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12/12/2004 8:56:48 AM
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Halo 2/3 Book Posted, Pages 342-345. Page 351: Sequel Revealed
September 9, 2006- Halo: The Ark is officially available online for everyone to read. There will be several websites hosting them, and each additional one will be added to this list here. The Ark is also in this thread, from pages 342-345. Feel free to read them and post in this thread.
The cover/concept art is also available for anyone who wants to see it. Just follow these links:
[url=http://img370.imageshack.us/my.php?image=halocoverartfromjoeslayergk8.png]Cover art by JoeSlayer[/url]
[url=http://img147.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sb2copygi6tc1.jpg]Back cover art by JoeSlayer[/url]
[url=http://img201.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dandonahueconceptartvn0.png]Concept cover art by Dan Donahue[/url]
[url=http://img224.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bookcoveroh0.jpg]Concept art by Paul[/url]
[u]Here is the list of websites hosting Halo: The Ark[/u]
[url=http://game-spectrum.com/news/entertainment/halo_the_ark.html]Game Spectrum[/url]
Nov 17th, 2005- by now, there are 30 chapters of the book posted. if you dont want to look through this entire thread for them, click the link in my signature, it will take you to my official site, where all the chapters are posted.
May 17, 2006- Work on the book has come to a halt as all editing (professional) has been done. There is work currently being done to get The Ark published, hopefully by TOR. Any questions about the book can be asked here, and i will answer them as promptly as possible. This is not an official bungie project.
Click [url=http://www.archive.org/download/The_Ark/theark.pdf]Here[ /url] to download a pdf version of it. Actually, right click and save, otherwise it won't work.
The following material is the original post from way back when, so if you're looking for the more recent stuff (that has been modified from reading the beginning works), please visit my website, which is in my signature, or click the link above to download a pdf version of it. Please do not ask for the last chapters, as i will not send them to you. Any and all news will be posted whenever it comes up, and i will say so in the subject heading, with the appropriate page number and date. Chapters are generally posted weekly, though i discuss each chapter's release date beforehand so confusion does not ensue.
If anyone knows anything about the Halo 2 book, or what comes after it, let me know. Cause if nothing's happening with it, im gonna write it. Here's the prelude to halo 3(?)...
Prologue
Ninth Age of Reclamation/First age of Rebirth
Yielding Righteousness/ Current Flagship
The doors opened as the Arbiter walked into the Grand Chamber, seeing rows of his brethren. His Sangheili. They all uniformly bowed down on one knee, their heads to facing the ground. The Arbiter turned to his Spec-ops captain, now the general of the armies, and said, “You never told me there would be this many.”
“I thought you would like being surprised, Arbiter.” He showed a grin, at least as best a Sangheili could.
They started walking through the main aisle, with an honor guard walking behind them as protection. The Arbiter felt that the presence of the honor guards was not necessary, but understood the honor they must feel to be here, especially now. Walking past each new row allowed all to stand in that row, which alerted the Arbiter of some discrepancy. He turned his head left, and saw several rows of Lekgolo, their massive bodies gracefully rising as he passed. And further ahead, even more rows were filled with the small Unggoy, who fidgeted even while trying to keep their composer. And they all were bowing.
He looked back at the Lekgolo, shocked at the amount of them in one room. He had never seen so many, and they could easily overpower the entire ship if they wanted to, but they also didn’t carry their normal weaponry, which attached directly to their arms. The Arbiter forced himself to look away so not to draw attention to himself in any negative aspect, for it could ruin his purpose here today.
They climbed the ramp up to the stage, where the honor guard behind them went to the right side of him, and to the left he saw another waiting for his arrival. The Arbiter went to the front of the stage, and the Captain/General stayed behind several steps. He looked upon the crowd, understanding that the future may rest upon their shoulders.
The chamber had fallen dead silent now, and the Arbiter scanned the room once more. He stood tall and came to the very edge of the stage. “As you all know, I am the Arbiter. I have been chosen for this… this honor, by our previous leaders. However, there may be those among you who believe that their word is heresy, regardless of when it was said. And because of my rank, my position, I will become the leader of our group, our new covenant. If anyone disagrees with my appointment as the Arbiter, speak now.”
The chamber stayed noiseless, but faces animated and expressions came to color. The Arbiter looked back to his Captain/General, who nodded to him. Suddenly, one Sangheili stepped out of his row, and yelled, “Long live the Arbiter!” As the Arbiter turned back to his audience, he found that he was deafened by the cheering of his name. A wave of relief struck him, and he held his hands to show silence was required. Moments later, it was so.
