- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
if those shots from the structures hold the ring together, why don't you a) see them in the cut-scenes during the game and b) see them in Halo II?
and why, if the shots were fired from covie ships, do thay appear to be coming from the ring when the PoA flies through it?
besides, the PoA hadn't actually landed until just before the chapter "family reunion" near the end of level 2, so the attacks from the ring could be directed at the PoA or any human ships (Pelicans, Longsword Fighters, etc.) still in orbit around the ring.
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Or, perhaps the shots that fire out of the buildings are the rings defences, and they fire at any unidentified ships near the ring... human, covie, whatever. perhaps that's why the buildings are still firing into space after the PoA crashes... who knows?