7 Mysteries of Zeta Halo - Lore and Theory

[@jeremybowers3181]

NO other greater channel for the "IN DEPTH" than this one. I'm hyped again..lol.👊💥✌️

[@ETTOTV15]

I do love me some Installation00

[@Installation00]

Installation00 loves you too

[@daniellejasper2877]

Yer dam right!

[@eogannspencer1684]

You can say that again

[@thyholynoodle6282]

Yeah, I tried audiobooks but there’s just something to his voice that just doesn’t bore me to death.

[@nonsensicalrants1703]

Theory for the missing 43 years: Installation 07 traveled forward in time to the events of halo infinite. Then it came back carrying blue squad.

[@debbiebernhardt5406]

So they had been timeknapped.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@debbiebernhardt5406 I COVERED some of those missing years, myself, in fanfiction. Lots of Flood experiments, in those palaces of pain...

[@debbiebernhardt5406]

@@chrissonofpear1384 mine was a joke.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@debbiebernhardt5406 Still, I really need to finish the story - it's been underway since 2015...

[@Jermrants]

Theory for missing 43 years: the mf endless creation

[@salflores713]

I love and hate how this channel is the only halo channel that still does halo videos thanks keep up the good work

[@r.cdahuman7682]

I don't mean to undermine your comment, but hiddenxedia still does, halo canon still does, rocket sloth still does, Uber Nick still does. Lots of halo channels still do, it's just that OO has a unquie perspective on alot of halo content, not to mention that his channel is relatively newer than All the other ones I mentioned so he has more content to make videos about. **His stuff is still fantastic though**

[@StrangerE0ns]

Reya *it is literally big brain content*

[@GrexTheCrabasitor]

adding to the list above, regected shotgun, vengeful vadam, generalkiid, late night gaming, the reachway, infernoplus...ultimate halo, halo follower...

[@kilo2064]

Check out SameToken 💜love both of them

[@fata2195]

Lol literally all halo channels still upload content

[@Sanya6496]

I would genuinely want to see an overgrown and abandoned version of the city made by the devolved Ancient Humans on Zeta Halo within Infinite and possibly gain more information on our technologically superior past versions. Maybe just documents or temples. That would not only increase the lore but flesh out the world itself and make it more exiting to explore.

[@schwig44]

I can already smell a project to find the route of chakas and co as they traversed the ring

[@rajendrashetti2363]

Rudra, nice name bro.

[@A2Kaid]

They didn't make any cities, just villages As far as I know.

[@Jermrants]

Well you’ll be sadly disappointed 😅😔

[@ZephyrTheElementalDragon]

@@A2Kaid I remember that I'm reading Halo Cryptum and they stated that the ancient humans tried to make cities like the advanced humans but failed.

[@nonsensicalrants1703]

Could you please start listing songs used in the video down in the description?

[@Robocopnik]

I don't think there's an "L" in "Gigantopithecus".

[@wilezekiel5773]

And orangutan only has one g

[@jamesharvey3993]

I was just about so say...😂

[@Installation00]

Shhh! 😂

[@PBart7]

*Nobody told me Bigfoot was canon*

[@ProdKidda]

See it isn’t in San Andreas

[@CyberSonic-V3.0]

Mystery one: Does this ring give suicide grunts the power to fly?

[@sunixjester]

If fired from the spankr rocket launcher, yes.

[@madness0169]

Hey its one of my favorite Halo antagonists.

[@MistahFox]

No, but Brutes do lol

[@OfficialFedHater]

They fly now?!

[@thorshammer7883]

Is it possible that the humans who survived on Zeta Halo after the firing of the Halo Array left the Halo at one point in the past 97,000 years? It is a very very long time. Maybe there could be potential of stories of kingdoms or states forming on the Halo but eventually falling apart or maybe they could of have they're own miniature wars with the Flood fighting alongside the Sentinels against some of the Graveminds remaining on it thinking it like a war of armageddon from their point of view and decided to leave Zeta Halo because it was too dangerous for them live on it at some point. So much possible stories to create on a single super structure you could even have a Dark Souls style kingdom with ruins of ancient castles, temples, and libraries of tales of certain individuals or cities.

