Halo 2 Anniversary All Terminal Cutscenes by Sequence - Halo Terminals [1080p @ 60fps] 

Louis Edwards it makes thise missions more interesting to me... fighting as a brave, determined, but brainwashed warrior.

Aerociviz Nicholas If only the prophets didn't have thel branded as a heretic

That should have been pretty obvious anyway.

It wasn't that dramatic for me.

well its one thing to see it in the game and understand it but to watch this and really see how bad it is makes it more impactfull

Shots fired

XD

You have no idea how much that made me laugh! Thanks for that! XD

Derek Collins I'm glad I could help.

I read that in Sgt Johnson voice lol

Actually half of the info is form the books but I am glad they made terminals for the guys who do not read the books

That's what I meant by the covenant and Thel's history being accurate, not to mention some of it came from the Halo Legends Anime.

I...I haven't finished reading (well, more like listening) to the books. Probably shouldn't have watched this, or nah?

The books are still good, especially the Cole Protacal. Doesn't matter if you have watched this.

Lmao this was done by Blur Studios

+Kai Bungie did it, they wanted a Covenant vs Heretic fight

+Kai have you read the Cole Protocole?? Thel is a very stubborn guy, he listens to many things but ultimately he ALWAYS acomplishes his orders, at some point he would've started shooting the Heretic and then, after killing him he would've stop a little and actually think in what and why he did. The Heretic leader knew that, he knew Thel's history, he knew he was already dead

Did you read all the Halo books?

Kurt Harris Nope.

Thel's faith was too strong. He wouldn't have changed his mind.

Mind your tounge oracle!

Oh I mean no offense, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about your species

@@amazingbro6723 Imagine defending your rude remark with blatant racism

@@Zlarel dude, it's just a quote from the terminals

​@@amazingbro6723 Was responding to your quote/Guilty Spark, not you, apologies

@TRISTAN KAHL The entire scene is translated for the viewers, so there's no reason to use those terms when the average person has no idea what that is. In universe wise, they have no reason to be speaking English anyways.

I want to see the Brutes nuke themselves to the Stone Age then be discovered by the Covenant right when they begin their industrial age

@@dr.boring7022 i want to think that your wording of "average person" is burning those who doesn't understand Halo's expanded universe

@@dr.boring7022 I kinda agree about the aliens speaking English thing, but at the same time I'm glad lol the story would probably be less paid attention by the masses if they had to read subtitles:/

@@dr.boring7022 i think that in universe spartans have some kind of translater to understand the covenant. I'm not sure if thats entirely true since i cant remember what book or comic its from, but i think it is

The duel was scary

+Matthew Hagerty the duel was awesome

The only thing about The Duel that was never cannon was the appearance of his wife. But it's good to see it in the terminals seeing as most things from Halo legends were either goofy or about Chief

Yan SILVA GALAN Honestly I like the way she looks. The reason they made her Ro and Fal look the way they did is so we would feel more sympathetic. But in a way her appearance is cannon as elites don't always talks with their mandibles all spread out. Apparently they can talk in a similar fashion to humans

+JITCY9107 The femal sangheili in legends is not the official canon look. Joseph Staten gave use an official canon look for female sangheili in Shadow of Intent (the cover art).

Thel was a prodigy Sangheili, he commands Covenant fleets at very young age, waged war and conquered on countless Human colonies and planets. Unfortunately for him, failed to secure a Halo ring because of a Demon who named Master Chief.

Ya we watched the video

yeah they bin use as tool of high prophets sins battle of harvest and Arcadia and fall of reach the arbiter have bin nothing but laughing stock to covenant and all this time sangheili have bin nothing but tool of jiralhanae and San'Shyuum just like oni or recon use human as tools bymanipulated them and kiddnaping children and experimenthing on them and turn them into super soldier again thier will

The feels all the feels.

Then again, we murder grunts all the time don't we?

Michael Jackson No it's genocide when I'm in the field.

