DEEP_NNN
Shared on Wed, 01/26/2011 - 13:11If there is one thing that attracts me to a multiplayer map, it's that it has a recognizable theme. Something to set it apart from the rest of the pack. Something to help you remember it. That's why I tend to like Bungie's maps over anything else. Each map tells a story. They are grounded in some kind of Halo fiction.
Both my Halo 3 map Stonehenge and this REACH map MEGALITH are grounded in humanity's Neolithic structure we now call Stonehenge. The former map quite obviously tries to look like the modern ruins. The latter tries to look like what would come from a reconstruction using the original design but built to some highly technical standard.
Now here is where I get imaginative (silly).
Keeping with one of the original Stonehenge's assumed purposes, MEGALITH was a place to congregate. I say was because whatever species put it on this ring world no longer seems to be around.
It was used as a place to celebrate life in the sunny outdoors as the structure ran biological diagnostics on each visitor followed by regenerative processes. It is an autonomous device completely solar powered that had been running flawlessly for so long, that no one even knew the technology anymore. They just knew that you would occasionally go there to feel better.
The people who used to congregate at MEGALITH must have been huge. Easily three times our size. A Spartan is literally dwarfed by those benches. These people wanted for nothing. Living in perfect health for many millennia, they began to lose interest in having families. Children hadn't been seen in a very long time and were almost unheard of. I say almost because there was some recognition of a problem by leaders of this civilization. There was always a spiritual leader on hand to greet visitors. They would lead the congregation in ceremonies celebrating life. Words were spoken, encouraging visitors to procreate. They had to be told because their desire was gone. Unfortunately over the millennia, these leaders also did not understand the meaning behind the words. The words were hollow. What they did know was that there were fewer and fewer people coming to this place. Some were known to have expired due to accidents but others just stop appearing. Where did they go? Something needed to be done but no one really cared enough to do anything serious about it. They were very self centered beings by then.
Eventually that species faded away altogether. They did not struggle to live and so, they did not.
MEGALITH is still here though.
The next time you play Halo on MEGALITH. Ask yourself, am I feeling a little bit better having been there today?
Amazing technology. Still running after all these years.
End of silliness.
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