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Posted by: grey101
Posted by: jross1993
Posted by: Onyx81
In Halo Wars, we see Flood on the surface of the Shield World Planet. This does not make sense. Why is there flood there when HW takes place after the Halo Array was fired?
No one said the SW was inside the Galaxy.
That's the best explanation that I can think of anyway.
Um seeing how the flood were only present in this galaxy at that time,forerunners didn't travel to other galaxy's, and the covenant somehow got there: All points to it being in this galaxy.
I had a theory that the shield world was the location of the battle between OB and MB eons ago. It has some flaws but i thought it was a decent idea at the time.
There would be an insane amount of debris; millions upon millions of ships were involved in that battle, most destroyed and many just left hanging as their pilots were wiped out by the Halo effect.
Even 100,000 years later you'd still see an almost solid cloud of wrecked ships.
It's possible such debris was cleared by Sentinels, yes (unlikely though as we do not see them leave the inner-shield world). But that brings me to another counter-argument;
By 'Maginot sphere,' OB didn't literally mean a sphere like the Halo Wars shield world. He meant a line of defence, with his ships arrayed in the shape of a sphere -- this implies that they were encompassing something. Originally the Didact refers to it as a 'line' -- from this one can infer that at first the defence forces stretched out across a considerable distance, but after some time they were forced into a tight sphere; the location of this sphere would of course be of great importance, something worthy of protecting.
Given how MB and the Flood's attack was launched at the eleventh hour before the Halo array was fired, this implies that he was embarking upon an all-out assault in an attempt to stop the array being fired.
This leaves the object the Maginot sphere was positioned around either a Halo ring or the Ark. I'm more given to believe the latter due to the fact that after achieving victory over Mendicant Bias, OB transported his fragments to Installation 00 and that was his first thought after victory -- this implies that he chose the nearest installation; the Ark.