[@GrexTheCrabasitor]

they could be the origin of the meddlers

[@maraudershields283]

That sounds like an amazing side story discovered through the terminals!

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@GrexTheCrabasitor Makes some sense. Though prior to this, we'd assumed they'd all been moved to the Ark, and then Earth. That crashed ship also does LOOK a bit like one of the ones in Halo 4 Terminals...

[@IanThatMetalBassist]

Is it just me or is there some audio issues in this upload? Pops and crackles

[@Installation00]

They weren't there before uploading. That's something to do with the upload process. I'll look into it...

[@timelordmagnums357]

It's the Rice Crispy Special :) LOL

[@kodokunagemu]

I was worried it was something wrong with my hardware, good to know it's not

[@blackwidowrsa]

Thought it was my phone. Thank God.

[@Durovnax]

I thought my ears died

[@rustediron4062]

Regarding the ten year plan idea, I don't think it should be done to "evolve" the story or change what will be there at launch. The ten year plan should be a story expansion every year. we start with the base zeta halo story, maybe for the next year or two we get continuations of it, then the third year we get a story expansion off of zeta Halo with different characters. Then another set of characters the next year. Then back to chief off of zeta halo, etc. It shouldn't be "oh this next year they're gonna unlock this island and there will be this there, and then next year they'll change the way the story starts."

[@chrissonofpear1384]

That's what I suspect, yes.

[@ronansmith9148]

I was thinking what if the "damage" we see on zeta halo is not actually damage, but instead a jettisoned portion of ring being rebuilt? If a section of ring is heavily damaged or infected, wouldn't it make sense to jettison the part and replace it? We see in halo 3 that when the ark builds a ring, it does not seem to build it completed. So, it would make sense that a ring could rebuild a section if damaged. The only way a ring can be truly destroyed is to break the ring in multiple locations, making repairs impossible.

[@chrissonofpear1384]

That might also explain why it held together so much better, than Alpha Halo did...

[@-eyes-of-static-8102]

Last time I was this early the Greater Ark wasn't shattered by Star Roads

[@sheldenish]

Title: 7 mysteries Description: 9 mysteries Me: What do the numbers mean?

[@sardonicspartan9343]

It's a mystery

[@Exodus26.13Pi]

My brother waited 25 years to tell me he saw a Sasquatch. 1991, Lake DeGray campsite in Arkansas. It looked down on him though the tent screen. About 7 ft. tall, hairy face and he thought it was a homeless man or a demon. They locked eyes for less than a few seconds and it left without a sound.

[@sardonicspartan9343]

🤣

[@markbrennan212]

Sounds like some good quality meth he took 25 years ago

[@ready1player31]

every time one of the halo lore channels I'm subscribed to released a zeta halo video, I cant help but get excited

[@asiblingproduction]

Ok, I got a crackpot theory. What if brutes are descendants of Mara? Like the Forerunners reseeded Mara's species and allowed them to continue to evolve. Just a thought.

[@Bluehairarrancer]

oh shi

[@asiblingproduction]

Itd be kind of a funny reveal and it would give the brutes a species-wide reason to hate humanity. On top of that we could definatly use more expansion on brute culture.

[@Halocon720]

Mara is confirmed as being the Earthly giant ape Gigantopithecus, and Marat was allegedly the last one.

[@literalsarcasm1830]

The Jiralhanae already had an agrarian society when the rings were fired.

[@manydirt2600]

@@literalsarcasm1830 I think they're also technically not mammals.

[@joshuakidd2932]

I genuinely get excited when a new Installation00 Notification pops up on my phone 🤘🏻

[@javierespinoza8596]

I´m hope on this 10 years we would be able to get access to Maethrillian, whit characters like the Precursor´s version of the prometheans and a contact with Abbaddon. And visit the remainings of the Greater Ark, or the planet that used to form the Maginot Line. There´s so much posibilities

[@chrissonofpear1384]

The latter wasn't a planet, though, but a whole NETWORK of artillery arrays, stations and outposts...

[@JonStark117]

Been goin through a really tough time recently...your videos help take me away from the world just for a little bit...Thank You 00.

