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Subject: How would Guilty Spark have been able to activate halo by himself?

In halo CE in the mission two betrayals Cortana says something about destroying halo before Spark finds a way to fire halo without the index. Prompting John to destroy Halo but the thing I don't understand is how exactly Spark would have been activate halo without the index or reclaimer.

  • 09.27.2011 9:36 AM PDT

If he is the monitor of the installation and created by the Forerunners, he may know how to bypass any encryption software preventing non-sentient life from activating it. If this was the case, his rampancy would be violating protocols programmed into him.

  • 09.27.2011 9:47 AM PDT

You are correct. He was following protcols. My theory was if he had gone rampant enough, he could completely disregard those protocols and somehow find a way to fire Installation 04. At least he didn't and it succombed to the Pillar of Autumn's explosion.

  • 09.27.2011 10:03 AM PDT

No worries! I often wondered what would have happened to the plot line if 343 Guilty Spark tried to activate the first installation without the index (in Cortana's custody) while the duo were trying to self-destruct the Pillar of Autumn. Sadly, there wouldn't be that epic escape at the end of the game.

  • 09.27.2011 10:10 AM PDT

It wouldnt fire the whole array, just 04. To fire the WHOLE array would mean activating it from the Arc.

  • 09.27.2011 11:18 AM PDT