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Subject: The "ARK" does not protect people!
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  • 06.14.2006 9:46 AM PDT
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Guilty Spark says the activaters died when Halo was first fired. If Halo stops the flood by stopping death and stops death by stopping life, where did life as we know it come from. The ark is obviously a safe haven for life when Halo is fired. Whoever was in the Ark made the stupid mistake of coming out early. Whoa, breakthrough. Remembah that mission in Halo 1 when you gotta follow the GS. He goes on and on about the flood and if you listen carefully, he'll say sometime soon "I for one am glad that some survived and were able to reproduce sucessfully" Do you think that, GS was built by the forerunners to fool people into activating Halo so they all die. This way, they wouldn't be able to kill the flood and the research on their species could go on controlled. That's how the flood lived, the survivers intentionally continued to feed the flood for further study but somewhee along the line, some decided the sacrifices to feed them weren't worth it and left. That would explain life as we know it. Then, the flood multiplied to quickly and broke out. That's why the run freely. But how did they get to the Heretic facility unless, the Heretic are the forerunners that's how they got to Halo, they tried to activate it again but failed. It's also why they wish to stop the prophets, cuz they know of Halo's purpose and know what will happen if it is tuned on. OK it all makes sense now... to me. But then again the "died...as planned" part still has me dumbstruck if all this si true.

  • 06.14.2006 1:12 PM PDT
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that programmed part is a good point
Posted by: XTS Platinum
For 343 to know that they all died he would have to of been to earth, and everywhere the forerunner had lived. i don't think he could of done any of this as he is the "monitor" of instalation 04. i think he was told/programmed to know that if the rings activated they would all die... and there is no evidance that they really all did die.

Sure there are no forerunner.. dosent mean we arent the decidants our selfs or there are some alive somewhere. your theroy dosent prove the arc theroy wrong at all.

  • 06.14.2006 1:15 PM PDT
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The Ark obviously is the haven from the Halos. Otherwise in the time period the Halo games are located it would be a bunch of trilobites blasting each other instead of advanced, cybernetically enhanced soldiers and space aliens that have the ability to travel across the galaxy at hyper speeds. If you reference teh Bible it too makes sense.

  • 06.14.2006 1:20 PM PDT
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What Redoubt said. 343 didnt exactly fly around the galaxy lifting up asteroids looking for the Forerunners. He is making an educated guess considering he has not seen any Forerunners since.

This post says it all right here.

Of course it protects whoever's inside it. Why else would it be called the "Ark"? It would make far greater sense for the Ark to be a haven at the same time using the Halos to kill off the Flood.

  • 06.14.2006 1:35 PM PDT
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I am...whimsical today.

Posted by: XgRuNtY_tHiRsTX
Who says that the "ark" has to keep the people alive. The "ark" could just store the forerunner's DNA so that their race could continue. All the forerunner would die ,yes, but that doesn't mean that their race did.

I must agree with this guy :)
Interestingly, 100,000 years ago in Human evolution is when we (-blam!- Sapiens Sapiens) developed the same face profile that we have today.

'The facial characteristics of modern man are about 100,000 years old. The faces of earlier hominid were much more apelike.' www.onelife.com

Another theory is that GS is saying that no Forerunner survived, and apparently we are Reclaimers.
Maybe the only difference is that we are here now, they aren't.

NB The Halo network only kills life that is sentient/has a large biomass. I'm inclined to believe it focuses more on the sentient, as this was in Halo 2, and Bungie had more time to focus on possible discrepancies in the story. As far as I can see, only the various -blam!- Sapiens species could be in risk of the network, and we do not know to what level the Forerunners measured sentience.

...OH COME ON IT'S A SCIENTIFIC WORD!
Well you can guess it.

[Edited on 6/14/2006]

  • 06.14.2006 1:49 PM PDT

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The name Ark implies that it will protect its inhabitants from the Flood and nothing else. But I would hazard, for the sakes of having something to be or fight in Halo3, that there are Forerunners in the Ark in some kind of aeon-long stasis.

  • 06.14.2006 1:57 PM PDT
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I believe the Forerunners told all the Monitors they would be back some day.

I believe Humans are descendants and have various attributes of the Forerunners that the Monitors would very easily reconize and as shown tell the Humans that The Flood has been released and Halo needs to be activated believing that they know the process and the outcome, that would explain the whole 'Reclaimer' thing

  • 06.14.2006 2:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: Carnage SWAT
guys, ever think that 343 is just referring to the flood or people infected with flood when hes sayd they all died. By the way, if the flood need humans or COV's for food, how is it that they've survived on the Halos for 100,000 years? Now thats a question that needs to be answered

Or perhaps the Halos did kill the forerunners but humans at the evolutionary stage we were at did not have a bio-mass highg enough to be consumed buy flood, therefore we were not killed. Also it's possible (because Guilty Spark implies Halo was activated at Instillation 4) that only one Halo was activated last time, rather than all of them being activated from the ark.

  • 06.14.2006 2:18 PM PDT
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When one Installation is activated, it causes them all to activate as well. Logic tells me that you cannot turn the Halo network on from scratch from the Ark. What would the point of a standby mode be, if the Ark could fire them any way.

Guilty Spark 'Fail-safe protocol: in the event of unexpected shut-down, the entire system will move to standby status. All platforms are now ready for remote activation.'

This implies that before that time, the Ark would not have been able to do much.
(It also seems to imply that a synchronized detonation would have to be orchestrated from the control rooms of the Installations themselves, depending on your treatment of the phrase remote activation.)

  • 06.14.2006 2:25 PM PDT

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