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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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Hey guys a simpler way to explain 343 Guilty Sparks being able to defy gravity is that he nullifies or cancels out the effects of gravity, time, and all the other things that make the world tick. Also my 8th grade science techer (yes I'm in 8th grade) has been teaching us a lot about atoms and elements in the periodic table. He said that currently scientist, only believe they can get to number 118. Also all the elemnts that start with 'U' and the ones that will go after will be most likely radioactive and man made. This could change however, in 500 years. We have yet to pyshically discover other parts of our galaxy and our universe, so, in time things could change.
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Does it matter when we get to see the new rocket launcher? he can put it in there when he wants to, be patient, he has a life you know (i think?!?) and anyway if earth is still here in 500 years, ill be amazed, by what i figure, well have a nucular hollocast about 3 times. (actually i dont know im just spitting out ideas)
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well, i dunno if it matters whether the new rocket launcher will be in action soon, but it will, in this chapter i'm writting now. and for those asking questions about how 343 defies gravity, just think of it this way: if he is a black hole that is kept from ripping all the atoms around it, then how could the tiny gravity of any world pull him down. his own gravitational field allows him to maneuver however he wishes, at any speed he wishes. i see you all like this crazy stuff i'm putting in that doesn't seem to make much sense at first, but after some discussion does. so in this next chapter, there'll be stuff about the super mac cannons and relativity. it'll be awesome.
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Well who's Theory of Relativity are you going ot use? Never mind i'm just giving you a hard time. Keep up the work.
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Hellmunky... You're right about number 118... But 500 years is waay too much... Nanotechnology is advanicing as we speak... I simply ddon't have time to explain it all to you, which you wouldn't understand much of either, but most scientist in researching that area would probably say 50 instead, before we start discovering new... By nanotechnology you would basicly be able to build them yourselves... Don't ask questions, just believe me:) if anyone want's to know more pm me, and i'll try to send you some nice links and stuff:)
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wow please man please email that to me at spl10246@yahoo.com wow, wow, better than the officils ones
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I didn't quite get you... you want the story or the nanotech stuff:)???
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What I meant about the things being man made is this. All th elements from 110 (I think that's right) are manmade. I was saying that all the next elements have to be manmade. I was talking about something entirely different from naotechnology. Nanotech is little machines, not the atoms that make them. Because look at this an atom cannot be divided in 2 because it is the smallest it could be. A nanotech machine would be made up of atoms. Plus an atom = an element. An element is just a type of atom i.e. Hydrogen, Helium, and Lithium.
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well, atoms can be split, and thats nuclear fission. but it takes alot of power, and usually requires extremely large atoms, like uranium or plutonium, thus the nuke. but if you used hydrogen, it would take the atom apart into the protons, neutrons, and electrons that its made of, and would be alot more difficult to do than with uranium because of how stable it is. and forget about 500 years from now, the humans didn't make 343. it could be thousands, hell, even millions of years before. remeber the flood, how the last use of the halo rings was over 100,000 years ago?
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Can someone please pm me all of the new installments as they come out between 5-31-05 and 8-1-05 because I'll be on vacation oversees during that time. Thanks for the help.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] sir_brilliant And forget about 500 years from now, the humans didn't make 343. it could be thousands, hell, even millions of years before. remeber the flood, how the last use of the halo rings was over 100,000 years ago?[/quote] Yeah, just try to think of it as being - a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away..........well maybe. It's just something that is not readily understood by the Humans, or even the Covenant. The Forerunners had supreme technology which they understood and knew how to use. 343 GS is one of many examples of this supreme technology. [Edited on 5/27/2005]
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Just incase anyone doesnt get the idea about 343, here is the basic idea. He is made of a material so dense that it has a gravitational pull on objects similar to that of a black whole. To counter this, he has an electro magnetic core put into him to neutralize the effect and put him in a 'neutral' state. In this 'neutral' state, he is not controlled by some of the laws of physics, explaining his invunerability from attack and him existing so long. Hope that clears it up. btw, when do you think the next story will be posted SB? [Edited on 5/27/2005]
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And the fact that there is no practical use for elements that high in the periodic table, because plutonium bombs are boosted with tritum that is Hydrogen with two extra protons BTW, which creates more powerful explosions than anything higher up will do, because the half life on those elements is extremely short. They have no practical applications in shielding or anything else (which would be the 60 Carbon "Buckey" ball), which is forever destined to stay on the fringe of the scientific community. Bottom line is 8 billion years of the universe's physics isn't going to change in the next million years, let alone 500. And to the nanotech person- if it can't heal or be turned into a weapon, and is an environmental hazard (with no safe way of getting rid of it) no one will try to achieve such a vain goal now that it is pretty much accepted that there is no future in making larger atoms, but rather in miniatruizing.) and one last thing, the idea of neutralizing gravity in each planet 343 GS has been on, not just Halo installations, in the space of what I will guess is a soccer ball, is so laughable that I need to revisit the commode. Nothing neutralizes gravity. Except for nuclear fission, which converts matter into energy in the most efficient terms know to man kind, and if 343 GS was capable of such an action, there would be no need for Halos, just a whole bunch of flood-hating suicidal robots. [Edited on 5/27/2005]
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I need help. My computer crashed in March and I lost contact with this forum. Now that I got it fix I went to the website which is no longer in service. I left off when Kelly ordered a to stop the actavation of the new Halo that was discovered. All I need to know is where I can find the pages to read the rest of the story to get caught up.
