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Subject: im confused bout the library.
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what exactly is the library??? i think i saw it in halo2, but there were no books or anything. is it REALLy a library, or are is it just a name???

  • 11.08.2006 5:16 PM PDT

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"Library" could be referring to the containment of the "index" which is usued to activate Halo. I think Bungie did this to be sort-poetic, like they always try to do with the names of everything and the number 7

  • 11.08.2006 5:20 PM PDT
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A library doesnt necessarily have to contain books. There can be all sorts of stuff in em. If you look on the top of this page, you'll see that a library is:
1. A repository of information.
2. A collection of cloned DNA sequences whose location and identity can be established by mapping the genome of a particular organism.

Basically a place where you store information :p

[Edited on 11/9/2006]

  • 11.09.2006 8:02 AM PDT

Well the monitor does seem to love catagorising and indexing information, much like you'd do in a regular library. But it doesn't seem to have any visible storage features. Perhaps access to the library's vast information resources are kept secret because the Forerunner don't want it being discovered. It would explain why it's guarded by an army of sentinals, and possibly why the flood are infesting it, they rely on gathering weapons/technology after all, the knowledge in Halo's library could have been valuable to them.

  • 11.09.2006 8:48 AM PDT

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what exactly is the library??? i think i saw it in halo2, but there were no books or anything. is it REALLy a library, or are is it just a name???


A library is a place where you get information, right? The Library in the Halo universe is used to contain and study the Flood. Therefore the Library contains information on the Flood. The monitors of the Halo installations organize and study the data on the Flood and store them in certain places in the Library.

That's just my opinion. This may be accurate or plain inaccurate. It's your choice to believe it or not.

  • 11.09.2006 8:56 AM PDT
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Yeah, I think its the place where most of Halo's info and maybe forerunner technology is. The Index is maybe like the index in a book, it tells you where everything is. Without an index, looking for something specific could take a lot longer.

  • 11.09.2006 3:00 PM PDT

In high definition baby!

The Library is where the Forruners put the index in and contains many information about Halo.

  • 11.09.2006 4:23 PM PDT