Halo's Biblical Referances + Halo 3 Theorys

[rocketman089]

Okay, this will be hard to explain, but I'll give it a go. Me and my friends have been playing and finishing Halo 1 and 2 again and again recently, looking for hints about Halo 3. Well, over the course of the summer, I've noticed a ton, a ton of things about the serie's plot and the bible. Let me point out just some similarities first, to try to keep my thoughts organized.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warning: If you've been hiding under a rock and don't know the plot, spoilers are ahead, be warned.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Okay, first, Halo, the sacred ring and considered holy by The Covenant. Obvious religous reference right off the bat. As we all know, the halo signifies a religous association (just look at any christian art).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Covenant: In the game they are an extremely religous group of alien races led by The Prophets, who are trying to activate Halo to send all who are worthy on The Great Journey and meet up with the Forerunners in the Great Beyond, unbeknownst of Halo's true purpose, as they are blinded by their faith. After failing to do this twice, they find out that they can activate the Halos remotely from The Ark (Which in my opinion is on Earth, but we'll get to that later).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the bible, the Ark of the Covenant is built by Moses, and contains the Ten Commandments (If my knowledge of Judea/Christian history is off, please note so). The Ark is claimed to be in in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Ethiopa right now. In the game Halo 2, The Covenant strike Earth in only one place, New Mombasa (Kenya), which is close to Ethiopa (which is as stated before, the Ark's supposed location).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, changing directions a bit, we goto The Flood, a race of parasitic aliens who consume anything and everything in it's path, mutate their hosts, and change the atmoshpere. They are unstoppable and can only be stopped by destroying their food (which is everything living. including humans and The Covenant). The Forerunners built The Ark and the Halos for this purpose, a last resort to stop the flood. If the installations are activated, the galaxy is whiped clean of the flood, thus killing off the flood. This has happened once so far and is the reason why the Forerunners no longer exist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, In one of the Halo novels (I forget which one, or maybe it was in the game), 343 Guilty Spark (We'll call him Oracle) says that The Ark is also the only safe place from the flood. This is critical to my theorys about the Forerunners, Humans, and everything's connection, but I'll get to that. Now, in the bible, there is also Noah's Ark. Noah builds this Ark to save himself from a flood (similarities plz?) that will whipe out all of earth but him and the animals contained in his Ark. Just like the game, the Ark is the only thing that is safe from the flood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Forerunners; in Halo, they built the Ark. The Ark is considered the most holy of places by The Covenant and is where the Halos can be remotely activated. The Forerunners are basically seen as gods by The Covenant, and according to The Covenant built the Halos and The Ark to cleanse the Galaxy and send the worthy Covenant to The Great Beyond and live with The Forunners (Heaven, Apocalypse relevancy).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another, tiny note, but possibly big. If you notice carefully, in the cutscene where Master Cheif lands on Halo (I don't remember if it was 1 or 2), you can see in the backdrop a continent shaped like Africa on Halo.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Okay, now that I've pointed out a couple of things that Halo relates to biblical history, let me try to make sense of it, and I'll go into what I think the 3rd and possibly final game will be about. Everything from here on is what I think happens/happened and may or may not be true.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, thousands of years ago, the Forerunners activated the Halos to rid of a violent Flood infestation that was taking hold of their infinite empire, and to save the rest of the galaxy/universe from becoming totally infested and destroyed by the parasites. They activated the Halos from The Ark, which was also the only safe place from both The Flood and Halos capabilities. This is where Noah's Ark comes in. The Forerunners either were "Noah" or chose "Noah" to give The Ark to (I guess so that in the future they'd have guardians or something). The Ark eventually came to be The Ark of The Covenant, which is being guarded in Central/Eastern Africa (as it was intended to be).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, thousands of years later, an alien coalition of races called The Covenant (The Ark of The Covenant referance), find Halo after following The Pillar of Autumn in slipspace. Anyway, Halo 1 the game happens, Halo is destroyed before it can be activated by the covenant. Oracle, who found Earth's coordinates from the crash landed Pillar Of Autumn ship, survives Halo's destruction and is captured by The Covenant, interrogated, and gives The Covenant Earth's location (The Ark's location)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Covenant strike in New Mombasa, Africa, and nowhere else, with a fleet so miniscule it's as if they didn't expect human resistance there. Why didn't the covenant expect there to be a human resistance at Earth, the center of the human empire? Because they had no idea humans lived there. They thought it was an ancient Forerunner planet to which was home to The Ark and was of great religous importance. The presence of humans was completely unexpected.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, in Halo 3, we find out that why The Covenant came to New Mombasa to retrieve The Ark and activate the Halos, but did not have time as they came upon the center of human civilization unexpectidly. This is why they return with a much more numerically superior force in the end of Halo 2, to retrieve The Ark once and for all.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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I can't guess how it really ends, but this is my clouded up theory of the whole story and how biblical history is supposed to be integrated with the story. There are tons and tons of ways to interpret all the stuff with the game and the bible. I'm pretty sure it was integrated with biblical history on purpose, when you think about all these things, it really makes the plot of Halo much more interesting and thought provoking. Think of what I wrote as you wish, this is just some of the stuff I've been thinking about lately (sorry if the info is really cluttered, contradictory, and doesn't make much sense, I'll try to explain myself if needed).

