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Posted by: Kildar 2052
Posted by: d3vilsNight
Posted by: phearmaker
And it is not onyx because it was previously destroyed.
And it can ALSO not be onyx because MC was NOT sent back in time.
Playing devil's advocate here, I don't know or care one way or the other, but could it be possible that the Forerunners built more than one shield world like Onyx? The book stated that the Forerunner built the Dyson Sphere in Onyx to protect them from annihilation in the event of the activation of the rings. It doesn't make sense that the Forerunner would establish only one of these safe havens in the entire galaxy. More likely, they would be scattered about, so that if the rings were to be activated, Forefunner everywhere could quickly (relatively) make a dash for the protection of the nearest Shield World.
The point you seem to be mission is that the forerunner stratagys were always in threes as stated the the third book. If we assume that the ARK was part of the ring portion of the stratagy, and that the shild world was part of the defense, then that leaves the offensive part of the forerunners stratgy, Which could be one of three things
1. The planet seen in halo 3 could be a military stroghold/reasearch station
2. The planet seen in halo 3 could be a ship based on David Webers sphere ship designs in his heir to empire book
3. The planet seen in halo 3 could be a military boder patrol for a military complex
Either way it seems plausible that the cheif who has run into so much forerunner technology so far would be the most likely canndadate to find a little more = )
I reiterat my point again, it is obviously a forerunner artifact, porbably another of the rings, Or the aformentioned offensive portion of the forerunner plan to defeat the flood. I know that their are a lot of fans out there who wish that the halo 'universe' and that the marathon 'universe' became one, that it would be cool, awsome, awe inspiring, completly insane, ext. Well it just cant happen, if bungie went that route there would be too many loose ends, to many problems, and questions, like why marathon and not oni. Why not go to starcraft or star wars for that matter. Since NO ONE has pointed this out i will: THE BASIC THEORY OF MULTIPALE UNIVERSES IS THAT THERE IS NO END TO THE POSSIBILITY, WITH EVERY DESICION WE MAKE ANOTHER UNIVERSE IS CREATED AROUND THE DESICION WE DID NOT MAKE, THIS HAPPENS SEVERAL HUNDERED TIMES IN ARE LIFES, can you imagine what would happen then, the chief would be pulled inexerable into a well of probability, which would destroy him. that aside, for there to be a connection for marathon and halo there has to be a certain corrisponding factor for the two universes to corrispond. THERE ISNT. In the halo 'univers' the forerunners provide the missing link and influence humen evelotion, if we arnt them are-selvs, as far as i know without playing the marathon games this is not the case. Also from what i can tell in marathon they have no contact with any race of the halo covenent, wich, unless some differnt factor caused them not to evolve, they should have. and pluse with the current, and future use of dimond increasing there would have been more minning in africa, deeper and more expansive into the crust, So a civilazation that can hallow out a moon could easily dig deep enough to find the warp field projector under the earths crust left there by the foreruners, They did not, Which unless the forerunners did not evolve, wiped themselvs out becasue the flood did not evolve, or some other reason, means that the forerunners were never at earth, wich means a different eveolutionary pattern, which means that the cheif and the security guy are assentually different species, which means there can be not relation whatsoever between the so called 'universes'. And to the proponents of seperate universes who bring up the Shaw-Fujikarwa drive, its more of a dimensinal drive system than universal, which means you switch deminsions, not universes, since doing the latter would not transport you any faster than in your own universe.
P.S. David Weber has nothing on this stuff!!!!
[Edited on 02.10.2008 6:51 PM PST]