Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Terminals Reaction

[@TheHeroBleeder]

The whole Captain Keyes Terminal log is so good. because it shows just how Intelligent the flood really is.

[@Punchshine]

It’s horrifying overall.

[@NeuMaster9]

Fun fact:Keyes was repeating his designation and service number continuously while under duress by the Flood is actually consistent with real life protocol for captured soldiers.

[@Draeckon]

It was also pulled almost verbatim from an Anthology book Halo: Evolutions that was written some time ago.

[@badnewsbear4834]

@@DraeckonI know im late but it wasn’t from Halo Evolutions. It’s from the 2nd halo novel, Halo: The Flood. Evolutions didn’t have much flood stories besides the one of Cortana being interrogated by the GraveMind if I remember correctly.

[@MrMathy16]

The first terminal was the arrival of the pillar of autumn, the ship under command of Cpt. Keyes, at the halo installation. The construct 343 was talking to was a Covenant Ship AI. The Covenant’s AI is not as advanced as humanity’s (like Cortana)

[@Mabswer]

Something like that..

[@Notski]

The Covenant's AI is different mainly due to the fact that Covenant doesn't ever develop anything on their own. So the "construct" is something that they have found (probably Forerunner in origin) and repurposed for subservience to the covenant. The thing with Covenant technology in general is that it's always either reverse engineered from Forerunner tech, or it's outright just a Forerunner piece of tech that they don't even fully comprehend.

[@MorgothZEone]

And so you have witnessed the true horror of the Flood… the intelligence it possesses.

[@TheMrChipmyster]

The intelligence it consumes.

[@BrotherPraetus]

@@TheMrChipmyster as it turns out, both are correct.

[@subsume7904]

Even if all graveminds are destroyed, their reverse engineered Domain will forever exist. It's actually a terrifying to think about.

[@kristopherwillis8075]

​@@BrotherPraetus🎯

[@MisterShaggyDoo]

I think that the main reason why i like this channel is that Meg fully immerses herself into the whole lore of the game she is playing, most people dont and sometimes have a hard time getting some parts from games.

[@Guaseth]

Trivia time: Bungie (original creators of Halo) chose to put a whole bunch of references to the number 7 in the Halo games, simply because it is their favorite number. Some of the ones you have encountered are the following: - The 343 in "343 Guilty Spark" is the third power of 7, in other words: 7^3=343 - When you lose your shield in the game, it takes 7 seconds for it to stop giving that alarm sound and start recharging (and another 7 seconds recharging to max) - At the begining of the second mission, there's 7 corpses around the Master Chief (this is done more than once) - It takes 7 needles from the needler to make a pink explosion -The terminals that describe "other rings" always mention/show 7 of them.

[@Guaseth]

Also, calling that "flood thing" (can't use proper name because Halo 2 spoilers) a "tree" is a good way to not think so hard about how effin' disturbing the flood are, thanks for that, I think I'll use that term more often

[@satya-di3co]

Number 7 is a mysterious number ,even in real life

[@Thorvald9666]

7 is the lucky number after all

[@Wushaaa]

Yeah, if you are wondering. The segment with Captain Keyes showed his infection process. He repeated his name and service number over and over, trying to fight the flood infecting his body but also mind. The flood infects your mind also, taking every emotion, memory and experience that you ever had until you become part of the flood, still alive in a sense, but part of the flood. Its horrific, should do a reaction video to a Flood Lore video bcs they are truly terrifying

[@davycannonhound9005]

The majority of the terminals take place prior to the game, but they are out of order so its kind of like a lore puzzle.

[@angelmejia5576]

Yeah, that's what Keyes and essentially everyone goes through when infected by the Flood. Caving his head in was mercy.

[@MrHotSalsa]

During the Keyes terminal he is being forced to forget those memories. When he thought of Miranda and that static happened. He forget who she was entirely. He is also doing this to prevent the Flood from knowing the location of earth

[@WEM2016]

There’s one more “hidden” terminal, titled “Threshold.” It’s not super essential, but it helps set up Halo 2. I’m glad you’re enjoying your Halo journey so far! Can’t wait for Halo 2!

