- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Why would the Forerunner hide a Halo/Ark under the Earth? If this Halo and our Earth or Ark was to serve the purpose of being the final bastion in all the galaxy for the Forerunner. And the beings that are threatening the destruction of the Forerunner (the Flood) are capable of sentience as well (Gravemind and Keyes). And are contained within the very structure designed to both contain and study them. And should they ever escape, starve them. It would of been extremely short sighted on the part of the Forerunner to not build a containment field and weapon system into the very stronghold they intend to make their last stand in if ever the unthinkable happened.
For example we have an out break of Flood on Halo 04, the consequence of this is the evolution of a particular Flood form into the Keyes pilot Flood form who many think, evolves over time into Gravemind. It seems that Keyes was selected because of his navigational knowledge and abilities, After all he is a Career Captain for the UNSC If this being has access to the teleportation systems of the Halos as seen in Halo2 and the ability to order an army of Flood around to do his biding in an almost telepathic attempt to pre-empt the movements of the Master Chief as we read in “The Flood” and again see in Halo2, This Flood form could in theory also use its sentience to systematically take all the systems that the Halo’s firing sequence relies upon off line.
In Halo CE the Flood’s plan and priorities were clear. Firstly to destroy and absorb all sentient opposition. Secondly to achieve a level of sentience in order disable the Halo. Thirdly to commandeer a slip-space capable vessel in order to repeat this process on the other Halos as the Flood and definitely Gravemind seem to know that no one on any of the other Halos. Except for the human reclaimers have the authority to activate the ring worlds and ultimately starve them. If this were to of happened the Flood would of eventually made their way to Earth with all the Halo’s offline, and infected our world as well. Though as far we now know the Master Chief spoiled this plan. Although if there were no Master Chief and the Flood commenced this very logical plan of self preservation, what good is a control room or an Ark for that matter when there is no sentient specific super weapon system for it to control.
Here in lies the reason I believe this dome structure is a part of a Halo and what we are seeing activated is a shield system that serves the purpose of protecting those with in the hidden Halo under our Earth from the effects of both our Halo and the remaining functional Halo’s firing effects. Also I believe the activation of a containment field so as to prohibit the contamination of our entire planet by the Flood is essential so that the survivors can return to an uninfected Earth after the Floods starvation. It really is that simple, anything else would be like sitting in a bomb shelter knowing your enemies are out there and looking for you and nothing but their own starvation is going to stop their search, and all you have is cans of baked beans, fresh water, warm clothes, a radio, holographic wall displays, artificial habitats, and other modern connivances that might make life comfortable, but no weapons or anything at all effective to defend yourself with from this unstoppable enemy. That sounds a lot like stupidity to me and I don’t think the Forerunner were stupid.
For People Who Can't Understand Here is the Equation
Dumb Infection Flood Form Contained in Halo
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Uninformed Uninfected Sentient Life Form Equipped With Slip Space Capable Vessel Releases Flood Infection Form
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Semi Sentient Flood Combat Form
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Infected Sentient Captain, Navigator and Engineer
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Intelligent Flood Pilot Form with knowledge of what Threat Halo Poses It
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Huge Army of Combat, Infection and Carrier Forms
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Organized Calculated Sentient Flood Resistence Disabling Halo
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Disable Slip Space Capable Vessel
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Repaired Slip Space Capable Vessel
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Knowledge of the Location of the Other Halos
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Flood Campaign to use Slip Space Capable Vessel to Disable Other Halos
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All Halos Disabled
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Flood Armada Makes A Move to Earth/Ark
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Humans Discover Ark But it Does Nothing Because Other Halos are Offline
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All Humanity and Earth Infected
Hope everyone understands what I'm trying to say.