Gameplay balancing? Mjolnir uses a fusion battery, so you would expect it to last a long time. Unless if the flashlight uses its own battery, but I find that hard to believe.
one of the coolest game characters ever. read the books. his daughter is almost as cool, even though she is ugly. watching this, I almost feel bad for guilty spark- I won't forgive him for killing johnson though.
anyone else notice that Guilty spark is like Golem? He is unstable (in the end at least), he is isolated from the outside world, and (most importantly) obsessed with his ring.
There is actually a formula to the monitor names: Adjective Noun 7^(Installation Number-1), so 343 Guilty Spark, monitor of installation 04, 7^(4-1)=343. Also includes 2401 Penitent Tangent. 049 Adject Testament.
Ugh... I knew that the flood host are still alive if infected alive, and that they are aware, but to actually see it through that point of view.... wow.
pepsi Atlas so it can have and orbit, also it’s a gas giant so nothing will be living on it except maybe micro organisms in the upper atmosphere but no sentient life, meaning it would stay secret
@@icommentandsunscribe no you miss my point. people would want to go to planets. planets are neat. it makes far more sense to have it out in interstellar space away from anything of interest. which turns out they did. the only reason its next to the gas giant is because spark wanted to have a look about the system out of boredom.
@@pepsiatlas5452 the only installation that is out of any object of interest is installation 00 the one that makes new halo rings and acts as master activation facility the rings themselves must be placed near life supporting planets in order to be effective against the flood...
That Captain Keyes is one of the most eye opening things in Halo for me With Halo the original when I played it, I couldn't respect his character or just how strong he was, yet throughout the Halo series we have seen how remarkably strong willed he was. Fighting and defeating Covenant at every turn, going above and beyond duty for humanities protection. Makes the intro to Halo 2 that much sadder when you realise just what was lost.
They no longer have a reason to hate humanity. THey only hated them because the prophet told them that they were unworthy and that our entire races are heretics and a plague to their gods, the forerunners. After finding out the truth, there is no longer any reason to believe that humanity is a plague. In fact, some elites thought that the humans were pretty brave and honorable after seeing them battle and questions why the prophets dont just have them join the covy. However none ever pointed this out because they are not stupid enough to lose their heads trying to defend humanity
Still the majority of them will be "racist" against humanity only some of the elites thought humanity was a valid candidate for the covenant. Its not as simple as you make it out to be. Plus these heretics were on the gas mining station inside Threshold the gas giant where Installation 04 was and only Cortana knew the coordinates to that system for several months before giving it to ONI. The high prophets smashed the heretics pretty quickly with the arbiter so there was no chance the heretics or the UNSC could ever communicate between each other (with Earth being attacked and all I think the UNSC have bigger problems then some heretics.) Look how large the schism between the sangheili is after the Human-Covenant War, Jul 'Mdama's faction has probably over 40% of the sangheili population's support. So with the heretics it would be the same amount and so the heretics would lose over 40% of their small forces to this. So then there would a heretic remnant vs heretic faction.... its not that simple.
zeakchi I think there are two main reasons many elites would not consult with humans. 1) they were still deeply devout and believed the Forerunners were gods and that the prophets were simply false prophets that misguided them. 2) They did not actually view humans as honorable because they were deceitful could not be trusted.Even the Arbiter did not trust humanity.
I'm sorry what? That's a ridiculous comparison to make, halo and stellaris have absolutely nothing in common Stellaris is an economy based conquering game while halo is sci-fi humans vs aliens and has actual depth in its lore, comparing the two is an insult to halo
@@vallarfaxgaming@vallarfaxgaming how can you not differentiate between gameplay and lore? the entire point of Stellaris is to experience the story of galactic civilisation as it unfolds... Which is also what happens in Halo in a way
I like to think it's a less evolved Precursors, not as advanced as the ones the Forerunners defeated but as it's described the Precursors could be Tier 0 or even Tier 7, the reason as to why I think it's maybe a Tier 1 or slightly advanced Tier 2 is because it keeps them rather undetectable and unknown to the Galaxy they populated but they through countless generations kept the memory of what the Forerunners did to them so they never forget. And the ship was a scout ship as the Precursors are starting to drift back to the Galaxy to finally test Humanity
It's odd. He says the air emanating from it matches the atmosphere of the ring, which means it''s wither Forerunner or Precursor in origin. The problem is i don't think 343i actually care to explain it.
Keyes' ultimate fate was so tragic, I'm glad they finally were able to depict it visually outside of the books. How he fed the Flood his memories one at a time in order to protect the location of Earth, even forgetting everyone and everything he ever cared about. Absolute legend.
It was the Covenant AI of the Truth and Reconciliation (where you find the terminal), thought I heard somewhere that their AI's are just stolen/crippled versions of ours since they don't believe in giving machines personalities.
@@davidlawrence9782 Yeah man! But not forget they had more species lot of forerunner tech... even all against odds humanity still won. You see covenant is highly instable because species rivalry. Covenant is beatable if correct tactics usen.
(forerunner warriors). He thus used the composer to create promethean knights. Refusing to acknowledge that he could not win (and fixed on trying to remove the flood without wiping out Forerunners), the Didact used the composer on one group of humans which the Librarian had set aside to rebuild the race. The Librarian then imprisoned her husband (Didact) in the cryptum deep in the core of Requiem. The rings were then fired. The Didact was imprisoned until the events of Halo 4.
