- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
somone posted on the first page of the thread about how regret would have activated the ark before he left earth instead of going to halo 04 but in the cutscene when 343 explains to arbiter about how the rings can be remotely activated by the ark, the big blue ball shoots to the center of the ring "what is that?" somone says and 343 explains how its basically a message telling the other halos to prepare for remote activation. Therefore the ark could not have been activated until that big blue ball was shot to the center of the ring.