- Agustus
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- Exalted Legendary Member
Some can come away from reading "War and Peace" thinking it a simple adventure story, while others can read the ingredients on a gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.
After reading Cryptum several things occurred to me, many of which don't make actual sense. I don't have the book on me, so feel free to correct me with hard fact wherever I go astray.
Prior to Cryptum we assumed the Array worked like this:
All 7 Halos would fire systematically, wiping out all life in the galaxy. Forerunners and non-infected populations would be housed in the Shield Worlds and Ark, protected from the Halos.
But now we learned that the Halo Array initially had 12 rings, not 7. And that the Shield Worlds project created by The Didact, had no relation to the Halo rings. In fact they were totally separate projects competing with each other in how they would combat the Flood.
On top of all this the Halos were designed as local weapons, to sterilize single solar systems or clusters of solar systems. Not as a galaxy wide nuke effect.
So the question is if the Shield Worlds themselves have nothing to do with the Halos, what was their purpose? A few trillion pissed off Sentinels can take apart a few ships defensively, but in the way they're arranged installations like Onyx wouldn't be suited for offensive strategies.