You mean like, "facing the Blood Moon of Purple Hippo eight, bark twice, kill a virgin, then look North and howl at the top of your lungs while doing the Happy Doggy Dance?"

You have to beat the game (completely) on either Normal, Heroic or Legendary. That means EACH level on the same difficulty, not a couple on Normal and a few on Heroic, or it may not work. If you have someone that has beaten the game in the pre-described manner, let them sign in first, then go get the skull. When you come to the first anti-air ...

Cortana: "We made it through jsut before the portal closed. I'll drop a beacon, but we're pretty far out. Could be years before someone finds us." (No, not an exact quote but yes this is what she says.)

Dude, chillax. I didn't call you out. They lay down a beacon, it could be years before anyone finds them. They'd have to be within range for her to make that statement, whether it be in range of a colony or Earth. Since most all the colonies are gone, Earth's the only viable choice I see. The Forerunners are dead, I'm pretty ...

Remember when they found 00's Cartographer? He says that they implemented security protocols or something and that it initiated some kind of barrier, then cuts off. The planet was the core of the Ark, and the barrier a shield around the core - hence the shield world reference.

The Ark is currently damaged, the portalclosed down and we don't know how to open it up. It'll be a while before we can open it (rebuilding humanity's kind of a long and arduous process, you understand...) and find out exactly how badly damaged. The replacement ring was too far away for the actual SHIELD world to be damaged, but there ...

Military service dates are just that: dates from your inception into the military till your discharge. Death dates are different. When you die at 88 after retiring at 65, then you probably might find it useless to want your service dates on your tombstone. Other than that, forty years is nothing, honestly. Remember, they can tie it in just the ...

Master Chief's half of the Dawn jumped right before the portal closed out, so he'd be nearer to Earth than anything as far out as the Forerunner home world. And if it was the Forerunner homeworld, the Covenant and UNSC would have already been there/stopped by to say hey. A galaxy infested by flood alla sudden has a ship that just warps in ...

He's getting that info from one of the memorial's veterans. Basically it says that the man is still alive/in service.

Old or not, funny stuff.