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[Halo] A few What Ifs...

A few questions on how changing certain events might effect the universe as a whole:

1. **What if Nobel 6 survived and managed to board The Pillar Of Autumn?** Let's say Emile managed to shoot down the Phantom full of the Elites that killed him, allowing him to remain in the gun and allowing 6 to board the Autumn. How would 6's inclusion in the events of Halo 1 have changed things?

2. **What if the Heretic Leader has given The Arbiter the opportunity to ask 343 Guilty Spark questions?** He tells The Arbiter to "Ask the Oracle about Halo" but before The Arbiter can do so The Heretic Leader attacks. If he had waited a few more moments would the Arbiter have learned about Halo's purpose at that time? Would he have believed it? Would he then join the Heretics?

3. **What if the humans hadn't follow Truth through the portal?** I don't think there's any way the Elites wouldn't have followed, but what if the humans didn't. We know that Truth can't actually activate the rings without a Reclaimer so there's not much he can do from over there. But once The Flood show up at Earth and head through the Portal, would the Elites or Brutes be able to contain them?
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1. In the grand scheme of things, probably nothing. Jacobs Keyes would probably be still alive. Or not. Depending on how good Noble Six can keep him alive against the Flood.

2. The Covenant Civil War would happen way earlier. And both Sangheli and San 'Shyuum would have lost a majority of their fleet due to the NOVA bomb smuggled aboard.

3. The entire galaxy would have been lost to the Flood. The Forerunners at the zenith had to resort to mass genocide to contain the Flood. The Covenant using the base copies of that technology cannot stop the Flood.