I love how the monitors are constantly being like: bruh I don’t care bout you weird obsession with me covenant. Just please don’t let the flood get out.
Agreed. Kevin Grace (writer of The Return and CEA's Terminals) has such an excellent grasp on the characters and heir thought process, everything about these Terminals was just astoundingly awesome.
Master chief's escape from the pillar of autumn: Dashing through the space In one rocket life pod Through the gravity fields we go Screaming all the way AH! AH! AH!
looks like the only mystery left these terminals show is the sentient beings that crashed on Installation 04, it was obviously not forerunner because spark would recognise it, the couldn't be the covenant because the covenant hadn't formed yet, humanity was still primitive, it does not resemble anything the flood would fly. in terms of the lore, the only explanation could be the precursors. however even that is still unlikely. it could be a completely different race we don't know about
fig the flood didn't make their own ships they took over human/forerunner ships therefore the outbreak on installation 05 was contained and never escaped until the humans/covenant found THAT ring
It is unlikely to be precursor as after being betrayed by the forerunners the precursors became a form of powder which when added to domestic animals used by ancient humanity mutated them thus creating the flood. So the precursors are the flood.
I am just now starting to play through the halo series (going in completely blind) and missed the first two terminals, so thank you so much for uploading!
So if the ring has defensive measures against incoming vessels..... Why was the covenant allowed to land? I mean the monitor literally refers to them as "meddlers" as in- they're an annoyance doing nothing but meddling with the monitors plans.
25:10 343 Guilty Spark mentions how it may be able to utilize the Covenant. Even if they do not understand the true purpose of the Halo ring. Although at this point, the Covenant have already landed so your original statement still holds.
Oh man this brings me some great memories, can't believe it's been 9 years and Halo 4 came out 8 years ago, I'm looking at all these terminals and lore videos again before Infinite comes out even though I don't really need to lol but I just fucking love Halo's lore.
Let me give you a brief summary, that oracle over there is 343 Guilty Sparks, whom speaks with the same mind set of the Librarian. It depicts the long wait that Guilty had to do after the 2nd purging of the Flood (1st being during Forerunner reign and 3rd during the Halo main story.) It show how Guilty fell into madness and his original though on the Didact and his comrades Chakas and Riser, whom had other thoughts to save the universe (MC's and Cortana's plan was the Didacts plan).
not a cure, so much as a vaccine. Once your infected I don't think theres any going back unless somehow the flood unmutates you. Like Srgt Johnson was immune to infection
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Actually there is no cure, neither a vaccine. It is later learned that the Flood withdrew from the galaxy by its own will. The purpose of the invasion was to test Humanity and check if they still would be the right bearers of the Mantle. As it turned to be the case, the Flood just left, only to come back nine thousands years later and punish the Forerunners. The Forerunners mistakenly thought the data about the "cure" could be found in human memories thanks to their geas. Nevertheless, there are still mysteries surrounding the Timeless One. He told the Didact that there's no difference between the Flood and the Precursors, but that statement remains questionable.
i love the amount of depth these terminals go into. like even the very first terminal 343 allows the humans to crash land on halo because of the forerunners appreciation of the humans. which goes back to one of the terminals in halo 3 where the forerunner is describing mt. killimanjaro as a beautiful place, which is why they put the portal on earth in the first place. i know i sound like a nerd but I LOVE THIS SHIT
That was one thing I never understood about Halo, the Ark etc; why it was so easy for the humans and the Covenant to just land on the Forerunners' most secret and deadly weapons and run around on the surface. Surely any Forerunner installation of such importance would carry defensive weapons capable of blowing entire fleets out of the sky.
The Halo rings were the main defensive weapon, but the ones we see in the game were meant to house animals and protect them from the firing of the rings as to repopulate the universe. Cannot have defensive turrets blasting away the specimens you are trying to save.
They were purposefully kept far away from any civilization. Monitors and sentinels were the defensive system for the rings but they had no fleet or anti air guns really per se. In fact their main purpose wasn’t even for defense but just the upkeep of the ring. Monitors though could make the sentinels attack other life if needed, though this rarely happened.
"What i would give to have a single company of Prometheans here right now" Oh... Wow... "But if they were here, that means HE would have to be here too" Mendicant Bias...
@NuttyYoungAnt the librarian was a female forerunner of the lifeworker caste. She had reached the highest tier of her caste and so was given a whole planet to experiment on, earth. She was put in charge of documenting all sentient life in the galaxy prior to the activation of the halo arayactivation. She sacrificed herself to save the human race which were in some way related to the forerunner.
i swear this is awesome, Halo story is so big and has so many characters that have their own interesting story, just like monitor 343. I didnt know he became "bored" and all of that shit. Same with Keyes, it's so sad and he fought till the last second to not be part of the gravemind. Now id like to see a short of private jenkins haha
The ship on the last mission of Halo CE is the UNSC Pillar of Autumn. Keyes brought it down. Cortana was required to be carried by the Master Cheif so that she will not be captured by the enemy as per the Cole Protocol
A last resort if the Rings were used against them? What? The Halo array was their last resort! Between the Flood spreading and Mendicant Bias trying to stop the Forerunners, I find it hard to believe that they had options to defend against the Rings. By what was shared in the Halo 3 Terminals and ARG IRIS terminals, they were rushing to set the pieces into place and use them. A mission that they, themselves, objected to all the way.
