Halo fan since it came out wrote on Saturday, 03/15/2003 - 3:30 am:

: Well correct me if i am wrong but the first Halo book
: takes place before Halo. So i would imagine that the second
: Halo book called the flood or whatever is about the first
: Halo game. If you think about it thats what Halo (the game)
: is all about, the flood. Oh and the flood are not
: intelligent, they didnt make it off Halo ring because it was
: destroyed along with the truth and reconciliation. Cortana
: says Dust and Echoes. Besides remember the Monitor (343
: guilty spark), he said on the last level when he gained
: access to the pillar of autumn "Human history, Fascinating"
: He escaped at the end of the game they show that. He is the
: reason why earths location is known. Somehow the Covenant
: get a hold of that info, maybe an alliance with the Monitor.
: Forget that flood idea, even if they r still alive they did
: NOT find earth. Keyes is dead and master chief has his
: nueral interface that was in his helmet. This WAR is mainly
: with the covenant NOT the flood. Flood just got in the way
: temporarily.

Okay......so then...Halo: The Flood is what takes place during the game....that makes sense that they would make a book about the game THAT YOU ALREADY PLAYED!!!! I KNOW KEYES IS DEAD CONSIDERING THAT THE MC REACHED INTO HIS HEAD AND PULLED OUT THAT NEURAL INTERFEACE THING!!! How stupid do you think I am? "Oh and the Flood didn't make Halo." No shit b/c why would they imprison themselves in it??? If the Flood aren't stupid, then why were the Covenant terrified that they would repair a damned cruiser? If they were stupid, then they wouldn't be worried about them repairing the cruiser. Cortana does say dust and echoes, but maybe the Cruiser (which has not been confirmed to be the TaR b/c it could have been another cruiser) escaped before Halo was destroyed. Also, there isn't any proof what so ever of 343GS giving the Covenant the location of Earth.
FOR THE THIRD TIME, I'M SAYING THAT THE FLOOD MANIPULATE KEYES' REMAINS AND TRY TO USE HIS VOCAL CORDS/VOICE BOX TO SEND AN AUDIO TRANSMISSION!!!!!
READ WHAT I TYPE CAREFULLY!!!!!

That rite flood are coming back

To reply and Create Anew wrote on Monday, 03/17/2003 - 7:47 pm:

: First off, im gonna try and say something about
: manipulating Keyes' Voice. YOU CANT. You cannot manipulate a
: person's vocal cords to a certain frequency unless you have
: an exact recording of his voice. Even if you do you would
: need to know the precice frequence on which the cords
: vibrate to make that sound, AND you would need to make sure
: there was still a passage from the person's bronchial tubes
: and his mouth. In other words, ITS IMPOSSIBLE. It would take
: years, even if they had a recording of Keyes. Why would
: there be a recording? There wouldnt. And even if there was,
: how would the flood know how to manipulate it? They would
: need a human to blow air past the vocal cords to speak. They
: have none. Even if there is enough of the captains head and
: neck left to use, they still cannot because the infection
: probably spread and covered that part, as the body is not
: important to the flood so he is just a corpse. In
: conclusion, I just want to say that if Bungie did make him
: or his voice come back, it would be ficticious and stupid.

I think we got over that a while ago. and um is science fiction!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they could probably do something like that in seconds that far in the future!!! and the flood probably would be able to do lots with it considering that it seems like they are quite smart (even tho they dont show it apparently they are). and im sure the flood could blow air after all they can growl or at least thats what it sounds like ,the gotta have something in their throats. most of them are just infected elites and marines. and if they needed a recording they could have got a gay one be 4 they infected keyes! any ways we were past this whole vocal cord voice thing and u had to bring it back!!

Banshee Pilot wrote on Sunday, 02/23/2003 - 4:22 am:

: They only want to destroy humankind, not Earth. Ground
: forces would probably be much better for less crowded
: areas.

But they are already destroying the humans by bombing it from orbit. So what's the need for ground forces?

My awnser is that if the Covenent want to go on the earth, maybe they are looking for information on to where to go next. Remember how the flood absorbed Captain Keyes' memery of the Earth maybe their going to channel that information to what planet they can infest next. You never know.

But if the crystal had the information regarding the location of Halo, why would they want it back? They already went to Halo and knew what was on it (Flood and Sentinals). Also, where was the crystal being held? Reach, I'm guessing and the planet was practically destroyed.
About the Bungie plot twist: DEFINATELY!! On Halo we had the Flood, 343GS, Halo's weapon, the forerunner, Foe Hammer was destroyed, and so much more! Who knows what Bungie has planned for Halo 2?
I just thought of a reason for why the Covies are landing on Earth: Have you ever seen those documenteries about the Pyramids of Giza? There were some strange hyroglyphs on the walls within the pyramids with stuff like flying objects and stuff. Maybe the Forerunners came to Earth in the past after they finished the Halos and activated it the first time. Just a thought.

