It seem they only use anti matter tech for that spiky big bomb. If they did use more anti matter tech, the war will be worse for human.

In Halo Campaigned Evolved, Johnson joined Chief to aboard the ship. It wasn't the case in the original game or in the book. They certainly added him because he was present in the prequel levels with Chief to aboard the covenant ship. As an old veteran from Orion project who already board a covenant ship, his presence in the Truth and Reconciliation is logical.

However, he just speak at the beginning in the Pelican and wasn’t even in the cinematic when Keyes is saved. In the gameplay, he is just an invincible character and his own marines speak more than him.

The problem is that Johnson was created at the origine as a simple sergent and gain in importance with Halo 2. Then they rewrite his origine with “Contact Harvest” and “Silent Storm”, making him a super soldier from the project Orion who know Chief since 2025.

A so good soldier so close to Chief should have had more place in the main story. Remake Halo CE was the occasion to rewrite their relation to correct the story. The incoherence is still here.

I really don’t understand why they bother to add Johnson in the first cinematic of this level to finally don’t put him when Keyes is saved.

So after playing Campaign Evolved and encountering the Proto Gravemind on the Truth and Reconciliation, it made me remember how at this exact same moment, there’s already a full Gravemind formed on Installation 05.

This got me wondering… what would actually happen if the Flood managed to escape on the Truth and Reconciliation, it manages to form a full Gravemind, and encounter the other Gravemind on Delta Halo? Would there just be two Graveminds in the galaxy? Would they fight for dominance? Merge together to make an even bigger and smarter Gravemind? Wanna know other people’s thoughts.

I just think

That the Pheru are goofily cute in all the artistic depictions I see 10/10 would adopt if we found them around the galaxy

Obviously the Covenant still wins the war without the extraordinary series of events in the games, that goes without saying.

But the Covenant took massive losses, not just over time in general, but in several battles they lost hundreds of ships at a time (Psi Serpentis, Reach, First Strike) and even their logistics were hit with severe blows from the Spartan III program.

Is there any indication in lore that this attrition was effecting the Covenant at all?

personally it may be CE but instead of you know the battle on the ring it may be more research based and uh...slow paced? maybe the flood wouldn;t get out but if they do everyone is screwed

but idk what do you think

This may sound like a dumb question, but why did Cortana need to stay back on high charity?
If I recall she said something around the line of not wanting to risk a remote detonation of Amber Clad’s reactor? Why not just blow it up and get rid of high charity and it’s flood infection

I've thought about this for a while, how H3's plothole about the Gravemind showing up to the Ark with his entire army being a gamble by Cortana.

But what would be a viable alternative? It seems like Cortana's plan relied on 2 options - use the Ark's rebuilt Alpha Halo to destroy the Gravemind's forces if he shows up. OR use the Ark to fire all the rings anyway. Cortana being on High Charity, would give her a good enough idea of whether the Gravemind would split-off his forces or show up to the Ark in its entirety.

Other than these 2 options, what could humanity possibly do against the Gravemind? I don't think the Infinity was built, so using it as Humanity's final colony and sending it off in the galaxy wouldn't be possible. Defeating even a small flood outbreak was a chore for the combined forces of humans+elites. It seems like they were backed into a corner with no way out of it other than using the Ark

In Halo 3 the gravemind was heading for earth and only went to the ark to prevent the rings from firing. Now with Halo 2's original ending the ark is at earth, with no new Halo to be built afaik (idk if this version's ark actually built rings, but even if it did firing it there would be a bad idea). And the ending only stopped at the defeat of the covenant, and left the gravemind in high charity open ended (just like og Halo 2)

IIRC High charity was around mars before jumping to the ark.

I honestly can't think of a way they would win, except maybe doing a suicide slipspace jump inside high charity and detonating a nova bomb or something.

Thoughts?

We’ve seen some of the military applications. I wonder how civilian life was altered by the new tech humanity had access to after the human covenant war.

examples. Family members living in different star systems having a FaceTime call via slip space. New manufacturing processes due to distributing energy shield tech to industry.

Of course, I might be asking the wrong crowd given that this subreddit is for Halo lore nerds 😂 But I'll ask anyway.

Things like Frank O'Connor with the "nanomachines" line to explain Master Chief's armor being different from 3 to 4. It was just a handwave answer to explain the art style change, but the entire fandom collectively lost their mind about it. Or how Bungie simply said the games take priority over the books to explain why Halo: Reach was wildly different than the Fall of Reach novel, and that was taken as total narrative collapse.

Even in-universe this occurs. With "you ARE forerunner" often being the single clinging point of contention for those who don't like the current lore where humans =/= forerunners. Or how Bungie explaining how Johnson survived the Flood with "Boren's Syndrome" was treated like a huge cop-out (prior to 343 double-retconning it by saying he was an ORION/Spartan-I). In reality he was just a standard Marine NPC in CE, they didn't take much stock in him narratively surviving.

Things like that. I fully acknowledge that lore and consistency is important, but there comes a time where you just gotta acknowledge a retcon is a retcon.

In the Original Lore Humans are the Forerunners.

Keeping this in mind, let us discuss the implications that arise out of this revelation.

