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how do the rings really work. i mean if they are run by big machines that means that if it was damaged it could short circut and activate prematurly. and when they activate how dose that big circle of energy actual appear in the senter of the ring like this (o) and if energy was to appear if a ship was to fly throgh it would it make it activate?


could you survive if you were in one of the cages that the flood were in where the covanate broke in to the levle 343 guilty sparks?and hey if the rings wipe out all life in the univers how did the fool manage to survive do they have some special power or are they imuned to the blast?

and 343 convinced sthe mc to activate halos PRIMARY WEPON dose this mean that it has other wepons and functions? and if it dose what are thay all for? and just how did the covanate find out about the holy rings of the fourrunner?

if you need the icon,the key to activate the ring and it is only in the libary where is the libary hidden on earth?

thanx for your time

  • 05.16.2006 12:26 PM PDT
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and just how old are the rings

  • 05.16.2006 12:31 PM PDT

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Posted by: spartin mikey
how do the rings really work. i mean if they are run by big machines that means that if it was damaged it could short circut and activate prematurly. and when they activate how dose that big circle of energy actual appear in the senter of the ring like this (o) and if energy was to appear if a ship was to fly throgh it would it make it activate?


Well it can't simply malfunction and fire because the index has to be placed in the core. This can only be done by a reclaimer. Besides there are monitors and sentinals on every ring to stop it breaking down. They fire into the center of the ring from various places on it's surface, thats why it's in the middle... I don't know about the ship thing but i'm assuming it's be destroyed by the energy blast.


could you survive if you were in one of the cages that the flood were in where the covanate broke in to the levle 343 guilty sparks?and hey if the rings wipe out all life in the univers how did the fool manage to survive do they have some special power or are they imuned to the blast?

Probably not, the flood survive because they're affected by the rings energy....The flood can hibernate and some where kept in storage for study...

and 343 convinced sthe mc to activate halos PRIMARY WEPON dose this mean that it has other wepons and functions? and if it dose what are thay all for? and just how did the covanate find out about the holy rings of the fourrunner?

Sentinals and all their robotic kind are weapons i suppose, plus whatever other defences the rings have. The prohpets of the covenant evolved on a forerunner planet with lots of ruins, thats how they found out about the halos.

if you need the icon,the key to activate the ring and it is only in the libary where is the libary hidden on earth?

thanx for your time


Well that is the question!

oh and the rings are atleast 100,000 years old... probably alot more!.

-Stu

Edited - for spelling.

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  • 05.16.2006 12:46 PM PDT
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i think any thing on the arl or a halo ring survives the blast or at least the arc

  • 05.16.2006 12:53 PM PDT
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ok lets start with how thay work (functionaly) well thay can only be activated by the control
room with the index to send the signal to fire the weapon or by the ark witch we not
fully shoure how it works yet.thouse machines are not for fire control.
let me brackdown the funtionality of the halos for you.control room and index is for fire
control,ark is a backup fireing system,big machines are for flood control and containment
small flood outbreaks by sentenals and big outbreaks by enfrocers,rings it self are worlds to
contain the flood ie sentenal wall.like red monitor siad the halos are teasted in simulation
for fireing 1 trillion time so the ring can fire on demand.whith the energy i think energy beam splits the ball of enery in the middle making the explosion.and i think it has to be energy
to energy contact not any material would vaporize eg banshee flying through scarb beam.
i do not think any thing could servive the blast in that location 343 was on the ring that did
not get distroyed to explain thay were 7 rings in total the forerruners turned on the first
halo destroying 3 rings MC blowup the 4th ring leaving 3 rings.
the rings primary weapon is the blast secondary weapons are defense witch is the
sentinal wall sentinals enforsers the whole point is contorl the flood.
the forerunners stroy is that blast turned them into goods thats what the covenent think
that is the grate journey.sorry not much is know about the ark.

  • 05.16.2006 12:56 PM PDT
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The rings are created by forerunners, and forerunner technology does not make errors.
The halos have a safety system as well. They cannot be activated without the index. Once the index is in place, a count down of a few minutes begins before the system fires, killing all biological forms in the galaxy. Flood infection forms survived as their biomass is too small.

  • 05.16.2006 12:56 PM PDT
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The Halo's fire a pulse that interferes and destroys the nervous system of sentient creatures, leaving them as lifeless hulks, unable to be controled by the flood infection forms who require an intact nervous system to control the hosts body.

As stated above, it only affects creatures that have sufficient biomass to sustain the flood.

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Posted by: spartin mikey
how do the rings really work. i mean if they are run by big machines that means that if it was damaged it could short circut and activate prematurly. and when they activate how dose that big circle of energy actual appear in the senter of the ring like this (o) and if energy was to appear if a ship was to fly throgh it would it make it activate?


could you survive if you were in one of the cages that the flood were in where the covanate broke in to the levle 343 guilty sparks?and hey if the rings wipe out all life in the univers how did the fool manage to survive do they have some special power or are they imuned to the blast?

and 343 convinced sthe mc to activate halos PRIMARY WEPON dose this mean that it has other wepons and functions? and if it dose what are thay all for? and just how did the covanate find out about the holy rings of the fourrunner?

if you need the icon,the key to activate the ring and it is only in the libary where is the libary hidden on earth?

thanx for your time


This is how it should read:

How do the rings really work? I mean if they are run by big machines that means that if they were damaged it could short circut and activate prematurely, and when they activate how does that big circle of energy actually appear in the center of the ring, and if energy was to appear if a ship was to fly through it would it make it activate?