The Forerunner trilogy of books details that there were actually TWO sets of Halo rings. The first set was destroyed save for one which was stolen and intended to be used against the Forerunner, or something like that. Read it a long time ago. They do have shield worlds to defend against the Halos, as we see in Halo 4 with Requiem and the books Ghost of Onyx and Glasslands.
alonso6300 I don't give a crap about those Forerunner trilogy books. Microsoft can't even get their games' canon right. How can I be certain of the validity of those things? Especially when they're written by Karen Traviss and Greg Bear. How are they familiar with the Halo franchise? Micro$oft just hired them to make a quick buck. Ask any Sci-Fi fan, Karen kills every piece of media she touches.
HaloModder555 The writers at 343 had input with the writing of the Forerunner Saga and the Kilo Five trilogy. They are canon because each author did their homework before writing their books and even Greg Bear acknowledges people like his son who "acted as his Vergil" through the process of writing the books. Also how can you knock say you do not trust the Forerunner trilogy on the basis that you do not like Karen? She did not write that trilogy. Lastly, the shield worlds were introduced in The Ghosts of Onyx which was written by Eric Nylund, cannot get any more canon than the original author of the book series.
Peter Cassidy Your argument is so far off from my points, I'm not even going to bother with you. Especially with that last sentence. I never even brought up an argument against the Shield Worlds existing.
You said "I don't give a crap about those Forerunner trilogy books, Microsoft cant even get their games' canon right." Which was a response to alonso's comments about how the Forerunner's were not scrambling to get the pieces into place, and how they did have a defense against the rings, the shield worlds. By stating you do not care for the Forerunner trilogy you are kind of denying anything they state.
Wait a minute the Halo rings were originally meant to starve the flood so the Forerunners eradicated all life in the galaxy. So my point is, the flood apparently feed on all life including planets infected by the flood. So wouldn't the Halo rings have to destroy planets also to starve the flood?
You know what after watching all the terminals the only question I'm left with is: Which civilization did the ship that crashed on the halo belong to? thats 3 thousand years, could actually be empty, maybe the crew was wiped out by the halo's firing and the ship drifted all those years... Anyway I'm pretty sure we'll hear more about it later on the series...
It is vaguely implied to be a fragment of Mendicant Bias, based of it's dialogue and the fact that the Covenant studied a similar entity on the Keyship.
"These reclaimers might almost prefer the flood." You are right on the money my friend! But what about "The Timeless One?" Does this mean that The Didact will release him in halo 5?
CALAMITY! I have not been more excited for halo, then when seeing these terminals for a an unfortunately long time. I'm hopeful of a great new trilogy, thanks for putting these up bro! BTW does anyone have ANY idea who the "sentients" were? The ones that crash landed on Halo but never left the vessell??
in the end Humanity is practicly "re learning" everything that was lost too them when they were devolved. the master cheif is kind of like the catalyst that will lead humanity back to their super entity like status if you ask me.
Well said. On that note, 343 GS was never human either from what I've read. A few failed Spartan-IIs did find jobs among the others at ONI but that is neither here nor there with a vid based on Spark.
Guilty Spark was a forerunner converted into a digital form to guard the ring... He wanted answers as to what happened after the firing. with the chiefs arrival he only got questions due to the humans lack of tech. the librarian expected them to find the key much earlier. The infinity holds one part of the key and the other part is held by jul the storm terrorist and also Halsey. She told jul she wanted revenge in order to get close enough to give them the second piece. With the key the unsc can locate all forerunner tech. with that tech humanity will leap forward millions of years. And achieve ascension and become the ultimate form. Like guilty sparks form. This would make them immortal. The arbiter mentions that the key to everyones survival is in chiefs past. Im disappointed i didnt piece this stuff together sooner. but i still dont know what the next threat could be unless its another flood outbreak but that seems unlikely. Any help?
Yes he was the Didacts greatest enemy. The general who had done all that he could do destroy the flood. The forerunners had the flood in there planets without knowing it. He knew that by the time he was able to explain and talk to the forerunners it would already be too late. So he destroyed all life on the planets that were infected with the flood. Like he did to his own planets. And the other planets that were infected. The Didact believed the humans are the universes wort at enemy and are not fit to be alive or even hold the mantle. So he wanted to eradicate them but his wife and the other forerunners made the Didact agree to defeat them and send them back. But when they squared off for there final battle the human general stepped forward and surrendered. After that they finally found out what the humans were running from and that they weren't attacking the forerunners. But it was too late. The forerunners we're too weak from fighting the humans too defeat the flood and they too started to fall. The forerunners had 2 choices. Sacrifice themselves to save the galaxy and all it's species. Or sacrifice every one else and save themselves. The Didact chose to do that. He took the humans and turned them all into AI. The promethean knights. He then went and started doing this to all human's. But the librarian stopped him and imprisoned him in requiem as the last forerunner alive in the whole galaxy. 343 Guilty Spark is the general that fought the forerunners. He is human and so are many other's like him. Alotta AI are ancient humans. All know of the Didact but not of The Great Betrayal. But there were 2 Didacts. The other went on a great journey and left the galaxy. That's why the Prophets and the covenant want to go and do The Great Journey but are confused in what it is. But the Prophets refuse to do anything else but to become like the Forerunners!
