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I think Halo is not a temple to worship the covenant's gods/Forerunner, and maybe Forerunner are not the covenant's god. Halo is a shrine, as Cortana said, but maybe for a different god. You already know what halo looks like. Trees, breathable environement, water, seasons, storms, temperature, etc. Well, I think the Halo's are the covenant homeworld. If someone invades one of their other homes/planets, they go to Halo, to wipe out that certain race. Say the humans went to explore a planet, but they found the covenant. Then the covenant would go to a certain halo to wipe out life within 25,000 light years. This is to protect them from invasions. The flood are their certain weapons to slow down the humans from finding the control center to stop the covenant. They release them once in a while to get some air, and reproduce. Well, something happened 100,000 uears ago. The flood were out, and they tried to take over the control center. The covenant tried to stop them, but had to activate Halo, to kill all life in 25,000 light-year radius. So since then, it has been uninhabited, until the covenant refound the Halo. There are marks all over the halo, and other random planets, to tell the covenant how to get there. (most likely star references). Also, there are pathways, tunnels, shaped like a prophet sitting in a chair. So maybe they made pathways for the Prophets to navigate around. What do you guys think?

[Edited on 5/8/2004 3:31:57 PM]

  • 05.08.2004 3:30 PM PDT
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Halo is a weapon, pure and simple, the control room was said to be the shrine.

  • 05.08.2004 4:37 PM PDT

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What Halo is:

"This installation was specifically built to contain and study the Flood."

That is said by 343 Guilty Spark, and I'm pretty sure he was referring to Halo as a whole, not just the library facility.

And if Halo was activated, not only would there be no sentient life within the 25,000 Light Year blast radius, but there would be no more sentient life within the galaxy as a whole. There are more Halos, and since 343 GS says, "Once the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life...," it shows that the "others" would be activated as well, in a chain-reaction type of thing. Unless Bungie plans on using the theory of evolution (I don't care if they do or not), then there would be no beings left to sustain the flood (IE Prophets, Humans, Forerunners, Elites, etc....), which means there would be no chain of events after the initial activation that you have hypothesized.

Just going to point something out.... and this doesn't shoot down my shooting down of your theory (sorry, hehehehehe). Perhaps 343 was not referring to other Halos, but to other Monitors.... but just to shoot that (^) down, Monitors cannot activate Halos by themselves, so... perhaps other Halos activate on their own when they detect a blast.

Just my thoughts. You're theory was good, but it was missing a few things.

  • 05.08.2004 4:57 PM PDT

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Oh, and Halo wasn't built as a shrine. The place that housed the Control Room (the pyramidal structure in AotCR) may have been a temple or shrine, as Cortana pointed out, but not Halo itself.

Only the Covenant would view Halo as a shrine, and they don't even really do that. They just think its a holy artifact that has a lot of interesting technology.

  • 05.08.2004 5:00 PM PDT