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Halo is a weapon that can destroy sentient life within 25,000 light years. When it gets blown up by the Pillar of Autumn, isn't it supposed to explode into 25,000 light years? My point is that it's like if you put a mini explosive(Pillar of Autumn) on a nuke(Halo) and then because of the mini explosive, the nuke will detonate. Is in it the same thing?
Sorry if you know the answer. I'm more of a multiplayer guy not campaign.

  • 06.25.2006 4:18 PM PDT
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No it wouldn't explode as we've seen. The smaller explosion won't detonate the larger one as it's not the correct trigger and isn't the correct pattern. Maybe you'd like to thing of it as dropping a gun, it won't (read: shouldn't) go off.

To detonate the Halo ring, the little blue shooty-uppy thing has to hit the big ball of "stuff" in the centre of the ring. I guess the little blue thing is the trigger and the ball is the actual main part of the weapon... :\

It's late and I can't think properly and that's why I've had to make up words... :)

  • 06.25.2006 4:42 PM PDT

Its like holding onto an electric fence, and complaining that it hurts, yet you still do it. See the stupidity now?

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Your post doesnt make much sense, but from what I read, you seem to think that Light Years is a amount of time, its not, its a measurement of distance.

  • 06.25.2006 4:58 PM PDT
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Halo is a weapon that can destroy sentient life within 25,000 light years. When it gets blown up by the Pillar of Autumn, isn't it supposed to explode into 25,000 light years? My point is that it's like if you put a mini explosive(Pillar of Autumn) on a nuke(Halo) and then because of the mini explosive, the nuke will detonate. Is in it the same thing?
Sorry if you know the answer. I'm more of a multiplayer guy not campaign.


Emm... how do you know Halo is supposed to explode and kill all sentient life? Its possible Halo uses some other way.

  • 06.25.2006 5:37 PM PDT

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Posted by: Can O Whoop Az
Halo is a weapon that can destroy sentient life within 25,000 light years. When it gets blown up by the Pillar of Autumn, isn't it supposed to explode into 25,000 light years? My point is that it's like if you put a mini explosive(Pillar of Autumn) on a nuke(Halo) and then because of the mini explosive, the nuke will detonate. Is in it the same thing?
Sorry if you know the answer. I'm more of a multiplayer guy not campaign.


Emm... how do you know Halo is supposed to explode and kill all sentient life? Its possible Halo uses some other way.

Ummm...you didn't know Halo is a weapon that destroys sentient life?

  • 06.25.2006 8:02 PM PDT

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Your post doesnt make much sense, but from what I read, you seem to think that Light Years is a amount of time, its not, its a measurement of distance.

I do think it's a measurement of distance, because I said

Halo is a weapon that can destroy sentient life within 25,000 light years.

The key word is within.

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It wouldn't explode to kill sentient life, it has already been fired before.

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Posted by: XHellKnightX
Your post doesnt make much sense, but from what I read, you seem to think that Light Years is a amount of time, its not, its a measurement of distance.



distance is directly proportional to time so...yeah. The term light year is actually a measurement of how far light would travel in one year's time.

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And, sorry to add this ( for the pros, ignore this), but for new people to Halo, Halo 2, and the upcoming Halo 3, (alas, welcome to these forums) but Halo is meant not to kill the covenant but everything that lives( not the flood, so the humans would die, too) (once again, sorry for this post, please don't flame me,) and it is meant as a last resort. Meaning that the forerunners built it to starve the flood of food( ex. humans and covenant) so they would eventually starve. Also, note that the Flood were never meant to get out; the covenant discovered them, so then humans wanted to stop them from using it, seeing that they thought it could kill the other side...etc.... but now that their out, the ONLY way to stop them( well only for now, maybe Halo 3 will introduce a new way) is to, right down commit suicide. Thanks for reading this. Sorry if this offends someone, I'm new here.

  • 07.05.2006 11:51 AM PDT