 10/15/07 2:49 p.m.
	In Response To: Re: youse read the new Halo 3 terminals? (Druff) saw that after i made my post (didn't realixe the forums were still moving at that rate...) i'm intrigued by what you said about Mendicant Bias and the prophets. i must have missed that part... where did you get the idea he was 'planting seeds' that would shape the Covenant future? i have an inkling of what you're thinking but i'd like you to elaborate : I posted this a couple of weeks ago: : http://forums.bungie.org/story/?read=54709 : I just feel like I have to say this in here. I feel like the Marathon : community should know. Sorry if it annoys anyone, I know Halo isn't : generally looked upon a good topic to discuss in here... but this might be : an exception. : Marathon is what made me a Bungie fan back in early 1995. There wasn't much : of a community back then, at least none that I was aware of. I had a Mac : at work, and a co-worker installed Marathon for me and a few other folks : who had Macs. We invested in some serial numbers so we could kill each : other every night over the LAN, but I was one of the few who got swept : away in the single player game. In all my years of gaming, I'd never seen : anything like the writing in the terminals. I thought it was genius. So : rich, so much depth, so many layers. You know what I'm talking about. : The only reason I was ever interested in Halo was because of Marathon. While : I was initially disappointed when I realized that Halo was not going to : offer anything even remotely deep or satisfying as Marathon in terms of : story, hey, that was OK. In my opinion, Halo's combat gameplay and level : design left Marathon's far behind, so it was sort of an even trade. : Marathon had more brains, Halo had more brawn. I was able to accept that. : OK, now I'll get to the point. Last night, I finally succeeded in finding all : of the terminals in Halo 3. I had assumed they were just going to be a : fluffy bit of fan service and not add anything substantial. But after : reading all of them and mulling them over and putting the pieces together, : I have to say, it really added a lot to the story. To the whole trilogy, : to the whole concept in general. Obviously throwing a few teriminals into : the final game in the trilogy doesn't suddenly put it on the same level as : Marathon. But it really does put the whole thing in a new light. Very cool : revelations. : *spoilers* : Turns out the whole friggin' thing can be traced back to a 100,000 year old : rampant A.I. that betrayed the Forerunner during their original war : against the Flood. It was this A.I. that planted the seed ideas in the : race that eventually became the Prophets that led to their religion : whereby "the gods" demanded that humanity be destroyed, and : formed the Covenant to achieve that. : The Forerunners were not the first, and they didn't create the Halos. They : inherited them from... the Precursors?!?! Nice to finally understand what : the Hell Cortana was talking about when she mentioned that some of the : structures on Halo were newer, built on top of older ones. Anyway, the : Precursors bequeathed the Halo array and the "Mantle" of galaxy : guardianship to the Forerunner, and the Forerunner bequeathed them to : humanity. Were they also bequeathed to the Precursors? Is the galaxy old : enough for that? : As a Marathon fan of almost 13 years who has always enjoyed Halo, I just : wanted to share with you guys. : race that eventually became the Prophets that led to their religion : whereby "the gods" demanded that humanity be destroyed, and : formed the Covenant to achieve that. : The Forerunners were not the first, and they didn't create the Halos. They : inherited them from... the Precursors?!?! Nice to finally understand what : the Hell Cortana was talking about when she mentioned that some of the : structures on Halo were newer, built on top of older ones. Anyway, the : Precursors bequeathed the Halo array and the "Mantle" of galaxy : guardianship to the Forerunner, and the Forerunner bequeathed them to : humanity. Were they also bequeathed to the Precursors? Is the galaxy old : enough for that? : As a Marathon fan of almost 13 years who has always enjoyed Halo, I just : wanted to share with you guys.

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	youse read the new Halo 3 terminals?	Andrew------WebKitFormBoundaryJ+HlLDShbX46pbI9	10/15/07 10:43 a.m.
	Re: youse read the new Halo 3 terminals?	Nicholai	10/15/07 11:11 a.m.
	Re: youse read the new Halo 3 terminals?	Andrew------WebKitFormBoundaryJ+HlLDShbX46pbI9	10/15/07 11:17 a.m.
	Re: youse read the new Halo 3 terminals?	Druff	10/15/07 2:37 p.m.
	Re: youse read the new Halo 3 terminals?	Andrew------WebKitFormBoundaryJ+HlLDShbX46pbI9	10/15/07 2:49 p.m.
	Re: youse read the new Halo 3 terminals?	Druff	10/16/07 3:59 p.m.
	Re: youse read the new Halo 3 terminals?	Andrew------WebKitFormBoundaryJ+HlLDShbX46pbI9	10/17/07 3:15 p.m.
	Re: youse read the new Halo 3 terminals?	Forrest of B.org	10/17/07 3:59 p.m.
	Re: youse read the new Halo 3 terminals?	Skeletor	10/19/07 9:54 p.m.

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