- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Shade the 2nd
Actually, the Grunty Homeworld is sort of swampy with natural pillars of flames from the ground. (Methane atmosphere, duh) This info came from our fav Grunt...Yap-Yap! In Halo: The Flood, Yap-Yap was having a dream that he was back on his homeplanet, and he was running along home...Then the Elite woke him up. There is also strange stuff about great carved stones as walkways on the planet. Forerunner maybe? And they do wear those suits to keep cold and breath. So... A cold, methane filled swampy planet with Forerunner artifacts? Hmmm...
I think its funny, first of all, pillars of fire would be a real hazard in a methane atmosphere (think methane+oxygen+fire= no more planet), unless of course there was no oxygen, in which case there would be no pillars of fire in the first place. As far as I know, methane is a byproduct of anaerobic (without oxygen) respiration of bacteria in the stomach, therefor I find it hard to believe that anything could survive off of methane. From what I understand oxygen is very neccesary to release the chemical energy contained in methane. Unless the grunts eat some form of oxidized mineral ( which wouldnt naturally occur on a planet without oxygen.. duh) than there would be no way for them to use the methane. If there was water on the planet, than technically they could split the water into hydrogen and oxygen, which would require much more energy than it would produce.
Another thing left unexplained, is how come the grunts don't explode when shot at, or how they can talk through their masks...
Well thank god it's just a video-game.