I know I felt so bad for the unnogy after watching the one with the grunt rebellion 😓

Indeed.... ;_;

If he is so smart. then why did HE started blasting when Thel asked 343 Guilty Spark. There was a chance to convince Thel. Also Sesa was too afraid to team up with the Humans believing they would shoot on sight. its not like they cannot communicate with them.

@@Simalf13 you pretty much answered your own question. at the time the elites were all high on the great journey zaza. they would shoot on sight, as you did when you played the level "The Arbiter" in Halo 2. the covenant elites would also not believe them. in Sesa's mind, they were too far gone and it was too late for words.

@@Simalf13you didn't pay attention to the terminal logs? Refumee said it himself, that once made an Arbiter they belonged to the Prophets. And it was no small observation but a pretty significant one, because the shame of their failure and the implications of their status as an Arbiter made an Elite specially zealous and with a martyr mentality. He basically figured that once he was an Arbiter, there truly was no way to bring him into the fold, simple as. His bringing 343 Guilty Spark into the conversation was not to convince Thel, but to distract him.

Nice

It must have been hard to quell the grunts

What's so funny about that

@@voldy3565 stiff, sterilize

Nice

me too. I mean I kind of felt bad for them originally (except in halo 1 because they are just so cute in that game) but I never felt too bad for them until now

Seeing a Grunt cry was the most depressing thing ever.

Poor Grunts. ;(

Me too I felt quite sad for them

jamondshadow agreed

a mild inconvinience for both sides

@Neb You know nothing neb

@@helikos1 Well, in the 1st Halo Trilogy, there was a very good reason why the portal was on Earth, it was simply because WE are the Forerunners. Before you dismiss my words as crap, there are some lines of dialogue that point towards that being the case. In the cutscene where Spark betrays Master Chief, he has lines of dialogue indicating that he interacted with us before. Not John specifically, but presumably one of his kind, pointing towards the Forerunners and humans being the same species. And in Halo 3, before we fight him, Spark says this: "You ARE Forerunner, but this installation, is mine." And Truth earlier remarks after he kills Miranda that: "Now I know why they left you behind."

​@@JMObyxWhen you refer to "he has lines of dialogue indicating that he interacted with us before" is this in Halo CE when 343 asked if you asked him the same question the answer is still we must fire the rings? Similar to that anyway. Have you read any of the books? I would not count 343's words as the word of god, so to speak. He's rampant af and on occasion refers to all humans he speaks to as the same reclaimer and John as a forerunner. In fact that scene I mentioned, in the control room of Halo CE the conversation 343 is talking about is one between "Bornstellar-Makes-Eternal-Lasting" and himself. I believe Bungie wanted human to be physical descendants of the forerunner, whereas we know from Halo 4 they aren't, that Humans were suppose to take up the mantle. Therefore "reclaim" that what was forerunner. Whether the ancient human actually originated on Earth I'm unsure but makes sense to place the portal on the planet that you're seeding the reclaimers of your legacy. Makes it a little easier to find lol I like proper conversations about halo

@@JMObyx The terminals in Halo 3 reveal that Bungie considered the humans and Forerunners separate by that point, with the Librarian talking about a special race and building a portal on their home planet

Dawn Logemann Correct

And I’m pretty sure most of the time in halo CE we TECHNICALLY fought him, as his original elite uniform was the gold elites But then again he was a shipmaster, so whoever were the gold elites (commanders) they must’ve just been in control of their squads in levels 2-5, 8-9, and eventually search parties for the Flood containment unit before the outbreak.

@@damnedtosuffer666 late response but, Thel was the supreme commander of the fleet of particular justice. The golden armored elites we faced throughout the game, were either just Zealots or the one shipmaster that captained the Truth and Reconciliation they all use the same color, zealots occasionally use crimson colored armor but mostly gold as we've seen in Halo 1 and 2 mainly. Thel would've been in one of the CAS class carriers, not a CSS class cruiser like the Truth was. So I highly doubt we even saw him once.

@@Zero-ge4vb oof, yeah youre right. I based my theory on model appearance, my mistake

It certainly helps explain why Truth wanted to keep using him after he was stripped of his rank the the Council wanted to execute him for failing to protect Installation 04.

