Why do you even try anymore? Everyone knows you're full of shit anyway.

Actually, that was one forerunner who wanted power, which is understandable. By the way they dealt with humans in the original flood fight, we can tell they were never humble. 343's story was perfectly logical. It's time for humans to take over as new forerunners. [spoiler]of course I understand that you are entitled to your opinion[/spoiler]

[quote]It's more like "The enemy of my enemy is my freind." type of deal. If there is an alliance after Halo 3 then it would be this very fragile one. It would be worse than the one with Stalin and Hitler. If it wasn't for the betrayal against the Elites then this civil war wouldn't have happened and this "alliance" wouldn't have happened.[/quote] Eh, not really, humanity has absolutely nothing to offer the Elites at that point. Other than [i]wanting[/i] to on the Sangheili's part, they have absolutely no reason to ally with the UNSC or any of humanity. After the initial fighting of the schism wore off and the Loyalists no longer had any surprise factor or chance of using it again, they're no longer a real danger to the Separatists. They wouldn't be a push-over, but they had absolutely no chance of winning once the Elites and the other Separatists had the chance to fight back. The Separatists had absolutely no reason to ally with humanity as the UNSC had nothing at all to offer them in terms of support or help against the Loyalists, a threat that the Separatists could and would handle easily on their own, by Halo 2/3 humanity and the UNSC was pretty down to [i]just[/i] Earth and the Sol System in terms of major infrastructure or the chance to put up a fight. And then during Halo 3, pretty much all Lord Hood has left to throw at the Forerunner Dreadnought is a handful of Longswords and three frigates. The Great Schism in the Covenant was an inevitability and was going to happen [i]sooner[/i] rather than later. The Elites were regularly starting to question the Propehts, and especially the Hierarchs, behind closed doors and amongst themselves, [i]particularly[/i] where humanity was concerned. By the time that Halo 2 had rolled around the majority of the Elites were either human sympathizers and [i]liked[/i] them from what they were able to gather fighting them for so long, or at the very least respected them. Either way, by that point, the majority were just about ready to declare they'd had enough of the war. Which is the whole entire reason why an [i]Arbiter[/i] was created to deal with a small, isolated group of "Heretics" and why Truth majorly jumped the gun in his whole plan for supplanting and wiping out the Elites and why it was so rushed. Because it was only a small matter of time before the Elites declared they had had enough and either forced the war to stop or just outright left the Covenant. Any alliances with humanity would not be tense or falling through from the Elites' end. [quote]There's also fleet masters which control fleets. All it takes is a group of them to gather up what's left over and work with each other. The power they had before is not even close, but they can still be a threat if they happen to stumble on something.[/quote] The Brutes, you know, the driving command force of the Loyalists, had next to no fleets, and what they did have was clustered around High Charity. And even if there were enough fleets that the Loyalists possessed to pose a significant threat to either humanity or the galaxy, those would be the [i]first[/i] targets of the Elites and the Separatists, as well as other Brutes. Due to their very nature the Brutes aren't a true threat to the galaxy or anyone else. Without anyone to keep them in line they collapse into chaos and fight each other for control. And as I already pointed out, the majority of the Elites either want to leave humans alone or work together with them. The Elites aren't a threat and are really the only ones who are in any position to keep everyone else in check or stand up to any threats that are left over or rise up to present themselves. [quote]Nope. After the battle of Ender these head imperials became warlords and started attacking each other. In Dark Empire there's a civil war like war. so the Empire pretty much crumbled up after that battle.[/quote] I think maybe I wasn't clear enough in what I was saying or perhaps you misunderstood. I wasn't saying that the whole entire Empire would remain unified and stick together without the Emperor, what I was saying is that there's [i]already[/i] a firmly established order within all of the little fragments of the Empire that the Grand Moffs and other higher ranks created for themselves. As an army everything is more ordered and structured than it ever was in the Covenant. You don't have the random nobody ship commanders or captains splitting off trying to carve out their little kingdom or jump to the top of the totem pole, you have them in the service of the highest ranks and sticking with whatever superiors they already had or jumping to one of the other Grand Moffs and so on because there's already a firmly established command structure and unit cohesion amongst the different groups. Which is not at all the case with the Covenant or the Brutes. [quote]In that room where Truth dies there's 7 holograms of the 7 remaining Halo rings in a row. You jump through them in a certain order to get a skull.[/quote] I realized that is what you were referring to after you linked the picture. I never really stopped to take the time to study or look at them so I never noticed any holograms or anything depicting the different surfaces. To me it looks more like what we can see of Venus with a highly obstructive cloud cover and all that than anything else >_> And even then, like I said before, there's nothing to say that it's not Delta Halo we're seeing there after everything the Elites have done to quarantine it and deal with the Flood outbreak. Even if glassing isn't powerful enough to hit every single surface on the planet or ring, enough places getting hit will destroy the whole entire eco-system and either burn off all of the water or burn down all of the vegetation. And with as many ships as the Covenant had guarding High Charity, there would be more than enough there to turn the whole Ring into a desert. I don't even really see how a lack of obvious water means a Flood infestation. Even if the Flood infested every single life-form on the planet, that wouldn't get rid of the bodies of water on the planet or dry up the oceans. We're just going to have agree to disagree about the Flood I'm afraid. That argument isn't going to get us anywhere because obviously neither one of us are going to change our minds on the subject. [quote]The ending guarantees there's going to be a trilogy or whatever after it. You have the main character of the series drifting off to some unknown planet that looks man mad. If that truly as the last Halo game for that point of the story than that would truly be one of the worst endings if not the worst ending for a series. Instead of having closer the only thing it would have done was open up a bunch of questions that would go unanswered.[/quote] Not it really doesn't. A sequel hook never promises you [i]anything[/i], only leaves open possibilities, they're never any kind of surefire guarantee for you. That is your opinion that it would have been a terrible ending, obviously plenty of people don't agree with you, myself included. All of the loose ends to the story were tied up, there were no real questions left to answer, the story was over and there was closure for all of the major plot threads. I'm sure everyone would have [i]liked[/i] for the story to continue past and beyond Halo 3, but the majority would have been completely satisfied if there was never another game continuing things onwards from the end of Halo 3.

lmao