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Posted by: Xd00999
Posted by: ajw34307
Posted by: Xd00999
Going red and attacking everyone
Going red doesn't prove he's rampant... His eye turns red at the end of Floodgate where he attacks a Flood form, he's clearly not rampant then.
However, the red eye has also been used as a symbol for sanity slippage. When Spark is all lonely in the CEA terminals, his eye flickers red occasionally, showing his mind degrading.
the terminals (CEA)
Again, doesn't show that he's actually rampant but is on the edge of descending into it.
He was on the edge for a long time. The fact that he is still somewhat sane after 100 000 years alone is remarkable. He has been slipping.
some of his dialogue ('You are forerunner!')
Again, given what we know about gei from the Forerunner Saga this only gives credit to the fact that he isn't rampant.
In another terminal, along with the flickering light, he is shown degrading and his quotes point out the fact. He considers going to the nearby gas giant before his voice starts fizzing and he says 'Oh dear, here it comes again.' Obviously not that sane. Earlier, he goes 'Alone alone alone alone...' whilst his eye flickers.
To use another example, the Catalyst was following the Leviathan's protocols and most of us would say he is crazy or (at the very least) illogical. Spark didn't want John to fire the Ring and kill everyone. He would have done anything to stop it.
Spark did want John to fire the Ring... in fact, every time we come across a Monitor in the games he demands that "this facility must be activated if we are to control this outbreak!". Spark just didn't want the Ring fired when it wasn't ready because the Ark and his Installation would be destroyed (again), a violation of protocol and, based on Cryptum's battle of the Capitol, justification for him turning against John.
I should rephrase that; Spark didn't want John to damage the Ark and 04(2). But, Spark doesn't know how much damage the Ring would do to the Ark. We know the Ark has large numbers of security sentinels and possibly larger ones (if you count the Guardian concept canon). What would stop those security sentinels from protecting the Ark from any chunks of the Halo? It was floating high above the Ark and not every piece would have hit. It would not be a big stretch to assume that sentinels would have destroyed any large pieces that were hurtling towards something important.
Dosent matter what kind of security, its not like half the ring would evaporate. All the ring pieces would fall on ark (remember that a halo is almost the size of earth) it was near the ark so no massive weaponery would be used. And the halo pieces are huge nevertheless.
And even small pieces can cause segnificant damage. (a small piece is like a library building )