The last of us i didn't read your whole post just the beginning so you might have cleared it up but Guilty Spark is Chakas it states it at the end of Primordium
william greaver since the didact was put into a stasis maybe the librarian believed the forerunners failed and didn't deserve a second chance, and that the didact would be the last of the species to see how they failed
Halo CE... Funny, 500 years Into The Future, yet your Flashlight Battery Only Lasts One Minute
Gameplay balancing? Mjolnir uses a fusion battery, so you would expect it to last a long time. Unless if the flashlight uses its own battery, but I find that hard to believe.
That suits nuclear. You're telling me it can't spare a AA battery's worth of power to power a flashlight? Lol
Another thing is how you can use the flashlight without a weapon but when you take out a gun, you can see the flashlight is actually on the weapon.
Bungie was gameplay over lore and 343 is lore over gameplay, what would you choose?
Dat bitch be recharging doe!
I learned two things from this: To actually feel sorry for Guilty Spark, and that Keyes was one tough S.O.B.
Until he kills Johnson
"Oh my, your people have grown quite dramatic in the past 100,00 years." lmao
Poor captain keys :(
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+Rory Nicholson Yeah, sad about what happened to the Keyes
one of the coolest game characters ever. read the books. his daughter is almost as cool, even though she is ugly.
watching this, I almost feel bad for guilty spark- I won't forgive him for killing johnson though.
You think keyes suffered, look at jenkins...
He released the Flood on installation 04. What a moron
I knew Guilty Spark was ancient but not 100,000 years, so it makes it very notable why he was extremely upset that we destroyed his ring...twice.
Man, you really start to feel bad for Guilty Spark.
I agree, he is my favorite character in this series. ^^
....until he goes rampat
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5:27 who is 343 speaking to?
Soccercrazyigboman A covenant AI
Soccercrazyigboman Medicant Bias
anyone else notice that Guilty spark is like Golem? He is unstable (in the end at least), he is isolated from the outside world, and (most importantly) obsessed with his ring.
Doesn't he also have a rare Gollum voiceline as well in Halo 3?
"Yessssss, my precious"
@@Konfektioneryyes, he does
There is actually a formula to the monitor names:
Adjective Noun 7^(Installation Number-1), so 343 Guilty Spark, monitor of installation 04, 7^(4-1)=343. Also includes 2401 Penitent Tangent. 049 Adject Testament.
001 Shamed Instrument - Installation 01
007 Contrite Witness - Installation 02
049 Abject Testament - Installation 03
343 Guilty Spark - Installation 04
2401 Penitent Tangent - Installation 05
16807 Abashed Eulogy - Installation 06
117649 Despondent Pyre - Installation 07
Until you figure out 049 is monitor of installation 05
Ugh... I knew that the flood host are still alive if infected alive, and that they are aware, but to actually see it through that point of view.... wow.
Necro Yep
Seriously?! I didn't know that! WTF that's scary!
It's why the flood are so terrifying. Imagine being forced to watch as your body noms on friends and family. Absolute terror
@@adamorick2872 Wan't the same thing for dead space as well? Can't recall.
Actually that’s not true they kill you while being infected. However they can leave you sub-conscious if the infection forms are old.
When you watch this, you start to feel sorry for Guilty Spark. :(
He's still alive.
Unknown Entity And sgt. Johnson is also alive right? hehe right? Please? :(
***** wait how i thought the chief kill him???
but he died by a laser ?? wouldnt he have come back and try to kill the chief already?
alright alright i think i will go get this book >,
Shit! Few Hundred Years Of Travel Might Do Me Some Good.
i always wondered why they would have put it next to a planet when there trying to keep the dumb things secret
pepsi Atlas so it can have and orbit, also it’s a gas giant so nothing will be living on it except maybe micro organisms in the upper atmosphere but no sentient life, meaning it would stay secret
@@icommentandsunscribe no you miss my point. people would want to go to planets. planets are neat. it makes far more sense to have it out in interstellar space away from anything of interest. which turns out they did. the only reason its next to the gas giant is because spark wanted to have a look about the system out of boredom.
pepsi Atlas no the rings need to be near populated worlds to work as well they were all strategically places
@@pepsiatlas5452 the only installation that is out of any object of interest is installation 00 the one that makes new halo rings and acts as master activation facility the rings themselves must be placed near life supporting planets in order to be effective against the flood...
1:37 343GS
4:02 HALO4
6:18 SPARK
9:48 FLOOD
12:20 EARTH
16:09 DEMON
18:22 RINGS
20:34 ARRAY
23:57 HUMAN
25:57 HAVEN
That Captain Keyes is one of the most eye opening things in Halo for me
With Halo the original when I played it, I couldn't respect his character or just how strong he was, yet throughout the Halo series we have seen how remarkably strong willed he was. Fighting and defeating Covenant at every turn, going above and beyond duty for humanities protection. Makes the intro to Halo 2 that much sadder when you realise just what was lost.
27:05 Stupid jackal! He hit that poor, cute little Gruntie! I'm glad he got blasted.
I fell you
Why?
Of course they had chief appear at 1:17
Dragon X 518 because... love
The heretics should have asked the humans for assistance
No because they still hate humanity as well.
