Halo 3 - Terminal Locations & Lore
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- Halo 3 is out for MCC on PC, and as is tradition now, here's a guide to the terminals of Halo 3, plus a dive into their lore and story!
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I always liked the text terminal over the video terminals. It feels more immersive than the videos do.
It also feels more creepy and mysterious. Like uncovering an ancient dark secret
Definitely feel you . But going back and playin halo 1-2 with the videos is pretty cool imo !
That moment when you click on a Halo Canon video and it's not a premier.
I remembered like half of these only. Thanks for the upload. This truly envigorated my old memory!
When I was younger and I played Halo 3, I found one of the terminals in the Ark. when I activated the terminal, I was scared of how it looked. My heart was racing when it was getting closer. So I jumped out of the terminal
Haha i had the same feeling. I didnt get out of it but i was stressed as i was reading it. The sounds that you hear when in the terminal was the main reason.
Not to mention that at that time all that i read seemed like shenanigans
@@AK_14564 I was SO confused when I read them, I had no clue wtf was going on. Halo 3 was my first Halo so I knew nothing of the lore.
It was all so mysterious back then. Good times.
That intro is fricken epic man, never gets old
Excellent video. Just beat Halo 3 again and for the first time I tried to make sense of the terminals. This helped a lot
For some reason, I always find the Forerunner line stating Mendicant's rampancy to be weirdly casual after the speech Mendicant gives in the 2nd Terminal on The Covenant.
Thanks for this vid!
When I found the halo terminal near the easter egg i was confused and wanted a explanation of those terminals
This shit really confused me as a kid and I understood none of it
sorry to be so off topic but does anybody know of a tool to log back into an instagram account??
I somehow forgot the password. I would love any help you can give me!
@Axel Arjun Instablaster ;)
Yeah it's quite cryptic and confusing
Same lol
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Good video man. Not haveing viewed the terminals in a while, being able to view them here in more detail along with your indications as to who's dialogueing has given me a bit more understanding as to certain parts of the lore. Like onyx for instance. Onyx was going to be a place where the forerunners and the indexed species would spend their time during and following the events of the fireing. That onyx was actually created to keep the forerunners alive, not just them aimlessly sacrificing themselves. It also shows the working of the logic plague. It's not some type of computer virus that infects machines. Its shows the flood basically mind humping mendecant bias. But the main thing I gained from the logs is more involving speculation as to how the rings worked - with relation to onyx.
The prevailing theory is that the rings never killed the flood, only their food. I believe this is not true, well at least not in the traditional sense. I'll try and explain. When the rings fire, their simultaneous effect - the overlapping amplitude that's talked about, happens on two levels, or has a two step process. So the first. Think sentience, think the reason the flood need sentient organisms to thrive, and how they are then able to access the domain. Think of the neurophysiological aspects of the precursors, and their hunger to help nurture sentience. Think of the creation of the domain itself, and "where it sits" in the universe itself, and how the fireing affected it. Think of living time, and the universal conciousness theory that underlies that. What if the part of the rings fireing that killed the flood and all sentient life capable of making the flood a threat, did so on a neurological level, yet one carried out with the knowledge that sentient synaptic activity on a quantum scale is intertwined at some level to this wider conciousness field. And when activated, every sentient organism the rings were tuned to target within their kill radius was killed almost instantly, neurologically. And the second wave is the radiation that travels across the galaxy at light speed, and relies on the amplifying effect that the rings placements creates to ensure that the rest of the flood, like the biomass, spores and other non infection types and all other life is eradicated. So think the animation of the energy wave in the halo terminals. This would in theory help explain the time period from fireing, to the present day. The milky way is about 100 thousand light years across. And it's been over 100 thousand years since the rings were fired. That would give the light speed effect of the rings time to do its cleansing job, and for the indexes to be re seeded throughout the galaxy, and for the re seeded species advancement. This would also explain why so much effort was put into onyx. They would have been there a while. Just a thought, any way good video man.
Pretty interesting. This obviously means that, if the Flood are the Precursor’s neurophysical remains, the Halo effect would kill them as well, right?
@@-MendicantBias essentially yes. If you've ever watched stargate universe, the ancients created a device that allowed for almost instantaneous transition of consciousness over vast universal distances. What I'm suggesting is that in the halo universe consciousness is very important as well, and that maybe when species get to to a certain stage in evolution they are "connected" somehow at this level, a dimension or able to interact with this universal time. The further the evolution, the more the interation/connection. And that the rings were created utilising the forerunners limited knowledge of neural physics. I have my own theories as to the flood and how it came to be.
I totally agree with you about the conciousness stuff. Even the “Living time” itself seems to be concious in some way. Halo lore is way too complex.
I've always assumed the Composer killing humans in Halo 4 was a depiction of how the rings worked
@@simcity356 They do both use the understanding of neural physics to work, just in different ways. The composer targets the nervous system like the rings do but the way the body is broken down is a product of the composer and its function. The composer is basically digitizing the biology of an organism, extracting the nerual information and leaving the rest which is what the librarian was wading her hand through, reminant digitized biological waste. However the rings were not created to extract neural information, but too destroy it. They didn't need to employ the technology the same way.
