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Subject: Why a ring?

Posted by: Commander GX
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Why are Halos ring-shaped? They've shown to be very fragile compared to many other Forerunner installations. Why are installations that are so important made as a very thin ring of metal with a ridiculously big diameter?

  • 10.31.2012 5:03 PM PDT

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Cause it was cool and out there. The designers at Bungie knew that they had to do something that would grab hold of peoples attention, and awe them. So a ringworld it was. Inspired from Larry Niven's novel Ringworld and probably also Freeman Dyson's theories about such structures.

There is little to no relevance to its shape other than that it is capable of maintaining an artificial gravitational pull if it is put in rotation, and because of that, capable of housing various forms of species in a way that is natural for them.

[Edited on 10.31.2012 5:20 PM PDT]

  • 10.31.2012 5:11 PM PDT

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It's completely logical.

  • 10.31.2012 5:16 PM PDT

Maybe their geometry is best-suited to the purposes of a Halo array.

Or Bungie read Banks and decided it was cool. More likely.

  • 10.31.2012 5:18 PM PDT
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  • 10.31.2012 5:25 PM PDT

Well a halo is supposed to be a ring to begin with...

  • 10.31.2012 5:38 PM PDT
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The real question is: why wouldn't they be ring-shaped?

  • 10.31.2012 6:20 PM PDT
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We should know better, because we are better.

Because when you are going to purge the galaxy of life the weapon might as well look good.

  • 10.31.2012 6:38 PM PDT

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Sons of the gods, today we shall die.
Open Valhalla's door!
Let the battle begin, with swords in the wind! Hail Gods of War!

Better question: Why not just position the firing mechanisms at the 11 Halo coordinates, instead of making 11 resource-straining planet-slices?

  • 10.31.2012 8:08 PM PDT

Michael

Do you know of anything in the universe that doesn't resemble a circular object? An angled object wouldn't be logical....

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  • 10.31.2012 8:41 PM PDT
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This might be a stretch because the Forerunner were fleshed out by 343i. So take this with a grain of salt.

I think the Halos are symbolic irony. The Forerunners believed in the sanctity of life (however hypocritical that is) and a Halo is a symbol of holiness or sacred figures in Christianity, which of the Haloverse is a massive allegory of. So if the Forerunners believed life was sacred, why did they build a weapon that looks like the symbol of the sacredness of life?

[Edited on 10.31.2012 11:13 PM PDT]

  • 10.31.2012 11:04 PM PDT

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Well I suspect that the Halos were ring-shaped because they look like Halos. When we think of the word 'halo' we think of angels and godlike beings, and thats what we were meant to think of the Forerunners back then. The idea of a godlike race vanishing mysteriously was really compelling wasnt it?

  • 11.01.2012 1:23 AM PDT

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Mostly rule of cool, there are also probably some scientific reasons too. Derbis fields around planets and stars typically form in rings - gravity likes rings.

Not to mention, it did make for some fantastic dynamics in the game and also the canon.

  • 11.01.2012 8:27 AM PDT

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  • 11.01.2012 7:45 PM PDT

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because it keeps an accurate center of gravity...

  • 11.01.2012 7:54 PM PDT

From up here the city lights burn like a thousand miles of fire

yeah, why not a square or triangle?

  • 11.02.2012 5:53 PM PDT