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Actually, with the co-operation of the world's governments, and with enough resources and money, this is feasable. With an artifical gravity field generated by the spinning of the ring, an atmosphere can be held on the ring. We could place it in orbit around jupiter, to have another stepping stone to the stars. I mean, we can have a space station around earth, a base on the moon, a colony on mars, why not a ring orbiting the sun, as another "planet" or around a planet such as jupiter, saturn, or neptune? Yes, it's possible, and would be a good safe haven for the third century. A network of halos could serve as humanity's backup homeworlds, in the case that earth becomes uninhabitable. We actually could have an AI caretaker of the ring, a "Monitor."
However, if they become lost, the problem for the far future's humanity is this:
"You have no idea how this ring works, do you? Why the forerunners built it? Halo doesn't kill flood, it kills their food. Humans, covenant, whatever. We're all equally edible. The only way to stop the flood is to starve them to death. And that's exactly what Halo is designed to do; wipe the galaxy clean of all sentient life. You don't believe me? Ask him."
:-)!