And the only reason Humanity held out for so long is due to courage, bravery, and sheer stubbornness. "Defiant till the end"

Not exactly. The covenant is superior in space, but not much can beat humans on the ground. Problem is every time humanity start to win on the ground, the Covenant just withdraw into space and glass the planet.

Keyes did say once that the Covenants weakness is that their Adaptive and not Innovative

A lot of people said that. It was pretty common knowledge among the higher ups of the UNSC and all of ONI.

cynderfan2233 No, according to The Fall of Reach book, humans only win on the ground when they outnumbered Covenant forces 3-1. And than, if they did have superior numbers and started to hold their own or even start winning, the Covenant had usually secured their objective by this time AND THAN would retreat and glass the planet.

I agree. The Ur-Didact seems like a fusion of the way you described Arbiter & Master Chief. But filled with far more HATE....

+felynecomrade well not every one, I just finished reading Protocole Cole and in there they say many times that the Sangheili hate and understimate the Unggoys, despite of what was said in these videos, in the videos they said that the Sangheili learned to respect the power of the Unggoys after the rebelion

You sir, put it beautifully.

Sesa is even more interesting than Thel. He declares his apostasy and rebels against the false prophets in complete abnegation and against tremendous odds. Thel is a well intentioned and honorable character, but he literally always stays on the most advantageous side for him in every situation and doesn't look as courageous in comparison. "I wondered who the hierarchs would send to silence me. An Arbiter ! I am flattered..." "I would rather die by your hands than let the prophets lead me to slaughter" speaks volume. Not to mention that he is not entirely a soldier, but an emeritus forerunner technology archaeologist, leader of an artefact retrieving team (hence the weird, whimsical looking armors), in short a sangheili Indiana Jones xD

It's even cooler when you realize Halo 2's plot was mostly about him; moreso than the Master Chief. Bungie took a great risk by going that route, but it really paid off.

It was a smart decision, the elites were growing too independent, the bruters were not so smart and therefore the better choice

Not a smart decision in practice, it was an objectively asinine decision. On paper, yes, replace the independent spartan II tier warriors with bigger, literally brutish beings, who think with their fists not their brain. They were sentient, but considering the brutes literally blasted away their own space faring chance back into a tribal state, they were ideal targets to be manipulated. Meanwhile the elites, all they really needed was a reinstatement of trust and faith from the prophets, as they were super conflicted. Yet truth shot himself in the foot by tossing them out

@@IanZeArtist Humanity almost did the same thing multiple times, the brutes aren't stupid

@@bruhmoment6947 or we are also stupid. Every race in Halo has its blunders. The Elites blindly follow the prophets for far too long (although they did have many failed chances to overthrow the prophets as explained by this video) The San' Shyuum are too greedy and selfish to actually accomplish anything, grunts... are grunts, and jackals are just there to make many and are blissfully ignorant.

If you understand the history you know many had questioned but the rit of union had made it impossible to speak openly of such matters.

Check out halo legends and watch the duel then you’ll see what happened to those who questioned or rebelled. Learn your lore/check yourself before you wreck yourself brother.

true

+Josh Leonard That is why I stabbed him.

+Thel Vademe Why are there so many Halo characters on RU-vid!!!

Kurt Harris its a thing i guess

+Thel Vadam - Leader of the Swords of Sanghelios Heretic!

hell just seeing a grunt cry made me die a little inside :(

bubbajoe117 Thats what makes Halo so great, you feel and understand your foe's.

bubbajoe117 right! me too! I actually had sympathy for the grunts ( i mean I always have had slight sympathy for them but not too much) more than I usually do

Jesse Case I always that the hidden Grunt at the end of Halo 3 could be my best friend. If only I could have taken him with me and he would polish my boots and polish my helmet...

Neo-Mad Dog i know!!!! i always wanted to take him on the ship with me too! he'd be so cute just because he'd be so scared that he'd have no choice to cuddle up with chief

Brandon Broadway Yes, these terminals did him so much justice. And he even says he knew Thel before he was branded traitor. It would be interesting if either of them had recognized one another.

