- Spartan 104 S2AM
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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.