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Subject: What do the Halo rings accomplish?
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So the rings kill all of the flood's food. Why does that matter if it also kills everyone the flood harms? If you activate Halo, noone survives. If you dont activate Halo, everyone dies, and the Flood will eventually kill everyone, run out of food, then die.

Either way nobody wins.

Now if the Earth is a shelter from Halo...

the covenet were afraid that the flood would repair the covenet's wrecked ship, so if the forrunners activate halo, the Flood could repair a crashed ship on Halo(Chances are there would be one). So the flood repair a ship, and head to Earth, and kill all the refugees there.


Either way, chances are the Forrunners would all get killed, so why did they build Halo? It may have a greater purpose. I am not going anywhere with this, and some of it may be flawed. Just a little food for thought for the deeper thinkers and Halo fanatics to nip pick/ use in their own theories.

Please, point out any mistakes in my logic.

[Edited on 5/28/2006]

  • 05.28.2006 4:11 AM PDT
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The Halos kill all sentient life with enough biomass to sustain the Flood. Depending on how you interpret this, you can guess that there will still be plants and trees left alive, and that there is a possiblity of some types of animals/fish/birds alive as well. Also, there is a small chance that not all humans/whatever else may be killed - human children may not meet the sentience requirement (depending again on how one interprets the definition), and would also probably not meet the biomass requirement. This would mean that most species throughout the galaxy would have a small chance of having their young survive.

  • 05.28.2006 4:15 AM PDT

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Maybe the forerunners are small.


Maybe the forerunners are robots.

Did you think of that?

  • 05.28.2006 4:23 AM PDT
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Posted by: Aerien
The Halos kill all sentient life with enough biomass to sustain the Flood. Depending on how you interpret this, you can guess that there will still be plants and trees left alive, and that there is a possiblity of some types of animals/fish/birds alive as well. Also, there is a small chance that not all humans/whatever else may be killed - human children may not meet the sentience requirement (depending again on how one interprets the definition), and would also probably not meet the biomass requirement. This would mean that most species throughout the galaxy would have a small chance of having their young survive.
Personaly, I interpated it as any organism. I thought that the only lifeforms that would survive would be bacteria.

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Maybe the forerunners are small.


Maybe the forerunners are robots.

Did you think of that?
Maybe, the only reason they built so much sweet stuff was to make up for their lack of hight.

  • 05.28.2006 4:34 AM PDT
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http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=5560063

Read that, it will answer everything you jsut asked.


In summation - Yes, the Halos in effect kill all sentient life with suffiecient biomass to become a flood form. Suffiecient biomass merely means that they have a large enough chest cavity to allow an infection form to burrow into.

BUT - after the halo's have fired and all flood have starved to death or been eliminated by the massive sentinal armies created by the forerunners, all species are reseeded on their orginal homeworlds to ensure continuity (to a degree). even if they didn't, theres that little thing called evolution, unless you're a creationalist, then you're screwed.

The Halo's were a last resort, not a first strike. The forerunners were literally overun with flood, they couldn't contain them, not even with the massive sentinel armies and all their technology.

Anywho, read Mrbananas theory, it makes a hellullva lot of sense.

  • 05.28.2006 4:51 AM PDT

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Maybe they activate a huge cornfield so MC may grow hes own corn and sell them for weapons and toilet paper??

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Posted by: Solaris125
[url]http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=5560063[/ url]

Read that, it will answer everything you jsut asked.


In summation - Yes, the Halos in effect kill all sentient life with suffiecient biomass to become a flood form. Suffiecient biomass merely means that they have a large enough chest cavity to allow an infection form to burrow into.

BUT - after the halo's have fired and all flood have starved to death or been eliminated by the massive sentinal armies created by the forerunners, all species are reseeded on their orginal homeworlds to ensure continuity (to a degree). even if they didn't, theres that little thing called evolution, unless you're a creationalist, then you're screwed.

The Halo's were a last resort, not a first strike. The forerunners were literally overun with flood, they couldn't contain them, not even with the massive sentinel armies and all their technology.

Anywho, read Mrbananas theory, it makes a hellullva lot of sense.


I don't agree with everything in that long arse post, but there is one thing it hlped me on. I always wondered why the Forerunners would keep the Flood for study if they could have just starved them all. But the guy who made the post suggested that the Flood pretty much came out of no where. Like he said, there would always be the risk that the Flood would pop up again. By keeping samples for study, future generations may be able to find a new way to suppress/destory: or even find their origin.