They no longer have a reason to hate humanity. THey only hated them because the prophet told them that they were unworthy and that our entire races are heretics and a plague to their gods, the forerunners. After finding out the truth, there is no longer any reason to believe that humanity is a plague. In fact, some elites thought that the humans were pretty brave and honorable after seeing them battle and questions why the prophets dont just have them join the covy. However none ever pointed this out because they are not stupid enough to lose their heads trying to defend humanity
Still the majority of them will be "racist" against humanity only some of the elites thought humanity was a valid candidate for the covenant. Its not as simple as you make it out to be. Plus these heretics were on the gas mining station inside Threshold the gas giant where Installation 04 was and only Cortana knew the coordinates to that system for several months before giving it to ONI. The high prophets smashed the heretics pretty quickly with the arbiter so there was no chance the heretics or the UNSC could ever communicate between each other (with Earth being attacked and all I think the UNSC have bigger problems then some heretics.)
Look how large the schism between the sangheili is after the Human-Covenant War, Jul 'Mdama's faction has probably over 40% of the sangheili population's support. So with the heretics it would be the same amount and so the heretics would lose over 40% of their small forces to this. So then there would a heretic remnant vs heretic faction.... its not that simple.
u make a good point
zeakchi
I think there are two main reasons many elites would not consult with humans. 1) they were still deeply devout and believed the Forerunners were gods and that the prophets were simply false prophets that misguided them. 2) They did not actually view humans as honorable because they were deceitful could not be trusted.Even the Arbiter did not trust humanity.
“Everything?”. The slow realization that the covenant he fought for was forged on lies
26:38 you can see the outline of the covenant carrier that Chief hijacks in the "First Strike" novel when the monitor scanns the area
Mate! Eyes of the eagle, what a spot! Love that they added such a subtle detail like that
@@helikos1 Aaand...since the Ascendent Justice was a DDS class super carrier it means....the CAS, CSO, and the DDS supercarriers all shared a frame.
Halo is basically just one big awesome Stellaris game
I'm sorry what? That's a ridiculous comparison to make, halo and stellaris have absolutely nothing in common
Stellaris is an economy based conquering game while halo is sci-fi humans vs aliens and has actual depth in its lore, comparing the two is an insult to halo
@@vallarfaxgaming@vallarfaxgaming how can you not differentiate between gameplay and lore? the entire point of Stellaris is to experience the story of galactic civilisation as it unfolds...
Which is also what happens in Halo in a way
So guilty spark floats around talking to himself a lot of his life.....tisk tisk
For thousands of years
I wonder what species crash landed on Spark's ring.
It is an ancient human spaceship
I like to think it's a less evolved Precursors, not as advanced as the ones the Forerunners defeated but as it's described the Precursors could be Tier 0 or even Tier 7, the reason as to why I think it's maybe a Tier 1 or slightly advanced Tier 2 is because it keeps them rather undetectable and unknown to the Galaxy they populated but they through countless generations kept the memory of what the Forerunners did to them so they never forget. And the ship was a scout ship as the Precursors are starting to drift back to the Galaxy to finally test Humanity
@@aries3968 Never confirmed, but from what we can see of the ship seems to match the style of ships the archeohumans had.
Calvin Coates the precursors became the flood
It's odd. He says the air emanating from it matches the atmosphere of the ring, which means it''s wither Forerunner or Precursor in origin. The problem is i don't think 343i actually care to explain it.
A game and book series that don't need a movie. Such a great story :)
Still mad that:
1] The "Heretic" and the "Arbiter" never teamed up.
2] The "Heretic" was never a playable skin in multiplayer.
The part where Keyes is trying to fight off the flood from his brain is so sad :(
Welcome to the circle meeting all circles talk about stuff
Basically yess
google ophanim, it's biblical related depiction.
Keyes' ultimate fate was so tragic, I'm glad they finally were able to depict it visually outside of the books. How he fed the Flood his memories one at a time in order to protect the location of Earth, even forgetting everyone and everything he ever cared about. Absolute legend.
It was the Covenant AI of the Truth and Reconciliation (where you find the terminal), thought I heard somewhere that their AI's are just stolen/crippled versions of ours since they don't believe in giving machines personalities.
@Mr.Tweezy007 waaaowww great find!
@@trooperodst6880the covenents ai tech was inferior to ours
@@davidlawrence9782 Yeah man! But not forget they had more species lot of forerunner tech... even all against odds humanity still won. You see covenant is highly instable because species rivalry. Covenant is beatable if correct tactics usen.
this so called Reclaimer decides to blow it all up.
25:33
Halo 4 spoiler (he mentioned the Prometheans- the dudes whose ass you gotta kick in Halo 4)
And take all your amo
(forerunner warriors). He thus used the composer to create promethean knights.
Refusing to acknowledge that he could not win (and fixed on trying to remove the flood without wiping out Forerunners), the Didact used the composer on one group of humans which the Librarian had set aside to rebuild the race.
The Librarian then imprisoned her husband (Didact) in the cryptum deep in the core of Requiem. The rings were then fired. The Didact was imprisoned until the events of Halo 4.
I love how the monitors are constantly being like: bruh I don’t care bout you weird obsession with me covenant. Just please don’t let the flood get out.
Lol if they weren’t alone for 100,000 years they probably wouldn’t have been as patient with other races regarding them as oracles.
