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Subject: The Halo Rings and their purpose
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Ok so here the thing, the forerunners built the halo rings to eliminate the flood as a last resort in case the flood could not be contained....right? Think about this, lets assume that the forerunners is the first race that discovered the flood. Once they learned about this newly discovered parasitic organism and how it reproduces, how it aquires itz hosts and their knowledge, they built theez fortress halo worlds to further study this parasitic organism we all know as the flood. The idea of the halos being a weapon wuz imbeded in theez emense halo "labratories" as a last resort to eliminate the flood (duh right) in case of an emergency outbreak. Well what if itz possible if the forerunners colonized different parts of the galaxy....(like humans do and the way we form governments) and establish research facilties to evaluate and experiment with this new parasitic organisms.So they developed different Halo rings across the galaxy,complete with itz own self-destruction procedure in case of outbreak. And thatz exactly what happened. So as 343Guilty Spark said, his creators(the forerunners) activated all the rings in a desperate attempt to starve the flood. Now refering to some other theories that I have read on theez forums about the earth being the ark may or may not be true, but I do know one thing for sure. There must be something on earth (obviously) and on the Halo rings that protect sentient life. Becuz then there would be no life (plants, trees,etc) on the halo rings and life on Earth. Becuz when the first Halo is discovered by both Covenant and the humans in the first game there wuz life and water and trees. Activation of the rings 100,000 yrs ago would prevent this unless something in the Halo rings and/or Earth that protects sentient life. 2401 Penitent Tangent stated that some of their creators survived to reproduce.
But think about this, after the first activation everything wuz destroyed except maybe some forerunners becuz life on earth takes hundreds of millions of years for sentient life to evolve, having said that then the some of the forerunners would have had to survived cuz there is no way we could have evolved so quickly to this technological state over 100,000yrs. Unless theese rings activated 100,000yrs ago and People on earth did not know what wuz going on, (assuming that the earth has a protection shield or whatever from the rings) and we just kept on living to our present technological state. When the humans and covenant discovered Halo they also discovered the flood, so someting in the Halo rings would have had to protect the flood from being killed from the first activation by the forerunners or else there would have been no reason for the flood to be introduced in the first game also explaining the survival of Gravemind. Now the Covenat I dont know exactly how some part of their race survived from the first activation but they might Have come into the picture before or after the activation...dont know.

[Edited on 6/23/2006]

  • 06.23.2006 1:07 AM PDT