Could you survive if you were in one of the cages that the flood were in where the covenant broke in to the level 343 guilty spark? If the rings wipe out all life in the universe how did the fool (bahahaha!) Flood manage to survive do they have some special powers or are they immune to the blast?

And 343 convinced the MC to activate halos PRIMARY WEPON does this mean that it has other wepons and functions? And if it does what are they all for? and just how did the covenant find out about the holy rings of the forerunners?

If you need the icon and the key to activate the ring and it is only in the libary where is the libary hidden on Earth?

thanks for your time

Please, please, please, before you post anything ever, ever again, please copy it into Microsoft Word and from there right click under all the green and red underlined words and correct them.


To answer your questions, the machines can not short circuit, the only way to activate the ring is to put the index into the control center. The other two questions are hardly evn questions, and for that matter you're hardly even literate.

No, you could not survive if you were in a cage that was containing the Flood unless you were Srg. Johnson.

The Flood are what Halo was designed to wipe out, but it wipes out their food AKA sentient life, and starves them to death.

Don't know about Halos other weapons

The Covanant followed the Humans through slipspace to Halo, Cortana was following co-ordinates from the ancient crystal relic that Master Chief picked up from Sigma Octanus 5.

You even spelt your name wrong. It's SPARTAN

not SPARTIN
SPARTON
SPARTEN
SPAR-TEN

- Khufu

  • 05.16.2006 1:12 PM PDT
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Maybe they were not meant to be used as weapons in the first place?

Couldn't they have been terraformers of some kind?

  • 05.16.2006 1:14 PM PDT
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Maybe they were not meant to be used as weapons in the first place?

Couldn't they have been terraformers of some kind?

No, I'm pretty sure that the whole cutscene in Halo where Cortana takes the Index before the MC can activate the ring says the purpose of the ring is to elimate the food source of the Flood, us and any other sentient beings.
Sorry if this is too much of a spoiler or something, but I figured since it is Halo 1, I could just post it without spoiler alerts, especially with this being the Halo 3 forum.

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Posted by: spartin mikey
how do the rings really work. i mean if they are run by big machines that means that if it was damaged it could short circut and activate prematurly. and when they activate how dose that big circle of energy actual appear in the senter of the ring like this (o) and if energy was to appear if a ship was to fly throgh it would it make it activate?


could you survive if you were in one of the cages that the flood were in where the covanate broke in to the levle 343 guilty sparks?and hey if the rings wipe out all life in the univers how did the fool manage to survive do they have some special power or are they imuned to the blast?

and 343 convinced sthe mc to activate halos PRIMARY WEPON dose this mean that it has other wepons and functions? and if it dose what are thay all for? and just how did the covanate find out about the holy rings of the fourrunner?

if you need the icon,the key to activate the ring and it is only in the libary where is the libary hidden on earth?

thanx for your time


This is how it should read:

How do the rings really work? I mean if they are run by big machines that means that if they were damaged it could short circut and activate prematurely, and when they activate how does that big circle of energy actually appear in the center of the ring, and if energy was to appear if a ship was to fly through it would it make it activate?


Could you survive if you were in one of the cages that the flood were in where the covenant broke in to the level 343 guilty spark? If the rings wipe out all life in the universe how did the fool (bahahaha!) Flood manage to survive do they have some special powers or are they immune to the blast?

And 343 convinced the MC to activate halos PRIMARY WEPON does this mean that it has other wepons and functions? And if it does what are they all for? and just how did the covenant find out about the holy rings of the forerunners?

If you need the icon and the key to activate the ring and it is only in the libary where is the libary hidden on Earth?

thanks for your time

Please, please, please, before you post anything ever, ever again, please copy it into Microsoft Word and from there right click under all the green and red underlined words and correct them.


To answer your questions, the machines can not short circuit, the only way to activate the ring is to put the index into the control center. The other two questions are hardly evn questions, and for that matter you're hardly even literate.

No, you could not survive if you were in a cage that was containing the Flood unless you were Srg. Johnson.

The Flood are what Halo was designed to wipe out, but it wipes out their food AKA sentient life, and starves them to death.

Don't know about Halos other weapons

The Covanant followed the Humans through slipspace to Halo, Cortana was following co-ordinates from the ancient crystal relic that Master Chief picked up from Sigma Octanus 5.

You even spelt your name wrong. It's SPARTAN

not SPARTIN
SPARTON
SPARTEN
SPAR-TEN

- Khufu


Now look here, it isn't " can not ", but " cannot "

  • 05.16.2006 1:21 PM PDT
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Posted by: KaZe R63

No, I'm pretty sure that the whole cutscene in Halo where Cortana takes the Index before the MC can activate the ring says the purpose of the ring is to elimate the food source of the Flood, us and any other sentient beings.
Sorry if this is too much of a spoiler or something, but I figured since it is Halo 1, I could just post it without spoiler alerts, especially with this being the Halo 3 forum.


Don't worry, I already played the games. I was just wondering. The Halo's are so huge, it would have taken many, many years to build them. How could the Forerunners complete the rings before the Flood overwhelmed them, if they only began constuction after they encountered the Flood? Unless they were already built, but for another purpose. And then refitted to fight the Flood?

  • 05.16.2006 1:45 PM PDT