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Re: What Could Have Been.
Posted By: SomeoneDate: 9/18/10 11:00 p.m.

In Response To: What Could Have Been. (Hawaiian Pig)


: So I was in the shower just thinkin, hey, how hard could it have been to make
: the events of Reach flow into one another?

: Let's give it a go shall we?

: There's a downed comms array, and we need to investigate.
: We get there and a cloaked Corvette reveals itself! It drops units on us in
: a flurry. The Covenant are on Reach, holy shit!
: The Corvette retreats! What? The Covenant don't retreat! ...It's heading for
: ONI Sword Base!
: We get to ONI Sword Base, meet Dr. Halsey who tells us that we've found
: something down here ... and the Covenant... are searching for it *gasp*
: Interrupted! The base is getting bombarded to hell, we gotta take this
: thing out ; we take out the Corvette as we normally do, and the Assault
: Carrier shows up. Son of a bitch!
: We need to take that thing out, so we devise the plan as we normally do,
: and get up there.
: While we're up here, (whether Noble team meets him or not, I'm not sure) we
: find out that the Arbiter, then Thel 'Vadam, is the one tasked with
: finding whatever it is that's down there , and we learn just a wee bit
: more about it; whatever it is that we found, it will turn the tide of this
: war!
: We take out the ship as normal, Jorge dies, we get tossed off the ship etc.,
: the difference? Noble Team has no idea we survived.
: We land in New Alexandria. The city is blown to hell and in shambles. You
: help evacuate the survivors that you can, and help the local troops bust
: down whatever it is we did. Generators? Whatever the heck we were doing,
: who cares. We finally establish contact with command.
: We link up with the rest of Noble, who gets to do the whole "Goddamn, I
: thought we lost you" and Six gets to do the "Man... we lost
: Jorge" at the same time; heartwarming.
: But the city is getting glassed! Kat dies as usual.
: We high tail it to Sword Base; Dr. Halsey needs us, and what she's found is
: revealed, there's a goddamn forerrunner building or whatever down here.
: While we're rewriting for a flow of events, why don't we fix some canon
: while we're at it?
: She needs you to get this data (not Cortana herself) to the PoA that's up
: in orbit ; so you high tail it to a Saber for a bit of a vertical Maw run.
: Maybe the rest of Noble team fends off hordes of Covenant as you mount up...
: and as you're lifting off, they're getting glassed. ...One final stand as
: you rise from the ashes of hell.
: Maybe you fly through some banshee/hornet dog fights, maybe you shake off
: some Serpahs on your tail. Hell, maybe another member of Noble is going up
: with you and sacrifices himself to let you make it. *cough*Carter*cough*
: You reach the PoA, dock, and deliver the package to Captain Keyes who is in
: the nostalgically-rebuilt-in-the-Reach-engine bridge.
: Fuck! The PoA is under attack, we need you to hold off the Carriers so the
: PoA can jump. Maybe we get to hear Keyes initiate the Cole Protocol
: Article whatever. Hells yeah.
: We hold off the cruisers and the ship jumps, but we're damaged or something
: in the process and, as the ship jumps. Our Saber seems to fall back to
: earth... dead in the water. Ambiguous! Is Six dead?
: Cut to PoA at Halo. Nostalgia to the max, and Credits roll. Maybe a
: legendary ending shows the Arbiter arrive as well. Cool new perspective on
: the original Halo events!
: After credits, we see a burning wreck of a Sabre. We bust open the hatch and
: Lone Wolf it up.
: *Tear*

: It's rough, and I thought this up on the spot. But see how things could have
: actually flowed into one another? Reach wouldn't have felt so
: disjointed...

I must say this would have been awesome... And no doubt it could have been that way if the person that wrote the original concepts for all the levels/story wasn't so invested in the way he thought it should be told.

But oh well, we'll see what 343 does with Halo 4.


Message Index




Replies:

What Could Have Been.Hawaiian Pig 9/18/10 8:30 p.m.
     ^^ *Spoilers* ^^ *NM*Hawaiian Pig 9/18/10 8:31 p.m.
     Re: What Could Have Been.Hawaiian Pig 9/18/10 8:38 p.m.
     We can only wish in one hand... *NM*SPARTAN-034 9/18/10 8:40 p.m.
     Re: What Could Have Been.Crab 9/18/10 8:49 p.m.
     Wheres mah pony!? *NM*RC Master 9/18/10 8:53 p.m.
           Re: Wheres mah pony!?Hawaiian Pig 9/19/10 12:02 a.m.
     Re: What Could Have Been.Leviathan 9/18/10 9:30 p.m.
           Re: What Could Have Been.Hawaiian Pig 9/19/10 12:00 a.m.
                 Re: What Could Have Been.RC Master 9/19/10 5:22 a.m.
     Re: What Could Have Been.Someone 9/18/10 11:00 p.m.
     Re: What Could Have Been.padraig08 9/18/10 11:27 p.m.
     Re: What Could Have Been.Cody Miller 9/19/10 12:18 a.m.
           Re: What Could Have Been.Hawaiian Pig 9/19/10 12:21 a.m.
                 Re: What Could Have Been.Train Dodger 9/20/10 5:52 a.m.
           Re: What Could Have Been.maxlew 9/19/10 8:11 a.m.
           Re: What Could Have Been.LionoftheMorning 9/20/10 6:43 a.m.
                 Well shit, I hope 343 gets Nylund to write *NM*Hawaiian Pig 9/20/10 3:12 p.m.
     Re: What Could Have Been.scarab 9/19/10 5:47 a.m.
     Arbiter's view of Halo?! Brilliant!Avateur 9/19/10 11:04 a.m.



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