: I apologize to Lord Zedd for doubting his results.

: I also highly commend General Vagueness and companions for providing a level
: of proof for which I do not doubt. Thank you.

: When Halo 3 first came out I had tried to make sense of these Crystals by
: destroying them but could not uncover any hidden Easter eggs.

Why thank you.
Yeah I heard before that these crystals had health attached to them. I thought I heard about an egg involving 343 this level, in 2008 or 2009 I think, and now that I think about it, I think I heard something about some of them being marked differently in the code, and maybe hearing strange noises at the end of the level. I've wondering about the possibility of them triggering something and I'm pretty sure at least once I went through and destroyed every one in the level, or tried to.
I'd like to thank HaloTupolev for helping me out and Hyokin for helping me out with this a while ago. If it wasn't for one crystal (or maybe it was two crystals) we would've gotten it and had a nice Community Customs production to put up.
As HaloTupolev pointed out, the combinatorics of 35 crystals are insane, on the order of 10 to the 40th power, 1 with 40-ish zeroes after it, and there are at least a dozen more crystals just in that starting area, so I figure one of a few things happened with the person that created this:
- they figured with all the people playing it a bunch of times in different ways someone would stumble on it randomly
- they figured someone would find it in the code
- they planned to give hints eventually-- we're coming up on seven years since it was released, that might have been a good time to start
- they didn't really intend for anyone to necessarily ever find it, at least "legitimately", through exploration and testing
- it's not as complicated as we're making it out to be
The last one has been proven to a very small degree-- "Lord Zedd" said he had it work with the first crystal cluster destroyed in his video (that was caught in a grenade blast) destroyed last, and that's what I did and it worked for me. I think either they're grouped in some way in the code, and you just have to destroy certain groups-- or part of them-- before other ones, maybe not even the whole group, or it's overkill and it only depends on some of these crystal clusters. I know for a fact the one that's on your right as you come out of the long cave with Covenant path-lighting stick things is necessary because it got destroyed prematurely in my play-through with Hyokin and the egg didn't trigger, so that'll save a little bit of testing.