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Posted by: CTN 0452 9
Posted by: OrderedComa
Posted by: CTN 0452 9
Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: CTN 0452 9
First off, Precursor ruins are not indestructible. A Halo ring could damage them after the frequency was modified. Second, Delta Halo could not have been where the Prisoner was held before Cryptum. That was the human planet with all of the precursor ruins that the Forerunners test fired Halo on.
It is probable that the Gravemind was held there during and after the firing of the array.
I think he knows Precursor ruins can be destroyed by Halo. He's saying that they are invincible to all other weaponry. Point being, Halo's can't effect themselves, or other Halo's it would seem. The Librarian wouldn't create an ecosystem on a weapon that effectively committed biological suicide.
The Halo rings are designed to only kill sentient beings without causing harm to anything else. It was only after the builders changed the frequency on the rings without the knowledge of the Librarian, that they were able to destroy the precursor ruins.
It is possible that installation 05 was created by the ark after MB destroyed the capital and the ruins are precursor ruins from the planet where the rings were test fired. This would explain their dilapidated nature as well as the fact that that ring had only been fired once.
Well, we don't really know which Halos are the originals and which ones are new ones created, if any. Wasn't it six rings that made it back to the Ark in Cryptum?
I think it's just as likely that Delta Halo is the one Mendicant Bias had control over. I mainly think it's likely because of the Gravemind's presence there, and seeing how the Gravemind and the Precursor are linked somehow. I think it'd make sense for Delta Halo to be Mendicant's as the Precursor came or was brought aboard the one he had control of in Cryptum, and Delta Halo is pretty much completely controlled by the Flood in Halo 2.
Where I get the idea that Delta Halo was one of the ones that was not controlled by Mendicant Bias is when in this cutscene when 2401 Penitent Tangent mentions that the ring has "a successful utilization record of 1.2 trillion simulated and one actual." Since we know that all of the rings were fired at the end of the Forerunner-Flood war and installation 05 was only fired once, it could not have been previously used. As Mendicant Bias fired (or tried to fire) all five of the installations that it controlled, it would be impossible for Installation 05 to have been under its control.
You are correct that there is no way to know now which ones were built new and which escaped from the capital.
This is all true. I thought that Mendicant had kept his Ring out of the fight and held back while using others. If I remember correctly, it didn't sound like he used his Halo at all during the battle, I could easily be wrong though, especially since I can't really remember what was said about the battle, I kinda got overloaded.