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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Believe it or not, magnetic accelerator guns exist today. Alright, they're not magnetic accelerator CANNONS, but they still exist. As for stuff like "gravity guns", if we haven't mastered plasma, we definately don't have those. Mini nukes are possible though. Also, I want an automatic shotgun. We use pumps in games for several reasons. #1 They are lighter in real life. #2 They are less likely to foul during use. #3 The sound of a pump shotgun is associated with something getting destroyed. Autos are more useful in a sense, especially in the future considering we have lighter metal alternatives. Automatic Shotguns. Not semi-auto, like my Remington. Full auto. We need them. [Edited on 2/23/2005 8:12:58 PM]
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Maybe it would have been more realistic if the Halo universe was like 150 years in the future, instead of 511 years.
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hes talking about the three in the battle cluster and in the game it literaly is in a cluster also in the corner window there is an other groop of there so there is 100 !!!!!!! batle clusters!!!! 3 per cluster !!!!! and 300 in all and he can go back and fix the wording its now big deal !!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"i think it would be ironic if we were all made of iron" :P (caboose rocks) anyway, about the MAC guns and all that stuff, REACH had about 20 of 'em and held out pretty well, BUT! i was thinking about it and in the begining of The Fall of Reach when dr. Halsey and Keyes go to inspect john, it was on Reach, but Reach is a military planet, and why would there be any civilians on a military planet?? and why would a military planet (as important as Reach is) why would it have more protection (that is MAC guns) than Earth would, that is, OUR HOME PLANET!!! which is waaaaaaaay more important than any other planet, no matter what planet it is.... so saying that Reach has more MAC guns than Earth is just silly :P anyway, brilliant, you rule, keep up the good stuff oh and by the way, one thing that i'm confused about your story are the dates... some of the dates look too familiar to me from the original books...
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guyS its is just a game. Bungie wasnt going to spend years predicting what things would be like 500 years from now. We cant expect to much
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A t any rate, Halo is a game and the stories are fiction, but because of the sense of reality that engulfs and compels you to go deeper, it seems to make the reader or gamer establish a sense of connection. The Halo game saga rules, the books rule and no matter how many MAC gun stations there were, it is probable that there were more on Earth's defense grid than there was on Reach.
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It is probable that there were more MAC gun stations on Earth's defense grid than on Reach. It doesn't really matter to me how many guns there were because I know that they had a somewhat stabalized defense. The main concern is how much the reader is involved with the story and if it hooked them in. Again Sir Brilliant, this story rocks.
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Henifer in the Fall of Reach Dr. Hasley and Keyes met John on his home planet, he wasn't living on Reach.
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And MCs home planet is Eridanus II and they found him at Elysium City when he was 6.
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I didn't read that he was found in Elysium City...
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All the information youll ever need about halo: [url]http://library.psyjnir.net/ [/url]
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ah! cool... didn't know that
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Hey, Neon Dragon, cool website. Its got all the Information you'll ever need!
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Yeah, but Neon Dragon, have you, or anybody else, ever seen a picture of Steve Downes or Jen Taylor or David Scully? Just asking since you also knew about the cool website.
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They have stuff on that site that was taken out of the game like the ATV and stuff that ui have never heard of its amazing
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Just to make this clear: I did NOT make this website or have any part in making it, I merly found it and told you about it(I dont want to take credit for someone elses work). And yes I have seen a picture of Jen Taylor and Steve Downes. That site is excellent, spend a few hours looking thorough it and you will know loads of stuff about Halo, then impress people with your knowledge ;) [Edited on 2/24/2005 2:43:44 PM]
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I looked at alot of cool stuff. Things i didnt know things i thought were amazing. Some of that stuff is way way out there
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I put up a thread to let peiople know abut this site
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Thanks EAGLES5.
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wow a whole page about a website, it is good though. so anyone know when the next chapter is expected to be out?
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wow, that is a good website. i think i'll be using it often. anyways,since so many people disagree with how many super mac guns orbit the earth, i made a poll for it at [url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=2317424&viewreplies=true] this site[/url]
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I put a thread about the site in THE UNDERGROUND and a mod replyed, i think he was mad
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that site is kool, hey brilliant, can you give us an estimate of time the next chapter can be out? well im out, ill see where we are at in the morning
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Yeah we need more! Cu later
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Hey, Neon Dragon could you tell me where I can find those pics? (steve downes, jen taylor) And Sir, do you have any idea of when your next (fantastic) chapter is coming? [Edited on 2/24/2005 11:49:32 PM]
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err, i think i should have it out by next week, maybe by tuesday or wed., but no promises. i do have alot of other crap to do, unfortunately, and if i didn't, i'd have it done by tomorrow, but, you know. life's life.