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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...

Poll: If it were your choice, would you do it? (Read entire post first)  [closed]
Yes:  40%
(6 Votes)
No:  60%
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Total Votes: 15

I wasn't sure where to put this, since it pertains to the entire Halo series...so I thought it belonged here, but if not please move it to the proper forum.

In the first Halo, 343 says to the Master Chief,

Why would you hesitate to do what you have already done? Last time you asked me, if it were my choice, would I do it? Having had considerable time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed. We must activate the ring.

This got me thinking...what would you do it, if it were your choice? Now, you'll all probably say "no" because it destroys all life in the galaxy. But lets take a look at both sides of the argument...

The Flood is highly adaptable and can spread at an alarming rate. In just a few hours it can learn all the motor functions of its host, and within a day it is able to pilot vehicles and command starships...once the Forerunners failed to contain the outbreak, there was no hope. The flood would spread throughout the entire galaxy and turn every species, present and future, into a flood hive. The only way to stop the flood is to starve them to death, to freeze their expansion so that they can not expand any farther. And the only way to do this is to destroy the host itself, IE sentient life.

So, the forerunners built the Halo's to kill all life for perhaps a few hundred thousand years, but to ultimately save all life in the future from the flood. And it had apparently been working; the Halo's fired, and the flood were again confined to the Halo's...until the Covenant came along. So what do you say now? Is the killing of all life in the galaxy justified by saving the future of the galaxy, or is it so barbaric that there is no justification for such a thing, even a flood outbreak?

If it were my choice, would I do it?

  • 08.03.2006 12:11 PM PDT
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I don't know if I would. What would happen if you stayed on the Ring when you activated it?

  • 08.03.2006 1:25 PM PDT
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I'd have to say that I would not be able to be the judge that sentences the galaxy to death. I voted, "No."

  • 08.03.2006 1:30 PM PDT
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I might get a Shotgun and "Kill 'em all" And the shoot the Oracle(343 Guilty Spark)...

Jingle Bells...Shotgun Shells...The Flood is dead! Oh what fun it is to blow them to knigdom come! Hay!

  • 08.03.2006 1:34 PM PDT

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if worst came to worst, yes. But, I'd go the MC way before that.

  • 08.03.2006 5:09 PM PDT
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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...

Posted by: Mattbluhalofan
if worst came to worst, yes. But, I'd go the MC way before that.
The way the Master Chief did it was clumsy at best...the flood still exsist on the fractured portions of the ring, and now they have the intelligence of the humans and Covenant combined. They could easily find a way off the ring's remains within a few months or years.

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  • 08.03.2006 5:30 PM PDT

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Not necessarily. Fragments of the ring may still be floating around, but the explsions, and the systems shutting down and all the other elements we don't know of could have killed everything.

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I for One thing think that the monitors were ment to prevent halos activation but are useing stealth.....Ark deactivates the halos permenently........The monitor lured master chief to the control room to assinate him.......The Flood want to activate the Halos therefore they would be the last living things in the universe which was they're plan in the first place

  • 08.03.2006 10:23 PM PDT
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I've been around these parts for almost eight years now...wow! Maybe I should be concerned about that...

Posted by: GruntBuddy
I for One thing think that the monitors were ment to prevent halos activation but are useing stealth.....Ark deactivates the halos permenently........The monitor lured master chief to the control room to assinate him.......The Flood want to activate the Halos therefore they would be the last living things in the universe which was they're plan in the first place
Interesting...but why go through all the trouble of collecting the index and taking it to the control room? Why not just kill him right there? And if 343 doesn't want the Halo's activated, why didn't he purge Cortona when she absorbed the index? Wouldn't that destroy the flood's hope of activating Halo?

  • 08.03.2006 10:48 PM PDT

Ok, so first off, the flood wouldn't want the rings to be activated in any circumstances, since that would kill of their food and destroy their species. The purpose of the Halos is to indirectly kill the flood by destroying their food (as is explained in Two Betrayals). The moniters were built by the Forerunners to manage the installations and use a non-flood being (possibly only Reclaimers, but that is up for debate) to "initiate containment protocols", activate the rings, and stop the spread of the flood. In Halo 2, the reason Gravemind sends of the MC and Arbiter is to prevent the Prophets from activating Delta Halo, and therefore saving the Flood race from extinction. The purpose of the Ark, as specified at the end of Halo 2, is to activate all 7 Halos at once, once they have been put into standby mode (as they were as of the end of H2). 343 Guilty Spark did not originally want to kill the MC, but was forced to once the MC refused to activate Halo, and Cortana had posession of the Index. In the intro to Two Betrayals, 343 GS states that the sentinals should "Save his head." and "Dispose of the rest.", because Cortana (and therefore the Index) was stored in the MC's helmet. I think I've corrected all of the misconceptions, so there you have it. :)

  • 08.04.2006 12:10 AM PDT
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Yes

  • 08.04.2006 1:04 AM PDT