I don't think the flood would repair a ship and destory the refugees on Earth because:

1. knowing the Flood could use ships, perhaps they disabled all there ships (locking themselves up on the Halo "fortrus world"). Ofcourse this idea is flawed, because we know the Forerunners the Covenant got hold of a ship.

2. The Flood would need to know where Ark is.

3. Their concern would prowling the galaxy for food, not searching for a group of survivors .

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Posted by: Solaris125
[url]http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=5560063[/ url]

Read that, it will answer everything you jsut asked.


In summation - Yes, the Halos in effect kill all sentient life with suffiecient biomass to become a flood form. Suffiecient biomass merely means that they have a large enough chest cavity to allow an infection form to burrow into.

BUT - after the halo's have fired and all flood have starved to death or been eliminated by the massive sentinal armies created by the forerunners, all species are reseeded on their orginal homeworlds to ensure continuity (to a degree). even if they didn't, theres that little thing called evolution, unless you're a creationalist, then you're screwed.

The Halo's were a last resort, not a first strike. The forerunners were literally overun with flood, they couldn't contain them, not even with the massive sentinel armies and all their technology.

Anywho, read Mrbananas theory, it makes a hellullva lot of sense.


I don't agree with everything in that long arse post, but there is one thing it hlped me on. I always wondered why the Forerunners would keep the Flood for study if they could have just starved them all. But the guy who made the post suggested that the Flood pretty much came out of no where. Like he said, there would always be the risk that the Flood would pop up again. By keeping samples for study, future generations may be able to find a new way to suppress/destory: or even find their origin.

I don't think the flood would repair a ship and destory the refugees on Earth because:

1. knowing the Flood could use ships, perhaps they disabled all there ships (locking themselves up on the Halo "fortrus world"). Ofcourse this idea is flawed, because we know the Forerunners the Covenant got hold of a ship.

2. The Flood would need to know where Ark is.

3. Their concern would prowling the galaxy for food, not searching for a group of survivors .


If all the sentiant life was destroyed then as the flood i personally would hunt down that group of survivors or eat all the dead bodies on halo and high charity

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Think of the flood as cattle farmers, you wouldn't want to kill all your cattle now. The gravemind didn't seem too hasty to eat chief and arbiter either.

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If all the sentiant life was destroyed then as the flood i personally would hunt down that group of survivors or eat all the dead bodies on halo and high charity

Of course you would persoanlly, but if you were the Flood you would think differently. The Flood are basically zombies, all they think of is FOOD, FOOD, FOOD! not "Oh those -blam!- forerunners! They killed all or food! Lets hunt down the onws left and make them pay!"

Either the Flood aren't that smart, in which case, they'll hunt search for food, but they won't be specifically looking for the surviving forerunners.

Or the Flood ARE that smart, in which case they wouldn't want to kill of the remaining lifeforms in the galaxy, because they know that if they did, they would go bye, bye.

  • 05.29.2006 6:35 AM PDT
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Posted by: Lavarock
Maybe the forerunners are small.


Maybe the forerunners are robots.

Did you think of that?
Maybe, the only reason they built so much sweet stuff was to make up for their lack of hight.


Yeah. The forerunners were 2ft tall and used giant stilts to get around! ;)

I think that the forerunners were a collective (like a bee hive with the drones, workers and the queen) so the humans were the only ones to survive and the main forerunners were 15ft high (aka. look at the libary ceiling! abot 45ft high)

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Posted by: Twelve Large
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Haha I'm pretty sure that they could jump over them.

  • 05.29.2006 7:26 AM PDT

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Halo, if activated, will destroy all life that the flood can survive on. so that leaves single-cells animals and creatures to survive. and in 15 billion years or so, the creatures will have evolved into new races to combat the flood. if they are over whelmed, the rings can be activated to start the battle over again. the forerunnners already activated it once, and that's why they aren't still alive. they must have know that other races would come to combat the flood. so the Halos are fallback weapons. its the one thing that actually seems to help balance the flood's power to the rest of the universe. but of course, all you really need to do is not go to any of the Halo's to wake the flood. or blow them up. the flood that were on the first Halo didn't survive when Chief destoryed it.

  • 05.29.2006 7:36 AM PDT