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Posted by: ExoditeDRider
The only information at all given is by the Halo Encyclopedia, which claims that
When activated, the Halo rings would wipe out all sentient life within three radii of the Milky Way's Galactic center, by sending out radiation, targeting certain cells in the nervous system, which includes, but is not limited to, neurons, by harmonizing all neurological frequencies.
However, this has a severe flaw in it. Radiation would take millions upon millions of years to spread far enough.
Even Gamma Rays, traveling at the Speed of Light, would take 100,000 years to cover the Milky Way galaxy.
The forerunners clearly used a delivery system that is faster than the speed of light- perhaps millions of minature Slip-Space jumps that deliver Gamma Rays to tiny sections of the galaxy?
Well now that is quite interesting. And don't mind me but also quite beautiful. A galaxy's last breath, before it is reborn.
Though the way the ring fires it seems to be quite more of a atomic frequency sort of thing. Could it be possible that whatever it fires, it vibrates whatever makes up the soul and "disintegration" or if you wanna go real not philosophical specific DNA "disintegration" that classifies sentient as... so called sentient
Gamma Rays blast apart DNA. Get it to a high enough frequency, and it would kill you in one blast. That would hypothetically work.
However, the rings have to cover almost 39 million cubic Light Years of space (Milky Way galaxy). Thats a LOT of Gamma Rays. The only plausible way to create that much energy would probably be through some extreme Nuclear Fission of converting matter to energy.
... Unless they specifically targeted certain planets for sterilization and left out the empty space. After all, they did catalog almost every species in the galaxy and would know where to target. That sounds more feasible to me.
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[Edited on 10.11.2011 4:41 PM PDT]