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Subject: Activation of Halo. Is it really suicide?
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Activating Halo wipes all sentient life off the map. We all know this. The Forerunner built the Halos. We know this as well. Why would the Forerunner build a machine that would end them? We aren't really sure about this. Why were the Halos built? To contain and study the Flood. Now, why are the Flood on the scene? We definitely don't know. If the Flood pose such a problem, the why contain them, instead of destroying them. Cortana states in the Control Room that, "The only way to kill the Flood is to starve them to death." That, I believe, is not true. From what we know, the Flood reproduce without intercourse. "The Infection Forms rewrite a victim's cellular structure and convert him into a Combat Form, and then later a Carrier Form-an incubator for more Infection Forms." This leads me to believe that if the Infection Forms were unable to infect anything, then the Flood would not be able to reproduce. If an effective sterilization team was sent out to destroy all of the Flood, and no one was infected, the Flood would stop there. But how long can the Flood go without food? What is posted below might explain the Flood's existence.

Now, Eagle has not condoned my posting about his theory, or my elaborating on it, which means that views expressed in this post are not those of Eagle 117.

Eagle theorized that Ackerson and a team of cloned Spartans (and most likely others, technicians, scientists, maybe even some ODST's) traveled to Halo. He also theorized that Ackerson created the Flood, or rather, the scientists that went with him. The Flood was to be a weapon with which to defeat the Covenant ( and Dr. Halsey's funding.)

Now, the artifact on Reach. What does it have to do with the Flood? Well, here's my theory. ONI is well aware of the crystal on Reach. They have studied it extensively, and have constructed a time machine. Ackerson uses the machine to go to Halo, hundreds of thousands of years in the past. He deposits the Flood on Halo. At that same time, the Forerunner come back to check up on their installation (Spark and the Sentinals have not yet been created). The Forerunner didn't build the Halos to contain or study the Flood, but, rather, as what their name suggests. "Yes, the Forerunner built this place, what they called a 'fortress world' in order to-." A fortress world. To do what? Perhaps to kill anyone that might have been warring with them. All of the Forerunner would flee to the nearest Halo, and activate it, killing their adversay. Suppose though, that if you are on the ring, then you are immune to the pulse that the ring emits. Then you could activate it safely, without being hurt.

Back to the Flood. If the Forerunner came back to check up on their installation, and found the Flood, some of them would have been infected. Those that survived created Spark and theSentinals, and trapped the Flood. After the Flood were trapped, the Forerunner programmed Spark's first directive. To protect the Index. And the second, to monitor the Flood, and kill any, should they escape from their holding area. If a Forerunner had to activate the ring, it would come in armor, to protect itself from the Flood, if there was an accidental outbreak and not all of the Forms had been eliminated.



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Good theory, Two thumbs up, geez, people are comin up with really good theory, I DONT KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE. But I think you make a good point in most cases, BUT your first sentence is incorrect.

"Activating Halo wipes all sentient life off the map. We all know this."

Activating ALL the Halos in THIS galaxy, wipes out all sentient life from THIS galaxy, not the universe. so It wouldnt be ALL sentient life, just the sentient life inhabiting this galaxy.

But besides that, great theory!

  • 08.11.2004 1:17 AM PDT
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Jeez I had to read that twice! What about all the other Halos in the galaxy? Who would have built them?

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Posted by: Lucian
Good theory, Two thumbs up, geez, people are comin up with really good theory, I DONT KNOW WHAT TO BELIEVE. But I think you make a good point in most cases, BUT your first sentence is incorrect.

"Activating Halo wipes all sentient life off the map. We all know this."

Activating ALL the Halos in THIS galaxy, wipes out all sentient life from THIS galaxy, not the universe. so It wouldnt be ALL sentient life, just the sentient life inhabiting this galaxy.

But besides that, great theory!
Right, I mistyped there. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Jeez I had to read that twice! What about all the other Halos in the galaxy? Who would have built them?
The Forerunner built them.

