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Deva Path
Posted by: DecepticonCobra
We are all going to get banned aren't we?
Posted by: Madmaxepic
Posted by: grey101
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Posted by: Madmaxepic
It's cannon but the stuff about the number of rings confused me, and why didn't the Ark rebuild the destroyed ones like it did with Installation 04? Why does the Citidel only have 7 holograms? I hope the next 2 books answer these questions and perhaps explore the origins of the Flood.[/quote]
I think people qestion its canonical value because they don't understand it.
The rings in cryptum were the original 12 that took about 10,000 years to build. the 12 were suppose to be use to fight the flood in systems (think halo but on a solar scale).
After they were destroyed the ark was already making another batch of 7 rings which are the rings we know of. The Ark only has 7 rings becuase the idea to wipe out the galaxy has came up yet in cryptum. [/quote]
The book seemed to state there were already 6 rings there and the 7th arrived through the portal, one of the 12 original rings. It would seem that the 12 original rings were actually of a different size then the rings in the series, since they were described as 30,000 km across (unless this was a mistake or typo) whereas the series rings were only 10,000 km across.
whoops i posted wrong.
8 rings were being made at the Ark then the one ring arrived via portal with MB still in control of his ring.
thats why i said they are different rings.
Did you mean 6 rings were being made? If there were 8 that would make 9.
8 rings were finishing production at the ark becuase the DIdact said there was one ring on each end of the Ark and there are 8 ends.
I think you may be mistaken for I just read the end of the book an hour or 2 ago and I recall it saying there were 6 there plus the 7th one which arrived through the portal. But I could be mistaken.
Edit: The following is from Halopedia:
"Twelve Halos were commissioned by the Master Builder, Faber, but only one of them survived to be used in the Forerunners' final plan. Another array of six installations remained under the Librarian's control at Installation 00."
page 333 states that each petal had a ring and unless i am not clear on what he means by "petal" i count each of the branches as one thus 8 rings.
I've read the book 3 times now so don't feed me halopedia not to mention it isn't a prime source especially for cryptum knowledge.