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Subject: What is halo???
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What is halo exactly?
Is it a research centre?
A weapon?
Or as cortana says: it’s some thing much more important

  • 10.30.2004 2:38 AM PDT
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it is one of many identical rings. When all these are fired simultaneously, they are capable of wiping out all life in the galaxy (or universe, I forget which). What a jolly little machine it is, eh?

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  • 10.30.2004 3:49 AM PDT
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not only was it a weapon, but it was also a prison for the flood. its was created by the forerunnes, to trap the flood on halo, so they could all starve.. remember the flood can only die, if there food supply is cut off, and that would be any living thing.

  • 10.30.2004 7:13 AM PDT
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At first it wasn't meant to trap the flodd though. They wanted to study and research them.

  • 10.30.2004 7:15 AM PDT
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Halo is a ringworld, meant to kill the Flood's food if they were ever released. its very wierd since the game doesn't actually tell you what it is. Halo 2 should answer those questions

  • 10.30.2004 7:41 AM PDT
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Posted by: huntersmiter
Halo is a ringworld, meant to kill the Flood's food if they were ever released. its very wierd since the game doesn't actually tell you what it is. Halo 2 should answer those questions


The game tells you. Proof. Halo doesn't kill the Flood, it kills their food.

  • 10.30.2004 10:40 AM PDT
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You seriously need to change your name if you have to ask questions like that.

  • 10.30.2004 11:11 AM PDT
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halo s kninda like a weapon and a reasearch center in one nice litle package but it can kill all life in the universe just to kill off the flood but hey lifes a ***** so i like to think of it as a giant death ray

  • 10.31.2004 12:59 PM PDT
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halo s kninda like a weapon and a reasearch center in one nice litle package but it can kill all life in the universe just to kill off the flood but hey lifes a ***** so i like to think of it as a giant death ray

  • 10.31.2004 12:59 PM PDT
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One thing I wondered is this: Why the earthlike ecosystem? Why give Halo the ability to support life? Maybe the Forerunner liked to duplicate hospitable environments as a sort of functional decoration. In case any of the forerunner had to stay there a while for some reason. Maybe it was originally supposed to be staffed by the forerunner. Or maybe having an earthlike environment facilitated its purpose. Does Halo use natural processes as a source of power for its weapons and gravitational fields?

I hope that question gets answered in H2. It's what I'm most curious about. Because, if you're going to simply have a biological quarantine facility with a failsafe designed to wipe out the food supply of the agent being contained, something looking sort of like a Borg cube would do just fine in my opinion. Of course, the game wouldn't have looked or played as well.

  • 11.05.2004 1:31 PM PDT
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Halo is a containment facility for the flood, for more info go here

  • 11.05.2004 3:08 PM PDT