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[SPEC][OT] "The Cortana Brief"

[MConnalley]

hey would it be possible for you to find new kinks to that information the ones u currently have dont work...?

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[Siege88]

This is almost a year old, so I'm not necessarily saying it still applies 100%, but Joe Staten pretty much says the only parts of the Cortana Letters which are relevant are whatever they actually have used since then, although I was kind of hoping they'd play more of a part [on a side note I think it kind of sucks what he actually did say about ILB, too]:

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Also I'll be gone for a week, so i may not be able to post back here for awhile, but keep the thread going and I'll come back with my thoughts.

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We are never informed as to how the war started so possibly the Covenant did try to get us to join them first. The other theory that has been put forward is that the Prophets new about a parasite that had destroyed the forerunners and mistook the humans for this parasite (given the way humans spread out and colonize I can understand the mistake.

If humans are forerunners why would both the monitors and the sentinels on Onyx refer to us as Reclaimers and not just treat us as their creators?

[Simmons247]

i suverly doubt that humans are forerunners

mainly becasue of the way guilty spark talks to humans ingame

as far as how the war started i'm guessing (spec)

covenant - great journery - ring as sacred icon - arc as sacred icon

humans - demons- infecting sacred icon (arc)

so the covenant saw us as a threat to there great journey?

Pure speculation

[Vossk]

I had a friend, that said the Forerunners chose humans as their chosen species, to fire the rings, so the Prophets thought if they wiped out the humans, they would take their place, and be able to fire the rings. Just a theory though.

[Trygon]

I'm pretty sure it was mentioned that the covenant refused humans because their religion casts them as devils.

And what are devils? Well, the opposite numbers to gods. Because humans killed all the forerunners, of course, via halo.

My personal theory is that poor translation of forerunner documentation has allowed the covenant to know that humans killed off the forerunners, but not the circumstances surrounding this. As prophets are notoriously tight-lipped with forerunner data, the elites are in the dark, and, as of Halo 3, have told the prophets to get bent and joined the humans.

[Arkanor]

Ahhhh the Cortana Letters, my favorite bits of what used to be Halo canon.

A while ago (before the H3 announcement and before Ghosts of Onyx) I wrote this analysis of the letters: http://www.halomovieonline.com/site/index.php?topic=5764.0

I think that Bungie, as it usually does, is lying when it says that the Letters are no longer canon. Not all of the information is valid but some bits and pieces probably are.


Trygon, be aware that the Forerunners killed themselves off with the Halo installations. No one is quite sure why the Covenant hate us so much, either. In the booklet that came with Halo 2 (Conversations from the Universe) there is a portion of a conversation between two Elites asking why the Humans have not been granted clemency and admitted into the Covenant. No answer is provided.

The closest we get to an actual reason is the only formal contact the Covenant have ever had with humanity; their message sent to the Heracles at Harvest. Something to the effect of "The gods have decreed your destruction, and we are their instruments."

Given the dubious nature of Covenant religion (and especially the totally unknown motivations of the Prophet Truth) it is probable that there is another, more secular reason for the invasion of human space.

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