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> THIS POST CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS. DO NOT READ IT IF YOU HAVE NOT
> COMPLETED THE CAMPAIGN UNLESS YOU DON'T MIND READING SPOILERS.
>
> I have a list of questions about what happened in the game. I might be
> able to answer some of them by playing back through and listening to
> dialogue better, but was also curious if others may have either
> concrete answers, or educated guesses, to these questions.
>
> - Who is the mysterious, large creature who captures the chief and the
> Arbiter, and sends them to stop Halo from being activated?
>
> (My guess - some former servant, guardian, prisoner or experiment of
> the Forerunners.)
>
> - By the end of the game, are the Covenant having a civil war, or is
> the strain between Brutes and Elites still just a case of limited
> flare-ups?
>
> (My guess - there is not yet an open civil war; but I base that on a
> perception of time that may be skewed. It doesn't seem there's enough
> time for civil war to begin after talk of eliminating the Elites
> begins. As a sidenote, I wonder why the Prophets replaced the Elites;
> the destruction of a Halo seems like too thin a reason, when another
> Halo installation is firmly under Covenant control. You only need
> one.)
>
> - Did Cortana blow herself up, or did that prove unnecessary?
>
> (My guess - I think she did blow herself up, but it wasn't clear to me
> if she was going to do that if necessary, or if she was definitely
> going to do it regardless.)
>
> - The Halos aren't firing - but is the huge Covenant fleet still
> attacking Earth as the game ends? That could be just as bad, from a
> human perspective.
>
> (My guess - some sort of truce will be called due to confusion caused
> by the master chief and arbiter back home. Elites may re-assert
> themselves and seek peace.)
>
> - Who is in command of the Covenant now? Where is the last prophet? We
> actually haven't seen any of the three die - one is in the hands of
> the mysterious tentacled creature, the other was PRESUMED dead after
> being attacked by a flood infection form.
>
> (No guesses other than what I've said above.)
>
> - When Cmdr. Keyes and Sgt. Johnson use a tentacle as a rope to
> retrieve the Index, where did the tentacle come from?
>
> (No guesses - maybe it was just a plant outside the installation? It
> looks suspiciously like a tentacle from the mysterious big alien.)
>
> - More of a comment than a question: It has been made even more clear
> that humans are seen differently by the installations of the
> Forerunners than are other species. In the first game, 343 Guilty
> Spark calls you "reclaimer". In the second game, Brutes have to
> physically make a human put the Index in the Core to activate it,
> since a human touch is apparently necessary.
>
> - Will there be a Halo 3? There are some loose ends, but probably not
> enough for another major action game ...
>
> - How is Capt. Keyes' daughter already a commander? She is a babe, of
> apparently 25-30 years old. Navy commanders are usually more like 45
> years old ... I know they really just wanted another babe in the game.
>
>
> - I found myself missing Cortana. It seems like there's so much in the
> game that she would want to analyze, or explain.