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I see. But, while the crystalline structure would be more or less impossible to see from space, I still cant see why one cant assume that they, by changing hight, incresing/decreasing the planetoids radius, would make larger patters, like the glyphs on the "Legendary" planet.
That's possible, but I don't see why they would. Increasing their structural size means bigger open holes in the "links" for things to slip through. I'm not saying they wouldn't, but I don't see why they would bother. It makes it stick out more and its defenses would seem to be somewhat weakened with said link holes being larger and their "combined fire" being slightly more spread apart.
And remember, although the most of the planetoid consists of sentinels, there are a lot of Forerunner structures on it, even entire cities .Or did they blast of the surface as well?[/qoute]
Onyx's surface exploded when the Sentinels burst out of it, reacting to the Covenant ships, so everything, as far as we know, is now gone.
[quote]And, the Forerunner dont tend to make completely round things.
The point Im trying to make, why I wont let go that it might be Onyx, is because I cant see why the story would go two separate ways. I dont think that one can reach the MDS from any other place then Onyx either. Surely the sentinels have repaired the portal by now, they do after all repair almost everything that breaks (Installation 05) But then again, my understanding of Forerunner technology is quite limited. But it isnt the MDS from the outside, thats for sure.
Speaking of repairing, maybe the sentinels are programed to repair the Ark too?
Again I'm not calling your theory false, because I too believe that Master Chief should reacquaint himself with the others on the Shield World, and I hope that he does, but I'm just going by what we currently know to produce evidence in either direction, and at the moment, we have less and less reason to believe it to be Onyx.
As far as sentinels repairing the Ark and the portal, if the cataclysmic explosion was as great as Cortana said, then all of the Sentinels in the vicinity of the Ark would have perished. I don't really see the Ark being revisited, but hey, you never know.
The only way it could be the MDS is if that entire area of outer-space, including the stars and magellanic cloud and everything else was suspended in slipspace, as that'd be the only way it would be that large, and in that case, we would have no idea what the outside shell of the Shield World would look like, and it could look like the Legendary Ending planetoid... but as you said, our knowledge of Forerunner technology and their limitations is miniscule. All I can really do is compare the only other slipspace suspension occurrences to this idea and say that for it to be possible, the scale of it would have to be billions of times larger, and it would also contradict Halsey's statement of MDS being encased.
Trying to be unbiased here, regardless of what I think. All we can go off of is what little evidence we have, and considering how scarce that is, we can't really discern much of the truth, aside from of course Reach not being a part of the equation.