[@endy8411]

I like that title. A video about 7 Mysteries of the 7th Installation of the 7 rings from the game made by a company whose favourite number is 7 which is now owned by a company whose number is 7 cubed, and the video is watched by me on the 7th of the month (AEST, 1:01am currently)

[@dylophius3764]

I like how Installation 00 proposes ideas that are way cooler than what we might get. Keep up the good work, man.

[@thekingoffiction]

These are great, thank you for another awesome video!

[@TheSaintDario]

Seriously, this is the BEST halo lore channel. You are Halo's MyNameIsByf and you are awesome.

[@NovusDundus]

That 10 years of repetitive "Proto Gravemind" hunting will get pretty old pretty fast for long time players. Especially from a Game Designer perspective. If anything there MIGHT be a single instance of neutralising or containing the flood and the graveminds. Or it will be delegated to a book that can solely deal with all 10

[@chrissonofpear1384]

And is there any indication they were left intact, or on the ring, anyway...

[@xedyalla]

I could imagine it has Halloween content, and after a brief mission the community will get access to a Flood Firefight and some Flood PVE modes.

[@neko281]

they should bring back the halo wars 1 announcer that goes "the flood have been released"

[@wolfgangspiper]

All units.

[@Nick-xc4zb]

Just wanna say that the second the Mara section ended I got a Gorilla Glue add with the gorilla in it😂ironic

[@teamdoghouse82880]

One thing I have noticed in the Infinite campaign, is that some of the crashed UNSC frigates laying about the landscape appear as if they have been there for thousands of years. There are no impact craters or other damage to the landscape that would indicate an impact from a starship crash landing. Like the trough the Pillar of Autumn created when it crashed on installation 04. The way the rocks and environment have built up around some of these vessels gives the impression that they have been there for a very long time.

[@CoffeeCrowgasm]

I can imagine a palace of pain campaign dlc where you fight against some horrific creations and or the flood itself in somewhat of a horror type setting 🤙

[@eragon666s]

43 year theory, the primordial by some means, moved the halo to another universe to the Precursors the few that remained. And altered the halo just enough so that when the time was right they could release the flood and simultaneously disable all the halos

[@bmxdude1337]

That would be deep

[@allengordon6929]

Or worse: the flood was the rough equivalent of a parting shot. An insult. The actual righteous genocide the precursors had been plotting this entire time was far more potent and dangerous...

[@bmxdude1337]

@@allengordon6929 Oof

[@teamdoghouse82880]

I love going back and watching videos that were made during the period of great speculation before the release of Halo: Infinite. There were some great speculative theories cast about on this channel and others. Some of them were actually far better ideas than what 343 gave us. If only game devs would listen to us... Imagine the lore and game quality we could achieve.

[@magnificenttv7508]

0:07 flood tenticle!!! 0_o

[@cornerguy9535]

imagine how ancient humans would respond to spartans and modern humans

[@r5509]

Puny creatures

[@fadelsukoco3092]

Considering that Ancient Humans fought toe to toe against exponentially-larger numbers of the technologically-superior Forerunners on a constant basis for over a millennium, AFTER being crippled by the Flood and with said Forerunners jamming and clogging their Slipspace travel to all hell, likely something like this: AH: "Dear Humanoid civilization: We can respect your accomplishments and feats in the face of a superior adversary, as well as your advances in knowledge and culture. However, you are still 50,000 years too primitive and inexperienced to demand anything of us. Now excuse us, we need to go check the next galactic cluster for any Flood biding their time from the old days."

[@aninjaguardian]

They'd probably be rolling in their graves facepalming at how technologically primitive humanity is in 2557

[@IndianGeek5589]

Last time I was this early, Ancient Humanity was still around.

[@Nick-xc4zb]

Bro I love how your voice is so chill yet awesome esc😎 Btw love the intro👌

[@grimreaper6557]

awesome video thank you as always you bring light and information in a verse that is so wide and dark

[@jannegrey]

Anyone else has trouble with audio sometimes spiking and creating brief "screeching"? Otherwise quality content as usual.

[@Cheater357]

Thumbs up for the correct usage of sapient.

