- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
OK people;
The crystal under discussion did NOT warp time, it made Slipspace jumps super fast, but chaotic and irradiated. It was destroyed by a marine on the Gettysburg who did not want to take care of it. Fragments of it were found and given to Truth. The fake crystal was just that; a fake, designed to lure as many Covenant as possible onto the captured Covenant ship, Ascendant Justice, which happened to be right next to the station Unyielding Hierophant. When they reached the bridge of the ship, nucleat devices in the Hierophant's reactors were detonated, taking out the station and over 500 Covenant vessels. This was the attack fleet headed for earth, and by sacrificing themselves, the men abord the AJ gave the Chief's team a chance to escape as well as destroying the enemy fleet and postponing the attack.
The second 'crystal' was NOT a crystal, it was a rock with Forerunner hieroglyphs on it that pointed the way to the Halo in the first game.
And how would Cortana 'find' crystals and use them? It's not as if she can walk around and pick things up, she's stuck in the High Charity computer net.