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[GloryFish]

[SPOILER][SPEC] The New Species - Involved?

[Jonny T]

They're known as 'Drones' and look VERY much like bees, I posted a link to the article showing them, if anyone wants the link, just PM me!

[bcriswell]

Unfortunately, you did not try "insect" in your search. It is a few threads down, within this subforum. You also missed the thread in this subforum asking that all Halo 2 game related material please be posted as [SPOILER].

Don't worry. It happens to all of us at one point or another.

Could we get a title change?

[GloryFish]

All right, I'll concede "insect" is an obvious term that I neglected to include.

Gloryfish sets up a dinner plate...

Also, I was mistakenly under the impression that the third race being "insect-like" was not universally known. (However the fact that a third race exists is).

GloryFish prepares a small dish of sliced lemons...

And yes, I did miss the Halo 2 spoiler notification request thread thingy.

GloryFish takes a rather sizeable bite of .


However, with the proper labeling, I think that my topic has value. This topic hasn't been satisfactorily(sp?) discussed. Searches under "hive," "species'" or "insect" do not yield any good results.

So, if anyone has any SPEC relating to the above underlined question, by all means, do partake.

[Jubei]

Something to remember though, the Covenant is made up of various races of aliens. It is not one race. These new "drones" are most likely just another member-race of the Covenant army.

In the first Halo, MC encountered "Grunts", "Jackals", "Elites", and "Hunters." With a name like "Drone", I'm pretty sure it's just another aspect of the Covenant armies.

[finite]

Re: [SPOILER][SPEC] The New Species - Involved?

[ABoxInABox]

I think the 'Drones' are just to confuse people (further). Bungie are running an ARG called I Love Bees, and a few weeks later some screenshots come up with some bee-like things on them. It seems like too much of a conincidence to me. I'm probobly wrong though. I often am.

[bcriswell]

[GabrielBlade]

A good old fashioned trout dinner, eh? Oh well..


.. on the other hand, it does have some value. Remember in Fall of Reach the MC meets a new species of the Covenant, the Scientist caste? (Just before he meets the first Hunters..?) Well, if they've got those, plus Grunts, Jackals, Hunters, Elites, Shipmasters (possibly just high ranking Elites?) and Prophets, there may well be many, many more. We'll never know for sure until the game comes out, though.

[CoffeeJedi]

there's an old dramatic rule for writing, it goes as follows (paraphrasing):
if you show a pistol hanging on the wall in act one, it must be fired in act two

corallary:
you cannot fire a pistol in act two, unless you show it on the wall in act one

this isn't to be taken literally, just a general guideline for foreshadowing and consistency, but i think it applies here

[GabrielBlade]

Since when did Bungie (or game designers these days in general, anyway), play by the rules anymore? Granted, I think the idea has merit, and I think we'll find out eventually what they are, but I don't think they're the "game breakers" some people are making them out to be.

[Kagehi Kossori]

[Ceantari]

I doubt any new species will be introduced (outside from the subspecies Brutes) into Halo 2.

Sergeant Johnson has self-made vaccinated blood (helps put a stop to the Flood). Earth gets attacked, obviously a fight for a Forerunner artifact or Forerunner ruins (why Earth wasn't glassed, instead a fully launched planetary surface attack). It's the end of humanity and it has to be stopped. Sounds like a finale to me. I'm really curious about how they're gonna include the Flood onto Earth. Stowaways on either Covenant/UNSC vehicles. Another hidden Flood facility?

I really do no see the need to introduced another species. That and I would've been predictable anyway. I mean, we all didn't know about the Flood during the hype of Halo:CE. That was a surprise! If we're to expect something similar like that (ie: another species not mentioned or hinted at), then that would make it predictable. Like expecting the unexpected (in other words: making "the unexpected expected").

I don't think Bungie wants to hurt the Halo-verse. This is at its peak, leave it at that. The books made a fine expansion and so will this sequel game. I see this game as being the closure to the series. A fine one at that. (That's why I'm totally against the talk on Bungie.net forums about stupid fans and their conceptions of a Halo movie. Blegh! Hello? I can't think of a successful movie based on a game?)

[daboking]

centauri said:

[Ceantari]