“You all honor me with this privilege, yet I must postpone our celebration for another time. This meeting is one of urgency, where three important things must be discussed. The first of which being the creating of a new Grand Council. After this meeting, all not stationed upon the Yielding Righteousness are to return to their home planets to decide on the council members.”
“Our next goal will be to secure as many Huragok as possible. They are a necessity on every ship, world, and army. If we can take many away from the Prophets, it will give us a strategic advantage against them. They will undoubtedly be attempting the same, but we cannot allow them to take any Huragok, or the upper hand will be theirs. Do not forget their usefulness, even in the heat of battle.”
The Arbiter sighed, and looked up at the lights, then directly into the holocron monitor, which was projecting his face among countless worlds. “The final article is something that has come into my thoughts several times during these past few days, something I would like express to you. The Prophets have always asked each race to join the covenant, or even allow them honorable submission, but not the Humans. These Humans are a strange race, yet nothing about them is notable in any sense with the exception to the demon. Regardless, it makes no sense for the Prophets to ‘fear’ these Humans. But I understand why they do. I have fought and killed them, as well as fought beside them as allies.” Whispers appeared throughout the room, and the Arbiter raised his voice to overrun them.
“Wait!”, he yelled, and the chamber’s only sound was the Arbiter’s echoing voice. “Through my experience with these Humans, they fight with the same honor we would, use clever tactics as we do, and will die for victory if necessary. And now that we are not at the prophet’s side to protect them, they have much to fear of the Humans!”
Cheers wailed throughout the room, and a group of Unggoy began jumping up and clapping. The Arbiter allowed the crowd to settle down by themselves before speaking again. “From now on, if you should see a Jiralhanae, Yanme, Kig-yar, or a Prophet, you are to conquer them, and show them who truly is strong.” He smiled as best a Sangheili could. “Even more so for the Kig-yar, if you know what I mean.” Laughter broke out, especially through the rows of Unggoy.
The Arbiter walked off the stage, followed closely by both honor guards and his Captain/General. Suddenly the laughter turned to applause, as the Unggoy yelled, and the Lekgolo and Sangheili bowed again to one knee. The Unggoy followed suit quickly. With each passed row, the rising covenant would chant “Long live the Arbiter!”
The Captain/General whispered gently to the Arbiter as they walked down the aisle, “ It would seen that you left a good impression with the covenant.”
“No, we are not the Covenant anymore. We are the Preeminent."
If you guys like this, let me know, I have about 10 more pages written, in no partucular order, and can post them if anyone wants to read them.
[Edited on 12/17/2006]
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An energy human weapon
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S5 AM Sniper Rifle This rifle is a gas-operated magazine-fed weapon. It is issued with a smart-linked scope with three levels of magnification. Low-light amplification can be activated on the scope as well in badly-lit areas. It fires 14.5mm armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot rounds. The 14.5mm round is an anti-materiel round and can easily over-penetrate several armored soldiers. The magazines hold more ammo about 6 rounds. The scope consist of a distance configuration computer and two different visions night vision, and gamma vision (detects heat off of foes). The gun also has a longer barrel fore better accuracy and placed at the end is a silencer to isolate the sound M12D Pistol This pistol is a recoil-operated, magazine-fed handgun. It is issued with a smart-link scope capable of 2x magnification. It fires 12.7mm semi-armor-piercing, high explosive rounds. It can shoot either semi-automatic or automatic fire. 14 round per clip plus bullet tips are placed with tracer fire capability. The gun also has a sleeker lighter stile for easy use on the battle field Prophet Plasma rifle Highly heated plasma projectiles with 30 rounds per power core armed by the prophets this version of elite and brute rifles is both stronger and longer lasting. [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] EAGLES5 An energy human weapon[/quote] ya sure what ever
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umm...those guns with exception to the prophet plasma rifle sound alot like the regular weapons we had in halo1/2. and it seems like the sniper rifle is actually toned down a bit, using only 14.5mm instead of the.50 caliber bullets. sure, the infrared vision, which is what tracks heat, is cool, but with a crapier gun, it won't help much. but i do see what you are saying, and they are very welcome oppinions. the prophet plasma rifle is an interesting idea, but would they use such a weapon? when fighting regret, he had a crazy yellow hunter-like gun, which was more powerful than the hunter's.
