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Subject: The forerunners sure have guts.

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  • 01.18.2011 5:42 PM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
This man, this man right here put it so eloquently that I actually cancelled my own 2000+ word long post.
/slow clap for respect


:)
The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

They are still alive.

Anyways, they knew they lost, and to make sure the Flood did not obtain total victory, they did what they had too. I'm sure humanity or any other reasonable spiecies would have done the same.

  • 01.18.2011 5:46 PM PDT

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it has better tone the the gold one.
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Posted by: digitalph33r780
This is because I think it takes a lot of guts to kill yourself and everything else for the sake of the future.
lol read cryptum. they didn't have as much guts as you might think

  • 01.18.2011 5:50 PM PDT

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If they activated a ring, wouldn't that kill EVERYTHING, including humans and other life n' such?

  • 01.18.2011 6:41 PM PDT

"Of all the Sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful." -John Taylor, Pittsburgh Academy

Posted by: SoApS pistol
If they activated a ring, wouldn't that kill EVERYTHING, including humans and other life n' such?


Yes. Anything in the galaxy with so much as a notochorde (a simple nervous system) would be destroyed, unless inside a shield world or on the Ark. The only things that would survive are bacteria and other simple life that lacks a nervous system.

  • 01.18.2011 6:46 PM PDT

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: SoApS pistol
If they activated a ring, wouldn't that kill EVERYTHING, including humans and other life n' such?


Well yes, anything within 10,000 ly of even 1 ring would be killed as the Halo releases a harmonious signal that cancels out the nervous system of all life in range. This in turn with 7 ring multiplies the range heavily. That still though leaves a flower shape with very small triangles of the Galaxy untouched.

~B2

  • 01.18.2011 6:47 PM PDT
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Posted by: digitalph33r780
they are still alive? I thought the activation of the rings killed them all! tell me, how are they alive, where are they(on their planet?) and names. Gotta have names!


At least one of 'em has to be in alive and in hiding to ensure that the circle can be complete.

The humans need to fight an evil Forerunner before they can fully embrace the Mantle!

  • 01.18.2011 6:53 PM PDT

"Of all the Sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful." -John Taylor, Pittsburgh Academy

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Posted by: SoApS pistol
If they activated a ring, wouldn't that kill EVERYTHING, including humans and other life n' such?


Well yes, anything within 10,000 ly of even 1 ring would be killed as the Halo releases a harmonious signal that cancels out the nervous system of all life in range. This in turn with 7 ring multiplies the range heavily. That still though leaves a flower shape with very small triangles of the Galaxy untouched.

~B2


Didn't Guilty Spark quote a maximum effective radius of 25,000 light-years?

  • 01.18.2011 6:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: Bungie2
Posted by: SoApS pistol
If they activated a ring, wouldn't that kill EVERYTHING, including humans and other life n' such?


Well yes, anything within 10,000 ly of even 1 ring would be killed as the Halo releases a harmonious signal that cancels out the nervous system of all life in range. This in turn with 7 ring multiplies the range heavily. That still though leaves a flower shape with very small triangles of the Galaxy untouched.

~B2


Didn't Guilty Spark quote a maximum effective radius of 25,000 light-years?


He said 25,000 light years, yes.

  • 01.18.2011 7:02 PM PDT

well what happened (well this is my theary) the forerunners took samples of every life form and cloned multiple humans and everything else and sent them in pods away from the rings range and after they fired the rings and years later when the flood was sapposidly dead they hadthe pods release the clones on to thier home planets were they repopulated and i think all this happened when humans were first created

  • 01.18.2011 7:29 PM PDT

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: Bungie2
Posted by: SoApS pistol
If they activated a ring, wouldn't that kill EVERYTHING, including humans and other life n' such?


Well yes, anything within 25,000 ly of even 1 ring would be killed as the Halo releases a harmonious signal that cancels out the nervous system of all life in range. This in turn with 7 ring multiplies the range heavily. That still though leaves a flower shape with very small triangles of the Galaxy untouched.

~B2


EDIT: Bad number.

  • 01.18.2011 7:33 PM PDT

"Of all the Sciences cultivated by mankind, Astronomy is acknowledged to be, and undoubtedly is, the most sublime, the most interesting, and the most useful." -John Taylor, Pittsburgh Academy

Posted by: JOSHOUSSSSSSKI
well what happened (well this is my theary) the forerunners took samples of every life form and cloned multiple humans and everything else and sent them in pods away from the rings range and after they fired the rings and years later when the flood was sapposidly dead they hadthe pods release the clones on to thier home planets were they repopulated and i think all this happened when humans were first created


We do know that something like that did take place. The Librarian traveled the galaxy and indexed every sentient species she could, meanwhile recreating ecosystems to sustain the biospheres of many worlds on the Ark. This was the Conservation Measure. In doing so, she ensured that there would be a second chance for life in the Milky Way after they fired the Halos. Presumably, once the Halo effect had cleansed the galaxy of complex life, she (or her machines) reseeded the planets she had visited and rebuilt the galaxy's population.

