Addition to my Halo 5 Guardians theory…the concept art location.

If you haven’t read my initial theory go here first and read it, then come back for this part.

Okay, so after scouring the net for more info on Halo 5 Guardians, I came across other fan theories. Some have merit and I want to make mention of some of those point.

halo-5-guardians-concept-explanationSo I broke this concept art down a bit.

Some other fans seem to think this may be Sangheili by design. You’ll note, I did not say it wasn’t Covenant or more specifically Sangheili. This could very well be. In fact as others theorize, this may well be Thel ‘Vadam’s (The Arbiter) “Keep”. Now that is an interesting thought. If that turns out to be true, then it would be a foregone conclusion that we’d see the Arbiter in Halo 5 Guardians.

WHY would we see this? That part hasn’t really been theorized. So I’m going to take a crack at it. A prevailing thought is that Master Chief will have gone rogue. He has very little allies. However, one of his biggest ones would be the Arbiter. They did team up in Halo 3 to defeat the Prophets as well as the Flood. So my thinking is that this is one place along the way of Chief’s journey that he stops at. The sight of the “Demon” by other Sangheili could create a conflict and Chief would have to fight his way out. The Arbiter while knowing the truth would have no other recourse than the go after Chief. This would make Chief an outlaw (even more) by the Sangheili. I’d already surmised that Chief has become an “enemy of the state” so-to-speak of the UNSC. Now with Sangheili actively looking for him, in essence Chief is a wanted man in our known galaxy.

One thing to note about that above pic. Those “flying squid”. They were supposed to be ambient life on Requiem, but were taken out. Here are some concepts of them:

Flying_squid_conceptHalo4_Requiem_jungle_concept-artH4_Requiem_jungle_conceptFlying_squid_screenshotIt’s VERY plausible that 343 would reuse old assets not used in previous games. How do they fit in? Likely nothing more than merely ambient life again.

That does bring back the question then, is this Sangheili or possibly an OLD Forerunner location?

Let’s look at that first concept again:

halo-5-guardians-concept-explanationDoes that statue on the right look like any known race in Halo? I’ve read some surmising it might be a Jiralhanae/Brute statue. Possible, however, I think that’s a little less likely as 343 has seemed to distance themselves from Brutes. But it COULD be.

However…I think I might have just figured out where this is! If you’ve read Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, you might be a little familiar with this. The star system that matches a Binary Red Dwarf system is Groombridge 34. It’s located within the inner colonies. It’s also the place where Kurt-051 went missing in action. Later a dispatch of Spartans was sent as a guise to look for rebel activity there. This was however a guise to actually find Kurt and bring him back for use in the Spartan III program.

The station Kurt was at in this system, Construction Platform 966A, was tag with a HAZMAT satellite to keep would be renegades and others away. One key thing though. This station also was the port for the stealth cruiser UNSC Point of No Return. That ship was under the control of ONI (who else, right…). It was classified and officially doesn’t exist for the UNSC. it’s the largest ONI stealth cruiser and is as big as a UNSC destroyer. This would give the Guardian plenty of materials he would need to track down Chief and/or help him defeat a new enemy.

Some history on that ship. Colonel Ackerson met with several officers, one of which being Admiral Parangosky (the head of ONI at the time). This to discuss the Spartan III program.
The ship is still in operation having outlasted the war with the Covenant. A report was filed from the ship on Dec. 31st, 2552, from the dark side of the moon. This is the last known location of the ship.

Could it be that this is the Guardian’s ship? If so, with it’s port being at Groombridge, it might be possible that either Chief finds his way there and confronts the Guardian, or that it’s a place where the two finally agree to team up.

The red flags still elude me for a proper explanation. I’ll research that some more and see what I can dig up. What I have four is that there was an Operation Mission called “Red Flag” that was to bring an end to the Human-Covenant war. it too was something initiated by ONI. Another slight reference that ties back in with the Jiralhanae is that some wore red flags as a sign of their rank. Notably the Ceremonial Honor Guard Brutes of the Covenant.

For now, this still leaves some questions unanswered, but might lead us to further clues as to the whereabouts of this location.

-Sal

Source Links:
Groombridge 34
Construction Platform 996A
Port of No Return
Ghosts of Onyx
Operation Red Flag

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2 thoughts on “Addition to my Halo 5 Guardians theory…the concept art location.

  1. I remember in the E3 gameplay demo for Halo 4 on the mission Infinity, at the start somebody pointed out that some ‘squid’ like thingies where floating above the chief as he walked down to see the covenant patrol squad get composed by some fellow Promethean’s. Could that squid resemble the squid we are seeing in the background in this concept art???

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