Trying to find the secret of Sandtrap

lol is this too hard for your brain, jk good bye J A Y. i knew thee well. adios amigo, adios.

 

Lol, Sarge Moment!!!

 

*Cough*Post in it*Cough*

And we lost a good comrade.We will miss you J A Y.

 

http://www.forgehub.com/forum/halo-discussion/37027-teaser-trailer-new-campaign-halo-3-

http://www.forgehub.com/forum/halo-discussion/35997-keep-clean-bungie.html

 

lol SI of the SI's, i guess im now the leader of the SI's now that J A Y retired from the search.

 

Lol yeah.

And did any of our ideas work,or were they true?

 

If J A Y isnt going to be posting here, I propose that someone who will post creates a new thread, and in the first post we list every theory we have tryed what we know, blah blah blah etc.

 

Or we could just do that in ther group.

Just because hes not posting anymore doesn't mean we won't.If we make another one of these threads it will most likely get locked.

 

I wanna be one of the leaders. I've been here for a while.

We all need to get together in a LIVE party and search the maps. It could be fun.

 

I've actually got some stuff here that I found that might help. I was looking around on Sandtrap for ideas, and here's a few things I noticed:

1) Above the main long structure, there's those half archways at equal lengths over the top of building. Yeah, on the surfaces near the tops of each of those, there are little green lights. These lights seem to indicate a path all the way along the top from the main big building.

2) I had an idea that the whole building structure is some kind of horizontal launch tube. It starts at the biggest building area and then travels along the roof of the long corridor. There are two things supporting this: firstly the green lights along this route seem to indicate it and secondly the holes in the roof of the long building could be shafts for the exhaust of the [something that is being launched]. The fire and smoke etc. from the exhaust would then be funnled into the long corridor underneath.

3) Have you checked for any clues on the digital displays inside the elephants?

4) On the side of Aegis Fate, there is the number 7 in a star pointing upwards towards the "FFG-307" sign. Has anyone remembered how obsessed Bungie is with "7"? Yeah, all I'm saying is that 7 could be associated with the Easter Egg.

5) I just got another idea! There are 6 towers on the boundry of the map, and on the glass windscreens of the two Elephants there are Hexagonal patters etched in. Hexagon = 6. 6 Towers. Woah. That's epic.

I hope my findings may in some way contribute to the finding of the SGSEET (Secret Giant Sandtrap Easter Egg Thing).

Glad to be of service, J A Y. This thread is amazing =)

 

1) I don't get how that works, but ok...
2) The place is burried in more sand than King Tut's tomb lol if it was a cannon, and did shoot already, it would be higher up because of the displacement of the sand.
3) Not very closely... We should check that.
4) Not of use I do not believe
5) Woah, that is actually a good find. We will have to look into it more

 

Yea these are some really good finds. Someone look up hexagons on Bungie. Maybe it has to do with something. And why didn't anyone look in those things in the elephants? I just assumed someone already looked there.

 

So surely this is defo an easter egg. Maybe 6 is bungies new bum buddy lol. I actually noticed onli 6 towers. Btw i do beleive that aegis fate onli has 6 turrets...

 

not yet, some of the old theories still have not been "unproven" yet.

dont start a new thread, that would be stupid. ima inv you to our group. *invites*

ima inv you too. youre right we do need to get a big party, for a massive search.

 

Hmm really that sounds interesting.

Also you guys know hows theres that almost kind of a shrine under the main base.Theres that weird gold column.

 

A Frigate has more than 6 turrets. Especially one that has been in many battles.

 

The thing about the structure being some sort of cannon is possible. Valhalla shows what Forerunner structures should look like when kept in perfect condition. We saw in Halo 2 what would happen after just a few centuries. Sandtrap is in an unknown location (people say the Ark but I doubt that, the Ark was kept in perfect condition, as evidence in Valhalla shows us), and clearly it was cut off from the Forerunner for a long time.
I think Sandtrap is on a planet which may have been glassed by the Forerunner, one of their own planets, which explains why there are Forerunner structures on it.
Completing glassing the planet would have turned into an inhosbitable wasteland, obviously this planet wasn't because it still has an atmosphere (and has probably reocovered a bit since the several millenia abseince of sentient life).
So there was noone to maintain the structures (like in Halo 2) so they fell in to disrepair. Add on to that the fact that the planet has been untouched for such a long time, the ecosystem will just balance itself out and what may have been an idealic location while the Forerunner were around has turned has been covered by a desert which has built up.

So yeah, 'cannon' is possible. I think it must've have been something important. Those towers are like a smaller version of the ones surrounding the Ark's core. When activated they would have generated a shield dome over the structure. The wall would have been visible all the way around the structure, not partilly covered by sand.

This leads me on to something else, the trip mines in the desert. I don't think they are Forerunner mines.
Considering the sand would not have been there when the structure was built, they couldn't have buried them. Besides, there's a massive wall surrounding the whole place, why bother wiith explosives inside?
Those mines must've been placed by the 'Brute occupiers' to defend from attacking humans.

AAaaanyway, I typed a bit more than I wanted to. I think we're either getting to deep in to this or not deep enough.

 

nice suggestion, but i am almost completly sure that sandtrap was on the ark and was said to be once occupied by the brutes(most likely set up to be a covanent outpost that was taken out by either a group of spartans or ODST Troopers).

anyways yes youre right valhalla must represent a perfectly conditioned forerunner structure. in Halo 2 Relic's enormous structure in the middle of the map looks alot like valhallas two structures, possibly could have been disabled. then when you look at sandtrap the two structurs look a little similar to the ones on valhalla and relic. there may have been a section of the Ark that was never kept up by the sentinals, possibly because there may not have been any flood in that area.

 

Alright, firstly Sandtrap is set on the Ark, as evidenced by the Aegis Fate. The area was simply a battleground between the UNSC forces of the Aegis Fate and the Brutes who were investigating the ruins.

Secondly, there is nothing to tell us that the ruins on sandtrap are infact Forerunner. They could be much older than Forerunner, as shown by there ruined state and the lack of Forerunner design, including the use of metal. But I do think the Forerunners tried to preserve this area by building the towers on the outside of the map which could form a sort of shield over it.

Finally, it is confirmed that the mines around the outside of the map are Brute made (the spikes on the mines sure look brutish).
Good job investigating, DMM!

Thanks to everyone for looking into my suggestion of the hexagonal patterns and the "cannon."
BTW, as an afterthought, the hexagons are on the windscreen of the Elephants, which led me to think, are the towers in some way meant to be viewed through the Elephants? And if there was some way to get the Elephants up onto the long central structure (I know about the Elephant barriers), then maybe driving them along the path might trigger something....