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Subject: Where do the forerunner get the materials to build halo.

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Have you ever thought of this question? They are planet sized objects. Where do they get all of that materials?

  • 08.18.2011 7:24 PM PDT

Posted by: Commander GX
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The Forerunners spanned a galaxy. I think they could find enough materials to build something planet sized IN AN ENTIRE GALAXY.

  • 08.18.2011 7:27 PM PDT

Yeah Mushroom just sort of answered your question spot on.

  • 08.18.2011 7:28 PM PDT
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The planetoid at the center of the Ark appears to be extensively strip mined. Yes, the Halo rings have a diameter that rivals that of Earth, yet given that the Halo rings are at least an order of magnitude more efficient than a planet with regards to it's surface area/mass ratio, I suppose it's not hard to imagine that a single small planetoid could easily provide the raw materials for a single Halo.

[Edited on 08.19.2011 12:56 PM PDT]

  • 08.18.2011 7:28 PM PDT
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I am guessing they got it from the same place they get stuff to make ships. but that is just me.

  • 08.18.2011 7:29 PM PDT

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The planetoid at the center of the Ark appears to be extensively strip mined. Yes, the Halo rings have a diameter that rivals that of Earth, yet given that the Halo rings is at least an order of magnitude more efficient than a planet with regards to it's surface area/mass ratio, I suppose it's not hard to imagine that a single small planetoid could easily provide the raw materials for a single Halo.


I believe that thing is used for materials to make repairs to the Ark and to make replacement Halos, as seen in Halo 3. I think that's its only purpose.

  • 08.18.2011 7:30 PM PDT
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Posted by: DecepticonCobra

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Posted by: JFMK2
The planetoid at the center of the Ark appears to be extensively strip mined. Yes, the Halo rings have a diameter that rivals that of Earth, yet given that the Halo rings is at least an order of magnitude more efficient than a planet with regards to it's surface area/mass ratio, I suppose it's not hard to imagine that a single small planetoid could easily provide the raw materials for a single Halo.


I believe that thing is used for materials to make repairs to the Ark and to make replacement Halos, as seen in Halo 3. I think that's its only purpose.
yes, but we don't know everything so i assume the next cryptum books might inform us.

  • 08.18.2011 7:32 PM PDT
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Posted by: JFMK2
The planetoid at the center of the Ark appears to be extensively strip mined. Yes, the Halo rings have a diameter that rivals that of Earth, yet given that the Halo rings is at least an order of magnitude more efficient than a planet with regards to it's surface area/mass ratio, I suppose it's not hard to imagine that a single small planetoid could easily provide the raw materials for a single Halo.

I believe that thing is used for materials to make repairs to the Ark and to make replacement Halos, as seen in Halo 3. I think that's its only purpose.
I'm confused. The content of your post makes it seem like you're agreeing with me, but your wording doesn't. If the latter is more fitting, I do believe I said that the planetoid at the center of the Ark was used to provide construction materials for replacement installations.

[Edited on 08.18.2011 7:34 PM PDT]

  • 08.18.2011 7:33 PM PDT

Posted by: Commander GX
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Posted by: M94 Mushroom Man

Posted by: JFMK2
The planetoid at the center of the Ark appears to be extensively strip mined. Yes, the Halo rings have a diameter that rivals that of Earth, yet given that the Halo rings is at least an order of magnitude more efficient than a planet with regards to it's surface area/mass ratio, I suppose it's not hard to imagine that a single small planetoid could easily provide the raw materials for a single Halo.

I believe that thing is used for materials to make repairs to the Ark and to make replacement Halos, as seen in Halo 3. I think that's its only purpose.
I'm confused. The content of your post makes it seem like you're agreeing with me, but your wording doesn't. If the latter is more fitting, I do believe I said that the planetoid at the center of the Ark was used to provide construction materials for replacement installations.


I've somehow confused myself.

  • 08.18.2011 7:37 PM PDT
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The planetoid at the center of the Ark appears to be extensively strip mined. Yes, the Halo rings have a diameter that rivals that of Earth, yet given that the Halo rings is at least an order of magnitude more efficient than a planet with regards to it's surface area/mass ratio, I suppose it's not hard to imagine that a single small planetoid could easily provide the raw materials for a single Halo.

I believe that thing is used for materials to make repairs to the Ark and to make replacement Halos, as seen in Halo 3. I think that's its only purpose.
I'm confused. The content of your post makes it seem like you're agreeing with me, but your wording doesn't. If the latter is more fitting, I do believe I said that the planetoid at the center of the Ark was used to provide construction materials for replacement installations.


the thing is origins didn't have that planet in the center yet everything else was covered.

again, we don't know anything since bungie wanted to blow it up.

  • 08.18.2011 7:38 PM PDT
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The planetoid at the center of the Ark appears to be extensively strip mined. Yes, the Halo rings have a diameter that rivals that of Earth, yet given that the Halo rings is at least an order of magnitude more efficient than a planet with regards to it's surface area/mass ratio, I suppose it's not hard to imagine that a single small planetoid could easily provide the raw materials for a single Halo.

