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DarkHuman

[SPEC] The Glyph is the ARK

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:26 pm

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Vossk

Im pretty sure the Ark is an actual place, where everything inside was safe from the Halos' pulses.
But how did you come to the conclusion that the Glyph with the Lunar chart under it is the Ark? Or what? Im a bit confused.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:08 pm

DarkHuman

just from looking at the new screen saver toooooooooooo long.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:20 pm

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Dunia · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 75

Located this list of forerunner symbols that someone decyphered. Not sure if it is helpful.

I believe the symbol for Installation 7 should be rotated so the circle is to the east.

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/CovenantForerunnerGlyphs.pdf

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:38 pm

laro6781 · Greenhorn Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 6

I think Darkhuman is right, at the end of the announcement trailer, you see what we presume is the Arc "firing" something, if you take a look at the image with the glyph, and compare it with how the Arc would look from a straight up arial shot, with the pillars that were rising out at the end of the trailer video compressed back into the Arc, it seems like it would look the same...

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:15 pm

camshaft · Boot Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 66

Yeah, that's exactly what the ark looks like just before it opens.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:19 pm

Awhite2490 · Decorated Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 160

I still believe that we have yet to see the ark.
I think that what is commonly believed to be the ark is actually just a sort of...teleporter? to the actual ark.
More proof of this (I think) in the Halo 3 E3 trailer....

I believe what you see on the horizon there is the outline of the actual Ark, and that it is an installation like the Halos, out in space. Perhaps even concealed within our moon, and the "ark" on Earth is something frees it...

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:28 pm

laro6781 · Greenhorn Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 6

I just started to doubt myself, and it looks like I was right to. Took another look at the first trailer, and a close look at the machine at the end. While they ave similarities to the glyph picture, I no long think that they are one and the same. Take a look, tell me what you think...

Edit: theory above would coincide with the "shield world" possibility, and why the machine fires up into the sky, even though it would be activated differently from the one in Ghosts of Onyx, but then again, it may be an entirely different machine.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:31 pm

Ragamuffin · Boot Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 50 Location: East Bay, CA!

Has it been decided whether or not the large structure in the E3 trailer (pics posted by Awhite2490 above) is on Earth or not? I believe that there's no way that could possibly be Earth. Having a huge structure like that appear on our planet... how? Out of the Earth's crust? I'm no scientist, but I think the effects that would have on the atmosphere would be nothing short of disastrous.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:37 pm

camshaft · Boot Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 66

It's been established -- I can never remember where when I need to -- that the E3 Trailer IS the Ark, and IS on Earth. I think the confirmation was in the Halo Graphic Novel, but I'm not 100% sure of that. I am positive that I recently re-discovered it, and said to myself "you know, we should really stop debating whether that was the ark, because it says so right here in official bungie material."

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:51 pm

camshaft · Boot Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 66

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:59 pm

Ragamuffin · Boot Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 50 Location: East Bay, CA!

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:11 pm

retina · Decorated Joined: 18 Jul 2007 Posts: 197

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:27 pm

camshaft · Boot Joined: 31 Aug 2004 Posts: 66

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:29 pm

Awhite2490 · Decorated Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 160

Well, I'm afraid I have to defend my theory...
You see, it may be confirmed that the Covenant BELIEVE the Ark is on the Earth, but that is quite different from the Ark actually being on Earth. I think it is quite possible that the Covenant has mistaken the "ark" as the entrance/teleporter to the actual Ark.

**Posted:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:49 pm