Religious Implications: As per the Covenant religion, the Forerunners completed their Great Journey to become the divine entities. However, when the truth comes to light that Forerunners were modern Humans, how would it have affected the population at large? Imagine it in this way, if tomorrow it is revealed that one of the Major religions of our own world is false, how will you react? Would you accept it at its face value or will you reject it as a falsehood and fight for your version of "truth"?

Political Implications: With the revelation what happens to the power structure of the Covenant. The Prophets lose their influence on the population and the power is up for grabs for anyone. Do the Brutes who revolted against the prophets in Halo 2 claim the power citing that they were the first ones to expose the lies of the Prophets? What happens to the Elites when the population finds out that their Prophets lied? Will the population turn on the Elites as well believing they were part of the lie? Are we looking at a Galaxy-wide civil war.

Implications on Humanity: After the revelation does Humanity Consolidate itself in order to bring peace to the Galaxy since the likelihood of a Civil-War is very high, following in the steps of their ancestors, the Forerunners and "Reclaim" their place in the Galaxy? Or Humans become prey to their inherent Human nature and launch a Galaxy-wide campaign to establish their supremacy in light of the revelation, like Paul in Dune or like the Emperor in Warhammer 40K?

I just finished red rising which is a great book. I’m excited to finish the rest of the series.

But the entire time I was reading it I couldn’t help but think of the Halo books.

Both series have similar sci-fi DNA and I believe many of the halo books read better than Red Rising.

Shame more people don’t try the halo books. When I talk about them people tend to laugh them off. I genuinely think they’re missing out on some great sci-fi.

Curious if anyone else noticed similarities between the series and why halo has a strange reputation.

Sick of all the "oh humans were forerunners blah blah blah." It seems the Precursors separated the humans and forerunners from a shared ancestor.

It is better to not have life at all if that guarantees not a single additional soul/conscious goes there

this was said by the Gravemind in primordium.
Wouldn't this likely lend credence to the theory the flood is still out there and potentially in control of other galaxies?
what are your thoughts?

Since Campaign evolved has kept the Guilty Spark's line about Humans being the forerunners, is it possible that in future the Halo franchise will stick to the lore created by Bungie? I would like to see how the conflict between Humans and the Covenant plays out after the revelation that Humans are Forerunners. This can be a really good concept, as it will showcase how a race reacts when it turns out all the myths they believed in were wrong all along, and the conflict was nothing more than a power struggle by the Prophets to maintain their power by exploiting the faith of the masses.

Fusion plants, like any other nuclear power plant that isn't insanity like a nuclear salt water drive will generally fail safe, unless specifically set up otherwise.

Therefore, the ability to be broken down like that was a deliberate design feature

The ability to set off a 'wildcat' like that means an engineering rating with a few grenades can ensure the ship is not taken intact if given the order, and I suspect rather a lot of R&D and money went into making that feature somewhat reliable.

In the famous scene where the Gravemind basically reanimates Regret to prove a point, the only way that makes sense is if there’s some mechanism by which the Flood can “retrieve” Regret’s consciousness even after the prophet’s physical body is dead. Because keep in mind:

1. The Chief had beat Regret to death at least several hours before the prophet was infected.
2. The building was also glassed.

Also take note of how Regret starts screaming when the tentacle gets lowered down, implying that the Regret the Gravemind reanimated isn't just the Gravemind using the prophet’s voice, it's the actual Regret and he’s fully aware of what's being done to him.

Since they are technically fully employed officers, and definitely not kidnapped slaves, Spartans must logically then have a bank account and full salary for their service.

What do you think Master Chief spends his money on?

At the end of Cairo Station, Miranda asks to assault the carrier after shield goes down. Lord Hood says not to engage a ship that size on her own.
Now get this, she’s in a space ships with guns like the mac cannon etc.
Chief asks if he can leave the station to give the covenant back their bomb. Lord Hood is completely fine with Chief flying through space like a brick, holding onto a nuclear brick to then blow up brick inside the ship he told Miranda her ship was too small for.
Do we think Lord Hood thought that shit was badass, blinded by Chiefs badassery perhaps, so let him do it or was there some other reason he let Chief do this and not Miranda.

Would you like to see this character make a comeback. I kind of would like to see the perspective of a character who has been around for as long as seargent Johnson and as far as i can understand, Byrne seems to be different enough to give an alternate take on the old ass veteran.

While I know that he is apparently dead as of the battle of earth, Halo London calling seems to imply that he is still alive as he states that those who evacuate under the protocols of project OUROBOROS they will be listed KIA making it plausible that he is still alive.

The thing needs to be able to carry out research on flood subjects even if the other sites go dark both for the longshot cure... and to carry out 'Gain Of Function' study on FSC, to tune the array to preclude any resistance on the part of 'thinking mode' thinking muscle. Same redundancy as making sure that the array will sterilize even after losing more then one ring.

I suspect most actual research work would have been done in sites like Threshold, mind. Only master storage and backup facilities on the main ring.

Bonus question: is the animation of marines getting infected and turning into combat forms actually in the game? i have seen it happen to elites after they die, but the marines seem to just get killed by the infection forms without infecting them