The Ending - Spoilers Within

[NoZ]

I beat the game on Thursday when I got home, but pressed A on the ending scene when it showed the message from Bungie. As a result I missed the rest of the ending.

So does this mean we could be in for an expansion pack or another installment?

[D3adcell]

If you wait through the cutscene the master chief is a live floating around on the ship he escaped on with cortana. Though right before that ends it pans out on to the ship right above a planet, looks like that planet may have been glassed (covenant way of destroying planets if you read the books) or something not sure.

We could be in for a suprise with another halo, but I just figure the master chief will die on that ship from starvation/old age/lack of oxygen.

Though from what it seems, the halo system was deactivated and the ark was destroyed. The halo rings were built by humans to destroy the flood, or gravemind. So the prophet of truth was really just going to kill gravemind. Though he thought it was going to take him on some great journey. Notice how when you deactivate the ring the gravemind started laughing and then the flood turned on you.

I think there is a lot of the story that could be filled in with another game or perhaps a side story game

[OG_Monkey]

yeah, i didnt see that part cuz i clicked A too but i think there will be another Halo for sure, everytime they say "end of the trilogy" or series, that means another one will come just with a new story and characters


So...John, that MC right? Cortana called him that, what exactly does the books tell?

[DankHero]

Master Chief won't die, he's in the stasis thing, and if he needed oxygen like we do he would have already been dead.

[BigfootGus]

i dont think master chief will die, since he got into one of those cryotank things that he came out of in the first game

so that should keep him alive for a while

i think another halo game would be awesome, but with different characters

possibly another spartan, or a spartan in training

or ... a storyline that takes place during the forerunner time period, when they built all that crap

if there was a spartan type character and they were having a similar struggle against the flood, and the game ends with them building the halo rings or whatever

idk, theres lots they could do with this ending

[OG_Monkey]

Prequel anyone?

[HPK]

As you already probably know, my post might contain spoilers.

It took me a while to grasp the ending. The ending didn't visually show exactly how the ship split in half, so I never understood why the MC and Cortana were stuck in space. But yeah, the MC won't be dead for quite some time, considering he's in a cyrogenic (sp) sleep. Cortana might be dead, though, considering her lifespan is only 7 years. Then again, we don't know how long it took for the Dawn to crash land on the mystery planet.
The mystery planet didn't look glassed to me at all. I thought it was like a giant Death Star, or a technologically advanced city that covers an entire planet. Perhaps it's another Forerunner world?
But yeah, the trilogy is finished, but I don't see why they can't flesh out some more stuff. I'd like to see a Forerunner game since I'm intrigued by them. Of course, I'd also like to see a mixture of the new multiplayer stuff with the campaign. I say a 4 player co-op, create-a-spartan storyline would be awesome. But that's just me liking customization and stats.

I bet we'll be seeing the Master Chief in the later Halo-related games, outside of Halo Wars.

[OG_Monkey]

yea, i think there will be new characters and new story line then during a mission they uncover MC and either wakes him up or just sees his body

[D3adcell]

Well in the books there are other spartans that are still alive. Also in the books the spartan program was done by dr halsey (sp) or whatever, but there was another guy trying to create a similar program but even better.

I don't know what happened in Ghosts of Onyx because I never read that book, though halo first strike had some really interesting stuff that wasn't touched on in the game. Like some artifact they found that could like bend time and space.

Oh also i forgot about the cryo sleep. Seems like there was a part in one of the books were he was floating in space in cryo sleep because the ship he was on got damaged somehow or something, so his ship was just floating around with a beacon on it and just by chance another unsc ship found him. Seems like that happened not sure.

[Derrick Barra]

Sounds to me like he landed on planet Onyx, the shield world, where Dr. Hasley (sp) got trapped in another dimension with the Spartan MKIII's (the dimension was supposed to be a paradise incase the rings were fired so the forerunners would be safe.

It's still ripe for more novels and side stories, especially since those Spartans are stuck on Onyx.

[Too Slow]

I'm still lost as hell. So what's the deal with MC? He said "Wake me when you need me." Does that mean all he wants to live for is war? Also what did it mean in the beginning of the game when the Arbiter said "Were it so easy."

