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Subject: How is Halo a weapon?
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I have a question, how does halo kill all life in the galaxy i understand that it was built to keep the flood from spreding but i still dont understand how it kills all the life in the galaxy.

  • 04.23.2004 8:35 AM PDT
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t'is a mystery really. Halo sends out some kind of pulse, the nature of which is unknown, that wipes out everything within X number of lightyears. Your guess is as good as mine.

  • 04.23.2004 8:37 AM PDT

bah

It could possibly be a huge neutron bomb. Neutrons kill living matter but don't affect other stuff. For information on neutron bombs, click here.

  • 04.23.2004 8:38 AM PDT
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Well as halo is a circle several pulse genrators fire in to the space in the middle where the energy is all cramped together into a ball. Then when there is enough energy the energy just explodes outwards.

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  • 04.23.2004 8:47 AM PDT
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It's a huge sigularity generator.

  • 04.23.2004 8:54 AM PDT
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A huge singularity generator? That would suck!

  • 04.23.2004 8:56 AM PDT
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I'ts a big planet it was made to wipe out the Universe and to not stop. The flood feeds off us and because where its food halo destroys us.Question HAVE YOU EVEN BEAT HALO because it tells you at the end?

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  • 04.23.2004 10:15 AM PDT

bah

Posted by: shape shifter
Question HAVE YOU EVEN BEAT HALO because it tells you at the end?
How is that?

  • 04.23.2004 10:18 AM PDT
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or maybe the flood was the weapon and people thought halo was the weapon because it contained the flood, and they probably never knew about the flood, and someone said something about halo destroying all life froms?? well the flood not only destroys life forms they take them over, they have the spores that take over humans and elites so the flood may be the answer to your question, and there is my explanation on why they are the weapon

  • 04.23.2004 10:21 AM PDT
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if anybody has played the game....:-) i think cortana says that it is the flood that is the weapon. and if they got onto any other planet then those planets would all be destroyed.

  • 04.23.2004 10:36 AM PDT
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yes i have

  • 04.23.2004 10:41 AM PDT
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Brute37 isnt' asking whether or not Halo is a weapon, I think he's asking how it works. So the answers that pertain to what kind of weapon it is are the only one's that really make sense. 343 Guilty Spark and Cortana both explain that Halo itself destroys all life in that particular galaxy so that the Flood will die off and have nothing to eat. The Flood are a Forerunner experiment.

  • 04.23.2004 10:44 AM PDT
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The REAL question is: what is the significance of the ring shape?

If Halo was only made to be a doom's day machine and study facuility, why did the forerunner need it to be ring shaped? I think it would have been easier and more practical to make a death-star/marathon space station or something along those general lines. The purpose of rings is to put something through them (finger, fasten a pipe, whatever). So what is supposed to go through the ring? Perhaps, the shape is of religious significance instead. I think that is one of the big keyes (haha, I kill myself) to the Halo story

  • 04.23.2004 10:46 AM PDT
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Thank you Halo Prodigy for telling them that i Know its a wepaon and yes i dont know how it kills

  • 04.23.2004 10:50 AM PDT
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Cortana: "Halo doesn't kill Flood. It kills their food: Human, Covenant, whatever. You're all equally edible."

Cortana is saying that Halo is meant to keep the Flood from spreading. We're not sure exactly how, but I would guess that it is some kind of energy weapon, since the game has you damaging pulse generators that constitute Halo's "primary firing mechanism."

To say that the Flood is Halo's weapon couldn't be true, since 343GS urges you on several different times by saying, "The Flood is spreading, Reclaimer! We must hurry!" So, 343GS doesn't want the Flood to spread, and Halo was designed to kill their food means that the Flood is merely housed on Halo for containment purposes. There must be some other method that Halo uses to accomplish its nasty purpose, namely, destroying all sentient life within its radius.

Also, IRT the person that asked "Have you even played the game?" I say this: critical reading is a wonderful skill, and I, for one, am glad that I have the ability. You should look into it. Nobody asked IF Halo was a weapon: we already know that. Rather, they asked specifically HOW Halo is a weapon, i.e. what methods/devices does Halo use to attack sentient life?

More careful reading of the question, and less careless, rampaging posting is definitely the order of the day, especially on a forum this large.

<self-protection from hypocrisy>
Okay, I realize that others posted this information before I did, but if you look at the timestamps, you'll see that they're all pretty close together. To clarify, I spent several minutes gathering quotes and wording my post, and didn't see that anyone else had posted the info until after I hit submit. So, to those of you that beat me to the punch, I accede to your seniority (and the speed with which you post).
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  • 04.23.2004 11:03 AM PDT
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Scipio,

First off, excellent use of the Keyes pun.

Second, I think the ring shape bears some significance, but I also know that many sci-fi authors think that the first artificial planets will be ring-shaped, since a ring shape makes it easier to simulate gravity. If Halo were a DeathStar-type station, it would have to be extremely massive to have Earth-normal gravity. With a ring shape, though, you can just spin the ring, and the centrifugal effect will simulate gravity on the inner surface of the ring (remember the old science experiment where you swing a bucket of water in a circle, but none falls out when the bucket is upside down?).

  • 04.23.2004 11:12 AM PDT
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good points ribs, but there is one thing about the gravity argument I'd like to mention. Human ships have to have spinning sections to simulate gravity, but, more importantly, Covenant ships can generate gravity without these spinning sections. If you remember from the books (the flood I think it was, specifically) the Covenant get all their technology from the forerunner ruins. If Covenant had artificial gravity without using a centrifuge, wouldn't it make sense that the forerunner would have similar, if not more advanced grav-technology? If that was the case a spinning ring wouldn't be so necessary, because a floating box with a gavity generator could accomplish the same earth-like gravity, hold all the facuilities and the environments.

  • 04.23.2004 11:49 AM PDT
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I think you're not supposed to take the game so seriously

  • 04.23.2004 11:55 AM PDT
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Who care it is a tight game

  • 04.23.2004 12:04 PM PDT
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Scipio, you're right about the ring shape not having anything to do with artificial gravity. Halo doesn't spin fast enough to have earth normal gravity. Here's a quote from Halo: The Flood backing this statement up:

"There's a gravity field that controls the ring's spin and keeps the atmosphere inside" (pg 14., Cortana).

This field also probably keeps water from spilling out and people from walking off the edge.

My thought on why it's shaped like a, ring, though, is to save on power. Having the surface open like it is allows Halo to use lighting from that systems star, rather than artificial lighting throughout. The spin is required to distribut sunlight and heat across the inner surface of the ring, rather than having some parts freeze and others boil. This also makes water storage easier, and allows for different climates to be set up. Now, why the Forerunners needed Halo to have any plants and natural landscpaes at all alludes me. I don't think that the Flood have any care for flora, so maybe this shows that the Forerunners at one time inhabited the ring, and proves that they had to have been organic and not mechanical, as robots wouldn't care much about scenery. Hope that I made sense.

  • 04.23.2004 12:20 PM PDT