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We all know that halo and its sister rings kill all sentient life with sufficient biomass to support the flood. But how, exactly, does it actually kill that sentient life? I've always imagined it just killing the life while leaving the planets and whatnot. Does it use some kind of wave that wipes out life or does it just send out a huge chunk of destructive destruction that kind of just....destructs... everything in its path?

  • 06.20.2004 7:06 PM PDT

Me: "OMFG, Dude... wtf!"
AbolitionofMan: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to betray you."
Me: "That's the 4th time in this game alone!"
Chris: "Third, besides he had the flag I was trying to stop him, how was I supposed to know you were there."
Me: "I said, 'I got the Flag, don't shoot.'"
Chris: "Well those Wraith shots take a while to reach you."
Me: "You were right next to me, I had killed him and a minute passed before you decided to shoot."
Chris: "Hahahahaha, yeah... that was great."

No one know's, perhaps it's something that attacks the molecular struture of the host or body it encounters.

Achilles

  • 06.20.2004 7:16 PM PDT
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YOU IDIOT.... HAL DOESNT KILL FLOOD...IT KILLS THERE FOOD WITH A SONICE BOOM...WITH A RADIUS OF 10,000 LIGHT YEARS..... WHICH MEANS EVERYTHING WITHIN THAT RANGE IS DESTROYED BY ULTRASONIC SOUND...OF SUFFICIENT BIO-MASS ANYWAY (TO SUSTAIN FLOOD) SO I COCKRACH MIGHT SURVIVE BUT ITS NOT EXACTLY GOING TO HELP THE FLOOD SPREED IS IT.

  • 06.20.2004 7:19 PM PDT
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so right but mean.....

  • 06.20.2004 7:20 PM PDT
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HALO IS A BIG ROUND DONUT THAT HAS LOTS OF CALARIES

  • 06.20.2004 7:24 PM PDT
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if you actually read my first post you would see that i SAID we all know halo kills sentient life with sufficient biomass to support the flood. exactly what you just said i didnt know. So next time read the post before you bash it. I was just wondering what METHOD halo uses to eliminate said sentient life because it never really tells us. A sonic boom i kinda doubt but the molecular decomposition thing seems possible seeing how that would break the food down to an unusable level.

  • 06.20.2004 7:29 PM PDT
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YOU KNOW THE MOVIE ALIENS???? THE ALIEN IS WEAPON CREATED BY A FAR MORE SUPERIOR RACE.... THE FLOOD AND HALO...OH,

SORRY IF I ' BASHED' YOUR STATMENT I'LL USE MORE APPROPRIATE KIDDY GLOVES NEXT TIME I DEAL WITH YOU OK?

  • 06.20.2004 7:34 PM PDT

Me: "OMFG, Dude... wtf!"
AbolitionofMan: "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to betray you."
Me: "That's the 4th time in this game alone!"
Chris: "Third, besides he had the flag I was trying to stop him, how was I supposed to know you were there."
Me: "I said, 'I got the Flag, don't shoot.'"
Chris: "Well those Wraith shots take a while to reach you."
Me: "You were right next to me, I had killed him and a minute passed before you decided to shoot."
Chris: "Hahahahaha, yeah... that was great."

For one, lose the CAPS, secondly, join the N. Mombasa boys if you want to act like this.

Achilles

  • 06.20.2004 7:43 PM PDT
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im wondering if halo destroys just the "sentient" life or all life period. I thought that it would just destroy the life that could think for itself but it would be difficult to engineer a "wave" lets call it that can seek out intelligent life without killing plants and stuff like that too. It has to do that though because if it was just the ultimate power of destruction it would destroy everything a planet needed to evolve NEW life, and the forerunner had to design it that way because that would be basically the same thing the flood would ultimately accomplish- destruction of all life forever. So in actuallity, halo is a very precise tool to give the universe a "haircut" so to speak, and not a cudgel as cortana scolds the chief about. I'm still going with molecular decomposition as the best idea given so far but it would have to be species specific and how would they accomplish that?

Of course you could just say "the forerunner had superior technology and theres no way we could ever understand" but that would take all the fun out of it, wouldnt it?

  • 06.20.2004 7:51 PM PDT
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Personally I think Halo is a stupid idea... what is the point of stopping the flood if by doing so you have to kill everybody who wants it stopped. So the flood is dead but so is everybody else what is the point.

  • 06.21.2004 8:57 AM PDT
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Because the person who wants to activate Halo wouldn't be destroyed. He's 343 and he's a robot. robots= non sentient life.

Anyways, you're guess is as good as mine. Although it's my thoughts that Halo (when the index is activated) transforms some way or another. (Eg. The tunnles under halo's first layer rise to the top...) and then it somhow destroys life. Maybe we'll find out in Halo 2.

  • 06.21.2004 9:12 AM PDT
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maybe the rings amplify and send out an ultrasonic signal that liquifies brain tissue. that would take care of the sentient part. anything with a complete brain is large enough for the flood, but no brain=dead. however, looking at the flood i dont think they would be adverse to using dead bodies for their work. although i guess if they cant reproduce without new live bodies then that would still kill them all eventually.

