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Posted by: tri125
Posted by: the real Janaka
@ tri125
Im not saying that the planet in the Legendary ending is Onyx, but please, Onyx did not explode. Prove me wrong by quoting exact lines that say so.
First, I didn't quoted you (I did quote the author of the thread) and second: everybody know that Onyx did blow up, what is remaining behind it's not called a planet but a dyson sphere (withing slipspace I believe?)
I did saw a structural problem within my first sentence. I actually mean: "I don't agree, not that I do believe it's Onyx, but I think it's possible that it's Onyx.What do you mean "everybody know that Onyx did blow up" thats an -sorry to have to say this- extremly stupid thing to say. Do you believe it yourself? Was that what you thought when you read it/heard it? Or is it something you read on Wikipedia/Halopedia? Ive had this discussion with some of my friends, who've all heard it (audiobook) and none of us can see why people believe that the installation was destroyed. That is if the audiobook contains the same info as the book.
But just to be sure, what do you mean with Onyx? Do you mean the surface, the crust, or do you mean the actual installation, the one which consists of trillions of sentinels, "The drones were the planet Onyx". Well, most of it anyway, there are after all some other Forerunner structures, vast cities and rooms of impressive size, the portal room for example. The same room where Kurt detonated two fenris class warheads, which intentionally destroyed the portal to the interior of the MDS. Which in its turn triggered the trillions of drones to clear the area of everything that could be considered a threat to the shield world. By using "combined drone fire" they first blasted their way through the planets crust, then they started targeting objects further away, covenant ships, a moon etc.
Thats pretty much what happened, so unless you quote me the exact lines which say that the planet was destroyed, as in "The Death star explodes", breaks apart, [insert random synonyms for something being destroyed], then I wont budge, not even the slightest.
The so called Micro Dyson Sphere does not exist within the normal space, it is contained within a, about one meter large slipstream bubble in the exact center of planetiod called Onyx. Which again was not destroyed. The Micro Dyson Spere is also far larger then Onyx, it is by far the largest Forerunner installation so far, it even contains its own sun. But this you already know.
To be overly clear, I'll yet again post one of my other explenations, one I wrote earlyer:
Btw, why do poeple continuously repeat that Onyx was destroyed/suddenly broke up into trillions of sentinels? As far as I know Onyx was buildt up by trillions of sentinels from the begining, and as for it exploding, it only says that the planets surface exploded, removing layers of rock and metal. It did so because of the sentinels combined firepower. Not a single sentence about the planetoid being destroyed. You mustn't forget that the story at this point is told from the UNCS prowler Dusk's perspective. A ship that was hiding from the Covenant armada behind Onyx's "silver" moon, and all their info from what was happening on Onyx came from their "Black Widow" satelites which triangulated images around the moon. But when the sentinels beams hit the moon they were destroyed, so the the Dawn "dumpheated everything" into the reactor and got the hell out of there before the moon (!) exploded. The portal in the "light room" however, was destroyed.
Note: Im not saying that Onyx is the "thing" in the Legendary ending.
Hope I didnt appear to be too aggresive :P