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Subject: Halo 2 - Number Crunching
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OK so I was playing through Halo 2 campain and began to wonder why instillation 05 is called the Delta Halo since Delta is the 4th letter in the Greek alphabet. So I started looking at the names of the instillations and their caretakers. Since in Halo 2 we learn that there are 7 rings here is are the probable ring names:

Instilation Ring Caretaker # Caretaker name

01 alpha 7^1 = 7 ???

02 beta 7^2 = 49 ???

03 gamma 7^3 = 343 Guilty Spark

04 delta 7^4 = 2401 Penitent Tangent

05 epsilon 7^5 = 16,807 ???

06 zeta 7^6 = 117,649 ???

07 eta 7^7 = 823,543 ???

All good so far right? Well then why is instillation 05 called delta instead of epsilon and why is 2401 on 05. So I shuffled the list to what we know so far.

Instilation Ring Caretaker # Caretaker name

01 ??? 7^0 = 1 ???

02 alpha 7^1 = 7 ???

03 beta 7^2 = 49 ???

04 gamma 7^3 = 343 Guilty Spark

05 delta 7^4 = 2401 Penitent Tangentepsilon

06 epsilon 7^5 = 16,807 ???

07 zeta 7^6 = 117,649 ???

08 eta 7^7 = 823,543 ???

Now the instillations are as we have seen them but what is up with the naming and numbering. Is the Ark instilation 01? Why would bungie use a naming scheme based on the powers of 7 but then lable the rings with the incorrect greek letters and a number that doesn't match either. Was it just a mistake? A conspiracy with deeper meaning? WTF?

Does anyone remember if instillation 04 was called the alpha halo at one point or have I gone crazy... (don't answer that part)

Totally unrelated side note I was correlating the dates of the first halo encounter from the books (September 19th-22nd) with that of 343 GS in the conversations from the universe booklet (revolution 56-11.333 - 56-11.337) and figured out that a local Halo day is the equivalent of 19 Earth hours.

  • 11.20.2004 6:05 PM PDT
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does it relley matter

  • 11.20.2004 6:10 PM PDT
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Good question, best thread ive seen in this forum since halo 2's release, great thing to investigate, a bit over my head thought it is. When they refer to 'the ark' is that what life was said to have began or is it a control to all the rings?

[Edited on 11/20/2004 6:19:26 PM]

  • 11.20.2004 6:18 PM PDT
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The ark controls the rings and is probably on earth (atlantis or some ancient myan tempel) or it is the ship MC is in at the end of Halo 2

  • 11.20.2004 6:34 PM PDT