  • 06.21.2004 11:22 AM PDT
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The weapon Halo cannot use ultrasonic waves to wipe out sentient life, a sound wave is actually an increase in pressure transmitted through a medium so space being empty will not transmit sound. There are however other "waves" that could be transmitted in order to wipe out sentient lie, electromagnetic radiation. however the effective range of 10,000 ly suggest that the power level would be large enough that it would probably destroy Halo in the process however that isn't the question here is it.

  • 06.21.2004 2:57 PM PDT

Hey, I know the answer! You learn that halo is a weapon and that it kills all life within like 25000 light years (very far) in the level two betrayals, this is also where you learn HOW they do it. Cortana tells you to destroy the 3 phase-pulse generators that "amplify halo's signal" and give it some huge range. So, these generators are the actual weapons. I'm assuming the generators just produce large amounts of gamma radiation, that is the only thing that would travel through space and be serious enough to kill the life. Gamma radiation kills all life if theres enough energy.

Now, two things to think about for halo's "weapon":
1. Since nothing travels faster than the speed of light, it would take gamma radiation, or anything, atleast 25,000 years before it killed all life, so we wouldn't need to worry =D.
2. I saw this on tv, astronomers have recently been finding gamma radiation bursts throughout the sky that are immensely powerful. These bursts seem to appear randomly in the sky with no way to tell where it came from. Astronomers are also wondering if one might happen near us. You never know, halo could be for real =P. Thank god Master Chief and all you 1337's out there saved us from this.

  • 06.21.2004 4:03 PM PDT
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i just wonder why the covenant didn't know about the flood, i mean all there technology is forrunner adapted. i guess they were too stupid and curious.

maybe the means of the weopon were to gather all the smart beings in the area on halo and let them duke it out w/ the flood, LOL

  • 06.21.2004 5:01 PM PDT
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i dont know the way the flood behaves just seems too much like a weapon itself. maybe the flood was a biological weapon created by the forerunner that went horribly horribly wrong. the question is what did the forerunner need to use a weapon against in the first place. the flood went wrong and so they created halo to get rid of the flood. seems kinda like the "get a cat to get rid of the mouse, get a dog to get rid of the cat, get a lion to get rid of the dog.." type of thing to me. maybe the forerunner werent so smart after all. intelligent..yes, but smart? maybe not

  • 06.22.2004 12:01 AM PDT
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Now without getting to boring and going on about einsteinian space law etc, there is not much which can travel through a vaccuum (i.e. space) but the remark nothing travels faster than light is a misstatement, that statement is true assuming the speed of light is constant, which it isn't, light speed is a variable (generally ever increasing variable) the only thing we know of which does not abide by the usual laws of space physics is X-ray, however how would you produce x-ray in sufficient quantity to wipe out all sentient life within 25,000 light years, also x-ray do not move much faster than light so it is safe to assume that whatever the substance/matter/energy used to destroy life if the Forerunner for example where at the outer reaches of Halo 04's range they would have 25 years to vacate the area in the event of halo being triggered so they could be closer than you think.
Whoa, thats long sorry, but if you made it this far congrats!!

  • 06.22.2004 2:56 AM PDT

Lol, what a dumb post. Not much can travel through space??? Any matter/energy can travel through space, and that's basically all there is. Learn please thx, nothing travels faster than light is a misstatement? WHAT travels faster than light. And generally light travels at the same speed, the only time it wouldn't travel that fast is if there were a HUGE (black hole) gravity source pulling it in. Otherwise it can bend and crap but it basically sticks to 186,000 miles/second, and it certainly never increases in speed. If so, what force makes it accelerate? The only thing that doesnt abid to law of physics is x-ray??? X-ray is merely the shorter wavelength lights. All x-rays = light. x-rays dont move much faster than light? They dont go any faster than light, they go the same speed as light, cause they are light o.O. BTW, they would have 25,000 years, not 25 to vacate. Please respond lol, and tell me your sources for such science ive never heard of

  • 06.22.2004 7:18 PM PDT
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Remember your comic books....

A lot of radiation would kill all sentient life. And since the flood are mutated already, maybe they're immune.

In another post on a similar subject, I guessed it might be gamma radiation, or something similar. Who knows?

  • 06.24.2004 7:43 PM PDT

[color=yellow]Maybe the Halo just lets out a cosmic fart that decimates all life.[/color]
[color=green]Like I do after eating broccoli.[/color]
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...[color=blue]Whew! That's one smelly universe![/color]

  • 06.24.2004 7:52 PM PDT
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Well we definitely know visible light can travel that far, and X rays as well (since we have a telescope right now that can see them from the ends of the universe).

Gamma is the next highest frequency, so I'm guessing it's not that far of a stretch, as long as the intensity at the source is strong enough. But I haven't read any of the books, so you might know better than me.

  • 06.24.2004 8:08 PM PDT

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