Halo: High Charity (and Forerunner Keyship) - Extended Ship Breakdown 

Why you copying insulating 00 video on high charity or mostly called holy city?

Yeah people never thought about that. Gravemind didn't use the portal on Earth, he fucking used High Charity's slipspace engines and yeet himself across space faster than the Covenant could because the FLOOD knew how to use the Covenant systems better than the Covenant did.

@@Servellion that makes you ask a much simpler question, how? High charity's drives were powered by the keyship and without it the city shouldn't have been able to move in normal space, nevermind slipspace due to a lack of power. Also it did go through the portal at Earth, else how did part of it "break" off and crash into the city of Voy on Earth (were the chief recovered the fragment of Cortana), that and you litterally see it flying through the air into the portal in the cutscene. Not to say it couldn't have flown directly to the Ark, it would have known were it was due to the gravemind having long term access to the monitor 2401 Penitent Tangent and the 05 Halo's systems which do actually include a massively advanced slip space drive. Hell the real question is why didn't it hijack the array itself as a ship since it already controlled most of it. That said most Halo's have a secondary monitor and it can be surmised that this monitor remained free of gravemind interference and was actively combatting the infection and protecting key systems (a good sign of this is that the infection is actually limited to a relatively small part of the ring).

@@smangy5442 the body count is actually less than 1% of the total casulties during the war sadly. The covenant had already killed potentially over 100 billion humans at this point. In truth its likely more humans died on Earth during the relatively short invasion than in high charity (the orbital elevators collapse would have killed likely well over 100 million people going by modern population densities), not counting how nearly the entire continent of Africa was glassed to stop the flood. The destruction of Saepon’kal (Joyous Exultation) by the accidental detonation of a NOVA bomb may have killed more than the losses on high charity too since it was a fully developed colony world, and had an orbiting fleet of over 300 ships.

@@cgi2002 That was a Flood-infested Covenant ship (I believe it was a Super Carrier), not a fragment of High Charity, that the Chief recovered Cortana’s message from in Halo 3. That is very clear in the cutscene. As for the power, just because the Key Ship was the _main_ power source does not mean that it was the _only_ power source. The Covenant would be absolute morons if they were to fail to have back-up power included in the design. However, it’s also possible that the Flood are capable of assuming organic forms for power generation.

@@MisterPuck there were secondary power sources aboard high charity, but they were far from sufficient to even power the city under normal operation, nevermind power its slipspace drive. But the flood could have modified them for a 1 off burst of extra power which would explain why they crashed the city into the Ark rather than flying it above the Ark and keeping it as a seperate ship (especially since it had more firepower than anything else around and would have made an excellent warship). Your right however, it was a CCS class cruiser that crashed on Earth, not a piece of high charity (i majorly misremembered that). How high charity got to the Ark is open for dicussion. It's shown to arrive at the Ark through what appears to be a slipspace jump but its unclear how it travelled, it could have taken the portal at Voy (we don't get shown how ships appear from that, but we do know its also slip space) or if came by itself (the lesser Ark is well within slipspace range when you consider high charities slipspace drive is actually a forerunner slipspace drive) and that the gravemind would have known the Arks location.

nice metal gear rising reference. UNSC: hey covies why dont you give up? covenant empire: I HAVE A DREAM

Add that to a list of HALO spin-offs. My contribution is a Redo of HALO:CE following UNSC Sgt. Avery Johnson and how he got off the ring.

@@DocWolph That almost feels like something that should have been DLC in the Halo 3 or H2A engine in the same vein as ODST.

Gonna put this spin off in my Halo spin off bin next to my RTS UNSC Navy game and the Grunt Civil War FPS

@@wangchung2157 Dude, an FPS where everyone is a grunt would be hilarious!

But what about Green Armor Man? - hoojiwana from Spacedock

It makes sense really. Its a big ship.

@@KillerOrca Yeah, but we're talking literal *decades* since the Covenant fell, and their soldiers are still fighting! (Waits for someone to bring up that one Japanese soldier in WWII...) That said, I do also love that Divine Wind opens with an ONI minder and three Spartan IIIs - embedded into a Covanant splinter group that accepted human converts - end up on the Ark as part of their "leader"'s plot to fire the Halo arrays. Said minder is *gobsmacked* to find UNSC forces fighting on the Ark, using equipment older than she was. Greatful, but gobsmacked.