[@DizRupTnz]

It's also a Halo 2 terminal, so I'm sure she'll watch it with the rest.

[@icebreaker4354]

Final terminal was a promo of sort for halo 4 First third, ninth and tenth terminals are in current are in the present also the eleventh terminal (promotion for halo 2 anniversary aka remaster) Miranda is that you?😢 man that part punches me in the gut every time. And after that “we already do..” comes the mission keyes Also chief would never speak like that construct

[@b.c.2281]

The way Halo's extra content is structured is very confusing for people new to the franchise. The terminals are pretty light on context. The construct Guilty Spark was speaking to was a Covenant AI. They're noticeably less sophisticated than Human AIs. It's clearly self aware though, as it knows that the covenant are trying to inadvertently wipe the galaxy of sentient life and that it will be "free" once the covenant activates the rings.

[@Foehammer774]

I believe the construct that Guilty Spark was talking to was and AI from a Covenant ship. Each ship in the Halo universe has its own AI that runs its systems, and covenant ships do the same. And I think that specific clip takes place during the events of Halo 1, as the Covenant are trying to get into the facility with the flood in it.

[@Cameron39829]

If I remember correctly the Covenant never had AI up until they met humanity and saw the benefits AI provided, but due to the religious structure of the Covenant and new technologies needing to go through existence verification along with the fact that the Covenant has never truly invented technologies and only adopted the AI we witness was cobbled together based off human smart AI and was forced to adhere to the Covenant's beliefs

[@valterfara5027]

@@Cameron39829 The reason why AIs are not allowed in their religious doctrine is because of what happened to the Forerunners when an AI becomes corrupt. The Elites on the other hand, saw the tools humanity used, techniques and research; they almost felt nostalgic, since they hadn't seen something like this in a millennium, and saw how much humans and Elites had in common with Human warfare.

[@Kozhn]

Its so fascinating to see your excitement. This is only the surface. The depth behind all the questions you have runs deep.

[@SilverShadow02]

The terminals are making references to the events in The Forerunner Saga, a trilogy of Halo books written by Greg Bear. They're very good and explain the history of humans and forerunners, the Flood, who the Didact and the Librarian are and more.

[@jackalsniper4232]

It might be cool to see the midnight launch of Halo 2 and the legendary ending for Combat Evolved

[@FlameQwert]

this was great! i like how the little characterisation given in the terminals is enough to make meg empathise with guilty spark oh yeah one more thing: the numbers that flash at the start of each clip is the timestamp. first number is the number of years since guilty spark started his vigil edit: if you wanna understand Guilty Spark's very personal sense of his mission, check out the Forerunner Saga. but only read it after halo 4! or like, just before i guess

[@Punchshine]

The person named Miranda that was mentioned is the daughter of Captain Keyes. She is also in the UNSC Navy.

[@Senji75]

What you have to realize is captian keyes was a tough badass untill the very end he fought against mental emotional and physical torture from the flood he could feel the flood sifting and erasing his memories looking for any way off the Ring. By the time master chief found him he had finally died and was able to keep the flood from finding earth RIP Keyes respect. Their is some flood stories that are about the lore in halo 1 so no spoilers just some stuff that didnt make it in that game that you may find interesting i forget who tells these stories im sure someone here can fill it in about pvt jenkins and the soldier who got pretty far in the library mission.

[@dernwine]

The terminals are not exactly in order. Most roughly follow 343 guilty spark from taking up the mantel of custodian of installation 04, but a few like his interrogation of the construct (A covenant AI) and the Keys/Flood happen during the game so they buck the order.

[@jordanclark4635]

so to a couple of your points Spark actually is sentient (as is Cortana), Spark was scanned from the brain of an ancient human who was mortally wounded in the lead up to the firing of the rings, and Cortana from a cloned brain of Doctor Halsey, the lady who created the Spartan project Chief is a part of. In the human process it kills the brain so is only done on recently deceased (ie, brains are still undamaged due to lack of oxygen), with Cortana being the only known AI (with the possible exception of another character in Infinite) to be from a cloned, living brain. Given the curiosities you've had, I think you'll really, REALLY enjoy Halo 2, 3, and 4. As to you talking about the terminals teasing; these were added by anniversary like you say, anniversary was released in 2011, 4 in 2012, so that's a small clue.

