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Subject: The secret of New Mombosa...

Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

Posted by: Skiracer93
Posted by: Phoenix1330
Posted by: family chief
Posted by: Skiracer93
Posted by: family chief
They were looking for the Portal for the Ark, remeber in Halo 3 that the Portal was underground and the Covenant was diggin' it up. The Covenant probably went to to the ONI Office Site to see if they have any information, which they probably blew it up after what they got, or ONI blew it up to make sure the Brutes don't get any information.

Please read my post before answering. They were most likely not looking for the Ark portal because the Ark at this point is useless and cannot fire the Halo rings.

What do you mean, the whole reason that Regret even came to Earth is to find the Portal.


the ark is perfectly useful. it's whole purpose was to fire the rings simultaneously, without having to activate them from the rings. you don't need to start the rings first, you could just start at the ark, and fire them all right from the start if you wanted.

No, the Ark's purpose is to create the rings. It can only fire the rings remotely if they are primed. They can be primed by firing only one ring, or by terminating the firing of one ring.


no YOU DO NOT HAVE TO "PRIME" THE RINGS FIRST. the ark is the firing platform for them, and the safehouse form them, you the ark fires all of them firing them from one ring is localized the ark fires them all WITHOUT priming

  • 07.02.2009 9:55 AM PDT

You need to go watch the ending again. After Delta Halo was unexpectedly shut down it sent out a becon to put all the other Halos on standby. It is a fail safe protocol. Only then can the rings be fired from the Ark. watch this.

  • 07.02.2009 10:02 AM PDT

About me: I am a vicious wolf of a man.

But really am sweet at heart. =)

If they found an artifact that could lead them to another Halo then why did they need to find the Ark? and how did Truth even know about the portal to the Ark?

  • 07.02.2009 10:16 AM PDT

Duracell.
I don't keep going and going and going and...
but i Start, and just don't Stop.

So what if the saxophone is black?
it has better tone the the gold one.
damn straight i play Jazz.

Posted by: Skiracer93
You need to go watch the ending again. After Delta Halo was unexpectedly shut down it sent out a becon to put all the other Halos on standby. It is a fail safe protocol. Only then can the rings be fired from the Ark. watch this.


just because the one halo put them on stand by doesn't mean you had to do that to activate them from the ark. if you read the terminals they never activated the rings from a halo, they just did it from the ark. they didn't put them on standby the first time. they simply used the ark as a firing platform. the ark is for firing all of the halos. you don't need to put them all on standby. it just makes the process faster.

  • 07.02.2009 10:36 AM PDT

You, Phoenix, are correct! Besides, you can look this stuff up on Halopedia. About the Arbiter didn't know about the Ark portal , the Profits did not trust the Elites. After all, if Truth told all of the Covenant from the beginning that Humans were descendants from the Forunner, do you think that the entire Covenant would declare war on Humanity? Of course not! Truth, Mercy, and Regret wanted to keep the truth about humanity secret because not only would it shatter the Covenant religion, it would oust the Prophets from power, and the Humans might have become the new Covenant leaders, seeing as they're related to their "gods".

The point is that the Prophets always knew more than they were letting on. The Ark was a cunstructor of the Halos but you did not need to put them on standby. The Forerunners wouldn't have used such a method that would take a long time. The Ark could just just fire the rings at anytime once a Forerunner or Human fired at will.

[Edited on 07.02.2009 10:53 AM PDT]

  • 07.02.2009 10:48 AM PDT

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