[@brambo3011]

Really great video here, and while I don't think we've seen too much to concretely suggest that the ideas proposed here will come to fruition, I am very hopeful that at least some of these things are explored. One thing I would really like Infinite to have (not lore-related) is water combat, possibly with the boat that was hinted at in a toy not too long ago. I just hope that with the blank canvas that is Infinite, 343i does a good job covering it in old and new, in high detail for seasoned lore enthusiasts, while keeping accessible and interesting for new players.

[@OriginalNick]

It's extremely interesting having this video play after the game has been out for a while. I absolutely wish your version on Halo Infinite came out. The release, to me, feels very empty deep lore wise.

[@A2Kaid]

I think we need to question the whole narrative around the precursor dust becoming "corrupted" as advance as the Precursors were you'd think such a scenario would not be plausible.

[@matchesburn]

I truly hope that they go full open world with Infinite like they seem to be doing. I mean, it's a pipe dream (pun unintended), but could you imagine driving a Warthog or flying a Pelican around the inside diameter environment of a Halo? I don't think they'd go THAT far with the game world (that would be a bigger world size than any open world game to date) considering the size of Zeta Halo (and to think it used to be even bigger...). But, hey, a man can dream.

[@r5509]

Well there will be a boundary beyond which you can't go otherwise the game will be gazillion gigabytes if the ring was to scale

[@gavin_1973]

You should put links in the description that link to each time in the video where a new section or point starts. If you do that, it divides up the play bar and makes "chapters" on the video, it could help people find what they don't know about. Nice video!

[@SirRobertSpriggs]

I haven't seen any large herds of creatures yet. And the graphics are as good as the trailer. Who else is watching this again after playing Halo Infinite?

[@mightbedan3590]

In Halo: Cryptum, upon seeing the Primordial’s containment chamber on Charam Hakkor; Chakas and Riser both unlock lost memories from their geas of ancient humans about what was inside the chamber. If the long-standing theory that Chief contains the Iso-Didact’s pattern in his geas given to him by the librarian is true. What if in Infinite you find the Primordials resting place, like you suggest however among the extremely unsettling ambience and atmosphere, upon looking into the chamber a number of different images and memories begin to flash confusingly and disorienting across the screen. Chief catching glimpses of the Iso-Didacts memories. A pipe dream to be sure, but it would be so cool!

[@incarnatepotatoe4564]

Can we get a break down on the Halo Rings, I’m curious to know what they are about.

[@mattgibbia2692]

The lore behind all of this really is great and gets me excited for infinite but after that Halo 5 story I don't know what to expect 343 to actually make

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Hopefully better stuff, with Brian Reed now done (yet he started SO well, in Spartan Ops...) and with Staten coming back. And O'Conner's been pretty solid - when he wasn't spinning wheels for the plot TOO MUCH...

[@rustediron4062]

They best not do world events that come and go. I'd HATE that. One of the best parts about Halo is that you can always go back and re-experience the story over and over. If they made world events that lasted for a week and then were never playable ever again that would be BS. Any additions or expansions to the story have to be permanent, and any modifications have to be made for the sake of improving the vision of the game. (changing a level design because it was poorly made or overhauling the visuals of a level because they were ugly.) World events don't even make sense here since it's not an MMO.

[@adnancharif9296]

Is it weird that when I was writing an essay for school, i00 was reading my papers in my mind? I don't know about you, but that's pretty cool

[@otherZinc]

@Installation00, Word! Excellent work!

[@CerberusGRivers]

I'm always excited for new lore about Halo. I've read or listened to the majority of the books and course played all the games, seen the animation. There is no game I know more lore about then Halo. However... I would be a lot more excited for more flood lore and lore around the meddlers or ancient humans. I've been silent about a lot of my theories over the years but around Halo 3 I mentioned to a few friends what was going to happen with Halo 4 and 5. I ended up being right with only 2 mistakes. As one such theory I belive the grave mind has 1 single thing it wants, as a type of last will. To test humanity, guide them and allow them to progress. Once humanity is ready the gravemind will start it's seige and it's true war vs humanity. If humanity comes out as the victor they will gain the mantle and the technology and knowledge the flood holds. If they fail the grave mind's singular task is complete and the galaxy will restart.

