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Halo 5 Guardians: #huntthetruth

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CrimsonEclipse

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BreakawayMetal said:
I don't know WHAT the fuck is going on

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LOL! neither do I.
 
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Bsigg12

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So going forward, we know each Sunday we'll have a soundcloud interview thing and occasional little things from that tumblr. E3 is just over 2 months away which should lead to a bunch of new info there.

I want more!
 
VlaudTheImpaler

VlaudTheImpaler

tl;dr
I can't believe #huntthetruth soundcloud stuff has pulled me in as much as it has.

Now Frankie, if you could get the guys you hired for the soundcloud stuff to do the rest of the halo novels I would listen the crap out of them.
 
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Ricky Ricardo

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What an incredible year this is shaping up to be. GTAV for PC next month, Witcher 3 in May, E3 in June.

Lets not get started on the movies coming this year either ... HNNNNGGG
 
rokkerkory

rokkerkory

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MC is going to destroy some bishes in H5 I can feel it.

They've taken Cortana and Halsey from him, 2 people he cares the most.

He is going to lay waste to fools, destroyer of worlds.
 
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Oozer3993

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Transcription of the new Hunt The Truth episode:

There's a story you tell yourself when the world blows up in your face. There's no way you could have seen it coming. No one could have, so there was no way to stop it. This is what lets you sleep at night. But go back in your mind to before it all happened. Replay it in your head. Except this time, maybe you'll see it. Something small, out of place. Maybe it's just a single thread. But it's the truth.

Nobody saw it coming when they arrive. An alien race known as the Covenant. Before 2552, there was no way anything like that could ever happen on Earth. On one of those distant planets in the Outer Colonies, maybe. But an attack on Earth? Couldn't happen. Until it did. It's called glassing. Covenant warships rain plasma down on a planet until everything and everyone on the surface melts. Usually it's complete world destruction. Earth only got a taste. The prolonged orbital bombardment destroyed east Africa, killing millions before it ended. None of us were safe anymore. But something else happened that day too. Or some one. You've heard the eye witness accounts., every skeptic has seen the footage. I was there, and yet still to this day it's unbelievable. A massive man in green armor appeared seemingly out of nowhere in New Mombasa, performed super human feats to single-handedly repel a global invasion and then disappeared? This was the Master Chief. The unified Earth government's military body, the UNSC, eventually released a statement. Who he is, where he came from, and that he's continuing to keep us safe. And that was that. But who IS the Master Chief? Where DID he come from? IS he continuing to keep us safe?

I'm Benjamin Giraud, and this is Hunt The Truth.

For all us cosmopolitan Earth types who don't venture in the far reaches of space, there's a planet way out in the Outer Colonies called Eridanus II. If you're thinking of visiting, don't bother. It was catastrophically glassed in a Covenant attack in 2530. But 19 years before it got wiped out, our hero, Master Chief Petty Officer John 117, then known as John, was born in a metropolis called Elysium City. That's where I started.

Deon Govender (teacher)

Do I remember him? Oh yeah, you don't forget a kid like that.

Ben:

That's Deon Govender. He chatted with me from his home in the Outer Colonies. Deon's retired now, but years ago he taught John at Elysium City Primary Education Facility #119. Apparently schools in the Outer Colonies don't have the catchiest names.

Deon:

John was something else. He was sharp and quick, always evaluating the situation. Other kids just gravitated to him, you know?

Ben:

Deon seemed most excited to talk about John's athletic ability. The kids used to play King of the Hill after school. You know, the old game where you wrestle and push each other to try to be the last man standing.

Deon:

I would, I would walk by sometimes, see 'em playing after school, you know? And w-w-without fail, I swear, it was always John standing alone at the top of that hill (laughs) (Ben: Right). Every single day. Matter of fact, I think the other kids ended up fighting for who got to be king of half way up the hill cause nobody was messing with John.

Ellie Bloom:

I definitely remember John. You're going way back with that question.