[SuperLuigiBros]

I beat it and was like 'What the hell just happened? Oh well. It was still pretty cool." I didnt watch that thing at the end after the credits, so I dont know what happened to MC. Ill have to do that.

Anyone want to sum up the entire story of the triolgy for me in one paragraph? I was totally lost. All I know is that the covenant attacked earth/humans and then the flood intervines. Then when the flood was defeated that the Prophets were killed the elite guys went home or something? I played through the entire game not knowing what the hell was going on.

[HPK]

I'm still lost as hell. So what's the deal with MC? He said "Wake me when you need me." Does that mean all he wants to live for is war? Also what did it mean in the beginning of the game when the Arbiter said "Were it so easy."

It isn't all he wants to live for. It's all he really can live for. The guy was taken away from his family at the age of 6 or 7 and was introduced to war in an Ender's Game fashion, except with some genetic enhancements to just about everything. War is all he really knows. Then again, it would be pointless for him to be awake for no reason, considering he's on a wrecked ship with no supplies or whatever.
As for what the Arbiter said at the beginning. You may have noticed that Master Chief had a pistol in the Arbiter's mouth prior to that line. Master Chief wanted the Arbiter dead. Essentially the Arbiter said, "you can't kill me that easily, punk."

[Rabid]

Question:
How'd Arby get off the ship?

John is the MC's first name, and he's Spartan 117. The NATO designation for S is Sierra, which is where you get the first level's name from.

The humans actually being forerunner would explain the failed reclaimer you see in Halo 1 at the end of The Library. They fired the Halos, wiped out all life, and everything started over again, it's just that this time the covenant banded together and their technology advanced quicker than that of the forerunner.

[HPK]

Spoilers and such.


Arbiter got off the ship because he was in the part that had the piloting controls. You noticed how he ran up to the bridge in the ending movie? Yeah, the Dawn got split in half by the portal collapsing. The entire ship made it through, but cut the ship in half in the process...so, the Arbiter was able to pilot his way back to Earth while Cortana and MC were stuck in space in the other half.
But your statement about the humans being Forerunner isn't really true. The Forerunners made the human species the "reclaimers" so they can have all their crazy gizmos and gadgets (like the Halos and the Ark), but they aren't Forerunner themselves. Those who went through the SPARTAN programs seem to have a stronger connection with Forerunner objects, though. Like, they know them but don't know how they know them...which would explain how the MC can operate stuff on the Halos and the Ark without encountering it before.
However, the humans were told absolutely nothing about the Forerunners. The Forerunners didn't want them to know, but wanted them to have all of their stuff (odd). The Covenant knew of the Forerunners somehow and based their technology off of the Forerunners'. Humans hadn't heard about them until the first Halo.

Did anyone bother to read the Terminals in the campaign? Are they actually different on Legendary? There's still a possibility that the Forerunners are still alive, outside of the galaxy.

[Greg]

Thats not true the whole ship didn't make it through the portal only the half with the Arbiter in it. You have to remember the portal was at earth so the only explanation for MC being lost in space would be that only half the ship got through the portal before it collapsed thus splitting the ship in two. The Arbiter didn't have to pilot the ship back to earth, I mean how could he his half didn't have engines, he arrived at earth when he went through the portal.

[BigfootGus]

these halo books sound pretty awesome

ill have to buy all of them

[OG_Monkey]

yeah i wanna check out the books too

[HPK]

Thats not true the whole ship didn't make it through the portal only the half with the Arbiter in it. You have to remember the portal was at earth so the only explanation for MC being lost in space would be that only half the ship got through the portal before it collapsed thus splitting the ship in two. The Arbiter didn't have to pilot the ship back to earth, I mean how could he his half didn't have engines, he arrived at earth when he went through the portal.

True, but Cortana's choice of words confuse me. She mentioned how they barely made it out as the portal collapsed, but they really hadn't.

They should've spent more time on the ending, to make it make more sense.

[Too Slow]

I think that is what Bungie always tries to do. They want you to speculate the ending

[HPK]

Then I strongly believe that the Maste Chief is stuck on a planet where he has to take down an alien race of dinosaurs. They are actually a peaceful species, but the MC is bored.