[@RadicalReese]

You have dipped your foot into the deep end! I really think you'll love this series!

[@julianreviews8102]

It’s really exciting to see you get so into halo lore, it’s a cool universe! All the concepts in the terminals here are expanded upon in future games 😜

[@TheParez]

There's an ilness that I would not even wish for my worst enemy; and that is Alzheimer's. That's what I would imagine how Keyes felt on his final moments before the Flood "turned" him. Tragic and really eldritchly horrifying.

[@TheParez]

Btw, I just love to watch nerds loving and being so REAL when talking about what they are passionate. Thank you, Meg. It gives my soul joy.

[@zeni104]

The writing for spark is honestly really really good. He is so quotable.

[@mogwiawolf4354]

and construct was the ai of the covenant

[@One_Rifle]

You need to read the Forerunner trilogy by Greg Bear. Cryptum, Primordium, and Silentium.

[@LAGRANCAGUAMA]

Can't wait for you to play Halo 4 and also watch its terminals

[@ramonalderete3404]

343 Guilty spark was talking to the covenant ship ai.

[@darksamiri4304]

The "Construct" was just a Covenant AI

[@Wrath1999]

I don’t know if anyone said this, but the Construct was a Covenant AI. Their AI’s are actually less advanced than UNSC (and Forerunner) AI’s.

[@AoE_Freak]

I was generally unphased by scary stuff in media as a kid, but that Keyes terminal freaked me out!

[@nemostakan8386]

7:10 One of the few encountered Covenant AI. The Covenant didn’t fully understand the story of Mendicant Bias’s corruption, but they knew that the Forerunners were betrayed by an AI, so they themselves forbid the use of anything more complex than basic maintenance programs; once they encountered humanity and their propensity for the field, the Covenant were forced to unearth older, poorer-quality, less-stable AI shelved in prior ages (ranging from decades to thousands of years ago) and mass-copy them. Which generally resulted in what Spark found here, but I don’t imagine the problem was common knowledge or even particularly understood within the Covenant; they weren’t exactly holding extensive conversations with (what they regarded as) petty equipment, so they likely weren’t aware that a significant percentage of their AI were barely functional. There was another one in First Strike that Cortana thought was a captured UNSC AI that had been captured, experimented on, and recopied, but… well. That was a book from ~20 years ago, under a different and less complex lore bible, so some character speculations can be taken with a grain of salt.

[@tonymunoz2269]

The term construct refers to A.I. the construct he’s talking to is covenant made not as advance as human made A.I. like Cortana who he also refers to as a construct.

[@kevinlacy9268]

The story really starts to pop off in halo 2.

[@rogertemple7193]

This is really great with the Halo Combat Evolved Anniversary Terminals and Thank You Meg.☺️👋

[@spiteful1179]

I am so excited to see you play through Halo 2, the lore and story telling is absolutely incredible!

[@TriforceofShadows]

love this reaction, and how you grew to care for 343. Great way to cap it off. Also love the one liner about 343 being like britney, it's so true! XDD

[@Stormcastle]

If you want to know 343's complete story, I'd recommend start reading the Halo novels with 'The Forerunner Saga" by Greg Bear (RIP, dude) - and, unlike many books based on IP like Star Trek or Star Wars, all of the Halo books are 100% canonical - except for the very first one, "Fall Of Reach", but the movie you mentioned smooths out that story so it fits back into Halo at large Anyhow, I love your reactions since they're so pure and wondrous 💗

[@sookendestroy1]

The Construct was a covenant AI, spark didnt understand that it had no power to do anything

[@berliner2651]

Hard to believe that 343 guilty spark once has been a human

[@Punchshine]

Can’t wait for Halo 2!

[@sullivanlaramie2901]

So glad you watched these! Can't wait for Halo 2.