Agreed. Kevin Grace (writer of The Return and CEA's Terminals) has such an excellent grasp on the characters and heir thought process, everything about these Terminals was just astoundingly awesome.
Master chief's escape from the pillar of autumn:
Dashing through the space
In one rocket life pod
Through the gravity fields we go
Screaming all the way
AH! AH! AH!
looks like the only mystery left these terminals show is the sentient beings that crashed on Installation 04, it was obviously not forerunner because spark would recognise it, the couldn't be the covenant because the covenant hadn't formed yet, humanity was still primitive, it does not resemble anything the flood would fly. in terms of the lore, the only explanation could be the precursors. however even that is still unlikely. it could be a completely different race we don't know about
fig the flood didn't make their own ships they took over human/forerunner ships therefore the outbreak on installation 05 was contained and never escaped until the humans/covenant found THAT ring
It is unlikely to be precursor as after being betrayed by the forerunners the precursors became a form of powder which when added to domestic animals used by ancient humanity mutated them thus creating the flood. So the precursors are the flood.
Also didnt the halo firing destory evey peice of precursor tech
Harvin Dhillon no that happened in the human-forerunner war but i may be wrong
There were still remnants of their tech, for the forerunners these were artifacts
I love how innocent and easily entertained Spark is
There is no bigger storyline than Halo.
Warhammer 40k is propably bigger
The Star Wars Expanded Universe dwarfs it.
Star wars dude...never ends
AgentMrX7 The Elder Scrolls.
+jonathan castro The main storyline is the only story to follow, there is hardly a lore to follow in star wars.
Geez, after watching the intro, I kinda wished the humans discovered 04 when they weren't being chased by the covenant.
Kinda like how the humans got their asses kicked by the forerunners, because they were being chased by the flood
I am just now starting to play through the halo series (going in completely blind) and missed the first two terminals, so thank you so much for uploading!
the talk between guilty spark and Sesa 'Refumee is the most clear I ever heard in those games. always so cryptic, so many metaphors...
Halo went from such a light to such a dark toned and mysterious and complex franchise....Like damn...This game is just a creepy pasta on its own
Poor Keyes.
Blake Belladonna ayy.. RWBY 👌🏻👌🏻 what's going on Blake?
This is why halo is the best. Bungie took so much effort and put so much work into their story, friggin amazing.
343 Guilty Spark: SPAAAAAAAACE!
This waaaaay before Portal 2
So if the ring has defensive measures against incoming vessels..... Why was the covenant allowed to land?
I mean the monitor literally refers to them as "meddlers"
as in- they're an annoyance doing nothing but meddling with the monitors plans.
Maybe they were afraid to hit the humans?
But who is the Construct?
@@andrejjelcic3675 I believe just as Cortana is a human AI, the Construct is a Covenant AI, which they built with a "religious" tendency
25:10 343 Guilty Spark mentions how it may be able to utilize the Covenant. Even if they do not understand the true purpose of the Halo ring. Although at this point, the Covenant have already landed so your original statement still holds.
It’s because he disabled defense measures so the covenant were able to land before he could activate them again
17:02 that part really hit me
I liked the last one, it had more backstory prior to the arbiter's arrival, and the truth about the rings to The "Heretic"
Going thru the series again. So good.
Alone. Alone. Alone. Alone. Alone. Alone. Alone. Alone. Alone......
these are so well done - i have goosbumps
I loved how the Keyes bit was just like it was in the book...
Oh man this brings me some great memories, can't believe it's been 9 years and Halo 4 came out 8 years ago, I'm looking at all these terminals and lore videos again before Infinite comes out even though I don't really need to lol but I just fucking love Halo's lore.
I'm glad there are more people out there that actually read into the Halo Lore, I did not think of that far nor read that far, very interesting.
Let me give you a brief summary, that oracle over there is 343 Guilty Sparks, whom speaks with the same mind set of the Librarian. It depicts the long wait that Guilty had to do after the 2nd purging of the Flood (1st being during Forerunner reign and 3rd during the Halo main story.) It show how Guilty fell into madness and his original though on the Didact and his comrades Chakas and Riser, whom had other thoughts to save the universe (MC's and Cortana's plan was the Didacts plan).
The thing that sucks they is they actually had a cure but they lost it
not a cure, so much as a vaccine. Once your infected I don't think theres any going back unless somehow the flood unmutates you. Like Srgt Johnson was immune to infection
Actually there is no cure, neither a vaccine. It is later learned that the Flood withdrew from the galaxy by its own will. The purpose of the invasion was to test Humanity and check if they still would be the right bearers of the Mantle. As it turned to be the case, the Flood just left, only to come back nine thousands years later and punish the Forerunners. The Forerunners mistakenly thought the data about the "cure" could be found in human memories thanks to their geas. Nevertheless, there are still mysteries surrounding the Timeless One. He told the Didact that there's no difference between the Flood and the Precursors, but that statement remains questionable.
Monitor 094, Abject Testament: "We deserve to be forgotten!", Of all things to live forever, alone in the dark, regret ... was not what I expected
The 'Keyes' terminal is breathtaking... just, so powerful.
i love the amount of depth these terminals go into. like even the very first terminal 343 allows the humans to crash land on halo because of the forerunners appreciation of the humans. which goes back to one of the terminals in halo 3 where the forerunner is describing mt. killimanjaro as a beautiful place, which is why they put the portal on earth in the first place. i know i sound like a nerd but I LOVE THIS SHIT
I love HALO
Yaaasss!!!! ❤❤❤😍😍😍😍
27:46 Oh Shit!