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It would be pretty cool if you could use a Spartan specific weapon. I just finished Fall of Reach and it mentioned the Spartans wepon locker. After that Keyes wanted to know if there was standard weapons to repel borders. So there could be Spartan specific weapons. My Idea: Mjolinir Shock Rifle: Fires a .90 caliber armour percing round. The tip of the bullet delivers a minurate EMP blast to drop the foes shields completly. However this drains your shield halfway. This feature can be turned off. It also has a fragmentation grenade launcher attached to the bottom of the barrel to propell the grenade to even farther distances then previous. The rifle can fire fully automatic, 3 round burst and single shot. It also has two levels of magnification, a 2x magnification and a 5x magnification. The rifle also sport a jumbo sized magizine of up to 50 bullets stored at one time. *Note: EMP blast can only be delivered in semi-automatic shots only. I added the EMP blast thing to try and even the weopon out. Also the wepon has horrible accuracy when fired fully automantic (worse than SMG) but sports pin-point accuracy with single shots. Well this just came of the top of my head in the spur of the moment. Also the shield thing would be pretty cool. If you stood to close to the EMP blast it could drain your shield also. Plus it also include the armour into your weapon. Tell me what you think. [Edited on 3/29/2005 5:30:08 PM]
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First of all I have read through all 130 pages and I have to say excellent work sir_brilliant, with a little bit of polish these chapters could easily become a book. As for the Spartan weaponry I would want to see a minigun specifically for the Spartans, not just ripped off the worthog. It would be the same round (the worthog's is 50 cal. I think) and the rate of fire would be impressive. It would naturally be inaccurate but would just fill the area with lead. They have these guns now, mainly they're attached to helicopters to provide air support, but they would be awesome in the Spartan's hands. As well incendiary grenades would be cool, and portable mortars a la Tribes, and a "det sack" (bomb sack) so often metioned in the books. A new rifle would be cool too, that has two parts that come together. The top part is the "heavy rifle" that has about 10 rounds of 70 cal. ammo with armor piercing tips that fires semi-auto. The bottoms detachable piece is a compact assault rifle with the 7.63mm round and the auto, three shot and single shot settings. It would contain about 40 rounds. The 70 cal. rifle would be good for heavy enemies (Hunters, Brutes, Elites) as well as vehicles, and the bottom would be the normal rifle. Thats my two cents
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Alright, firstly a semi-automatic shotgun or even a full auto. Like I've said before, pumps are only in games to balance it out and to look and sound good. In real life there is no desire to balance things and make it more fair for your enemies. Next, a rifle with an extended clip, changable between single, three round burst, and full auto like a G-36 with grenade launcher as a secondary function. It should be a bull-pup design so it could still be accurate. A decent pistol. Not the Halo CE murder machine, but not a wimp. Halo 2 pistols are good for headshots and dual-weilding mostly. Minigun. simple. Powerful, smaller magazine pistol. No scope. Proximite mines. Flamethrower with napalm-like capabilities like Turok Evolution. Super-extended clip spray-and-pray. I talking 100-something rounds. This is just a short, generic list of possibilities I have. Any others anyone would like to discuss with me, just pm me.
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both grockeg and hellmunky have great ideas about weapons, although the emp thing is kinda strange. and grockeg is right about having serious weapons that probably wouldn't be in the game like fully automatic shotguns. therefore, list the craziest but realistic guns either around now or that you can think of. I think maybe 4 would be nice, for the spartans, and maybe a few for the covenant as well. but at the moment, the fully automatic shotgun is definately in. as for the rest...
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a mini cun would be sweet
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after going over the weapons compendium i found something, for every yin there is a yang, a counterpart, there are 3 sides now, the two covenat sides need to have diffrent weapons, the ground work has been set with the 2 plasma rifles we need a divition of covie weapons brute plasma - plasma rifles - SMG brute shot - energy sword - shot gun ????? - plasma pistal - magnum Needler - ?????? - ?????? beam rifle - ?????? - sniper rifle ?????? - fule rod - rocket launcher ?????? - covie carbide - battle rifle the counter part for the fule rod i think would be like the weapon the prohit of regret has, maybe called prophites light the needler may be the plasma pistal/magnum's counter part, but this leaves the beam rifle and the carbide, any suggetions?
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i think a sig sauer sg550 sniper would be good it fires like 14.5 mm bullets and it has a 20 bullet clip, i just want an aweosome sniper with more bullets
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Sir an EMP is like an electric discharge that wipes out electronics. Like in the first book it mentions escaping the EMP blast radius but the Commonwealth got caught in it and it fried the electronics. So if you set of a Nuke for example surviving and surronding areas would receive an EMP blast, disabling any electronics in the area. An EMP is an electromagnetic pulse that constist of Gamma Rays. An ex. of a catstophic EMP blast: If you were to detonate a nuke between 400-500km above Kanas you would have and EMP blast that covered the contenital U.S. Any info you need just go to google.com and type in "EMP" or "EMP defintion".
