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We believe that the universe is unbounded: this is not the same as infinite: the 2-D surface of a sphere, wrapped around a 3rd dimension, has a finite size, but has no end. If you start off in a given direction on the surface of a sphere, you could return to your start point without having to turn around -- you simply go all the way around. But wouldn't that mean the universe has an escape velocity like the earth?
Posted by: forthnback
Wait.....are you honestly saying that because fan fiction theories on bungie.net weren't taken for fact.....that the book is bad? Really? You're mad?
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The battle seemed straight forward to me. The Halo missing Halo arrived, and the 5 under his control formed up in a pentagram or whatever. The rest fled through the portal under orders of their monitors.
Meanwhile, the Forerunner ships began battling the Halo's, all of them.....because Mendicant could switch his control at any time. The Forerunner were recalling Fortress class vessels through the portal as the rings were leaving, which caused the three that actually made it through the portal to fragment under the stress.
The Fortress-vessels, which seem like giant reverse-sperm with all the weapons on their mobile tail, began battling. The Sentinals from the Halo's began battling everyone, since thats how they are programmed.
The book could have been put further into detail. The fact is that although Bear was fantastic in many ways, how he has made certain things much more to scale than others such as the Forerunner Civil War overtaking importance of the Flood, and made things 100 times more complex is a bit of a thimble. I mean, Forerunners being the standard reason for the existence of many species of the H0m0 genus, such as H. floriensis and such. Doesn't the Halo canon usually parallel our own actual history? How about the "last Precursor"? Too many added questions for a book with hardly enough answers for present questions.
~B2