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[Starblade]

Any hope of the sequels being good went down the drain with Hayden Christensen and Jar Jar Binks.

[Scumbag]

I don't think there will be a fancy ending.

I think it'll end. One day everything is as we left it, the next day Ilovebees.com is just some website selling honey.

Dana's log will come up. She's confused. Everything is back to normal... except the people that were helping her. None of the links she had on her blog work for her anymore. Its as if we dissapeared, just as most of her situation dissapeared from ours.

There may be hints as to what happened. Maybe there won't. But my gut says this puzzle will end with another puzzle - figuring out what the hell just happened.

My gut ain't been wrong yet, when it comes to ILB.

[Dragonrider]

Okay, my bet on whether or not these chars will be in Halo 2: I think not. Except possibly a cameo from Herzog's aide in New Mombasa. Like someone mentioning that he got killed or possibly him briefing the MC on a current situation (ex: "Master Chief, the Covies have been trying to get this artifact for three days now. I think I'd better give it to you before they break through that door and come right down our throats. Maybe that fancy AI of yours can figure out just what the heck it is" or something like that).

Anyway, that was my $.02

[accidentalsuccess]

my spec:

1) the artifact's broadcast was/is what brought the covvies to earth, not a violation of the cole protocol. Therefore, the ILB starts during first strike (not unreasonable).

2) There will be a sly reference or 3 to ILB in halo 2 (name tag on somebody), random exclamations by bystanders/troops that indicate they are jan/gilley/etc.

3) It ends w/ the heath of 1 or more people in serious jeporday (didn't we all think hertzog bought it?) but we see their cameo in H2

as for the in-game stuff.. . .i think we actively help melissa squelch stuff, for better or worse.

[Smoke]

[HUMOR]

It will all end a week early, on November 2nd. ILB is not for Halo 2, but is instead a nautral-party advertisement encouraging young folks to vote.

[/HUMOR]

[Centipede]

[skyhawk0000]

[Mazian]

[tsioc]

I dont think the artifact is what let the covenant know about earth. I think they found the coordinates in an an artifact, they same way they found the coordinates to Reach...

that said... I have a feeling it will either end with the people in the future dying during the invasion, or end with the invasion beginning, and people panicing.

[bcriswell]

Well, what I would like to see is our intrepid adventurers successfully disabling the artifact; Jersey heroically saves Jan's life so he is her "hero"; and Durga meanwhile gets Sophia out of detainment and reunites her with Kamal.

[daboking]

i am 100% with ya bcriswell!!!!!

[Meridianchild]

[SPEC]

I think they will lead right in to the start of the game. To me it looks like a big plot setup for Halo 2. Here's what I see happening....

...The crew assembles at Chawla Base and executes the plan to the 'T', but once things start to go their way, the Covies attack and they become trapped.

Enter Master Chief and the begining of Halo 2. Your first mission as MC will be to recover the artifact in the midst of all the fighting. Upon discovery of the location of the artifact Durga starts to communicate with cortana and helps lead MC and Cortana to the artifact's location.

Once you find the artifact, you'll find our beloved Axon plot characters along with it.

And so we begin Halo 2 right where we left off.

[/SPEC]

[Oecumenix]

I'm leaning on the side of the ILB characters not being in Halo 2, other than maybe a couple of off-the-cuff remarks by random NPCs.. and maybe some advertising up around the place (the "another dog just like me" one would be sweet..).

But.. as far as endgame goes I'm thinking our transmissions from team Dur-Ja-Ra-Ka-sey will end abruptly once they deactivate the artifact. Blip! that's it.. Melissa's gone. So [wildspec] with ONI guards closing in on their position [/widlspec] we'll still be left with a cliffhanger as to whether they get out ok, survive the covenant attack, etc., whether melissa ends up merging with durga, or just dies (if she was just a temporal clone of Durga created by the artifact), whether the flea goes back with her, whether they all get crushed by rampant dancing robots..

And that's it. I'm not convinced there'll be much closure in this.. just a fringe story that gives an insight into earthlings (or 'dirtlings'.. hehe) around the time of the invasion (and what we're all fighting for.. *patriotic sniff*)

[vector]

I still have my bet on this sunday not being the end of the game. First off there is still alot to finish up with the story and if it ends at Chawla Base it would seem a bit anti climatic. My main reason right now for the game continuing untill at least the 9th is that we are directed to a TRAINING exercise on the 4th. if the game was over and Melissa was gone then there would be no need for a training exercise. Seems to me that Melissa would want to train her crew for a mission comeing up on the 9th (being fighting the Covenent when HALO 2 arives. Essentaly i belive that we will have the broad cast on sunday, one more set of wavs on tuesday to tie up loose ends, training on thursday, and a last good bye on the 9th. I expect we will get to hear the reaction of the Durga Team as the Covenent launch thier attack. most likely

"Daaaaaammmm!"

[Oecumenix]