So I'm reading Halo: The Flood (Horrible book. Just skip the MC parts. Only redemption is just focusing on the marines) for the 6th time while playing Halo CE.



Well I'm doing "Assault on the control room" level and you run into Fire Team Zulu. Who is getting chased by a Banshee (only on heroic and legendary) And they call for Assistance. Then my mind starts to think, "Why are they here, this was pretty much going To be a stealth insertion breach into Covie territory and Cortana never said I was getting reinforcements" Cortana volunteers my help to them.



So I push on past the bridge, needing to get to Fire Team Zulu to pull their butts out of the fire. Get to the next room and notice the covies are not expecting trouble. Elites in calm patrol, a few grunts asleep. I clear it out and Kill a pair of hunters. (Playing solo legendary, why the hunters are there) and once it's clear, I notice a pair of Fellow marines dead against the wall. Grabbing as much spare ammo and grenades off them that I could and paying my respects while grabbing thier dogtags, I begin to wonder "These troops were killed awhile ago, or the covies wouldn't be so calm. Fire Team Zulu is not here for the control room at all, they are reinforcements for another operation all together.



Here I pause and read the book some more. The Fireteam part is kinda skimmed past, Chief links up with them kills wraith with warthog and then it swaps to the marines at Alpha base holding off a attack from Spec op elites and a covie assault. Not a mention of Major Silva sending forces to help chief. Hell they didnt even know where chief went after they found the map room. Then back to chief and he's all alone again fighting to the control room. (I'm at work, so I don't have my book on me or I would be more Procise with the info. This is all off the memory of my brain)



Well I'm back into the game and link up with fireteam Zulu and get in The warthog and clear the valley and push up and and encounter another squad With a tank and the Pelican that Fire team Zulu flew up in, crashed with the remaining crew and marines sprawl out the back. The banshee chasing it must have shot it down as the pelican was moving to reinforce this squad here. I hop in the tank and save the marines. then Cortana enlist their help to assault the control Room and they agree. meaning this squad thay Fireteam Zulu was trying to reinforce was not here for the control at all. Then why are they here.



So we move out. Clearing a path through the valley killing all In my path. As we Strom through, I still notice marine bodies In small pockets here and there they were caught in a last stand to the death. The largest group of about 3-5 bodies In the tunnel with the sealed doors and bridge. Whatever this mission these Marines were doing here. it was big. Needing all these men and armor support. Which From reading the book. The marines only recovered so much, making a tank a very high value item they wouldn't waste for no good reason like this.



We push on. The we run into a squad of marines, surrounded in a really small Valley With turrets and Covies kill teams and hunters everywhere. Then Cortana pipes in saying that she was surprised that there was any marine resistance left in this area. And I wonder, "Is she commenting that cause of all the dead marines we ran into on the way here, or cause she know why the marines are here and figured they all would be dead by now cause of the the heavie Covie resistance we ran into on the way here, that whatever operation they were on, she figured they failed and all got killed.



Well Anyways, I go and rescue them and we all push onto the next valley and clear it. There Cortana tells the Marines to wait there and that she sent out a pick up Beacon for them. So whatever reason they were here for. They must've been calling it or succeed and Cortana is calling in Evac for them. Either way, I don't know why, sure could use thier help to assault the control room if it was thier objective, which it clearly was not.



We push on, still running into other groups of Dead marines here and there. All the way to the foot of the control room and even that tower before the final door.



So the conspiracy theory I want to bring up. What was Fire Team Zulu and the marines in that Valley really up there. They were not sent there by Alpha base. And their main objective was clearly unknown. Yet at one part. Cortana knew why they were there. Yet why did see seem surprised what the marines were there in the 1st place when we ran into fire team Zulu when their pelican in the 1st place.



We're they their own element. A large group of marines, who cut off from Alpha base and not know of their location, Created their own HQ, doing raids on covies where ever they could. Which is odd for they had pelican support, so the pelican could've easily been able to find a transmission or two from alpha base pelicans. Or we're they working on a secret mission for that oni agent that we know was in the Pillar of Autumn. Or was it something else entirely. I leave This to you. I just laid down the clues that I ran into. It is to the rest of us to discover the truth to this mystery.



#huntthetruth