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Subject: What Do The Halos Do To Destroy All Sentient Life?
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I mean it's a better story than just killing the humans, the flood, or the covenant but what does it actually do? I only have one theory and that is that the halos target a certain element that the organism is made of, E.G. humans are carbon based life forms. BUT,it doesn't effect the flood so they could be E.G. arsenic based. and with a galaxy this big with 3 different racesof life there is bound to be other races with different bases so it couldn't possibly affect them all. and thats why my theory doesn't work. I tend to look at both sides of a discussion.

  • 06.26.2006 9:40 PM PDT
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big boom

  • 06.26.2006 9:41 PM PDT

Well, in the Conversations of the Universe or whatever it was called, 343 mentioned how the intruders (the humans and the covenant) had ample calcium stores for the flood to spread. So, I'd assume that calcium is the shared element.

  • 06.26.2006 9:42 PM PDT
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There have been many theories, one of which is strong gamma rays, but that wouldn't discriminate against what it killed, ie algae could die from it too.

My guess would be giant radioactive pants.

  • 06.26.2006 9:43 PM PDT
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What about cockroaches?!? Holy crap! Halo 4, where you're the last super cockroach warrior, fighting off the last of the giant flood, who continue to prey on your species because you survived the blast.

  • 06.26.2006 9:44 PM PDT
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big boom

  • 06.26.2006 9:44 PM PDT

Well, I'd assume what the Halo does when it activates is send out a shockwave (but orb-shaped so it got everything in the radius not just everything in the same plane as Halo) that kills anything with enough calcium to sustain the flood.

  • 06.26.2006 9:46 PM PDT
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it makes big boom and brakes planets and their atmosphers(?) into tiny little peices

[Edited on 6/26/2006]

  • 06.26.2006 9:46 PM PDT
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That question has the simplest answer.....Remember the Forerunner put the Flood into hibernation, so why wouldn't they be able to do that to other species? You see, when the rings are activated, secret doors hidden on the rings' surface open and out come the giant evil bunnies of doom. They spare no life. They are the epitome of evil. They create raging death and destruction on a galactic scale. That is why the Forerunners are gone the underestimated the amount of pure evilness they poured into their creation. Before they were ready to be released aginst the Flood the evil bunnies of doom turned on their masters, but the last surviving Forerunners injected themselves with a viral solution and threw themselves into the gaping maws of the bunnies. A disease formed within the bunny population that sent them in to a deep stasis, and the monitors of the installations teleported them into special rooms where they await the activation of the rings. That is what makes the Ark so deadly. Not only can it activate all the installations, it is the only Forerunner structure where the bunnies developed an immunity to the virus. They are awake and rampaging through the Ark, and they are HUNGRY!

  • 06.27.2006 9:41 AM PDT
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A galactic cloud of carbonated beverages and cig smoke expand out from the halo. The other halos have sympathy coughs and expand the ring further leeching all calcium out of everything.

  • 06.27.2006 9:46 AM PDT