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I don't like the idea of time travel, it would be a cop out for Bungie to use it in the story. If they could go back in time, why not just re fight all of the battles, or better yet, go WAY back, find the covenant homeworld, then go further back and blow it up before the covenant ever evolve from single cell organisms. Time travel leaves open too many questions, and is a rather cheap way to end the story. "Yeah, our defense effort failed, but we went back and fixed it"
See what I mean?

I do agree that the crystal has sometheing to do with the properties of the Space Time Continuum, as Halsey has already said that Chief was on an "Event Path" with the crystal. If there is an "Event Path" in the crystal, it will be able to change things that "Weren't supposed to happen" like Chief dying.

I think there is a clone of the Chief, and it was done not by ONI, but by the Monitor. He did clone you, when you were teleported to the beginning of the level. (This also would have duplicated Cortana, explaining for some of her memory loss, and reduced processing power)

The real question should be "Who made the crystal?" It's obviously Forerunner, but why?

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in reply to the first post maybe the forerunners are not another species and that ackerson and his team are the forerunners somehow

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I'm not really sure why people think that the Forerunner are human. The humans resemble them in appearance, but that doesn't mean that they are related.

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These are some of my thoughts on the subject... As to why it isn't suicide as well...

  • 08.11.2004 11:41 PM PDT
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The Nature of Halo

These are some of my thoughts on the subject... As to why it isn't suicide as well...
Well done, though I can't help but think of most of the b.net members running for the nearest dictionary. You certainly didn't use colloquial terms. Good job.

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I'm glad that someone else noticed the improbability of the Halos being built for the Flood. It just doesn't add up ;) .

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No It doesn't -- and I want to invite you to add a link to this thread to mine - so we can get as many people to cross reference as possible.

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cortana has memory loss because of the mass of data in her memory crystal from the Halo installations. Its all explained in first-strike.

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plus this is another question. What has the Flood been eating while in the cells? can the still evolve w/o another host? Do they actually need food? Is getting there "babies" into the host how they live and then the other dies of hunger? SO MANY questions about the flood. TOO MANY UNANWSERED

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Posted by: Hacker
plus this is another question. What has the Flood been eating while in the cells? can the still evolve w/o another host? Do they actually need food? Is getting there "babies" into the host how they live and then the other dies of hunger? SO MANY questions about the flood. TOO MANY

The flood don't really 'eat' per se, they just infect. No they can't evolve into another form -- The infection form simply changes the host into a Combat Form. And No babies of which you speak.

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the babies are the infectious form i couldn't remember. but still if they infect a living organism and then don't have any other thing to inhabit then there as good as dead because living things need food because you lose energy if you don't and then eventually die.

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Posted by: Hacker
the babies are the infectious form i couldn't remember. but still if they infect a living organism and then don't have any other thing to inhabit then there as good as dead because living things need food because you lose energy if you don't and then eventually die.


Not dead -- They're parasites -- With nothing new to host they simply go dormant.

  • 08.12.2004 12:11 AM PDT

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I just want to see bungie make a little clip of halo actually being activate. It'd look Totally Awsome.

  • 08.12.2004 12:14 AM PDT

Good stuff.

I have a question. How would Ackerson have gained access to the artifact?

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I just want to see bungie make a little clip of halo actually being activate. It'd look Totally Awsome.


speaking of that how Does it so call "work" lol

plz i dono
plz tell me oh wise jimmy

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Posted by: Hacker
cortana has memory loss because of the mass of data in her memory crystal from the Halo installations. Its all explained in first-strike.
Close, but not quite there. She doesn't have memory loss, rather she is using more processing power for tasks that she could have done easily before. Remeber the Ascendant Justice? When Cortana was in the system, she fell for a trap that a Covenant A.I. set for her. "This ship's Slipspace generator is inert," Cortana replied. " The disabled NAV controls were a trick. It must have been the Covenant AI; it lured me here while the drive was physically decoupled from the reactor. I can manuever all I want, give orders to the Slipspace generator-but without the system powered up we're not going anywhere." It's more like she is sidetracked by all of the information she obtained while in the Control Room.

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great work :)

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