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Subject: questions relating to some halo plot details
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So ive read first strike and was going back through halo 2 and i needed to clarify a few things..

1. Regret knew the coordinates to "the artifact" (aka portal to ark which coincidentally happened to be where earth is) from either the forerunner structure under castle base/the remnants of the crystal locklear destroyed that squeezed through slipspace that the covenant later retrieved?

2. He got there, realized he was outnumbered by unsc fleet and had no means to activate the portal, must have learned the coordinates of delta halo at the site of the portal? (if someone could clarify that part for me) and then slipspace jumped to delta halo from earth.

3. He went to delta halo only to activate it? thinking he will ascend to the likes of a god as per the belief of the great journey? There was no intent to return to the portal on earth since he didnt know how to activate it? Or is there something special about delta halo in regards to the portal? As far as i understand if ANY ring misfires (which his intent didnt seem to be to misfire the ring) then they all go into standby and the portal/ark is activated.

4. The only way to activate the ark is to have all the halos in standby for simultaneous fire. Is the only way to achieve all the rings being in standby to misfire one ring? That seems silly, making the ark only accessible through some inefficient process of purposely misfiring a ring?

Thanks in advance to anyone willing to clarify some of these details.

[Edited on 01.28.2011 7:20 AM PST]

  • 01.27.2011 11:39 AM PDT
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  • 01.28.2011 7:20 AM PDT

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Ok, lots of good questions. Lets see if I can give you satisfactory answers.

1. Regret knew the coordinates to "the artifact" (aka portal to ark which coincidentally happened to be where earth is) from either the forerunner structure under castle base/the remnants of the crystal locklear destroyed that squeezed through slipspace that the covenant later retrieved?

Yes, I believe this is mostly true. I don't believe it is ever specified where he found it though. Maybe on reach, maybe elsewhere. The crystal however did not contain coordinates to my knowledge.

2. He got there, realized he was outnumbered by unsc fleet and had no means to activate the portal, must have learned the coordinates of delta halo at the site of the portal? (if someone could clarify that part for me) and then slipspace jumped to delta halo from earth.

I have always assumed that the covenant already knew of its existence. Remember, they know the coordinates of a few of the rings. Regret just simply made the decision to retreat to delta halo, perhaps thinking of it as a safe haven. I can't seem to find anything that contradicts this.

3. He went to delta halo only to activate it? thinking he will ascend to the likes of a god as per the belief of the great journey? There was no intent to return to the portal on earth since he didnt know how to activate it? Or is there something special about delta halo in regards to the portal? As far as i understand if ANY ring misfires (which his intent didnt seem to be to misfire the ring) then they all go into standby and the portal/ark is activated.

This is a tough one. I don't really have an answer for that. Except the last part is true. If any rings misfire, they do go into standby.

4. The only way to activate the ark is to have all the halos in standby for simultaneous fire. Is the only way to achieve all the rings being in standby to misfire one ring? That seems silly, making the ark only accessible through some inefficient process of purposely misfiring a ring?

Think about it this way. The forerunners did not want to have themselves wiped out, but did also realize the importance of defeating the flood. They had tried military action to stop the flood, but it was failing. The halos were their last resort, kind of like Mutually Assured Destruction is for us today (except with less emphasis on preventing war, and more of a "take you down with us" mentality).

So, if for some reason the forerunners were trying to activate halo, but the flood stopped them, it would start the entire system in standby. This would give every halo a chance to be activated, decreasing the likelihood of failure. I think the ark is the only place you can stop the process, while you could start it from any halo. This would be to ensure that the all the rings would fire, no matter what the flood did.

The ark would have to be a well kept secret, so the flood could never find it and stop the rings from firing.


Hope these were satisfactory answers.

  • 01.28.2011 11:28 AM PDT

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very good explaining the answers

but now thee Ark is gone

how what happens to the rings?

are they destroyed,inactive?

  • 01.28.2011 11:50 AM PDT
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thank you for trying your best to answer the questions. yea i guess the reason why regret even goes to delta halo baffles me. it almost seems pointless lol..aka you can tell bungie screwed up during the dev of halo 2 (like they said) and had to start from scratch with very little dev time left until the planned launch, and kind of released a half thought out plot for the sake of another game, although the events that take place in the game are entertaining and pretty epic.

  • 02.17.2011 2:42 PM PDT

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1. I would assume that the location of the portal was either discovered from the rock on Cote d'Azure, one of the Forerunner structures on Reach or possibly Inst. 04 before it's destruction.

2. The Portal itself had more than one use and probably contained the locations to all the Halos as well as many other Forerunner structures.

3. I'd guess that Regret believed by lighting the ring he would begin the great journey, seeing as that was the basis behind their whole religion.

4. I always thought that a single Halo ring could be fired independently from directly on that particular ring using the process of the index and what not, but this would only fire that ring, the others are not controlled by any other ring. The Forerunner liked to keep things compartmentalised for safety. However, all the rings could be fired simultaneously from The Ark, like a master control room.

You have brought to light an issue I never thought of before; when a Halo's firing sequence is cancelled it automatically sets all the other rings into standby, ready to fire. But how can the other rings automatically go to firing standby without a reclaimer to retrieve their respective index and bring it to their individual control rooms? We know from CE that this process cannot be done by sentinels and/or monitors. Interesting.

  • 02.17.2011 3:01 PM PDT


Posted by: UK II DeffDeala
very good explaining the answers

but now thee Ark is gone

how what happens to the rings?

are they destroyed,inactive?


The rings would probably be in standby still since they weren't activated yet. I'm fairly certain that the ark is not gone though, it was said that when Installation 04[II] destroyed itself it took a toll on the ark, not necessarily destroying it.

  • 02.17.2011 3:09 PM PDT

Humanity will slowly learn that they are to inherit all the forerunners left behind.

In due time humanity will learn that the halo rings belong to them.

  • 02.17.2011 4:43 PM PDT