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i know what an emp is. it stands for ELECTOMAGNETIC PULSE, which simply sends, as its called, an electromagnetic pulse out. this does nothing to organic life, but simply kills all other objects running off anything that would be in the electromagnetic spectrum, ie-cirtuits, batteries, all electronic equipment. and in the books, the mc's armor cannot be harmed by emp bursts because of how its made, but everything else can be. thats why they don't use nukes in space battles like that, because the blast radius would knock out half their own systems. and with the super mac guns up there, i would think that any nukes would be only used as a last resort. anyways, i thought of something crazy just a few moments ago. Remember halo1, at the very end, when you see halo blow up? what was going through the minds of all covenant, human, or flood on that one portion that was blasted off the ring and ran into its other side? And which side did it land on, the front or back side? Cause if it was the front, then they'd all be crushed from the impact, and it if was the other way around, then the same would happen, but it would be from momentum instead of another wall.
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Oops forgot about that. Hmm... maybe there is a new EMP thing based of covent designs and has a pulse strong eough to disable MC and elite shields. Any way I only added the EMP shock to them weapon to add a twist to either your book or gameplay(if put into H3). Maybe the bullets could be tipped with explosive charges that still do the same thing as the EMP shock and still take half your shield to power the charge.
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no, it sounds cool, but i don't think i'd use it just cause it would harm mc. anyways, when you blow up a sentinal, it actually releases an emp burst when it hits the ground. thats why it always takes your shields down in a certain radius.
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Maybe a mini-nuclear weapon that does not deliver an EMP?
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How about a gernade that once you throw it became a proximity mine. Once the enemy walked past, it would blow up.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] EAGLES5 How about a gernade that once you throw it became a proximity mine. Once the enemy walked past, it would blow up.[/quote] Nah... that would be quite boring... you already have Lotus Anti Tank Mines...
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An incendiary grenade would be cool
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How about a blade that the MC hooks up to the armor aong his arm. Its not real bif but in a hand to hand he could slash
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A Fusion pistol!!! that would be back to Marathon big time.
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A GRAVITY GUN
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] EAGLES5 A GRAVITY GUN[/quote] No that's too Half-life
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I would like to see some hand-to-hand combat. The closest i have seen to that is when the energy sword runs out of battery life and you smack people with the handle. But i would enjoy it to be like the books where he does hand-to-hand combat with the elite in that place where he and kelly went to get that ship by reach and also when he fought that elite in the covenant ship. That would be nice.
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I got some Ideas from THE ART OF HALO CREATING A VIRTUAL WORLD.If you have it then you could see what Im talking abou 1.Elite agumented shields(Pg. 20-21) 2.Grunt Plasma Rifle(Pg. 26, bottom left corner) 3.Hunter armor atatchments(Pg.34-35) 4.???? Rifle, slightly different from battle rifle but fires like the assualt rifle9(Pg.102) 5.Human Carbine 6.Flash Gernade 7.smoke bomb 8.since brutes have red plasma rifles, how about red plasma gernades 9.covenant dual plasma blades How adout some new veichles.MC did capture a covenant vessel.Cortana probably got some in formation about how they use there technology 1.Human ground transporter(Pg.122) 2.3 types of warthogs that were removed from Halo2 3. human atv thing 4. covenant hover cycle; good for a hyspeed battle 5.human scarab, MAC gun instead of beam, also used as transporter [Edited on 3/30/2005 12:56:30 PM]
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MA8B - Improved version of the MA5B assault rifle. It fires 9mm armour-piercing rounds from a 50-round magazine. It can be fired in automatic or semi-automatic modes. It is less bulky than the MA5B and has longer barrel for increased accuracy. It has a built-in recoil dampener and an Improved integrated computer which displays the number of rounds left in a magazine, mode of fire, and the relative direction of the nearest gas giant. It has a higher rate of fire than a BR55 but more accuracy than a MA5B. It would be a useful, all-round infantry weapon. [Edited on 3/30/2005 2:53:07 PM]
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Plasma Charger-Sorta -blam!- name but anyways it is like bigger than the plasma rifle and fires semi auto. It has like a massive power core becuase to fire gathers a big ball of plasma and fires it (sorta like the plasma pistol but smaller so you can fire at a decent speed) Also Plasma Scatter--blam!- name as well but it is sorta like around the same size as plasma rifle and it fires by gathering up a big ball of plasma then when it fires all the plasma becomes little tinny balls of plasma (sorta like human shotgun). It would only be good at short-range but farther than human shotgun.