I believe that thing is used for materials to make repairs to the Ark and to make replacement Halos, as seen in Halo 3. I think that's its only purpose.
I'm confused. The content of your post makes it seem like you're agreeing with me, but your wording doesn't. If the latter is more fitting, I do believe I said that the planetoid at the center of the Ark was used to provide construction materials for replacement installations.


I've somehow confused myself.
You've got me confused as to what you're confused about.

  • 08.18.2011 7:39 PM PDT

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Posted by: M94 Mushroom Man

Posted by: JFMK2

Posted by: M94 Mushroom Man

Posted by: JFMK2
The planetoid at the center of the Ark appears to be extensively strip mined. Yes, the Halo rings have a diameter that rivals that of Earth, yet given that the Halo rings is at least an order of magnitude more efficient than a planet with regards to it's surface area/mass ratio, I suppose it's not hard to imagine that a single small planetoid could easily provide the raw materials for a single Halo.

I believe that thing is used for materials to make repairs to the Ark and to make replacement Halos, as seen in Halo 3. I think that's its only purpose.
I'm confused. The content of your post makes it seem like you're agreeing with me, but your wording doesn't. If the latter is more fitting, I do believe I said that the planetoid at the center of the Ark was used to provide construction materials for replacement installations.


I've somehow confused myself.
You've got me confused as to what you're confused about.


I'm confused as to how you are confu- Oh dear I think I've gone crosseyed.

  • 08.18.2011 7:40 PM PDT
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I say that they followed the principle of e=mc^2. In other words with enough energy you can "create" mass. The opposite of this is observable in the A-bomb.

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Posted by: M94 Mushroom Man
The Forerunners spanned a galaxy. I think they could find enough materials to build something planet sized IN AN ENTIRE GALAXY.

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Posted by: TIM427
I say that they followed the principle of e=mc^2. In other words with enough energy you can "create" mass. The opposite of this is observable in the A-bomb.
Yes, but that principle clearly stipulates that very little mass can be converted into vast amounts of energy, and the opposite: that it takes immense amounts of energy to create proportionately miniscule amounts of mass. That's why it makes sense to convert mass into energy, but converting energy into mass is rather nonsensical. Fusion/fission reactions are an imperfect example, by the way, as it does not nearly manage to convert mass into energy with 100% efficiency. The best example would be antimatter.

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  • 08.18.2011 8:31 PM PDT
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The materials should easily be available in just a single solar system. Between the asteroid belt, trojans, kuiper belt, and oort cloud, we could probably find more than enough materials to build a Halo in our own system. They collectively mass several times more than Earth, and Halos appear to have far less volume.

Halos are very very tiny compared to the amount of mass that is present in our solar system. You could probably make several Halos before you start having to take apart planets and moons. It's not like building a Dyson Shell(maybe not enough material in solar system) or Ringworld(enough mass, but much more difficult to the properties of materials needed)

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  • 08.18.2011 9:26 PM PDT
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Strip mining planetoids I say. (I'm going off of memory for these numbers here) There are 5 billion planets in the Milky Way of which only 1% are habitable. The Forerunners have colonies established on 3 million planets which means they have to have seen several million more uninhabitable planets and asteroids. They would of had no trouble finding massive quantities of metal.

On a side note, the economy suffered from building all those Halos, so they must have used a lot of resources.

  • 08.18.2011 9:36 PM PDT

They strip mine planets at the center of the Ark. When you're on the Ark in halo 3, you can see that moon in the center being strip mined by strato-sentinals.

  • 08.18.2011 9:48 PM PDT

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  • 08.19.2011 5:40 AM PDT

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The Forerunner were able to manipulate matter on the grandest scales. In Cryptum, it was said that the best builders could bring asteroids together and build planets or even create stars from nebulae.

Of course, this would all take a very long time.

The material was taken from planets, strip mined and used for resources.


Posted by: TIM427
I say that they followed the principle of e=mc^2. In other words with enough energy you can "create" mass. The opposite of this is observable in the A-bomb.


Also, this is very very wrong. Matter does not turn into energy in a nuclear detonation (and honestly, e=mc^2 isn't the real equation, and is actually a simplification of the true equation Einstein developed).

The energy in a nuclear detonation comes from the strong nuclear force that is broken when U235 is splt, releasing massive amounts of energy.

  • 08.19.2011 6:37 AM PDT
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Posted by: dark Agit
Have you ever thought of this question? They are planet sized objects. Where do they get all of that materials?


They have a very large, very well equipped, mining caste.

They mined stuff for it-asteroids, planets, moons, you name it.

  • 08.19.2011 8:03 AM PDT

If you look inte game, you see that the halos are build of pixels and polygons, they probably built it with a graphicsengine or something

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If you look inte game, you see that the halos are build of pixels and polygons, they probably built it with a graphicsengine or something


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  • 08.19.2011 8:19 AM PDT

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  • 08.19.2011 8:21 AM PDT

Actually, the halo rings are much much smaller than your ordinary sized planet. Ordinary being Earth sized.

If you look at the clip at the start of Halo CE or at the end of Reach. You'll see what I mean. The halo ring looks minuscule compared.

  • 08.19.2011 8:39 AM PDT

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