Halo: Reach Discussion

[Kornman00]

Halo 2 LE disc they talked about how when they came back from the E3 demo that they really didn't have a real plan. They spent a majority of their time preparing that demo (along with some of the graphical features in it) only to come back and figure out that they needed to start over on some of their story and game feature set (dropping or not using them; not redoing the entire fucking engine who ever said that).

That's all the E3 demo actually was...an engine demo.

Also, after Halo 2 the rings were put on "standby" due to mid-sequence shutdown...hence the need to go to the Ark.

[.Wolf™]

If he's not the same Gravemind, then it begs the question where he came from. Where did the Flood find enough food on Delta Halo, post Halopocalypse, to generate a new one? The humans and Covenant had only just arrived during the events of Halo 2.

Bungie pretty clearly led the player to believe that he was a remnant of the war with the Forerunner. Given Cortana's line in Halo 1, "Halo doesn't kill the Flood, it kills their food." -- it made perfect sense that he would have survived. Then Halo 3 has to come in and confuse everyone by demonstrating that Halo does indeed kill the Flood.

Simple answer. The flood went into stasis. Which also explains why there already are a large number of them at Delta Halo. Also the Flood at Delta Halo had been out of stasis a while, since the AI there had a red glow(Possibly the defensive or Anti flood state?) I dont think the gravemind grew by eating food.

[t3h m00kz]

It's speculated that red AI signifies rampancy

[=sw=warlord]

If he's not the same Gravemind, then it begs the question where he came from. Where did the Flood find enough food on Delta Halo, post Halopocalypse, to generate a new one? The humans and Covenant had only just arrived during the events of Halo 2.
It's possible the Gravemind came from somewhere else after finding out about the flood forerunner war, the flood were afterall extragalactic.

Bungie pretty clearly led the player to believe that he was a remnant of the war with the Forerunner. Given Cortana's line in Halo 1, "Halo doesn't kill the Flood, it kills their food." -- it made perfect sense that he would have survived. Then Halo 3 has to come in and confuse everyone by demonstrating that Halo does indeed kill the Flood.
The flood infect hosts, the halo's would kill the host's but not the infection spores themselves leaving the infection stuck in a dead host, much like Ebola, that virus kills its host so fast it cannot spread itself and yet it is possibly the most deadly virus on earth.

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Oh and kornman, Joe said in the halo 2 LE at one point they felt like they had gotten back from E3 2003 with less than they had originaly hoped and that it required alot of rethinking.
There's an awful lot of differences in terms of the engine and not just because it was beta stage.
Im asuming you would know more on this though as last i heard, you had access to a copy of the beta which had the ATV.

[.Wolf™]

It's speculated that red AI signifies rampancy

2401 Penitent Tangent red colour could also be his default colour. Like Guilty Sparks is blue.

[=sw=warlord]

2401 Penitent Tangent red colour could also be his default colour. Like Guilty Sparks is blue.

I always thought the monitors default was blue but when they thought there was danger to the installation they turned red, pertinent tangent was captured by the gravemind which would pose a huge threat and guilty spark turned red after realising the humans want to blow both the ring and the ark up.

[t3h m00kz]

I believe Guilty Spark turned red upon betraying the chief at the end of Halo 3. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[.Wolf™]

Defensive state?

[Martini-562]

Doesn't Spark also turn red for a moment in floodgate when he blasts the flood forms that appear behind the chief? So, the red glow could be just his defensive state.

[.Wolf™]

Also mightve been mentioned

After the graduation of the first class of SPARTAN-IIs in 2525, Dr. Halsey began planning for the next wave of Spartans; her efforts, however, ran into problems. There were too few candidates that were in sync with her age restriction protocol and a majority of her funding was going towards MJOLNIR maintenance and construction; leaving little room for continued training efforts. By 2531, the majority of her funds had been diverted and she was forced to postpone the effort indefinitely.[4]
Around six years later, however, it seems that enough candidates within the right age were numerous enough to begin a second class. Six year old Yasmine Zaman was abducted and replaced by a Flashclone just like the Class-Is, and taught in a similar way. She however, died during augmentations.
Another girl, Janissary James, was selected as a suitable candidate for training. However, her father, an ORION Project member known now as "James James", killed the to-be kidnapper.[5]

I still believe Halo:Reach Spartans are Second generation Spartan-II´s.