Halo: Cryptum

[Arteen]

Hey, Teek, doesn't this whole "humans were equal to Forerunners" thing sound familiar?

It was always a stupid theory and I'm glad it's not true.

[Warsaw]

Comment was an in-thing. Around 2005, I had a thought-out and detailed story (made using all we knew at the time) where the [humanoid, in my imagination] Forerunners are in a two-front war with the Flood and proto-Covenant (containing the physically adept Prophets and Elites...helps explain why both had possession of major Forerunner artifacts). I had the Flood be an experiment gone wrong. They were supposed be a bio-engineered virus that was to be used to infect and control a key member of the Prophet leadership and gain intelligence (kind of like Roughnecks: SST's spider controllers). They thought it had worked on their test subjects until it mutated into a new strain that began shaping the host body for survival (combat and eventually carriers), originally developing the Infection Form as a carrier vessel for more viruses, which in turn evolved into a new centre for the nervous system of a host, overriding the higher-level and motor functions of the brain. Nobody official source had ever mentioned the Flood as being extragalactic at this point, so my origin story made sense, especially given the high level of science that the Forerunners were capable of. Since finding out that they (as mentioned in my Halo Encyclopoedia) are extragalactic, I would use that in a remake, because it's more intimidating and implies that there is a galaxy desolated by Flood out there.

Since First Strike had explored time twisting, I built on that and had the main character be one of the Spartans thrown back to that period. I can't remember how or why, never wrote this shit down. Since the story was intended for a custom campaign (which TeeKup briefly helped out with before the project closed), the ultimate goal was to actually ignite the Halo network after exhausting previous options in earlier levels. Impressed by your species's qualities, they elect to pass down their genetic inheritance to life forms on Earth still remaining post-cataclysm before they die off. Those life forms would eventually evolve into Man. With the inheritance, it explains why humanity is the Reclaimer species.

I still think that old story is more tasteful than Cryptum. Cryptum is a disgrace. Hell, I like my interpretation of the Haloverse better than the shit they've been spewing since Halo 3 (though the little data logs were amazing, and can still tie into my own interpretation well).

[Arteen]

Anything is better than the galaxy-ravaging Flood being a powder to rub on dogs.

[paladin]

Card should be writing these books.

[Warsaw]

Or Nylund. He did justice to Halo. Maybe they did ask him to do it but he turned it down because he knew they were going to dictate to him. I honestly wouldn't blame him.

[TVTyrant]

In before they blame this on 343 industries

[Kornman00]

and Frankieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[Heathen]

This looks awful.

[=sw=warlord]

In before they blame this on 343 industries

I knew as soon as I heard this guy mention that he loved the idea of "What-ever" he wrote would be considered canon that this book would be ruined by trying to change the existing canon.

[PenGuin1362]

this is gay. star wars fucks halo and this is their retarded offspring.