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Okay let me inform some of you.
The halo story takes place in the milkyway galaxy because travelling to another galaxy would be difficult (or a very very long trip) even by the ficticious "slip-space" method. (hey maybe the Forerunners knew how but the distances are truly astronomical).
The dimensions of the Milky Way are 100,000 light years in diameter. 2,000 light years in thickness (i can't remember the thickness of the galactic center but it's more than 2,000 l.y. besides nothing could reside there anyway).
Okay now 343 GS said that the ring had an effective radius of 25,000 light years (meaning a diameter of 50,000 l.y.) and that the galaxy would be devoid of life after the other installations follwed suit. Now if two Halos went off (and were spaced apart just enough) the damage would span from one side to the other but only 50,000 light years wide. So another two spaced the same way but perpendicular two the first two would pretty much do it.
The answer then is 4 Halo's (that also keeps with the ring's # in Halo CE, ...'04). Granted there would be pockets left untouched but the amount of area left would not equal the coverage of a fith ring.
FYI, the Earth is 25,000 light years from the center of our galaxy and if you have any other questions you can PM me, I am a physics student heading into astro-physics/nautics here in massachusettes.