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Subject: Would using the Ark have been all that bad?

I've been playing through all of the Halo campaigns recently, and I just got to the part in Halo 3 where Truth uses the Ark to activate the 7 Halos, ostensibly threatening the remaining humans. But I was thinking, with Installation 04 out of commission, there would have been a considerable gap in the Array's effect. And since the Halo wasn't that far from Earth, wouldn't we have been in a safe zone?

  • 04.19.2011 7:54 PM PDT

But the other colonies out there wouldn't have been.

Not to mention the ramifications of allowing every sentient being in the galaxy to be killed.

  • 04.19.2011 7:56 PM PDT

Have you seen my mind anywhere? I seem to have lost it...

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Since we don't know the actual positions and parts of the galaxy that would be affected we could be in an overlap zone.

Also remember that we are relatively close to Installation 05, and that one could probable kill us too.

  • 04.19.2011 7:57 PM PDT

i know

  • 04.19.2011 8:11 PM PDT

I always assumed that In Amber Clad got caught up in the Assault Carrier's Slipspace wake, allowing it to travel much faster then normal.

  • 04.19.2011 8:12 PM PDT

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Posted by: Omanisat
I always assumed that In Amber Clad got caught up in the Assault Carrier's Slipspace wake, allowing it to travel much faster then normal.

In Amber Clad was able to travel faster for the reason you mentioned. That said, the Halo rings still have an are of affect that covers a significant portion of the galaxy, and there is a good chance that it would have killed off Earth. Remember that all of the battles of the war took place in the Orion arm.

  • 04.19.2011 8:17 PM PDT
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Yes, because you would of died.

  • 04.19.2011 8:18 PM PDT

Seems to me there's a whole hell of a lot of overlap in the AOE of the Halos. If you play it really safe and say that Installations 4&5 were each a hundred lightyears in opposite directions from Earth, that's still a lot of overkill when your weapon has a range of 25,000lY.

  • 04.19.2011 8:26 PM PDT

In memory of those fallen in the defense of Earth and her colonies.

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Just activate the one near the brute home world. Damn savages.

  • 04.19.2011 11:53 PM PDT


Posted by: Sigma617
Seems redundant to put any installation anywhere remotely close to each other.

I smell a plot hole.

Unless the Forerunner decided that, for an array that serves as the last line of defence against permanent galactic loss to the Flood, it would be good to have redundancy.

  • 04.19.2011 11:56 PM PDT


Posted by: Tupolev

Posted by: Sigma617
Seems redundant to put any installation anywhere remotely close to each other.

I smell a plot hole.

Unless the Forerunner decided that, for an array that serves as the last line of defence against permanent galactic loss to the Flood, it would be good to have redundancy.


That's true. Also, in a book it is said that the flood were created by the Precursers as revenge during the Precurser-Forerunner war.

[Edited on 04.20.2011 12:17 AM PDT]

  • 04.20.2011 12:17 AM PDT

Thanks, atleast warn you are going to discuss spoilers about Halo Cryptum you jerk.

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  • 04.20.2011 3:26 AM PDT

good point, If there is no installation close to earth, and all colonies had been destroyed, it could have killed the covenant. You know all the Colonies have been destroyed because in first strike it mentions there being nothing inbetween reach and earth.

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Posted by: USArmyRanger7RB

Posted by: Tupolev

Posted by: Sigma617
Seems redundant to put any installation anywhere remotely close to each other.

I smell a plot hole.

Unless the Forerunner decided that, for an array that serves as the last line of defence against permanent galactic loss to the Flood, it would be good to have redundancy.


That's true. Also, in a book it is said that the flood were created by the Precursers as revenge during the Precurser-Forerunner war.

[quote]Posted by: USArmyRanger7RB

Actually we don't know that yet. We only read about the last Precursor's message at the end of Cryptum. For all we know, the last Precursor became the Flood.

  • 04.20.2011 4:06 AM PDT


Posted by: USArmyRanger7RB

Posted by: Tupolev

Posted by: Sigma617
Seems redundant to put any installation anywhere remotely close to each other.

I smell a plot hole.

Unless the Forerunner decided that, for an array that serves as the last line of defence against permanent galactic loss to the Flood, it would be good to have redundancy.


That's true. Also, in a book it is said that the flood were created by the Precursers as revenge during the Precurser-Forerunner war.


Cryptum did not state that at all, it is merely a popular fan theory, that imo, has very little evidence to back it up.

  • 04.20.2011 9:57 AM PDT

Kill all BOBs!! Leave none alive....

Each halo rings effect has a maximum efective radius of 25,000 light years. here is a pdf link from HBO on the theory of the positions of the halo rings.

http://nikon.bungie.org/misc/bronzite_halomapping/bronzite_ha lomapping.pdf

Anyway the Forerunner saved population samples from the whole galaxy and indexed them in the shield worlds and on The Ark.

So no biological mass capable of sustaining the flood in the whole galaxy would survive.

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Posted by: Omanisat
I've been playing through all of the Halo campaigns recently, and I just got to the part in Halo 3 where Truth uses the Ark to activate the 7 Halos, ostensibly threatening the remaining humans. But I was thinking, with Installation 04 out of commission, there would have been a considerable gap in the Array's effect. And since the Halo wasn't that far from Earth, wouldn't we have been in a safe zone?


Does it matter? that would be extremely selfish to kill all other life in the galaxy just to save ourselves.

  • 04.20.2011 4:13 PM PDT