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Subject: Why did they need more than one Halo?

We were somewhere around Barstow...

If one Halo can wipe out all life in the galaxy, why did they need six more? Are they all just backups?

  • 04.14.2011 1:49 PM PDT

One Halo has a range of only 25,00 lightyears. 7 are needed to cover the 100,000 ly diameter.

[Edited on 04.14.2011 1:51 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2011 1:50 PM PDT

Technically each ring has an effective range of 25,000 lightyears. The galaxy is 100,000 lightyears, requiring multiple arrays to ensure full coverage.

  • 04.14.2011 1:52 PM PDT

We were somewhere around Barstow...

Interesting, many thanks for the answers. I'd always assumed one Halo was capable of wiping out the entire Universe but I suppose not.

  • 04.14.2011 1:58 PM PDT

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Interesting, many thanks for the answers. I'd always assumed one Halo was capable of wiping out the entire Universe but I suppose not.
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  • 04.14.2011 2:02 PM PDT

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Posted by: ArmourElite
Interesting, many thanks for the answers. I'd always assumed one Halo was capable of wiping out the entire Universe but I suppose not.
If Bungie's writers had decided there was just one that could wipe out the whole galaxy, then there wouldn't be much room for explaining different artistic directions with the environments in each game.

Also, Bungie likes its se7ens, so that's a lot of why :P

  • 04.14.2011 2:22 PM PDT

Quote from the opening cinematic of the Halo CE level Two Betrayals:

Cortana: "You have no idea how this ring works, do you? Why the Forerunners built it? Halo doesn't kill Flood, it kills their food. Humans, Covenant, whatever. We're all equally edible. The only way to stop the Flood is to starve them to death. And that's exactly what Halo is designed to do: Wipe the galaxy clean of all sentient life. You don't believe me? Ask him!" (Points at Spark.)

Master Chief hesitates, and then turns to 343 Guilty Spark.

John-117: "Is it true?"

343 Guilty Spark: (pauses) "More or less. Technically, this installation's pulse has a maximum effective radius of twenty-five thousand light years. But, once the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life, or at least any life with sufficient biomass to sustain the Flood." (Pause) "But you already knew that... I mean, how couldn't you?"


[Edited on 04.14.2011 2:35 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2011 2:33 PM PDT

Space. The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of Murphy's Laws on the StarShip Enterprise

Also, it would take a massive power source and building as well as access to the centre of our galaxy to make that kind of pulse. Essentially, it's more efficient and effective to use shield worlds and the Halo rings, otherwise virtually everything would perish with the pulse of the massive ring

  • 04.14.2011 3:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: Omanisat

343 Guilty Spark: But, once the others follow suit

Wow. After ten years, I've just noticed that...

  • 04.14.2011 4:11 PM PDT

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What I don't get is why there are enviroments and life on the Halos, a WMD. Did the Librarian store the enviroments and life there? If so, why? I'm a bit confused about that part.

[Edited on 04.14.2011 4:51 PM PDT]

  • 04.14.2011 4:51 PM PDT


Posted by: Nyxiz

Posted by: Omanisat

343 Guilty Spark: But, once the others follow suit

Wow. After ten years, I've just noticed that...


Yeah, recently it came up in a conversation elsewhere on my end as well.

Apparently, once you fire one halo, it sends out a signal for the others to fire.

My Theory? Fire one, it's signal goes out and hits the nearest one. That one fires and repeats until all have fired. However, if you go to the ark you can fire all at once.

  • 04.14.2011 5:20 PM PDT

We were somewhere around Barstow...

@ Omanisat/Anyone

What does Guilty Spark mean by "but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you"?

  • 04.14.2011 7:46 PM PDT

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Posted by: SEAL Sniper 9
What I don't get is why there are enviroments and life on the Halos, a WMD. Did the Librarian store the enviroments and life there? If so, why? I'm a bit confused about that part.
The Forerunner researched The Flood on Halo as well. And the best way to put it is "a happy worker is an efficient worker".

The Forerunner had a thing for making their structures blend with nature, which is why life exists on the ring in the first place.

  • 04.14.2011 7:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: Omanisat

343 Guilty Spark: But, once the others follow suit

Wow. After ten years, I've just noticed that...

Same.
I was shocked when I saw Delta Halo, but if i was paying more attention I would've already known they were out there.

  • 04.14.2011 7:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: ArmourElite
@ Omanisat/Anyone

What does Guilty Spark mean by "but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you"?
Guilty Spark was confused. He thought Master Chief was sent by the humans with the purposeful intent to activate Halo.

Thousands of years ago, the Forerunner left behind there technology for the humans to inherit. Guilty Spark wasn't aware that the humans never did.

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Posted by: ArmourElite
Interesting, many thanks for the answers. I'd always assumed one Halo was capable of wiping out the entire Universe but I suppose not.


Nope.

The Array was meant to sterilize the milky way, not the universe.

The Galaxy is 100,000 light years in diameter. The Universe is over 13 Billion light years in diameter and constantly expanding.

Also, big distances between galaxies.

  • 04.14.2011 7:50 PM PDT


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Posted by: ArmourElite
@ Omanisat/Anyone

What does Guilty Spark mean by "but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you"?
Guilty Spark was confused. He thought Master Chief was sent by the humans with the purposeful intent to activate Halo.

Thousands of years ago, the Forerunner left behind there technology for the humans to inherit. Guilty Spark wasn't aware that the humans never did.


He was confused, by not for the reasons you think.

Remember, he mentioned thinking a long time about the 'reclaimers' question about firing the ring.

  • 04.14.2011 7:53 PM PDT

Signatures are for squares.

The rings likely CAN send out the option to fire the others once activated. But we already know it doesn't happen automatically.

The rings have been activated on their own before. I mean, imagine what would've happened when the chief lit 04b at the end of Halo 3, and the other 5 active rings in the galaxy fired.

Also, Cryptum shows one ring being fired on it's own at different frequencies...

  • 04.14.2011 8:24 PM PDT

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In Cryptum there were 12 Halos. But 5 were controlled by Mendicant Bias.

Leaving the 7 that we probably see in the games.

  • 04.14.2011 8:37 PM PDT

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4 to cover most of the galaxy then more to fill in the gaps

  • 04.14.2011 9:36 PM PDT

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Posted by: privet caboose
The rings likely CAN send out the option to fire the others once activated. But we already know it doesn't happen automatically.

The rings have been activated on their own before. I mean, imagine what would've happened when the chief lit 04b at the end of Halo 3, and the other 5 active rings in the galaxy fired.


Very true so that must mean they require a Forerunner or reclaimer on each ring to activate them outside of the Ark.

  • 04.14.2011 9:42 PM PDT

"Concise and devoid of elegance...what I have come to expect from human communication"-Endless Summer

maybe the rings could fire individually to cure local infections?

  • 04.14.2011 10:43 PM PDT