When you play the Maw, after you destroy all of the pulse generators in the engine room and you still have alot of ammo left because you went to armory befor engine room, you have to drive away in a warthog in 6 minutes. But if you reach the longsword before 6 minutes, lets say with 2 minutes left, Cortana says cutting it close and 15 seconds after she says that you are gone. Then the pillar of Autum explodes and by the time you have left, you would be long gone before this happens, see my point.

I think he was trying to save as many marines as possible on the ship, and try to kill as many covenant on the ship as he could so it wouldnt be captured, before taking a lifepod. Anyway I doubt that he could land a covenant boarding craft on Halo - even if he could fly it, it is a BOARDING craft, i doubt it could land on the ring...

The Covies wouldn't have let the MC on their boarding craft. They would have blown him apart or just flown away leaving him to stew in space.

It really would suck like fresh cow shit on a moist morning,the level would be about half as long and the ship would probly take him to a large covenant ship where he would most likely die a quik, but painful death.

Wait a second- the boarding pods on the PoA can't have been used anyway- they are just launched to the PoA, not controlled. If u search every nook and cranny of the pod, there isnt a control or anything for the MC to use.

Sorry if anyone said this already, but wutever. LOL

iif you read the book the conant fly back and get more troops from the truth and reconciliation...not to mention a grunt had a plan to save his commander elite and get a free ride back to saftey

Well, here's just a few new Ideas
~Escape pods are made for landing
~There were areas that could have been airlocks at each entrance/exit (depending on how you look at it), and I would assume that boarding craft would have a way of drilling through it (like in SW: A New Hope).

Now, lets say that MC DID go after a covenant Battleship, even though that just didn't happen (at first).
~Cortana (with MC's Suit equipment) can hack into covenant systems (remotely opening the cockpit door, or just piloting it through the computer w/o going in at all)
~There's a ton of battle mayhem going on, so one returning Boarding Craft (which may have occupant scan shielding to keep victimes from knowing what's inside the craft initially) could go unnoticed
~And finally, wasn't MC and all the spartans created as shipstealing commandos? (HALO: Fall of Reach[reich, reatch?], Halo 2 Trailer)

Fucking dumbass man, first of all learn how to write sealed, dumb ass, anybody who's a remote Halo'er would know when to shut his fucking mouth and enjoi the game!

Samati wrote on Thursday, 04/17/2003 - 8:02 pm:

: After playing "PoA" a few times, this one idea struck me
: as interesting. Why didn't the MC just take one of the
: Covenant boarding craft OFF the PoA instead of running
: around the ship (as it was being blown apart) trying to find
: a stupid little lifepod. Obviously, Bungie did this so the
: first level wouldn't suck ass, but they could have made it
: so the boarding craft were at the end. And for those who
: will ask "what about the airlocks?" or "Then the PoA would
: be sucked into a vaccum b/c there would a big whole from the
: boarding craft," Cortana or the MC could've selad the other
: airlocks before they left. I thought this was a pretty
: interesting idea, but they didn't use it :-P oh well.

What makes you think the MC can fly a Covenant boarding craft anyways?

Are you sure? When i looked the first time it seemed to hit the other side pretty good...