: I found the hidden 7s. 2552. 2 + 5 = 7. 77. I should mention the Master Cheif
: is an exact duplicate of the vacbobs from Marathon infinity. The plasma
: rifle is clearly a clone of the Alien Weapon from M1. Plasma Chaingun?
: What was I thinking?
: We open flawless cowboy with a pleasant ambient track of birds chirping in
: the background. This ring apparently has invisible birds just like Lh'owon
: has invisible loons.
I think that the owl chirps on Lh'owon are the ticks. They always seemed to play in some night maps where ticks were; e.g. Kill your Television.
: Everyone else onboard died, unfortunately, and covenant dropships are on the
: way to check it out. In the skybox we can see the game's namesake: the
: world curving upwards in the horizon, over our heads, and back down in a
: loop. Marathon gave us a hollowed out world, and this game gives us one
: that's inside-out.
The Halo concept was actually from Larry Niven's Ringworld books in his Known Space universe, much like how the feline Kzin aliens of that book inspired the bad guys from Wing Commander; except that the Ringworld was much bigger and harder to get around on, it orbited a star instead of a gas giant, and was in terrible disrepair; with external meteor punctures giving the illusion of oversized mountains and plants that could redirect sunlight into lasers to burn anything that threatened them. Its night cycle was also faked by using giant "Shadow squares" roped together with indestructible cables that could slice through anything while still being flexible.