That's pretty much beenaccomplish in halo 5

He really needs his own game. RPG maybe.

Clarence The Mailman survival instinct is a son of a bitch. If you were trying to convince a fanatic with a death wish pointing a gun at you... you’d also hedge your bets a bit.

Mustafa M The Station was mid freefall too. If he had let Spark talk, they’d all have died before Thel actually listened. And he even states if Thel became the Arbiter, he’d be useless to them.

He says that if Thel was an Arbiter, he was a lost cause. He thought that he would be unshakable in his belief in the great journey at that point which is why he tried to kill him.

Guys... is simple... at the time the game was relised, this terminal scene and this elite friendship with Thel wasen't a thing... they just made that up years later on the canon... that's why, In my opinion, they shouldan't have made this friendship in the first place (sorry for my bad inglish...)

@@dotingbritu2287 nah bro its cuz thel became the arbiter he was a lost cause to him thought he could not be persuaded

cryptosporidium01 Sesa is my favorite elite.

In Halo: Kilo five, grunts have become mostly autonomous, but still find themselves relegated to menial work militarily. Most returned to thier home world however.

I think humanity should lend those dudes a hand and become allies with them, they only fought humans because the covenant forced them to.

***** I don't think there's any indication they invented it; it's pretty clear that they simply commandeered any weapon they could get their hands on during their rebellion. I think Contact Harvest even implies that a bunch of them weren't even armed, and simply used their numbers to mob Elites and tear them apart with their bare hands.

The grunts are physically strong for their size. They been known to tear and decapitate their enemies with bare hands.

Not to say that they raged over High charity also in a fight. Glassing their plant would of course slow them down

Underrated comment

Thel was the reason the covenant were winning at all. The humans could beat other covenant commanders, look at the first half of the battle of reach before Thel arrived, we could fight them off. It was his flexibility and ruthless fighting that lead to many of the worlds falling. The reason we even won the battle of instillation 04 was because the prophet was trying to take control from Thel which lead to conflicting orders and little to no organization amongst the covenant ranks. The finding of the halo rings was possibly the luckiest things to happen to humanity in the halo universe.

alexis daniel avendaño vazquez IKR

I tbag them a lot to be honest

22:48 just look at thiiiis

In fact, he did everything right

He's one of my favorite parts of halo.

Except shoot at the Arbiter, while he could have instead tried to further explain himself to Thel with Guilty Spark.

@@bowlingnixon1640 I would of shot thel too tbh considering his history

@@bowlingnixon1640 EXACTLY!!!

@TRISTAN KAHL Sequence does the terminals, Blur does all the uber realistic cutscenes

+Thomas Lasky exactly. I am so frustrated because of that. if he only would let Arbiter listen to 343's tale.

+Jurek Val'Cair would've*

+Nendoras The station was falling. There wan't enough time for Spark to explain everything to Thel. The Heretic Leader knew that Thel wouldn't allow him to just leave.

I'm copy pasting someone else, and can't/won't verify it myself, but it made sense to me: _"have you read the Cole Protocole?? Thel is a very stubborn guy, he listens to many things but ultimately he ALWAYS acomplishes his orders, at some point he would've started shooting the Heretic and then, after killing him he would've stop a little and actually think in what and why he did. The Heretic leader knew that, he knew Thel's history, he knew he was already dead"_

that should be common knowledge since like, atleast halo 2

You're telling me you didn't know that?

They are also found inside Halo 3 Scarabs (as worms)

A lot of covenant technologies is made of Lek Golo (those worms). Scarabs and other excavators are also made of them.

Hunters are stores in the worms

I mean they want to at least “gift” the humans a chance for a honorable death. To at least go down fighting back.

A lot of us do after we see how they were treated.

Sam Doo Do you mean Lekgolo?

Well they are in the Mgalekgolo form, so no not really

@@warning6111 the lekgolo are just the worms. The mgalekgolo are the constructs they form when they come together

Unfortunately, the Halo 3 Terminals aren't loading in MCC so it seems I can't unlock that final Terminal. I'll have it up as soon as everything is fixed!

