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Subject: Something interesting about halo from long ago
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Keep in mind that i did not wtite this

***SPOILERS****

Okay, this has been bugging me for a good long time. There are 7 Halos, each with a 25,000 light-year range of effect. I did research, and as it turns out, our galaxy, the Milky Way is 100,000 light-years in diameter.

Well, I took some pictures of our galaxy, and opened up a brand spankin' new MS paint doc.

I took an overhead view of the galaxy, and divided it into four sections, each approximately 25,000 light-years in width, illustrated with blue stripes. I then looked up Halo's diameter, and range of its weapon effect. (10,000km diameter, 25,000 light-year range of effect). So, that said, four Halos could be lined up horrizantaly, each at an interval of roughly 25,000 lightyears, and span the entire galaxy with thier effective ranges.

So, I tried to figure out where the Halos would go in order to cover the entire galaxy. I ended up putting one 2 on the 1/4 line going vertically, 3 on the 1/2 line, going vertically, with one close to the galactic center. I put the other two close to the 3/4 line, also vertically.

When they were in place, I noticed that there was one tiny spot not covered by a blast radius. I also found that I couldn't move one of the radii into place over there without giving up a very large section of the galaxy.

I took a different overhead view, this one showed the names of the spiral arms of this galaxy, and the part not covered was a small portion of the Perseus arm. To be more specific, it did not cover Sol System.

Now, this is pretty amazing in my opinion. The one place a Halo's blast could not reach without giving up a different, larger portion of the galaxy happened to be Sol System. This isn't because I love humans, or I wanted it to be like that (trust me, I don't). It is eerily odd.

This gives some pretty nice proof (in my eyes) that Earth IS the Ark spoken of in Halo 2. In biblical stories, Noah, commisioned by God, was told to build an Ark, so many cubits x so many cubits x so many cubits. What the hell is a cubit anyway. Nevermind, I digriss.

So, this Ark was the only palce on Earth to be able to be saved by the 40 day and night torrential FLOOD God was about to bring. Noah was told to bring aboard 7 pairs of every ritually clean animal, and 1 pair of every "unclean" animal. (ritually clean animals were Doves, pigeons, oxen, sheep, and some others I can't remember), Noah's wife, sons, and his sons' wives.

So, once God FLOODED Earth, and the FLOOD was all gone, God made a COVENANT with Noah never to FLOOD the earth again. This is signified by a rainbow, the crappiest of miracles.

So, translating this from Bible to Halo, we get:
So-and-so (person-A) was instructed by so-and-so (person-B) to create an Ark that could survive the Flood once the Halos were activated. A place that would lie in a dead zone where none of the Halos' blasts could reach (Earth). So, Person A creates an Ark that could survive the Flood, and once the Flood is go (all life is destroyed), Person-A and several other Person-A like individuals (Forerunners) could emerge and re-populate the galaxy.

Now, approx. 100,000 years ago, the Halos were last activated. Also approx 100,000 years ago, -blam!--Sapiens take the high rung on the Food Chain. So, if Person-A comes to the Ark (earth) with the other Forerunners (possibly humans) that would explain why Humans were able to survive the last Halo activation.

So, it is in my conclusion, that the Forerunners are Humans, and the Ark is, or is on Earth.

Stop me if I'm rambling.


Somebody is probably gonna say this is old news but i though some of you might find it interesting

  • 10.01.2005 4:54 PM PDT

I find that strangly funny that someone would do all of that just for tyhe sake of an argument but I have to give them props I like it

  • 10.01.2005 8:40 PM PDT
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Cool, It makes sense and the research was good. So that makes the humans the forerunners???

  • 10.01.2005 9:37 PM PDT
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One thing bothers me though. If the last halo activation was 100k years ago where did all the covenant come from? 100k years isnt enough time for a species to evolve. im not sure if the ark is earth. its more likely its something that went round and seeded the galaxy after the forerunners were gone. Although humans MUST be the forerunners. Why else would they be the only ones able to activate the rings and guilty spark calls master cheif "reclaimer" implying he has returned. (not him personally but humans in general.

  • 10.02.2005 4:12 AM PDT

Every time you sneeze into an open Febreze portal the boner-tree drive shaft will spin into ketchup. But it doesn't stop at the number two pizza bell, not even close. It continues into the seventy eight minute long pile of green, sobbing cheese trains with no more butter, but more like the steak owed the tin cans some lovin'.

It all makes sense except for where the Covenant came from. One thing though. Halo is designed to kill all life in the galaxy. Why can't Halo being activated kill the flood?

  • 10.02.2005 7:05 AM PDT
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It makes sense. I wonder if Halo's story is based on the Bible. Hmm... We'll see if this is true when Halo 3 comes out.

  • 10.02.2005 9:04 AM PDT
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Actually i thought about it too and i think hes right why does 343 recognise the chief as the 'REclaimer" as in someone (A human) was there before to activate halo

  • 10.04.2005 10:24 AM PDT

Odd. I had thought humans were forerunners and the ark was on earth but this PROVES it. Still where did those 8 foot tall blue alien monsters come from. It took us alot longer than 100k years to evolve... Maybe the covie came from another galexy broguht somehow by the Foreunners

  • 10.04.2005 10:03 PM PDT

The person that originally typed this up isn't necessarily correct. The Halos have a maximum effective blast radius of 25,000 light-years. Therefore, they have a maximum effective diameter of 50,000 light-years. Since there are 7 Halos, there are absolutely nowhere that is not effective by the Halos.

  • 10.05.2005 4:17 AM PDT
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How can you take an "overhead view" of a galaxy?

  • 10.05.2005 8:03 PM PDT
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Posted by: dmbfan09
The person that originally typed this up isn't necessarily correct. The Halos have a maximum effective blast radius of 25,000 light-years. Therefore, they have a maximum effective diameter of 50,000 light-years. Since there are 7 Halos, there are absolutely nowhere that is not effective by the Halos.


Yes, but that's a maximum effective radius. That word must have been included for a reason, or it would have been a superfluous snippet. Given the mirky circumstances sorrounding the last firing of the Halo System, it is possible that said system did not reach it's maximum firing capacity, and thus the survival of some areas of the Galaxy.

  • 10.05.2005 9:26 PM PDT