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Posted by: the real Janaka
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4. How in any way is this artifact the "biggest Forerunner artifact ever"? I mean, we have Onyx, which was an ENTIRE PLANET. And then we had the Ark, which was basically a small moon and THEN SOME. Then there is the Dyson Sphere in Halo Wars which, again was an entire planet. It seems to me that 343 has lost all connection with the Halo universe and doesn't care. And even then, since when was "bigger" better?And then some, indeed... The Ark might not be spherical, but it's still able to muster up a lot more mass than a regular moon.
As for the MDS within Onyx, Halsey says that it is 300x10^6 km in diameter, and.. I'll just use wiki as a source instead of looking it up in the book... Although Dr. Halsey calls it the Micro Dyson Sphere, the Sphere is 300 million kilometers (or approximately two astronomical units [1 AU is 149,598,000 km]) in diameter on the inside. The Micro Dyson Sphere's star has a spectra and energy output slightly smaller than the dimensions of Sol.If Requiem is larger than that, it's fairly -blaming!- large. It would rival a gas giant in mass.
Concluding that 343i believes that "bigger" is better is pretty reasonable.
I can't for the love of James Mason, understand why they didn't settle for the Onyx MDS when writing the story for Halo 4. Especially now when the seem to be bringing everything that was within it TO Requiem.
We still don't have a lot of details on the layout of Requiem. For all we know the planet could have multiple layers inside of it enclosed in slip-space bubbles like Onyx. As one poster suggested the possibility of Requiem being the Greater Ark, that might not be far off. If the planet does have multiple layers encased in slip-space bubbles the Greater Ark could be inside Requiem.
[Edited on 09.03.2012 5:04 PM PDT]