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im baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack lol sup every one wut hapening
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every one remember this? [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] sir_brilliant yeah, we do need an interesting topic to consider for the story...oh, here's a question i wonder if any of you guys understood: Remember back in chapter 14, where the arbiter and johnson were talking to 343 about the black hole, and he ended up explaining how he was impervious to any attack...did anybody understand the explanation he gave? i know that the other characters didn't, and i made it that way on purpose. here it is again: [quote]“Yes, well, this black hole’s radius indicates that the event horizon is about ten thousand kilometers off this vessels bow. Should we pass it, this vessel will be quite devoid of all matter, except for me.” “How could you survive? You are also made of matter.” “Quite simply, I myself could be considered a black hole, although the effects I should have against my surroundings have been neutralized. The material I am made out of is known as in you’re language as bisepthexium, which would be on the Human’s periodic table of elements as number 276. Due to its great mass and density for being a single atom, my creators decided to build me using it but in great quantities, so simply used high pressure systems to create my high-density structure. This required a barrier for my existence to not destroy any other beings, and my creators built within me a self contained rotating magnetic-electric field with an extremely high yield, causing a dispersion of all atoms to be pushed away from me as easily as they are pulled, making equilibrium between me and my surroundings.” Both the Humans and Elites looked at each other for a moment in awe, completely dumbstruck by everything they had just heard. Glusman looked back towards the black hole, seeing nothing but empty space. “Right..."[/quote][/quote] I understood that, and I am in 8th grade.
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Hey spartanfornow you said something about the gravity being neuralized and, how it isn't possible. 343 Guily Spark is found on the Halo ring which has gravity similar to that of Earth's. My theory is that his body or whatever you want to call it, can only neuarlize or cancel out certain levels of gravitional pull, say that of Earth's. Theres one reason he can neutralize the gravity but how to survive a black hole? Saying that the material he's made of isn't radioactive or is but, has low level emsions of radioactive rays and has an extremley long half-life, has small atoms. If he had small atoms that were super dense, didn't bond well to other atoms (either 8 or 0 valence electrons) and packed well toghter with super strong bondas he might be able to survive it. Plus Sir said that he created an equalibrimin with his surronding due to the pull of the element and the push of the electromagnetic field. If he could change the fields strenght he would be able to counter-act the black holes pull. Both of those factors could allow the survival of a black hole. That's my theory anyway. [Edited on 5/28/2005]
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I'm with decapitator, some moronic man on a power trip will end up blwing this whole planet up before we even get to 2552.
