In Response To: Re: more ideas... (gspawn)
: -The Covenant's history indicates that they generally tend to encounter races
: at low tech levels. IE: References to the major races joining the Covenant
: seem to capture them at an almost tribal level.
: -Also, as we well know, the Covenant steal technology. They have little
: development of their own, save for the work of the Engineers. Encryption
: would require quite a bit of science, and it's something that the
: Engineers don't bother with (since it's more software and less hardware).
: -When they stole Forerunner security locks, some locks could have been
: 128-bit. When the Covenant feel like locking a door for any reason at all,
: it might be one of a very small list of tools that they have to throw
: down. Cortana points out the seeming randomness in the battle net several
: times- to me, proof the Covenant are using a lot of stolen devices they
: don't fully understand. A higher-up says "lock down all the
: doors" and an Elite techie, much like a modern witless office tech
: employee, opens up his book of company-provided tools and makes his best
: guess at how to do it. A very ornate lock appears on a useless door-
: anyone familiar with the fun things that can happen with firewall setups
: when your company/university/etc has no clue what they're doing?
: -In the "letters from the universe" (as well as in-game), Regret
: explains this explicitly. He basically wanted the glory of starting the
: Great Journey for hiself ahead of schedule, so he jumped with his core
: group of ships ahead of the main invasion force. Also, the Covenant didn't
: know the Humans inhabited Earth- they were looking for The Ark, and we
: were merely a pest they happened to encounter on the way. There's more in
: the works, I'm sure, but imagine if you were walking up to your religion's
: most holy shrine and you saw some vulgar-looking insects on the steps.
: [Depending on your religion, of course...] Wouldn't you take a moment out
: of your day to crush them? And why would you have any reason at all to
: believe that the insects evolved at the shrine and have always lived there
: since the beginning of their times, and why would you care even if you
: did? It's only natural to smash them and assume they've infested the
: monument.
: -Fall of Reach: Cortana analyzed the rock from Cote'd'Azure, and found the
: deposits in the rock corresponded closely to a constellation of stars. The
: jump was not random at all- it was following a Forerunner guide marker to
: the location of a Halo.
: -Nope. There was quite a bit of maneuvering, as read in the books. By the
: time the game starts, Cortana is announcing her kill count from the Halo
: system.
: ...and it's breakfast time now.
nice writeup...dunno if it's valid, but it sure was interesting :)
therein lay the rub, books/versus the game. when they reached the ring, keyes was dumbfounded. cortana cut him off, and avoided the entire issue of his question. it was a blind jump...yes?
this is what i want answered in halo3. a bringing together of all this stuff, into some kind of sense. as for cortana...the wife still insists she's evil. dunno if it's because the wife is evil, and figures all other women are or what :)
ash
( tanx...gotta read that again ;)
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