Ben:

That's Ellie Bloom, another life-long resident of the Outer Colonies. When she was young, she and John lived on the same street, just a few houses down.

Ellie:

Well he was a little younger than me, but I tell you, that boy did not look like a kindergartner. He was a big kid. My friend Katrina and I used to meet him in this vacant lot in the neighborhood. The three of us would build these obstacle courses out of random junk and then race! You know, just kids stuff.

Ben:

As Ellie talked about her early years in Elysium, it wasn't long before she was getting nostalgic.

Ellie:

On warm nights, sometimes our parents would let us go out to the green space and lie in the grass. And we'd just... lie there. Stare up at the stars. It was a nice place to grow up.

Ben:

Finding Ellie was a huge win for me. When a planet's been glassed, tracking down former residents can be damn near impossible. Any records kept locally: paper, hardened data storage, even human memories. After a full scale glassing? They're just gone. Thankfully though, the Office of Naval Intelligence, or ONI, had furnished me with a list of interviewees. That's how I'd gotten Deon. But I wanted to go the extra mile with this story. So I'd hit up some of my old connections in the Outer Colonies looking for more sources. Ellie was my only hit so far.

Ben: Did you- did you keep in touch with John?

Ellie: No. I wasn't allowed to use Waypoint much when I was little. But I did keep in touch with Katrina. We still talk actually. You know, she probably remembers John. I'm gonna tell her I talked to you. Wait, ahh what was this for again? It's a military thing?

Ben: Oh (Laughs) No, no. John ahh... John is.. ahh the Master Chief.

Ellie

What? He's..

Ben

Yeah, yeah John became the Master Chief.

Ellie

Like, THE Master Chief?

Ben

Yep.

Ellie

Oh my God! No.. no way. Are you serious?

Ben

I'm not kidding you.

Ellie

Oh my God. That's crazy!

Ben

Ellie lost her mind for a few minutes. I guess it's not every day you find out that your childhood playmate saved the galaxy.

Ellie

Oh my god, now I'm definitely telling Katrina! I mean, she is gonna freak out!

Ben

Alright, so maybe Ellie wasn't gonna be much help. I needed more of the young warrior angle. Here's Deon again.

Deon

Did I tell you the boxer story?

Ben

No, no-no, what's that?

Deon

Ok, Ok. So..

Ben

Not yet.

Deon

I taught the primary kids you know, right? But I also ran this-this boxing league at the high school.

Ben

Uh huh.

Deon

Second week, second week we're doing drills in the gym, John walks in. Now mind you, John is in 6th grade at the time. I say, "hey John, what's up?" He says, "I want to sign up for boxing." (Ben laughs) And I say, "John, you're twelve!" (laughing) You know! What are you talking about?

Ben

But John was adamant.

Deon:

But I look at him and he-he ain't leaving.

Ben

Right.

Deon

So I said, ok, what the hell. Figure let it be a formative lesson for the kid. I don't know what it.. so... I put him in the ring with the, with the smaller guys. John pummeled this boy! (Ben laughs) It was over in about 15 seconds. Ok? So I, well alright, well I put him in with this bruiser. Now a real good fighter.

Ben

Yeah.

Deon

Ok? Good fighter! Two punches! John laid him out! Twelve years old! Never seen anything like it.

Ben

I liked talking to Deon. He was warm and funny in that grandfatherly, mermory lane kind of way. I realized I'd gotten lost in it all when the narrative took a dark turn.

Deon

But then one week, John just didn't show up.

Ben

It was 2524, John was 13. That's when the nightmare of the Insurrection that had been plaguing the Outer Colonies finally landed on John's community. Under pressure from UNSC troops, the rebels were on their last leg, desperately seizing territory in the region and launching paranoid inquisitions to find spies. Civilian abductions and interrogations became common place.

Thomas Woo

They would just... you know um... question you. Just... these... meaningless question for hours and hours.

Ben

Thomas Woo was living on a neighboring colony when the rebels showed up and hit hard, sweeping up Thomas and thousands of others in raids. What followed was months of horribly overcrowded detainment, neglect, and often constant questioning.

