Halo 3 ending

CDsDontBurn

I need some understanding to it. I just beat it on legendary, so i saw the additional ending clip. And there are still two things i don't understand.

1. on the wing of the ship at the memorial for all those who died, there is an engraving numbered "117". What does that mean?

2. At the end of the legendary credits, master chief comes upon a planet. What is the significance of this planet? It leaves me for another "cliff-hanger" momment wanting to know more as to what happens afterwards.

does anybody have any ideas or speculations as to what will happen with the Halo series?

Tipstaff

1. That's Master Cheifs ident. John-117, or Spartan 117.

What's funny is that it is also one of those highly debated numbers. Some say it's a reference to the bible (which doesn't make sense to me given what John 1:17 or 11:7 say), or that it is a reference to Bungies earlier game "Marathon". What's interesting is that there is a level in "Marathon Infinity" called "Hat's off to Eight Nineteens". Divide that (819) by 7 and you get 117.

There is also a debate that 117 could be Revelations 1:17 (and I won't even begin to mention where the name John comes into play here as that is also highly debatable). Specifically, read 17 - 20.

To be honest, Bungie knows, and they ain't saying.

2. As for what planet... rumor is that it is either the Elite home world (based on the conversation between the Arbiter/Elite before the credits), or the Prophets home world (based on a back story about how the Prophets had found Forerunner artifacts on their planet, as well as the fact that their planet was destoryed).

BTW, do some digging into John the Baptist. What you will find are references to him as being a "Prophet", a "Forerunner", that Johns execution was "Arbitrary" according to Mathew, and that John was always criticizing the "Elite" members of society of that time. And let's not forget that whole thing about the "Covenant", or more to the point the old and new.

YAYitsAndrew

I heard that the black planet was actually a fallout shelter where you could be safe from halo. I don't really even know what halo is, so maybe that makes sense to someone who's played more than halo 3? The chick who programmed cortana is there and she made cortana in her image. So it's basically a bomb shelter with a semi hot chick in it.

That's what my halo fanatic friend said. I only played single player mode for achievements, and I had no idea what was going on in the story half the time. We did these terminal things, I guess just look up the locations on the internet, and they talked about this stuff I think.

VectorMan

^yea it's a shield planet called Onyx, it's in the fourth/fifth book (Ghosts of Onyx). Dr Halsey(the chick) and a couple of Spartans are stuck there. Hopefully they make another book where John finds them, dunno if another game would be good without Bungie doing it, plus they keep messing them up.

kris23

that would be awesome!