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"but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you?
Only when no Human brick is left atop another, shall we be satisfied with your destruction.
Posted by: EnragedAUSTIN11
"all that damn gas"...
I find this quote to be quite a window into how Forerunner's built their colossal constructs.
The gas mines, such as the ones we visited in Halo 2, use this gas as basically the building blocks of all Forerunner alloy.
and by this I mean that I believe the forerunners had some form of altering the atomic structure of gas particles, and magnetically charging them to stay so close together that they become a solid.
This is actually an interesting thought, I'm going to add a little real science in here and suggest that instead of using some magnetic thing to alter the atoms (this wouldn't work I'm afraid-you could induce a plasma at most) they would use Fusion to build whatever elements they desired from the harvested gas (likely to be Hydrogen).
This would also provide a source of power for the installation.
You could build any atom you like from Hydrogen assuming you have a sufficiently controllable fusion reactor (the Forerunner almost certainly would have the technical capability to do this) and you can get energy from it untill you start making atoms heavier than Iron.
At that point you can still force fusion to occur and build heavier atoms, but it costs you energy to do so.