Thomas

You know, "did you know this guy? Wha- what are the encryption codes for this system? That system?" You know. And you have no idea... what they're even asking you.

Ben

In the final couple months, Thomas says his captors started coming unhinged. And then toward the end... they just disappeared. Leaving Thomas and hundreds of others locked up, starving. I don't want to play this part of the interview, but I'll tell you. It got bad. He talks about being packed in like sardines. Warm bodies. Cold bodies. People dying in the dark. The smell. He doesn't know how long it lasted. Maybe weeks. But Thomas and many others survived. They made it out.

Thomas

Well you know, we... we... we helped each other. You know, we looked out for each other. You know, and I mean, that's, that, that's the only way. We... we made it through to the liberation. And then we left. You know, we-we-we never looked back.

Ben

When I asked him where the survivors relocated to, Thomas began to list off which cities were safe for refugees at the time. Decades later he can still recite them all from memory. I asked about John's home town.

Wha-what about Elysium City?

Thomas

No. Insurrectionist cesspool. Yeah, no. They got it bad back there.

Ben

Deon Govender confirms this.

Deon

In Elysium City, people just disappeared back then. Just happened. Once the Insurrectionists took over, whole neighborhoods just got scooped up.

Ben

This went on for months. He talks about watching his community get torn apart slowly. Every day. I asked him about John.

Deon

Yeah. Hmm hm. Him and his parents. John missed the first practice. And the last one. Back then it seemed like everybody had... (Deon chokes up) I'm sorry. (Deon clears his throat).

Ben

No, no-no it's fine. Take your time.

It was hard watching Deon break down like this. He just looked defeated. These kinds of interviews are brutal. I wanted to comfort him, but it just felt condescending. Like I have any idea what it was like for him. So we were quiet for a bit. Before we ended though, he said this.

Deon

I think that if anything good can be said to have come from all of this, it's that everyone who went through it can know that their struggle wasn't for nothing. When you have a young man who can rise up from something like this... and do what John has done, he honors all of us.

Ben

Deon believed in John the way the rest of us believe in the Master Chief. He made it seem like this tragedy that shaped him was almost necessary. I certainly felt like I had the proper beginnings to a hero's origin story. The story made sense, it felt right. Sometimes you have to go back though. Look again, because maybe you'll see something, something small. Out of place. That single thread.

Later that evening, after my interview with Deon, I was pretty drained. So I spent some time sifting through a bunch of file boxes. I'd paid this scavenger in the Outer Colonies to dig around and send over any Elysium City documents she could find. The only local government records left were hard copies, but I took them anyway. I was sorting through a messy box of local census registries when I stumbled across John's name. One line of basic information printed out in black and white. That's when I saw it. A single letter next to his name. D. I was staring at an official document that said quite plainly that in 2517 John died at 6 years old. Please join me for the next episode of Hunt The Truth.
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The clone is really, most sincerely dead. The person claiming John was alive and in Elysium City at age twelve was planted there by ONI:

Thankfully though, the Office of Naval Intelligence, or ONI, had furnished me with a list of interviewees. That's how I'd gotten Deon.
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The end of the episode confirms that the clone is really dead:

I was staring at an official document that said quite plainly that in 2517 John died at 6 years old.
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wesleyshark

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Oozer3993 said:
Transcription of the new Hunt The Truth episode:



The clone is really, most sincerely dead. The person claiming John was alive and in Elysium City at age twelve was planted there by ONI:



The end of the episode confirms that the clone is really dead:
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ONI is all-in on finding the Chief and bringing him in. To civilians he's a hero, so they need to tarnish his name for them. How else can you do thus? Smear campaign. Seems like this was all a setup by ONI, but Benjamin will prove to be too cunning to be duped for too long.

Benjamin is an honest guy, I'm thinking. And one who will begin to uncover the truth of things as this progresses.
 
