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Posted by: PLUT0NIUM 235
he has to have died, nothing survives the Pulse from the weapon. however this is another plot hole to be honest, because for Halo to be a viable weapon the Pulse would have to propagate very very quickly, not be a slow 'wave' like what we see in Halo 3. if that were the case it would be the worse weapon of mass destruction ever conceived, could simple avoid the Pulses if that was their true speed.
Halo by definition must be a faster than light weapon, or else the distances involved mean it takes tens, hundreds of thousands of years for the weapon to have its true intended effect, which is impossible due to the time constraints. that is how Halo 3 messed up the Halo story in a way, the Chief and the Arbiter could not have survived the activation of 04-B because their ship would have been overwhelmed by the Pulse in fractions of a second, killing both of them instantly.
You interpreted it wrong. The Halos 'charge up' before firing. Remember Halo 2 when Installation 05 was charging up before it was deactivated?
When they fire, they fire faster than the speed of light.
If you're talking about the actual charge of the blast, each Halo has an effective firing range of 25,000 lightyears - or if the others follow, the whole galaxy. How far do you think you could get before it fires?
if Bornstellar survived it just means Halo is turning into another stereotypical story where everything and everyone is protected by 'plot-armour', which doesn't make for good 'hard' science fiction which is direction Bear is taking the narrative. so as far as I am concerned Bornstellar has to be dead, therefore the Didact is still very much dead.
The Didact is very much dead. Armour or no armour, the oldest Forerunner mentioned was only a few thousand years old (I think). I find it unlikely that even if the Didact activated the rings from the Ark and survived the pulse, he'd be able to survive for another 100,000 years.