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"Find where the liar hides, so that I may place my boot between his gums!" - Rtas 'Vadum
Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
What's this about questioning 343?
And again, it's like saying to a guardian of a castle "Oh, we are the heirs to the castle, teach us to move this ballista." when said ballista is set up to guard a very specific area against a very specific threat. He isn't just going to move it cause you asked nicely.
Well, he might if there is an oncoming threat (The Covenant remnants) and no other weaponry available to combat it. The Flood is just a possibility, but the Covenant are assured as a threat just now.
Also, Humanity would not be very successful in combating the Flood if their weapons are immobile. If the Flood launch another assault from outside the galaxy, then it would probably go for the Halo's first this time, and attempt to take them out along with the Ark. (Assuming it will have the knowledge of the last infestation.) Having the Rings sitting about in the same location would be suicide. It would make better sense for them to be mobile, or in a safe, fortified location. (Such as inside a Shield World) Either way, it requires that the Reclaimers have full control over them.
Anyway, the real difficulty would probably be in convincing the Monitor's to let the UNSC use those Rings to wipe out the Covenant races; in trying to offer a good enough reason as to why they should move the Rings in order to do that. The Covenant have let the Flood out on I-04, and then again on the Threshold Gas Mine, and possibly on the Halo Wars Shield World, so in addition to being a credible threat to the Reclaimer's very existence, (No Reclaimers = No one left to activate the Rings in the event of a massive Flood outbreak) the UNSC could implicate the Covenant as actually trying to unleash the Flood on the galaxy again, possibly for religious reasons.