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Bsigg12

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wesleyshark said:
ONI is all-in on finding the Chief and bringing him in. To civilians he's a hero, so they need to tarnish his name for them. How else can you do thus? Smear campaign. Seems like this was all a setup by ONI, but Benjamin will prove to be too cunning to be duped for too long.

Benjamin is an honest guy, I'm thinking. And one who will begin to uncover the truth of things as this progresses.
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I wonder when hidden meaning things will start showing up in his stuff. He's going to connect the dots ultimately from investigative work outside of what ONI is providing so how long until he starts hiding a message saying what is actually happening.
 
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FordGTGuy

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Master Chiefs image seems to be a image of hope for all humans and that is probably causing huge problems for ONI. Imagine the amount of colonies and rebel settlements that have seen what one person can accomplish and now want to fight for their own freedom from ONI and the UNSC?
 
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Oozer3993

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wesleyshark said:
ONI is all-in on finding the Chief and bringing him in. To civilians he's a hero, so they need to tarnish his name for them. How else can you do thus? Smear campaign. Seems like this was all a setup by ONI, but Benjamin will prove to be too cunning to be duped for too long.

Benjamin is an honest guy, I'm thinking. And one who will begin to uncover the truth of things as this progresses.
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Actually the podcast seems to be the opposite. The ONI plant is nothing but complimentary about John. I think ONI is just trying to cover up the whole "the government abducted kids, brainwashed them, and ran experimental procedures on them" thing. Cause that don't look good lol. Behind the scenes though, they may have come to the conclusion, rightly or not, that the Master Chief has gone rogue and is a threat to humanity and dispatched Locke to take him out quietly.
 
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wesleyshark

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Oozer3993 said:
Actually the podcast seems to be the opposite. The ONI plant is nothing but complimentary about John. I think ONI is just trying to cover up the whole "the government abducted kids, brainwashed them, and ran experimental procedures on them" thing. Cause that don't look good lol. Behind the scenes though, they may have come to the conclusion, rightly or not, that the Master Chief has gone rogue and is a threat to humanity and dispatched Locke to take him out quietly.
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ONI is the true threat, when it all comes down to it. The Kilo-Five novels set that up quite extensively. There is no black and white. It's all grey with ONI. I think they are attempting to setup an elaborate and believable narrative for which they can use to give backbone and merit to the public for when they capture Chief. I don't think there'll be anything quiet at all in regards to their plans for him.

cool_dude said:
Just watched both trailers a few more times...too awesome! Heard the monk chant at the end and went crazy, haha.
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That made me so happy. Welcome back, monks.
 
gAg CruSh3r

gAg CruSh3r

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iFirez said:
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Same shot - two different trailers.
Different overall tone... but same shot and the statue is older/more damaged in the second trailer. (Open up both the images and flick between the tabs)

IF these are meant to be two alternate versions of the same thing, why would the statue be more broken in one and not the other?
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My guess would be that Locke version is him telling ONI what happen in his story (lie)

MC story is the real thing because it shows the actually reality of the situation because it's more damage and looks more horrible then it seems then Locke's version.
(Truth)

I'm thinking that also based of that redit user ...
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Van Owen

Banned
Well there's no satisfying way they could make Chief a villain, so I'm not sure why they would even try when it eventually is going to be revealed Chief is still good after all or whatever.
 
Compsiox

Compsiox

Banned
gAg CruSh3r said:
My guess would be that Locke version is him telling ONI what happen in his story (lie)

MC story is the real thing because it shows the actually reality of the situation because it's more damage and looks more horrible then it seems then Locke's version.
(Truth)

I'm thinking that also based of that redit user ...
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RadioHammer500

Banned
gAg CruSh3r said:
My guess would be that Locke version is him telling ONI what happen in his story (lie)

MC story is the real thing because it shows the actually reality of the situation because it's more damage and looks more horrible then it seems then Locke's version.
(Truth)

I'm thinking that also based of that redit user ...
EKbSJpm.png
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yeah but why would Locke lie though...i mean he is Spartan, don't they have a code of honor or something?
 
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