mmmm.. the portal was on the ark when chiefs ship was cut in half and left to drift throughout space. You also see the milkyway on one of the missions when you're on the ark.. so you're a long long long way away from earth right now. However... you ARE outside the firing array of the rings... Extremely far away. Considering there are a lot of alien races inside the milkyway that had to be cataloged and a lot of the alien races were extremely advanced in technology.. we've still got another billion galaxies we could be drifting towards with trillions of advanced species out there for us to "fight"... There may even be a possibility this isn't even linked at all to the standard halo line, and reveals some other plot all together that stitches the entire story together as a whole.
In an interview with 343i (on gametrailers I think), they said that they are going to re-introduce terminals in Halo: CEA. Basically, they said that you'll get a taste of Halo 4 within these terminals. So, I definitely think it will all be connected in some way or another (in the form of a plot twist most likely) and not just be an epilogue to Halo 3.
So 343 is adding some stuff to the Halo 1 campaign? Im okay with it unless they add too much stuff. I heard they are also going to add more easter eggs. I hope they are good.
Well, the way I understand it, they're gonna be putting them there for the people who want to search/read/watch them. It's not solely going to be text though. They said that they're going to be animated and have audio. Kind of like the audio logs in ODST I'm guessing.
Halo CE had a video tape of the flood in that one level. That would be cool if they made it like that, like you will be able to see it in the corner of your screen.
How are we? The forerunners (if that's what this planet is) were in the same galaxy as us. EDIT: actually good point Stevo, hadn't thought of that bit on the Ark. But I thought the flood coming from outside the galaxy was a possible explanation for its origin, which just kind of implies that the forerunners were limited to our galaxy.
The Ark is far beyond the edges of our Galaxy, and the Forerunners built that? Edit; so i see you editing Pegasi. I too shall edit. I believe you misinterpreted me. I was only trying to justify why we will not see the Arbiter, and perhaps not even the covenant at all. They are just too far away, and the portal on Earth to the Ark has been closed. I would agree that the Forerunners existed in our galaxy almost explicitly. I am just saying that clearly they would have the capacity to be present outside of it, proved by the location of the Ark (which is so far from the Milky Way it could well be closer to another galaxy). From what i have read we will be seeing ONI installations anyway, so it must be in our galaxy, and closer to home.
The Ark is in extragalactic space, but I don't think the chief is near the ark, otherwise you would have seen it in the trailer. My theory is that the portal sent him to some random set of coordinates that the forerunners had programmed into their teleportation array. Also, galaxies are not close, not close at all. Astrophysicists theorize that it is impossible, no matter the technology you develop, to travel to a different galaxy from the Milky Way. 343i would really have to bend science to be able to justify the forerunners being able to get that close to another galaxy.
...there is no technology that can be made that would traverse galaxies in a lifetime as the distance between galaxies is hundreds to thousands of lightyears away. However the existence of wormholes and the ability to bend space due to very high gravity is the theoretical way beings could cross vast distances like galaxies
Here is some context for you. IT"S A ****ING VIDEO GAME! They can have you travel to other galaxies by ramming a dildo up your ass if they wanted.
/facepalm Ok...here is the quote I was responding to I wasn't saying anything about the Sci Fi of halo or anything else, senior I get worked up too easy, just how in actual theoretical physics travel between galaxies would be possible.
The forerunners were more advanced than humanity ever could be, they have probably been to multiple other galaxies.
And actual theoretical physics has what to do with a computer generated fantasy world? What is this thread about? Halo anniversary and Halo 4. Not whether or not intergalactic travel is really possible or not.
Indeed.. arguments are starting to stray a bit here. Either way.. the point I was trying to make was: A) The Ark is outside the milkyway, so it's outside the firing array of the rings. B) The Ark has it's own sun... potentially articificial like a lot of the other forerunner worlds, but it may also indicate it IS in a different galaxy. C) Forerunners obviously have technology to warp to any given destination... they could be anywhere in the universe. Simply because the Milkyway was infested with flood, they had to activate the rings... this doesn't neccessarily mean the erradicated all sentient life from the universe, they themselves could be anywhere in the universe and still alive. A cool million years could have past since them initially firing the array and now, and a lot could have changed for them.
I read through the previous 3 pages and my pitch into this conversation is that maybe MC has gone back in time and stumbles across I giant something which the forerunner are trying to destroy, long before the covenant even existed. Yes, no, retarded? EDIT: By 3 pages I mean 60 posts cos I roll with 20 posts a page...