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[ThoQ]

[Spec]Screw Halo, How about some Shadowrun?

[frolet]

It is DEFINITELY related to HALO 2.

"ilovebees.com" appeared in the official trailer.

"O.N.I.", "glassing" and "Seraph" are all terms from Halo.

[Brane]

I'm not convinced its Halo 2 oriented either. What we have to look at is the concept of timeline. The Halo universe is far into the future from where we are now, and that doesn't seem to make sense in the context of this ARG.

In AI it was alright, because the sites, characters, and story were all set in a future time - Dana and her Aunt's site are NOT. Unless we start dealing with aspects of time travel (which, quite honestly, is the easy and boring way out) then I think we need to open our minds to other possilibites.

[frolet]

copied from MrBeanTroll's post on the keyes post

[Max Damage]

This latest update is absolutely DROWNED in CONCLUSIVE links to the Halo universe. Almost every other word is a direct reference to colony-worlds, OSI AI's and the Covenant 'glassing' planets.

Lets stick to the facts here, people, and stop making completely insane theories out of random tangent universes?

[TheDude]

But don't get so hung up on Halo that if it IS something different you can't see past the obvious...

[Max Damage]

[No.]

And nobody has ever used "ONI" before?

Nobody has ever refered to nuking a planet as glassing?

[Max Damage]

[Phaze]

Before you dismiss this as not being Halo 2 related simply because it takes place in the present and Halo is future, remember the Cortana Letters that were sent to the Marathon Story page prior to Halo's announcement.

[deltafrce]

[Max Damage]

[Guest]

Its called thinking outside the box. And as for the Marathon/Halo story links, those are all complete bunk. You can choose one or the other, but not both Halo and Marathon at the same time. And the Cortana Letters are not even part of official Bungie story, period.

I'm not saying its not the Halo universe, I'm simply pointing out tidibits of information that simply do not fit into that universe.

[Kagehi Kossori]

Not a good idea to ignore non-Bungie sources tied into the Halo universe. One key aspect of these kinds of games is the more 'we' feed it, the deeper the rabbit hole gets. The Cortana letters are perfectly valid in this situation, since as several people pointed out, the first of these promo type games was based on a different time, with different people and only indirect links to the movie. Same is likely for the game.

Or to put it another way - characters/ideas included in the AI promo from the movie:

references to David, references to his 'mother', some organiztions found in the movie, but none of the characters from them, references to the doctor that made the AI in the movie suiciding, an explainaton of just how the earth froze over and who the robots at the end of the movie where.

Stuff not in the promo - virtually the entire bloody movie.

Stuff added in based in websites made by players, fiction crafted by players, in reaction to players actions, etc - more than half the game.

So, there is no reason at all why the Cortana letters couldn't or wouldn't be used 'in' this promo and placing it so far out of sync with the Halo time frame *allows* them to craft a story that ties into and maybe provides some general hints about the overall story, without having to strictly follow the 'accepted' sources.

If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, stop calling it a bloody squid, as someone from the old Cloudmaker team would have likely phrased it.

[Max Damage]