- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I really don't think the Forerunner would construct something so useless.
Cortana says it has a range of 25,000 light years, seems a lot of people here think a light year is a measure of time. This does mean, that if Halo's weapon (whatever it is) traveled AT the speed of light, it would take 25,000 years to reach its most distant target. According to http://www.glyphweb.com/esky/default.htm?http://www.glyphweb. com/esky/concepts/lightyear.html
(God that's a long link....)
A light year is equal to 5,878,499,812,499 miles...take that times 25,000 you have the exact range of Halo which is a frickin' bunch of miles. While the original question is interesting, common sense and what little knowledge exists of the Forerunner tells us that they wouldn't design something that didn't work. At some point or another, the Forerunner harnessed a source of energy which is able to travel many many times the speed of light, or Halo would be pretty useless overall. That's about it really.