Earendil wrote on Sunday, 02/23/2003 - 3:49 pm:

: Here are a few things we know for SURE from playing Halo
: and reading the Book that should be taken into consideration
: when discussing this topic.
:
: Taken from the book:
: the covies DO have the tech to "glass" a planet, i.e. hit
: the surface with enough heat from whatever weapon they use,
: to glass over the planets surface. this is such a
: devastating thing that the spartens that were on Reach when
: it was glassed were thought to have no chance of
: surviving.
:
: Only two reasons the humans faced covies on hard ground.
: from the book: the covies tried to find crystal jewels
: that the encoded location for "something" (which turned out
: to be the Halo, the place cortana took us) was on. we had
: those crystals, the covies wanted them.
:
: The second reason comes from Halo. they were crash landed
: and marooned right along side us. they also, in this case,
: had a goal on the surface, to "unlock the secret weapon".
:
: we know from the book that the covies have *NO* problem
: coming into our systems, attacking our star cruisers,
: glassing the planet, and moving on. that's what they have
: done to all our other systems. that's what they did to
: reach, out biggest military base and research station. if
: they wanted to "learn" something about us, that would have
: been the place. but they don't, they are just here to
: kill.
:
: only reasons for a ground battle that I can come up with,
: as I've stated before, would be that in our defense of earth
: we shoot down a covie ship, and it crash lands on earth with
: survivors. we all know that even if 50 elites escaped, that
: wouldn't be an easy thing for marines to deal with. that'd
: be hell for even us as the MC to deal with :)
:
: the only other reason I can think of for Covies on earth,
: would be the giant bungie plot twist, something that is
: guaranteed to happen, and not anything any of us will ever
: guess at.
:
:
: Earendil

Guys, just forget all this argument. We don't know what's gonna happen in Halo 2. We know that fighting on earth and the moon is definite. But don't forget the name of the game is HALO 2. So, mistake me if i'm wrong and i bet you will, but, Halo has to come in somewhere in the game. Has anyone thought about this yet? It just came to my mind. And you all know whatever Bungie throws at us is going to be flat out Amazing. Amazing as in when late 2003 comes i'm going to bust out into seisures everynight until the day the game comes out.

Earendil wrote on Sunday, 02/23/2003 - 3:49 pm:

: Here are a few things we know for SURE from playing Halo
: and reading the Book that should be taken into consideration
: when discussing this topic.
:
: Taken from the book:
: the covies DO have the tech to "glass" a planet, i.e. hit
: the surface with enough heat from whatever weapon they use,
: to glass over the planets surface. this is such a
: devastating thing that the spartens that were on Reach when
: it was glassed were thought to have no chance of
: surviving.
:
: Only two reasons the humans faced covies on hard ground.
: from the book: the covies tried to find crystal jewels
: that the encoded location for "something" (which turned out
: to be the Halo, the place cortana took us) was on. we had
: those crystals, the covies wanted them.
:
: The second reason comes from Halo. they were crash landed
: and marooned right along side us. they also, in this case,
: had a goal on the surface, to "unlock the secret weapon".
:
: we know from the book that the covies have *NO* problem
: coming into our systems, attacking our star cruisers,
: glassing the planet, and moving on. that's what they have
: done to all our other systems. that's what they did to
: reach, out biggest military base and research station. if
: they wanted to "learn" something about us, that would have
: been the place. but they don't, they are just here to
: kill.
:
: only reasons for a ground battle that I can come up with,
: as I've stated before, would be that in our defense of earth
: we shoot down a covie ship, and it crash lands on earth with
: survivors. we all know that even if 50 elites escaped, that
: wouldn't be an easy thing for marines to deal with. that'd
: be hell for even us as the MC to deal with :)
:
: the only other reason I can think of for Covies on earth,
: would be the giant bungie plot twist, something that is
: guaranteed to happen, and not anything any of us will ever
: guess at.
:
:
: Earendil

I think the covies are getting revenge.Maybe the forerunner or someone really did something to the covies and now the covies want to get revenge. Either by killing everyone in a certain radius or destroying the halo rings if it was the forerunner that hurt the covies or getting the halo rings weapon and killing who ever hurt them.???????????Maybe

LOL! Good point! :-D

JRDestroyer wrote on Tuesday, 02/25/2003 - 9:12 pm:

: Samati wrote on Saturday, 02/22/2003 - 7:33 pm:
:
: : Okay, I know I've posted like four things on the site
: : already, but I have more a question now and it's a good
: one,
: : too.
: : We've all seen the Halo 2 trailer (if you haven't,
: WHAT
: : ARE YOU WAITING FOR??), the Covenant are bombarding
: Earth
: : and there is little need to use ground forces and Bungie
: has
: : said that you will be fighitng on Earth and the moon. So
: my
: : question is: Why are the Covenant planning to use
: ground
: : forces when their goal is to completly destroy the
: human
: : race and Earth? Looking forward to your comments.
:
: I'm guessing they attack on land because they can.
: They want to show that they can beat us on any level and
: aren't afraid to do so.

I think that the humans do have enouph firepower to at least give
the covannant fleet trouble,(assuming the earth has a few of those super MAC guns in orbit) so they drop off ground forces & retreat, like at Cote D'Azur & Reach in TFoR(There are other factors like the crystals, but Keyes did give them a hard time)