[@Shuffledhearts]

So, if 10 Proto-graveminds is enough to possibly form a gravemind proper, and 007 has them in storage then perhaps Instillation 005 had something similar in storage, and their release & combination is what formed the gravemind there?

[@sG_Paradise]

The legends says that of all the mysteries on zeta halo only one strikes fear into those that set foot there and that its name should not be spoken and its name is... Yap Yap

[@SchneeflockeMonsoon]

Zeta Halo was needed for a war in the past, and was stolen by the future to be sent back, ala Babylon 4. But then they realized that if it didn’t fire with the rest they’d all be screwed, so they hid it close to where it used to be and waited until it was taken to reveal it, but were late.

[@jeanmouloude]

Wait Zeta halo had big monke ?! :0 that might explain why the brutes are there too

[@lilsammich8252]

Hello my freaky darlings. I love this channel and barely played games. That is how good this channel is.

[@walkerbasham7342]

It’d be cool and good to play as a forerunner in the ancient times later on in the game, for reasons hopefully not similar to lack of other content ideas

[@sethsims3717]

As someone who hasn’t touched halo 5 for 3 years now good fekn luck w your “10 year plan”

[@bmxdude1337]

Right?

[@chrissonofpear1384]

@@bmxdude1337 Given how Activision treated Destiny, which also had a multi-year plan...

[@PackHunter117]

Wonder what the Brutes thought of Apes when they came to Earth. If they saw any anyway. Wonder what the Covenant would’ve thought of animals like Lions, Tigers, Bears, or dinosaurs?

[@RolloTonéBrownTown]

The Forerunners were awfully keen on hanging drawing and quartering their Ancilla weren't they?

[@Sock1122]

Gigantopithicus doesn't have an L in it by the way. Not to disparage the video, it's all great content and it's a tiny issue but just thought you'd like to know

[@MrMetalHead1100]

Please do a video on how Johnson had immunity to flood infection

[@siva4wotblitzhero531]

Do you think The Lesser Ark(the one that survived tha Forerunner-Flood War,the one Halo 3 and Halo Wars 2 take place on) was equipped with a Slipspace Drive?

[@amdkillaplays]

It has the ability to create portals as it sent the rings to their final locations, and humanity had to travel back to the ark to prevent the ark sentinels from using Earth resources to repair the ark

[@siva4wotblitzhero531]

@@amdkillaplays So it might be able to move itself about the Galaxy

[@zenopssmdk]

If 343's 10 years of content doesn't workout at least they can always fall back onto the canceled MEGA BLOCKS Halo game... It might be a kids version of halo but it does look really fun to play.

[@mattmc9812]

Love the smart arse start up lol

[@anthonyhollister290]

Can you do a video on halo infinite, and what the future of single player story looks like going forward ( after the initial campaign)?

[@timelordmagnums357]

The Didact takes some of the powder as it is created and dissolves it in a glass of water. He then drinks it vigorously before the primordial completely disintegrates. LOL Leaving the Primordial to hear his Muhahahahahahahaha as he passed on.

[@Spartan-343]

If I recall correctly, Chakas, Riser and Vennevra did eat and/or drink some food and liquids that were recycled from Flood biomass in Primordium.

[@thomasshirley318]

How many games with these " 10 year plans" have actually stayed true to these " 10 year plans" fucking zero.

[@RA9935]

I'd like to see some of the proto-Gravemind releases happen in the multiplayer sections of the game, instead of ALL 10 being spread out over a 10 years.... seems really cheesy right? Maybe start with a small diversionary outbreak in the first 2 or 3 years, and eventually lead up to a cataclysmic security system failure and subsequent mass release of flood upon parts of the ring over the next 3 years, then use the last 4 years to finish up the reclaimer saga as to not take all 10 years to fully introduce the flood back into the story, and then quickly bottle it back up.

[@chriskovie1911]

Love your content. Little bit of peaking in your mic audio. Friendly reminder to check your eq. EDIT: Primarily on your 'pop' words..

[@leronebrown876]

Installation00 With prehistoric humanity having such diverse types of "humans" from (from Riser to Maru/the great ape), what do you think the relationship between the Brutes and humanity is?