The way I'm figuring it is this. Sentient beings and their brain activity must have some form of interaction with this living time somehow. The forerunners figured out through neural physics how to target sentient beings galaxy wide through these interactions, that these interactions actually leave behind certain interaction signatures - brain prints if you will. The forerunners then tuned the rings to not only target sentient beings at a neural level in another dimension, where the effect would be almost instantaneous - kind of like every sentient organisms brain and nervous systems frying. While at the same time the rings would send out another finely tuned burst, this time of some form of radiation moving at near light speed. This burst of radiation would be akin to the weapon the elite used in halo nightfall that targeted only humans. Only the rings were tuned much more specifically by the forerunners as to which organism the radiation would target and be able to induce rapid cellular breakdown. This would also explain why the rings were big, and why they were placed where they were. The rings drew power from whatever powersouce they were using, and converting it to this radiation. The preceding firing would have to produce more energy than the output than many supernovae, producing huge electromagnetic fields, that when overlapped would help the high energy burst travel through space and the atmosphere of planets, ensuring complete galactic coverage. That's just my take on it.
The other version is a big blast of energy, traveling at light speed across the galaxy, taking atleast 25,000 years to complete its work. Which, while not an unrealistic senario, is one full of holes.
Guess I’m gonna be doing the Terminals after the skulls now😁
You did good, Mendicant. You did good.
(Funny seeing the achievements being deemed as "rare" in this video.)
What better way to wait for my halo 3 steam download than watching g this video. Its been a while
Love how halo 4 is a direct sequel to these. Yet people still shit on halo 4 and praise the terminals
It really not
@@skylerwarren7300 it is 💀💀💀 it literally continues the story set up in the terminals 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤡
The story definitely wasn’t the problem in halo 4
Just because something is a sequel doesn't mean it's a good one.
@@MobiusTrigger7Not exactly because the Forerunners were still humans in the Halo 3 terminals. They just added the idea that they were a group of early humans uplifted by a more advanced civilization.
I’ve played halo 3 tons of times and I’ve never realized there were these terminals. I always wondered where the lord about mendicant bias came from.
So were these terminals created when bungie still thought of forerunners and humans as one in the same?
Yep. These terminals were in Halo 3 when Bungie was involved.
@@PsychoSpartan687 ah well, shame 343 changed the vision.
@@shmeg8695 A lot of people say these changes were unnecessary, and Bungie would of never done them. But I have to ask the question, if Bungie had different ideas, why did they allow these terminals to go unchanged?
@@PsychoSpartan687 I can’t speak to the apathy regarding the final state of the terminals, however I was able to find out that Frank O’Conner was responsible for writing some of them, figures.
I doubt it. I mean, halo 3 was actually supposed to be part of halo 2 where chief and arbiter discover the forerunners are ancient humans. The developers scrapped it and decided to say that humans were one of many species descended from the precursors. So I'd say no.
Yeah I found all the terminals because I was fascinated by them after reading Halo Silentium.
I also got the Cortana reference by reading the Fall of Reach
Nice
I always enjoyed the pre-redirect text. Never understood why they decided to not let you read all of it.
There 3
Idk about anyone else but I always cry whenever I read the last one. The ai sounds extremely sorrowful.
So there were references to Halo 4 way back in 2008??
I always considered the texts in terminal 5 to be the Ur Didact reverting Ancient humanity back to the stone age.
One question I always had: Are the elites in Halo 2 and 3 actually speaking English to Johnson, Chief, and Lord Hood? Or is that translation software in each person’s neural implants like something from Mass Effect or Star Trek?
I also always wondered if, like in Star Trek, all the humans we see are speaking different languages and it’s getting translated or if the UNSC actually chose English as the main human language.
It's all translated, although there are some examples where this isn't the case.
English is the main language of the UNSC probably due to the fact that the current major military power on Earth is the US, and the UNSC are most likely an American-based organisation. At least originally.
However, some places aren't. For example, Reach was first settled by Hungarians so that's their primary language I believe.
So, that teaser from a couple months back from Sequence that they were working on animated terminals for Halo 3 was just a joke?
oh shit... now that flash player is no longer supported. the recreation site is useless!
Nooo :(
Can somebody explain something to me?I just finished collecting the terminals again A legendary bit had a different message but I didn't get the achievement of communicating with mendicant biased
What happens if I collect them on other levels different communications?
Hi
Hello
Not working on masterchief collection bugged out
With Halo 3 PC your offset crosshair is really throwing me off
It’s so weird and painful, I have no idea how everyone (including myself) was able to use it back in the day lol
Random question but do you guys expect to see 343 guilty spark in halo infinite? Last thing I know he was somehow looking for the spirit of fire
I think well see Mendicant Bias instead, the game is a sift reboot and takes place on Installation 07
Found two of these by accident and when I entert them my game crashed xD
whenever i activate cortanas terminal nothing happens. no achievement or anything. can someone help?
Thats an Easter egg
I hope. It dont say bad words
?????????????
Hello
Great…Cortana terminal after terminal 7…
I was the third one here
Ian
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I just reread these. Shame you didn't mention how 343i completely ignored all the info in them. Also didn't mention the fact that which of the L/D pair is the female is left ambiguous in the reading of the terminals. I always read it as the Didact was the woman, but I can see why it would be read the other way too. It just made more sense to me formalisticaly.
I was hoping this video would only include the old lore and not any of the garbage in 343 nonsensical lore.
My adhd in my young child brain made it so I didn’t finish reading the terminals. Just looked like a bunch of boring irrelevant nonsense
i think the "no stone unturned" achievement is also a reference to the skyrim quest of the same name
Halo 3 came out in 2007
@@hackersack6302 damn was it really that long ago... maybe its the other way around then
It's a pretty common figure of speech.
@@pogchamp7983 i have never heard that said before except for these two examples
Bruh are you joking lol
This has to be a troll