That jackal just Luke Skywalkerd !!
17:03 meanwhile on Zeta Halo
This is quite unsatisfying construct
That was one thing I never understood about Halo, the Ark etc; why it was so easy for the humans and the Covenant to just land on the Forerunners' most secret and deadly weapons and run around on the surface. Surely any Forerunner installation of such importance would carry defensive weapons capable of blowing entire fleets out of the sky.
The Halo rings were the main defensive weapon, but the ones we see in the game were meant to house animals and protect them from the firing of the rings as to repopulate the universe. Cannot have defensive turrets blasting away the specimens you are trying to save.
They were purposefully kept far away from any civilization. Monitors and sentinels were the defensive system for the rings but they had no fleet or anti air guns really per se. In fact their main purpose wasn’t even for defense but just the upkeep of the ring.
Monitors though could make the sentinels attack other life if needed, though this rarely happened.
Poor Chakas. He forgets who he truly is.
these 3d wave transitions between the pictures are wild
"We deserve to be forgotten"
perhaps, perhaps
"What i would give to have a single company of Prometheans here right now"
Oh... Wow...
"But if they were here, that means HE would have to be here too"
Mendicant Bias...
The didact
nice job dude and the last terminal ties in with halo 2
@NuttyYoungAnt the librarian was a female forerunner of the lifeworker caste. She had reached the highest tier of her caste and so was given a whole planet to experiment on, earth. She was put in charge of documenting all sentient life in the galaxy prior to the activation of the halo arayactivation. She sacrificed herself to save the human race which were in some way related to the forerunner.
I like how Keyes follows the 5th article of the code of conduct
At first I disliked guilty spark but after seeing these terminal videos I feel bad for him.
Always loved him he’s funny as hell
i swear this is awesome, Halo story is so big and has so many characters that have their own interesting story, just like monitor 343. I didnt know he became "bored" and all of that shit. Same with Keyes, it's so sad and he fought till the last second to not be part of the gravemind. Now id like to see a short of private jenkins haha
The Keyes moment was from the book. He became what was called a Proto-Gravemind.
343 Guilty Spark have the personality of Forthencho.
Spark, you have more reasons than what you stated for being sad that you were leaving the Domain. *cough* RAMPANCY *cough*
The ship on the last mission of Halo CE is the UNSC Pillar of Autumn. Keyes brought it down. Cortana was required to be carried by the Master Cheif so that she will not be captured by the enemy as per the Cole Protocol
Thank you for uploading all of these because I can't be fucked to go find them myself.
Here's something I bet most of you didn't know, 343 was a human at the very tail end of the original halo events
Chakas!
A last resort if the Rings were used against them? What?
The Halo array was their last resort!
Between the Flood spreading and Mendicant Bias trying to stop the Forerunners, I find it hard to believe that they had options to defend against the Rings. By what was shared in the Halo 3 Terminals and ARG IRIS terminals, they were rushing to set the pieces into place and use them. A mission that they, themselves, objected to all the way.
The Forerunner trilogy of books details that there were actually TWO sets of Halo rings. The first set was destroyed save for one which was stolen and intended to be used against the Forerunner, or something like that. Read it a long time ago. They do have shield worlds to defend against the Halos, as we see in Halo 4 with Requiem and the books Ghost of Onyx and Glasslands.
alonso6300
I don't give a crap about those Forerunner trilogy books. Microsoft can't even get their games' canon right. How can I be certain of the validity of those things? Especially when they're written by Karen Traviss and Greg Bear. How are they familiar with the Halo franchise? Micro$oft just hired them to make a quick buck. Ask any Sci-Fi fan, Karen kills every piece of media she touches.
HaloModder555
The writers at 343 had input with the writing of the Forerunner Saga and the Kilo Five trilogy. They are canon because each author did their homework before writing their books and even Greg Bear acknowledges people like his son who "acted as his Vergil" through the process of writing the books. Also how can you knock say you do not trust the Forerunner trilogy on the basis that you do not like Karen? She did not write that trilogy. Lastly, the shield worlds were introduced in The Ghosts of Onyx which was written by Eric Nylund, cannot get any more canon than the original author of the book series.
Peter Cassidy
Your argument is so far off from my points, I'm not even going to bother with you. Especially with that last sentence. I never even brought up an argument against the Shield Worlds existing.
You said "I don't give a crap about those Forerunner trilogy books, Microsoft cant even get their games' canon right." Which was a response to alonso's comments about how the Forerunner's were not scrambling to get the pieces into place, and how they did have a defense against the rings, the shield worlds. By stating you do not care for the Forerunner trilogy you are kind of denying anything they state.
Poor Guilty Spark. A genius alone on a world for hundreds of thousands of years. That would drive anyone crazy.
25:34 He mentions the Diadact from Halo 4. Gives me the chills...
15:14 the fourunners ancient enemy is the humans
Wait a minute the Halo rings were originally meant to starve the flood so the Forerunners eradicated all life in the galaxy. So my point is, the flood apparently feed on all life including planets infected by the flood. So wouldn't the Halo rings have to destroy planets also to starve the flood?
the flood infected sentient life not planets which also means that they couldn't infect plants and bacteria the host required a central nervous system
i was 11 when the first halo came out,now im 22 and im getting halo 4 limited edition.