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man that chapter was sweet. have some more battles in Israel (like we don't get enough of them here already...) I actualy live in Tel-Aviv and i'd like to people fighting in Tel-Aviv anything other than arabs for a change. keep it up
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Henifer Lope man that chapter was sweet. have some more battles in Israel (like we don't get enough of them here already...) I actualy live in Tel-Aviv and i'd like to people fighting in Tel-Aviv anything[b] other than arabs[/b] for a change. keep it up[/quote] I'm not trying to pick a fight or anything, but is that a racist comment??? Edit: I made the other than arabs part bold Again can someone please pm me the next few installments as they come out until august because I will be in Egypt until then [Edited on 5/28/2005]
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I just put in a lazy link for this page and wanted to see if it works. btw, sir, when do you think the next installment(s) will be up? edit: awesome, it does [Edited on 5/28/2005]
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I like how many people are looking into this. The problem is, the passage from the book is based on BAD science. I mean we are talking leeches as a cure all BAD science. Nothing is able to survive the effects of a black hole, except for a larger black hole. If 343 GS happened to be a larger black hole, then everything would be sucked into his gravity well and form in a singularity, which means he could have just flown around acting as a giant vaccum cleaner and destroyed the flood. Black holes cannot be neutralized, the force of gravity is simply too strong, they can capture light, which has almost no mass, and travels at an extreme speed. An element with an atomic number of 276 would not be solid, I would examine the atomic mass and futher debunk the theory, but there is not definative information for the correlation between protons and neutrons on that scale. Also, there is no atomic mass for the largest element, 118. Element 118: Standard state: presumably a gas at 298 K Colour: unknown, but probably a colourless gas Classification: Non-metallic Availability: Not commercially available. That is all a little bit off topic, we don't know how an atom of that size would react. I suppose we would have to know for certain how the universe is created before that. I think somewhere along a nuclear explosion, because it creates some of every element. Of course, what could create a nuclear explosion on such a large scale as to create enough material that just 'happens' to become matter and life, is entirely up to you as an individual. Well, 343 GS isn't capable of slip space travel, which is the only way he would be able to escape the gravity well of a black hole. Even if he were able to create as fast as light speed, which requires an infinite amount of energy (Just like an infinitely small mass is a photon) he would either be forever trapped on the even horizon or he would be sucked in with the rest of the ship. His hovering ablity is a mystery which should not be thought about, because if he is very dense, then he is very heavy, if he has small atoms that don't bond to others, than he would be a cloud. Sigh, best to leave sci fi alone. [Edited on 5/28/2005]
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THAT WAS FLIPPIN AWESOME!! Dude you should write books! Could you send me the rest? E-mail me at phelan689@yahoo.com. IT WAS AWESOME!!!! :D [Edited on 5/28/2005]
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well, you guys sure have alot to say about only 3 paragraph's, which, as i remember before, half of you didn't understand to start off with. agreements, disagreements, and simply "don't do that"'s have been said. lol, awesome. anyways, i'll put it simply: it is possible, because elements can be created, but we simply do not have the power to simply mass produce elements higher than around 100 and keep them stable at the same time. but its very possible, and i don't see why it wouldn't be. so, there you have it. as for the next chapter, it'll be up when you all wake up tomorrow morning. i'm doing another all-nighter, which is becoming famous for me, although i didn't finish the chapter before everyone, at least in the US, was awake. my bad, i just slapped my hand. btw, it'll actually be between 3 and 4 chapters. don't get too excited, as some will have been up for a while already, although with some major changes. like the usage of the new rocket launcher. EDIT= just remembered something. using uranium for nuclear power is a very pathetic form of obtaining energy from it. this is because uranium is unstable and large, whereas atoms like hydrogen and helium are extremely strong and small. if we were able to take apart hydrogen and helium like we do with uranium, the total power the world makes in a YEAR would be nothing compared to what that plant would make in a day. and if it were iron, then it would be an hour. [Edited on 5/28/2005]
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Hey, I was wondering, what happened to your website?
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Disregarding everything everyone has said about the subject of the survival of a black hole, I'd like to point out a few things. 1. There is no physical evidense of a black hole (Just looked it up. They have some evidense using radio waves). 2. The elements we have now are numbered 1-112 and 114. And 61, 93-112 and 114 are all man made, radioactive materials with a half-life. 3. Current scientist only expect to get to number 118. 4. This is all 500 years into the future. 5. A material that only bonds to itself well, such as the 'noble' gases, is emensly strong (either that or very weak). 6. All the man made elements had to made with a partical accelorater, that sped the atoms at near the speed of light. 7. All radioactive have a half-life. The more protons the shorter it is. The shortest is .24 milaseconds. That's numbedr 114. If it was number 274 it would be around .0000000000000000000000001. Conclusion: There is not enough evidense to support any of the proposed theories and/or hypothesis's. My Conclusion (speculation): Not enough evidese but, listen to this. If it was a real black hole (if they exist), he would most likey not survive. But then again we are talking about the Forerunners here. We all know they have vastly supierior technologie than either race. I'm guessing that they made an artifical black hole that could be deactivated to reveal the structure. Most likely not but maybe possible.