  • 01.18.2011 7:34 PM PDT

Sergeant Johnson is ALIVE!


Posted by: JOSHOUSSSSSSKI
well what happened (well this is my theary) the forerunners took samples of every life form and cloned multiple humans and everything else and sent them in pods away from the rings range and after they fired the rings and years later when the flood was sapposidly dead they hadthe pods release the clones on to thier home planets were they repopulated and i think all this happened when humans were first created


Someone is trying to steal credit from Halo Legends...

  • 01.18.2011 8:03 PM PDT

ok coming off the fact they kill anything in the galaxy that is not in stream like the planet onyx

  • 01.18.2011 9:17 PM PDT
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Posted by: JOSHOUSSSSSSKI
well what happened (well this is my theary) the forerunners took samples of every life form and cloned multiple humans and everything else and sent them in pods away from the rings range and after they fired the rings and years later when the flood was sapposidly dead they hadthe pods release the clones on to thier home planets were they repopulated and i think all this happened when humans were first created


Someone is trying to steal credit from Halo Legends...


Yeah.

  • 01.18.2011 9:28 PM PDT

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Posted by: digitalph33r780
they are still alive? I thought the activation of the rings killed them all! tell me, how are they alive, where are they(on their planet?) and names. Gotta have names!


Shield Worlds.

After the Flood became dormant they reseeded life, gave humanity the Mantle then exiled themselves from the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.

  • 01.19.2011 2:09 AM PDT

Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: digitalph33r780
they are still alive? I thought the activation of the rings killed them all! tell me, how are they alive, where are they(on their planet?) and names. Gotta have names!


Shield Worlds.

After the Flood became dormant they reseeded life, gave humanity the Mantle then exiled themselves from the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.


Out of interest, if the Shield Worlds could protect the Forerunners from Halo, then wouldn't you be able to escape the activation, if you were in a ship, by jumping into slipspace?

  • 01.19.2011 2:52 AM PDT

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Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: digitalph33r780
they are still alive? I thought the activation of the rings killed them all! tell me, how are they alive, where are they(on their planet?) and names. Gotta have names!


Shield Worlds.

After the Flood became dormant they reseeded life, gave humanity the Mantle then exiled themselves from the Orion Arm of the Milky Way.


Out of interest, if the Shield Worlds could protect the Forerunners from Halo, then wouldn't you be able to escape the activation, if you were in a ship, by jumping into slipspace?


I've pondered this myself, the conclusion I arrived at was yes. I believe that would indeed be the case.

  • 01.19.2011 4:25 AM PDT
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  • 01.19.2011 4:29 AM PDT

okay sorry but you know i dindnt want people to think i was a really big nerd and plus i remmembered something like tat but i havent shearched any you tube halo vids in like 2 years

  • 01.19.2011 5:15 PM PDT
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Posted by: JOSHOUSSSSSSKI
okay sorry but you know i dindnt want people to think i was a really big nerd and plus i remmembered something like tat but i havent shearched any you tube halo vids in like 2 years

Brother, you're in Bnet. The "really big nerd" ship has sailed.

  • 01.20.2011 7:26 AM PDT

well, on they other hand...

they wiped out human civilisation by initiating a cowardly war against the human/prophet empire while it was already fighting the flood. they waited for humanity to defeat the flood before moving in for the kill

all so that they could be the unrivalled power of the galaxy (aka the 'inheritors of the Mantle').

mind you it was probably only their leaders who were corrupt and power mad, 'shuffling planets' by moving populations to new colonies on the borders of human space, to stop their expansion. and then later making the Halo rings not so much for the Flood (although it turned out to be the only option) but more for the power they'd have over entire races and star systems

having said that, their whole religion about being the holders of the Mantle probably made it easy to stir up mass enmity against the humans - like how the covenant called us infidels or whatever

  • 01.20.2011 9:37 AM PDT


Posted by: HipiO7
They are still alive.

Anyways, they knew they lost, and to make sure the Flood did not obtain total victory, they did what they had too. I'm sure humanity or any other reasonable spiecies would have done the same.

The Forerunners did what the precursors did. The precursors sent the foreruners the flood to ensure the forerunners did not obtain total victory.

  • 01.20.2011 12:21 PM PDT

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