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Subject: Noob question?

What was the point in the Halo Array being habitable? Was it to preserve certain species from extermination, like the Ark?

  • 08.28.2011 5:14 PM PDT
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the vegetation and the earth-like appearance and beauty was a counter balance to its awesome destructible powers

  • 08.28.2011 5:15 PM PDT

"Counter balance"? Did it need to be habitable to function or something?

  • 08.28.2011 5:19 PM PDT

I like Halo games, nuff said.

He's saying he has no idea.

  • 08.28.2011 5:20 PM PDT
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Posted by: SGT BUMFLOP V2
"Counter balance"? Did it need to be habitable to function or something?

its a giant weapon, or course it didnt need to be habitable to operate, but the Forerunner made it have a planet like surface

  • 08.28.2011 5:22 PM PDT

well, can u imagine running around killing aliens on a huge ugly boring flat chunk of metal floating in space?
it would be stupid!!
the halos have trees and mountains so that they look epic and mysterious!!

  • 08.28.2011 5:43 PM PDT

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All "Jerk Who's Really Bad at Math."

PS
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I'd assume it was built for whatever custodians may have resided there long ago; breathable air, drinkable water, blue skies and soft grass would serve no purpose on something suck as a Halo ring unless it was to make who or whatever staffed the installation more comfortable during their stay.

  • 08.28.2011 6:45 PM PDT

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Why do we make our firearms look appealing?


We must find beauty in death, or we begin to lose sight of the good things in life. If we don't create along with what we destroy, what is the state of our minds?

  • 08.28.2011 6:46 PM PDT

I will ALWAYS argue until I drop.

Yes, and it may also to distract the Monitors from their grim purpose.

PS: wouldnt it have been smarter to put a triumverate of Monitors on each Ring incase one went rampant?

  • 08.28.2011 6:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: Huragok Slayer
Yes, and it may also to distract the Monitors from their grim purpose.

PS: wouldnt it have been smarter to put a triumverate of Monitors on each Ring incase one went rampant?


My life is ruined, you just reminded me of Caesar. I am officially a nerd.

[Edited on 08.28.2011 6:51 PM PDT]

  • 08.28.2011 6:50 PM PDT

Its like that the same reason we paint our houses and buy art.
Because it looks good

  • 08.28.2011 7:18 PM PDT

the reason is a hybrid of those posts above me. The monitors were capable of complex thought and emotion despite their rigidness on protocol, as seen in the latest terminal video where guilty spark thinks of the cultural impact of losing the history of the forerunners rather than the impact on his database. Clearly if halo was a weapon and only that, guilty spark would in fact go insane, or rampant, as his only thoughts would be that of his responsibility for all the destruction, which he obviously has a problem with as he has blatantly declared the halos to be horrific and the thought of living there filled him with dread. So the forerunners put a habitat or habitats on the ring to surround the monitors with life they are interested in (the ring holograms in halo 3 depicted some rings to be large deserts or filled with oceans.)

TL:DR The forerunners didn't want the monitors to get monday morning syndrome while they pulled an infinite guard shift for the galaxy.

  • 08.28.2011 7:20 PM PDT


Posted by: GnadeMasta

Posted by: Huragok Slayer
Yes, and it may also to distract the Monitors from their grim purpose.

PS: wouldnt it have been smarter to put a triumverate of Monitors on each Ring incase one went rampant?


My life is ruined, you just reminded me of Caesar. I am officially a nerd.

um...
what?
its not that bad, is it?
wtb r u even talking about?

[Edited on 08.28.2011 7:44 PM PDT]

  • 08.28.2011 7:41 PM PDT

Thanks guys :) These were the answers I was looking for.

  • 08.29.2011 2:23 AM PDT

I think it was to store different organisms, much like the ones the Librarian stored on the Ark.

  • 08.29.2011 7:18 AM PDT
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What I want to know is why the forrunners left some flood (that they were reasearching) alive.

  • 08.29.2011 7:25 AM PDT

Didact's Reprisal -
Now is the time of our unworlding
One final effort is all that remains
And I am not afraid
We shall fulfill our promise
We fight for the grace of the Mantle
And this time none of you will be left behind

"Earlier, when I had voiced puzzlement at the contradiction of Halos supporting these living records, my nurse and guardian, a Lifeworker named Calyx, explained that the Librarian had equipped most of the Halos with living ecosystems, and stocked them with many species from many worlds...

She had hoped to preserve many more species by using the Halos; the Master Builder, after agreeing to her plan, had decided it would be useful to test captured specimens of the Flood on the Halos before they were fired -- to learn more about them.

Sacrificing those populations, of course."


- Halo: Cryptum, p.334

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  • 08.29.2011 7:44 AM PDT
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Posted by: THA rofltard

Posted by: GnadeMasta

Posted by: Huragok Slayer
Yes, and it may also to distract the Monitors from their grim purpose.

PS: wouldnt it have been smarter to put a triumverate of Monitors on each Ring incase one went rampant?


My life is ruined, you just reminded me of Caesar. I am officially a nerd.

um...
what?
its not that bad, is it?
wtb r u even talking about?

hes talking about how when Caesar became dictator of Rome, he got rid of every other people that could have been in competition with him to his rise to power, and in a sense he went "rampant" with power, and in the end, Brutus and the other senators of Rome murdered Caesar on the Ides of March

  • 08.29.2011 10:13 AM PDT


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Posted by: THA rofltard

Posted by: GnadeMasta

Posted by: Huragok Slayer
Yes, and it may also to distract the Monitors from their grim purpose.

PS: wouldnt it have been smarter to put a triumverate of Monitors on each Ring
incase one went rampant?


My life is ruined, you just reminded me of Caesar. I am officially a nerd.

um...
what?
its not that bad, is it?
wtb r u even talking about?

hes talking about how when Caesar became dictator of Rome, he got rid of every other people that could have been in competition with him to his rise to power, and in a sense he went "rampant" with power, and in the end, Brutus and the other senators of Rome murdered Caesar on the Ides of March

lol thats a fail.

  • 08.29.2011 3:56 PM PDT

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The Librarian made a pact with Faber (aka the Master Builder) that she could seed species on the Halo rings so that they would not totally be WMD. And probably so she could have some control over them, but so far she hasn't seemed to have much influence

  • 08.29.2011 4:10 PM PDT

Plus playing the game would be to easy on a huge round ring with no landscape (No intention to troll)

  • 08.29.2011 8:28 PM PDT