@@Sora8740 hasn't it been less than a decade since the Covenant fell, at least by the time of Halo Wars 2 and Infinite? I can see some holdouts lasting for that long, especially if they've been trapped and ultra-radicalised by the experience of being stuck in the damn thing

@@concon09090 -checks dates- Appologies, it's been about seven years (2552 to 2559)

@@Sora8740 to be fair, timeline confusion is understandable when you've got a contemporary Covenant splinter faction and UNSC black ops, Covenant holdouts from seven years ago stuck in a spaceship, and the Spirit of Fire lads being like 30 years old, it's all a mess dhdhdhd

Whoever was in charge of art style/aesthetic at bungie was a god.

I love the Covenant. That's why I don't like the new games. You know the Covenant is a huge empire and it's kinda like the Roman empire. Not exactly but you know what I mean: strong state founded on military strength and authoritarism. As like the Roman empire, I thought also the Covenant would have had a similar evolution, with remains of the empire still alive while the big part is gone thanks to various events like the skism and the fall of Constantinople... Ehm, i mean, High Charity. In the end, the idea that the Covenant empire is gone like this and at its place we have that bullshit of the Banished it really hurts my brain. Things doesn't work like this in reality.

A big shroom in space is a killer aesthetic? There were better choices.

What, High Charity? I mean...why? For the memes, sure, but this things fucking gigantic, better to sling a NOVA at it from long range.

"I can't shake 'em!" "Stay on target!" "They're right on top of me!!" "STAY ON TARGET!"

I like the ancient human ship design too

The Forerunner style that the keyship is part of it way better than the blobby shape of the Mantle's Approach. - hoojiwana from Spacedock

@@UltimaSigmarAlonso what ancient human ship?

@@hoojiwana As much as I adored flying through the Mantle's Approach in Halo 4, I do wish they just kept the Didact's big orb.

Its kinda implied that it did do massive damage to the ark, but Forerunner constructions are known to be rather durable.

@@trinalgalaxy5943 yeah the size of the ark was just mindbendinly huge. I mean it could hold a Halo inside its central structure, which looked to be only like, 10% of its surface area. And they showed a shot of High Charity crashed on it, and it was like a large pebble sitting on a car hood.

@@Kalebfenoir And unless your hood is already significantly weakened, all that pebble is likely to do is put a dent in the hood.

@@trinalgalaxy5943 if the Ark hadn't been destroyed, I imagine the resident AI would wake up, see the wreck of High Charity out there on one of the petals or on the big disc, and be like "Aw... it scratched the surface! That's gonna take a decade to buff out..." and deploys giant builder machines to break it down and then carefully smooth the dented crust plate out before covering it in pretty landscape again.

@@Kalebfenoir The AI cared less about the flood infested High Charity over the substantial damage detonating a Halo over it caused to the point it worked toward activating the entire Array!

i mean, "prophet of truth" was the biggest lie in the galaxy so the naming convention is consistent, just 100% opposite reality

@@kineticdeath As it tends to turn out with 99% of organized religious zealotry. When dogma becomes more important than ideals, things like charity, generosity and love get tossed aside for hate, division and control.

Perfectly on-brand for the Covenant. Just look at the Prophets' names in the games. Regret = Pursued his religious mission and showed no remorse, even when the other 2 Prophets told him he fucked up and was on his own. Mercy = Advocated for making a brutal example out of the Arbiter instead of giving them a 2nd chance. Truth = Distorted and hid the true nature of Forerunner tech from the entire Covenant just to ensure they remained in power.

The Ardent Spirit was designed to handle the worst that the universe could handle to complete its mission of Conservation Measure deployment. The things probably the toughest ship in existance.

Yeah. A simple scene shows alot of context of just how powerful the Forerunners were. It took the Inifinity for example, a ship that took 30 years to build just to poke a syringe hole in the Didact's ship that didn't do anything in retrospect of ship damage. The Didact must've saw the damage warning from his system alert & thought, this is the best they can come up with? It's like firing a airsoft pallet at a modern US Destroyer.

@@tristanbackup2536 It literally started to heal up the moment it happened; almost trapped Chief on the way in.

Kinda Spoily

@@Ivan_Berni the games been out for almost 20 years. if you get spoiled, its your fault

Agreed.

All hail the mighty algorithm

Glory be to the algorithm and to the holy fallout.

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UFP doesn't subjugate many species under one master species. Watch more Star Trek.

@@LordTalax … Do you even understand what the word “imperialistic” here means? Crack open a dictionary before raising an “objection” that was already addressed before you make yourself look foolish in the future.

More like the other way around ^^