[@ragu8256]

"Bring me the head. Dispose of the rest." Now sounds pretty understandable. Getting back talked by Cortana right before that is definitely the straw that broke the camel's back.

[@makatata6460]

The great journey shall began

[@Tar-Numendil]

You're going to love Halo 4.

[@VijiogFrito]

i cant wait for Halo 2! you're gonna love it for sure

[@Epsilvonic]

Congrats on getting featured on Halo’s website!

[@MegMage]

No way!? Whaaaat?

[@Epsilvonic]

@@MegMage Yep! On their website Halo Waypoint in their latest Canon Fodder article!

[@primary2630]

That's cool I just read that article, neat that her and HiddenXperia got mentioned cause I just started watching him too lol

[@jasonlaboy]

The terminal you were confused about #3 was a covenant AI, they aren't very intelligent AIs.

[@yarr_bro]

keyes terminal destroys me everytime

[@ZaneZan]

The flood in the books are scary!!

[@cardboard092]

While I won't say you shouldn't watch "The Fall of Reach" next as it doesn't contain spoilers for future games, I feel like watching it before finishing at least the trilogy will be kind of jarring buit that's my opinion :)

[@darksamiri4304]

There is so much you don't know 😂 I love it. It's hard though because I wanna tell you everything but it would just explode your brain 😅

[@Punchshine]

Hope I’m not too late! Watching this now!

[@zacariasfloresdelcampo9949]

You should react to the animated film Halo: the fall of Reach, is a prequel for all the games, so no spoilers.

[@olimmai]

crazy that 343i got cookie monster to voice the flood

[@AaronGravy]

I mentioned in a comment before, I'll repeat it here too. You want lore? Halo 2 opens up with the JUICIEST lore haha

[@anathardayaldar]

Now that you finished HaloCE, you will love the CursedAgain mod for it by InfernoPlus. It's hilarious. It makes CE worth playing again. You don't even have to make a whole video series. Just a montage of your reactions.

[@kevindutton5706]

Fun fact guilty spark is actually made from a human mind who was called chakas so he is human in some ways

[@lanowyn]

Looking forward to Halo 2!

[@ClericOfPholtus]

*sadly we still don't have a great idea what other sentient life exists in the Halo universe beyond Humanity and the member species of the Covenant. Mostly because the company that took over Halo sort of seemed to not know what to do

[@yamilscdo3867]

Please, I loved watching you play Halo CE. I hope you really enjoyed it and can play Halo 2 soon.

[@tonymunoz2269]

When will you start Halo 2!!! 😊

[@tuckerhiggins4336]

The construct was "Covenant". They found it and copied it a bunch, which is why it makes no sense

[@bet0v966]

Imagine spending thousands year runnin a station only for a bunch mammalians and reptilians to mess it up. Wait isn’t Fall Of Reach kinda spoilerish, it came out ‘15 after bunch of the games ?

[@SamFro]

Not to spoil anything, but you are in for a TREAT if/when you keep continuing the games. All will be revealed in due time... Loved your reactions, it's great to see someone just getting into the series be so invested in the story and lore!! (Also, if you're interested in the Forerunner stuff, HIGHLY recommend the novels too)!

[@CamiloCalel-i7n]

Halo 2 finna be fyaaaaaa I can’t wait!!!!!!

[@Reality-Flash]

I wonder what halo game meg will play next. Isn't halo reach next, tho?

[@jitomatino]

i think she will go with the release order

[@XLTBlarg]

Halo Reach will be second to last game in release order, if she was doing chronological order she would have started with Reach.

[@ReyCaly]

​@XLTBlarg wrong on both accounts halo reach is neither the second to last game in release order nor is it first in chronological order 😂

[@XLTBlarg]

@@ReyCaly Umm if we are talking about mainline games in MasterChief collection i am correct on both fronts, which is what Meg is playing.

[@ReyCaly]

@XLTBlarg umm if you watched Meg then you would know she tries to play all games you really think she would stop at 4 or not play halo wars (watching the cutscenes atleast)

[@KRATOS12787]

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[@terrellpablo2395]

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