- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Draerden
I'll go further. Break down Cortana's tirade and I do mean tirade. It's all a jumble.
"You have no idea how this ring works, do you? Why the forerunners built it?"
--Cortana knows but she doesn't want to tell you :)
"Halo doesn't kill flood, it kills their food. Humans, covenant, whatever. We're all equally edible. The only way to stop the flood is to starve them to death."
--Cortana is listing what you already know about the Flood. Still nothing new yet.
And that's exactly what Halo is designed to do; wipe the galaxy clean of all sentient life.
--Here's the clincher. Halo is designed to wipe the Galaxy clean of all sentient life. The fact that it also starves the flood is coincidental. She doesn't state that that was the reason why the Rings were created. We have leaped to that assumption.
" You don't believe me? Ask him."
--Oh, how I wish I could...
Maybe it does both. The forerunner may have created them and then contained them but also didn't want them to die. The ring contained them and starved them so the forerunner would be safe. The forerunner also wanted them alive so it had halo designed so it could selectively feed the flood. Feed the flood one planet at a time, but guilty spark goes skitso and wants to kill everything.