I noticed that too

"Sentry down!"

Erecting a dispenser!

It is

*Y E A H*

When the bad outweighs the good, people tend to focus more on the bad. At the time H2A came out, they had only made HCEA and Halo 4. Both were... Ok, but Halo 4 caused a split in the fanbase. Where 343 really started screwing up was with Halo 5.

While I'm still watching the terminals, from what I've seen all of it is just poking more into history of the series that was already established. This doesn't seem at all indicative of 343's writing, rather than just translating a lot of the already written information in a new form or different perspective. This doesn't redeem how they handled Halo 4's story. You can only wait until Halo 5 for that.

SolidSp33d Solid point

That's right. All of this information is information that was already public when Bungie still owned Halo.

SolidSp33d I don't mind Halo 4's story. Apart from the Didact being a quick time event.

SolidSp33d Although almost all of the events shown in these terminals were established by Bungie, none of them had been portrayed with such detail and with a connective narrative that ties them all together and makes a clear message. The Taming of the Hunters and the Unggoy Rebellion were only known by name before these terminals, we had no idea what caused them or how they were quelled. Also, the short sections where we are introduced into Sangheili culture before the Covenant is completely new and very well delivered IMO. Making all these important events in Halo lore fit into a short 30-minute video is no easy task.

Exactly, like Halo CE's Anniversary were all about the Librarian, the Didact and the Shieldworlds/Halo Array. These are well plotted teasers by 343i. And yet, people hate them for making such an awesome job with the lore.

Most of the hate is coming from the multiplayer fans.

Alexandre Batalha People hate that 343i wants to bring Halo MP into this century and make Halo more story a bit more dark and start bringing characters from the books into the games. All and all... people hate that 343i is doing an amazing job. All those idiots who were like "Bungie is the only ones who can do anything good with Halo!" are eating their words.

Opie Winston​ amen to that!!

Opie Winston How? Halo 4 was the worst Halo game ever made, aside from Halo Wars. And the launch of the MCC was utterly disastrous.

I think you're...

ya I always felt slightly bad for killing sesa but nowafter seeing the terminals I fell really bad for killing him before you hear him and guilty spark

the heretic leader did shoot first though..... was just thinking this till i realized the arbiter actually was listening for a little till he got blasted by plasma rifles. lol

Daniel Spurr Oh this drove me crazy. If only he wouldn't have shot. So close to a quicker truth and a really badass ally.

bowwing333 But he did say if Thel became the Arbiter he would not listen and be hopeless in the terminals. Which is why he shot first from my understanding and he was wrong.

Daniel Spurr do have to say that that was a dishonorable move to pull, knowing they were elites ad all and especially that sesa trusted thel the whole time and emiedatly tried to kill him later

Yep

right I have been searching for weeks for this

He's responsible for the majority of human causalities during the war lol. He was indirectly the main antagonist of Halo 1.

After viewing I was hoping that there would be some terminal about how delta halo fell out of repair. Maybe a secret Gravemind terminal lol

Justin Nguyen That would be great, especially since Spark mentions it in CEA. Damn.

I have to disagree, A that's been in the books long before halo 4 and that part of the story was clearly planned out before halo 1. meany of guilty spark's lines in halo are clear references to it. B The history, pre-halo firing, is honestly the best part of the halo series, It ain't dumb. I do agree that these terminals are great though and fit along with halo 2 narrative so well.

edgartj17 Errrm, the 100,000 years ago thing was around when Bungie still owned Halo xD

regardless is just dumb, they shoulda left the forerunners alone as an ancient civilization full of mystery. like the original trilogy

edgartj17 no, just no.

edgartj17 You know that the humans are called "Reclaimers" right? Never wondered why the humans were reclaimers and the covenant speicies were not? It's because the humans had earned the respect of the Forerunners... aswell as being the only ones who could fight the Flood without nuking the galaxy to oblivion... What I just told you is from both the original trilogy aswell as from the books which were released before Reach came out... The Human-Forerunner war was even in the lore in Halo 3 (the terminals). Go learn ya Halos before ya'r gonna complain about mah Halos boy! ^^

right totally agreed infact I JUST finished the cole protocol last week

Yes like how in saudi arabia if you convert you will be executed.