[@paneynay]

Did they ever say what ever happened with the monitor from halo five and its builder world?

[@UpheavaI]

0:37 what is that sound popping? Great video other than that. Edit: I see your aware from other commebts

[@AGuyWithTheFace]

I love your content mate. Also, has anyone ever told you that your voice sounds kind of like MauLers?

[@chrisfraser5088]

Great content, as always!

[@LightningRush007]

Coming back here to see if anyone else is hunting for these mysteries now since Infinite released!

[@overtbias9305]

The 8th mystery: is it pronounced Zeta or Zeetah?

[@Installation00]

British pronunciation is Zee-tah. I'm a Brit.

[@schwig44]

@@Installation00 don't you mean zed-tah? ;)

[@overtbias9305]

I was just joking around but now I feel like an asshole

[@Installation00]

@@overtbias9305 I get it all the time. You're not an asshole. You're EPIC!

[@Installation00]

@@cancelanime1507 Hidden Xperia is my boi, but this is Installation00. The man is epic.

[@jordansimonekramer33]

I wanna know how master chief got out of the cryptum and if the other Spartans got out too

[@steved3737]

What are the sections with the Primordial from? The pictures that look like they're from terminals maybe. For example, 9:22

[@tyvernoverlord5363]

Halo Mythos actually

[@mocman7020]

Why were 4runners not cataloged for reseeding?!

[@jamesdaviesanswers8751]

What is the music at 1:50? Is it from halo?

[@Donnirononon]

10 graveminds will get boring on the second one.

[@bmxdude1337]

Damn I really need to reread the Forerunner trilogy

[@thetrickster9885]

I get some Ahoy vibes from you

[@dysae4484]

Gravemind world events sound cool but if its the same thing over its gonna get stale too fast like a holiday event in other live service games

[@Doncut97]

GTA Christmas event when snow is on the map. One of the worst times in that game imo

[@felixdecat3000]

Hi 00. would you be able to give the falcon or mongoose the most detailed treatment please? I love those two vehicles and would like to see a most detailed breakdown on it😁

[@Installation00]

For you, anything. I'll get on it.

[@waletsplayer7159]

Maybe also the Wraith or Longsword if you didn't already do that....

[@felixdecat3000]

@@Installation00 Cheers mate. Love your content and look forward to it 😁

[@drew5637]

your mic be crackin yo

[@GhostRydr1172]

If I'm not mistaken, Joe Staten didn't last long into Destiny's development. He quit Bungie after his original cut for the game - of which concepts or ideas are now starting to return - was rejected by Bungie and/or Activision before the game launched in 2014. This caused a massive restructuring of the campaign which led to its poor quality and reception. Which makes Infinite's delay an awfully familiar situation. Infinite's delay.

[@masterlaos2563]

Where do you think the story will go knowing what we know now?

[@mastabeef427]

343 isn’t badass enough to let any of these happen. But I really hope they prove me wrong

[@Shadowpack95]

Calling it now, 343 will ignore or forget all existing lore of zeta halo and make their own shit up

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Eh, they're the ones who set it up in the first place, via Greg Bear...

[@spartans122ouellette3]

I want to know exactly what happened to Anders after Halo Wars 2 when she was left on the ring and also ended up in the Halo 5 ending as well that's what I really want to find out about because if that Halo ring in Halo 5 it has taken place in Halo 6 and yet that's also the Halo ring Anders was on in Halo Wars 2 what happened to her

[@__Gaz__]

Hot and spicy lore, yeah boi

[@PhillyCh3zSt3ak]

Last time I was this early to a video was never.

[@snakem4a164]

This video should be updated now that infinite is out

[@adamgardner3768]

10 year plan... *sigh* This is gonna be another destiny isn’t it...

[@bmxdude1337]

That’s what I thought when they said that...

[@haiderrafi621]

If I dont see flood in infinite imma bug out

[@tristanbackup2536]

Bigfoot confirmed.

[@markss367]

Question is it around midnight where you live?

[@Installation00]

Nearly

[@markss367]

@@Installation00 its an hour past midnight here