You know what after watching all the terminals the only question I'm left with is: Which civilization did the ship that crashed on the halo belong to? thats 3 thousand years, could actually be empty, maybe the crew was wiped out by the halo's firing and the ship drifted all those years... Anyway I'm pretty sure we'll hear more about it later on the series...
@@Livvvid wow, 9 years, had forgotten I made that comment, but yeah, doesn't seem to be more than a sidenote
5:27 who is 343 speaking to?
I think it is the Covenant AI on board the Truth and Reconciliation: halo.wikia.com/wiki/Unnamed_Covenant_AI_(Truth_and_Reconciliation)
It is vaguely implied to be a fragment of Mendicant Bias, based of it's dialogue and the fact that the Covenant studied a similar entity on the Keyship.
"These reclaimers might almost prefer the flood." You are right on the money my friend! But what about "The Timeless One?" Does this mean that The Didact will release him in halo 5?
The timeless one? What about "The Endless"?
CALAMITY!
I have not been more excited for halo, then when seeing these terminals for a an unfortunately long time. I'm hopeful of a great new trilogy, thanks for putting these up bro!
BTW does anyone have ANY idea who the "sentients" were? The ones that crash landed on Halo but never left the vessell??
Yeah, I noticed that too. Things like that give me hope for Halo 4, and 343 as a developer.
I am more interested on pre-historic human which I believe more kickass than master chief.
in the end Humanity is practicly "re learning" everything that was lost too them when they were devolved. the master cheif is kind of like the catalyst that will lead humanity back to their super entity like status if you ask me.
Reminds me of the new Arby n Chief
Well said. On that note, 343 GS was never human either from what I've read. A few failed Spartan-IIs did find jobs among the others at ONI but that is neither here nor there with a vid based on Spark.
i listen to this without watching, his voice comforts me .-.
yknow he has a youtube channel
question: what is your favorite monitor, mine is 2401
theres not a a huge selection yknow
keyes' death actually made me shed a tear, so sad :'[
This honestly hurt my soul.. poor spark man
"the portal opens, and a familiar shape awaits... Halo. HoMe." the way he says home is soo creepy
Guilty Spark was a forerunner converted into a digital form to guard the ring... He wanted answers as to what happened after the firing. with the chiefs arrival he only got questions due to the humans lack of tech. the librarian expected them to find the key much earlier. The infinity holds one part of the key and the other part is held by jul the storm terrorist and also Halsey. She told jul she wanted revenge in order to get close enough to give them the second piece. With the key the unsc can locate all forerunner tech. with that tech humanity will leap forward millions of years. And achieve ascension and become the ultimate form. Like guilty sparks form. This would make them immortal. The arbiter mentions that the key to everyones survival is in chiefs past. Im disappointed i didnt piece this stuff together sooner. but i still dont know what the next threat could be unless its another flood outbreak but that seems unlikely. Any help?
how was he human they were at war
oh snap lol ok havent read that ill have to pick it up I was assuming he was forerunner because he said he volunteered.
oh wow just read the wiki i had no clue! I'll definitely start reading those i only really read onyx and the flood fall of reach ect...
Yes he was the Didacts greatest enemy. The general who had done all that he could do destroy the flood.
The forerunners had the flood in there planets without knowing it. He knew that by the time he was able to explain and talk to the forerunners it would already be too late. So he destroyed all life on the planets that were infected with the flood. Like he did to his own planets. And the other planets that were infected. The Didact believed the humans are the universes wort at enemy and are not fit to be alive or even hold the mantle. So he wanted to eradicate them but his wife and the other forerunners made the Didact agree to defeat them and send them back. But when they squared off for there final battle the human general stepped forward and surrendered. After that they finally found out what the humans were running from and that they weren't attacking the forerunners. But it was too late. The forerunners we're too weak from fighting the humans too defeat the flood and they too started to fall.
The forerunners had 2 choices. Sacrifice themselves to save the galaxy and all it's species.
Or sacrifice every one else and save themselves. The Didact chose to do that. He took the humans and turned them all into AI. The promethean knights. He then went and started doing this to all human's. But the librarian stopped him and imprisoned him in requiem as the last forerunner alive in the whole galaxy.
343 Guilty Spark is the general that fought the forerunners. He is human and so are many other's like him. Alotta AI are ancient humans. All know of the Didact but not of The Great Betrayal.
But there were 2 Didacts. The other went on a great journey and left the galaxy.
That's why the Prophets and the covenant want to go and do The Great Journey but are confused in what it is. But the Prophets refuse to do anything else but to become like the Forerunners!
The last of us i didn't read your whole post just the beginning so you might have cleared it up but Guilty Spark is Chakas it states it at the end of Primordium
umm why didnt the forerunners just catalog themselves like they did with other species??
william greaver since the didact was put into a stasis maybe the librarian believed the forerunners failed and didn't deserve a second chance, and that the didact would be the last of the species to see how they failed
lilbrother21 Eh makes about as much sense as anything else in the series.
pyro97 plus the forerunners are the reason why the flood exist
it was a stolen AI from a human ship during the early war and was defective over time from trying to steal secrets
gotta love how master chief just goes and kicks down the sand castle the forerunnes took trillions of years to make lol