You mean the covenant?

+Oskar Mora Nah, it's a little more complicated than that. The Covenant is a conglomerate of different races with a similar "origin story," essentially a race that existed somewhere near Forerunner technology, who began to worship the Forerunners as gods (for indeed, if you had the technology to make and unmake worlds, does that not make you a god?). A sect of the Prophet race, after discovering the big ship seen in the end of Halo 2, decided to use the Forerunner technology rather than simply revere it. The resulting civil war between their people destroyed part of their planet after the ship took off, and from the remnants they built High Charity; the huge station that's the epicenter of the Covenant Fleet. They didn't discover the "Great Journey" part of their beliefs until much later, likely as a result of a mistranslation of old Forerunner text that detailed the Halos and the Flood, likely as a result of exposure to the Didact's dogma regarding humans and prometheans. To the Covenant, specifically the Prophets, heresy is anything that separates from the Great Journey ideology of their people. This is the explanation why there is still a large group of Elites, Grunts, Jackals, and Hunters still working together as their own Covenant; they still worship the Forerunners despite their Covenant's destruction and the Great Schism.

It's not that they're atheist it's that they know the covenant religion is bullshit and based off lies seeing as the Forerunners planned for humanity to be reclaimers. Many elites still have some forerunner centric religion even after the great schism

Not even really atheists. Just anything that isn't exactly like the prophets say. It could even just be like the prophets are catholic and the heretics are Baptists.

Arbiter still doesn't deserve forgiveness.

+Fire Starter all Legends series is canon, except for1337

+Nendoras Why not 1337?

It's a Halo universe parody made in DBZ style. That's why. They even mention an 'Unicorn' system, if i remember right

Also, 1337 is LEET, a very well known internet language**.

+Nendoras I think they said Unicron... maybe it is Unicorn XD either way

@Mr.Tweezy007 That and the station was falling so there was no time to listen even if the Arbiter was going to hear out the Oracle.

The only real information you get fir Halo 5 is that Spartan Locke was hunting down the Arbiter before the war had ended.

If you want to know more about the flood and the story, read some of Halo Escalation. It basically had more advancement in the story than these terminals did.

GmasterFunk The Terminals are not meant to "advance the story", their purpose is to provide background and lore, in a digestible form. I enjoyed these terminals alot. Really, what you see is the San Shyuum manipulating (note how Spark says they manipulated before the Array fired, i.e when they were allies of humanity) trying to make themselves into the new Forerunners, to rule over everyone else.

Relugus background and lore = the story providing the background and lore = advancing the story. Also most of this we already knew from the most recent book and others. The only thing I learned from this video was that the Heretic Elite wanted Thel to side with him

While much of this information was previously known, these details on Thel's background and the history of the Arbiters were never present in the games themselves. These terminals allow the broader audience of Halo fans and new players not familiar with the books to learn more about the underlying lore. In that regard, I think they did a phenomenal job. As for advancing the plot, that's what Halo 5: Guardians is for. Just wait a year.

***** Well I already knew is was official canon, but I'm basically just saying the same thing you are: it's pretty cool to have seen a reference to The Duel from HALO: Legends. And it also kind of proves the fact that the episodes are lore because a lot of people don't "want" to believe they are simply because it is anime :/

***** lol I've already slapped this video and that scene in the face of a bunch of people who I've talked to recently who said The Duel wasn't lore. I haven't heard from any of them since XD

Yan SILVA GALAN I had no idea that Homecoming was referenced too. Sweet!

+Yan SILVA GALAN The only Legends episode I have problems with canon wise is 'the package'. I say that because Halsey looks as though she's in her twenties or thirties in that episode. Unless that one was supposed to be a clone or something. Given all the stuff Halsey has done I wouldn't put it past her.

@@idawg42xlpwn I think canonically she was older