[LordChocobot]

If I recall, either Halo 2 or one of the Halo books mentions that the rings were activated 100,000 years before the events occuring then, which leads me to believe that your theory about Earth being safe from all of that catastrophe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As for the plot of Halo 3, I really don't know what's going to happen there. The Covenant has already struck Earth at the end of Halo 2, so Master Chief has to haul [wagon] and save the world from the Brutes/Jackals, not the Elites or Grunts - the Brutes kinda overthrew the Elites anyway, and that totally pissed off the Elites. Once the Arbiter lets the Elites hear about the real purposes of Halo, I have a feeling they might side with the humans - which would be totally awesome for the humans and MC ( btw, I hate the Marines/Helljumper teammates when playing as MC in Halo 2 - the Elite squadmates are so much better, I wish I had a group of them all the time :cry: )

[Mercifull]

Ive always considered Halo to follow some biblical plot from the beginning but never in this much detail. I dont really know what to add but it was very interesting reading. Thanks :)

[LordChocobot]

Oh right! During every encounter that 343 GS has with a human, he refers to them as a Reclaimer - might be some more Forerunner-human correlation there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And your welcome for the reading, Merc :o

[rocketman089]

Oh right! During every encounter that 343 GS has with a human, he refers to them as a Reclaimer - might be some more Forerunner-human correlation there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And your welcome for the reading, Merc :o

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh yeah, speaking of 343 GS, theres another little biblical/mathematical thing. Halo 1 took place on Installation 04. 7^4 is 343 (343 Guilty Spark the Moniter of Halo). Then there's 2401 Penitent Tangent, moniter of Installation 05, Delta Halo (7^5 is 2401, pattern there). There are quite a few references to 7 in the bible (7 years of Judgement in the Apocalypse comes to mind at the top of my head).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But yeah, The Reclaimer thing is pretty interesting too. Though MC isn't the only Reclaimer, it's any human I'm guessing, as Captain Keyes was "The Reclaimer" in Halo 2 (she was the one being forced by Tartarus to activate Halo). I guess it's just one more connection with the humans and Forunners.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And thanks Merc, glad you enjoyed it :) .

[Lionheart_0]

Very interesting Rocketman. I knew, like Merc, that there were some kind of conection between halo, and a form of religion, but i never went to figure it out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good job man, hope you turn out to be right.

[misterxman]

Pretty interesting, I still just see it as a fun game really. Bungie could barely finish the game with one ring involved, now they have to make a game with dozens of rings to deal with. All that I could speculate is that the next game isn't called Halo, but instead named the Ark and placed on Earth. Kind of weird but Bungie's been saying no plans for H3 yet.

[rocketman089]

All that I could speculate is that the next game isn't called Halo, but instead named the Ark and placed on Earth. Kind of weird but Bungie's been saying no plans for H3 yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I thought about that one too. Bungie still denies any Halo 3 development but they aren't denying a sequel with a different title. I'm pretty sure you can pre-order it regardless of title for like $59.99, est. shipping in June, 2006. I guess one can only speculate until then.

[LordChocobot]

 

All that I could speculate is that the next game isn't called Halo, but instead named the Ark and placed on Earth. Kind of weird but Bungie's been saying no plans for H3 yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I thought about that one too. Bungie still denies any Halo 3 development but they aren't denying a sequel with a different title. I'm pretty sure you can pre-order it regardless of title for like $59.99, est. shipping in June, 2006. I guess one can only speculate until then.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With that damn ending they gave Halo 2, they better announce development of the conclusion fast

[misterxman]

 

 

All that I could speculate is that the next game isn't called Halo, but instead named the Ark and placed on Earth. Kind of weird but Bungie's been saying no plans for H3 yet.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, I thought about that one too. Bungie still denies any Halo 3 development but they aren't denying a sequel with a different title. I'm pretty sure you can pre-order it regardless of title for like $59.99, est. shipping in June, 2006. I guess one can only speculate until then.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With that damn ending they gave Halo 2, they better announce development of the conclusion fast

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But give them time to make it perfect. Right now everyone's happy with XBL on H2 so there's no rush for the multiplayer section therefore no rush for the next game like last time when everyone was tired of playing H1 on XBC or never online at all.

[Noobinated]

Halo2 = n00bed up version of halo1.

[Silver_Dragon]

( btw, I hate the Marines/Helljumper teammates when playing as MC in Halo 2 - the Elite squadmates are so much better, I wish I had a group of them all the time :cry: )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Me too. Even though I saw A LOT of complaints on different fan forums, I enjoyed playing as the enemy for once. It was a very unexpected change of pace, but it was nice seeing the Cov's perspective of things and how they work ;)

[rocketman089]

Oh, by the way, also meant to post this video I came across. Anyone who's played Halo 2 Live will appreciate this smack talking guide :lol: .

[LordChocobot]

Halo2 = n00bed up version of halo1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You're an idiot. Go spam up some other thread :roll:

[rocketman089]

Halo2 = n00bed up version of halo1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Okay, first, this thread isn't about Halo 2 or it's gameplay, it's about the series' general plot, it's relevancy to biblical events, and how we think it will turn out. Second, at least back whatever you say up with some legitimate points and arguements. Assuming you've even played both games, you can say stuff like: The auto-aim is too predominate in Halo 2, or the that the energy offsets gameplay balance, etc. , anything but what you put.

[Lionheart_0]

Oh, by the way, also meant to post this video I came across. Anyone who's played Halo 2 Live will appreciate this smack talking guide :lol: .

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: omg, i bet some poeople do go out and talk smack after this... lol this is the perfect guide to being the biggest idiot on Halo 2 XBL!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... i wish my xbox was fixed....