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| | ==Merge into The Halos?== |
| ==Survivors== | | :''Comments moved from [[Halo]] and [[Installation (Halo)]] Talk pages'' |
| Not sure if there is some kind of list of living entities that survived the activation, but maybe that should be here?
| | *I defenitly agree. If not then jsut delete this since it is just basically a much smaller version of the other page.--[[User:SPARTAN-137|Jack-137]] 04:32, 19 August 2006 (UTC) |
| Additionally surviving AI could be included, but I think the biological entities are more interesting as there appear to be more and more living forerunners, such as [[Didact]] and the Unindentified Builder, and in a way [[Chakas]] though he was composed so not really biological for the activation.
| | *Yes I think it should --68.145.77.173 19:34, 19 August 2006 |
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| Not enough people to warrant a list. [[User:Alertfiend|Alertfiend]] - [[Blue Team|Team Chief]] 18:46, 1 December 2015 (EST)
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| | *[[343 Guilty Spark]] said in [[The Oracle (Level)]] that each Halo was designed for research of [[The Flood]], but that they all had a more specific purpose. [[Delta Halo]], which "predates Installation Alpha by several hundred years" was made "to research possible offensive and defensive measures against the [[Flood]]." -- 207.28.99.145 19:19, 13 November 2006 |
| The art of Halo 3 shows and explains how a fortress world is made and terraformed. should we not include this very important info to the page as well? [[User talk:Grey101|grey]] 23:36, 15 June 2009 (UTC)grey101[[User talk:Grey101|grey]] 23:36, 15 June 2009 (UTC) | | :*Spark was speaking of the gas mine --[[User:Dragonclaws|Dragonclaws]] 20:28, 13 November 2006 |
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| | The halo names are realy greek letters, "'''alpha '''", "'''delta '''". The other rings must be also named, "Beta halo", "gamma halo", "omega halo", and the ark. -- [[User:Darth nexes|Edited by Andrew Aesthetic]] 19:46, 15 November 2006 |
| I also agree on re-naming the page fortress world. it is the correct and forerunner term.
| | :The greek letter designation where given by the UNSC forces and there is no guarentee what the other rings will be called. -- [[User:Esemono|Esemono]] 00:31, 16 November 2006 (UTC) |
| [[User talk:Grey101|grey]] 23:36, 15 June 2009 | | ::Also, the greek origin isnt clear either. If they were named according to greek, the seven Haloes would be Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, and Eta. If they are named according to the Phonetic Alphabet (Which is more likely, since many other things go by that in Halo) then they would be named Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot and Golf. Either way, that should mean "Delta Halo" was the fourth Halo discovered. Frankie has implied that this is for a reason we don't yet know about. -[[User:ED|ED]] 21:48, 20 December 2006 (UTC) |
| | ::: Well ONI Knows a lot about the Forerunner aparently (Through Excavasions mostley) maby they secretly Found 2 others? just sayin-- [[User:forerunner|Forerunner]] 18:02 06/01/07 |
| | ::::i dont think that any of the halos will be named 'omega halo' becuz that is the last letter in the greek alphabet. it would make sense that the seven halos would be named after the first seven letters in the greek alphabet. -[[Image:Also_halo.jpg|20px]]'''[[User:RimFire|<font color="green">яÏΜFÏяΣ</font>]]'''[[Image:Halo.jpg|20px]]<sup>[[User talk:RimFire|<b><span style="color: olive"><u>the rebel anarchist</u></span></b>]]</sup>[[Image:Mandskull.jpg|29px]] 14:17, 9 January 2007 (UTC) |
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| | which would mean there is no 'installation omega' -[[Image:Also_halo.jpg|20px]]'''[[User:RimFire|<font color="green">яÏΜFÏяΣ</font>]]'''[[Image:Halo.jpg|20px]]<sup>[[User talk:RimFire|<b><span style="color: olive"><u>the rebelious anarchist</u></span></b>]][[Image:Mandskull.jpg|29px]][[User:RimFire|<b><span style="color: red">Terminus</span></b>]]</sup> 21:16, 9 January 2007 (UTC) |
| Suggest moving to "Fortress World" as that seems to be the proper term. --<b>[[User:Dragonclaws|<font color="#000000">Dragon<font color="#FF0000">c</font>laws</font>]]<sup>([[User talk:Dragonclaws|<font color="#000000">talk</font>]])</sup></b> 23:56, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
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| :It would be harder to locate and Fortress World is more of an overall description, Halo is more of a name and title, unique to this array.<u>[[User:Lovemuffin|'''<font color="RoyalBlue">Lovemuffin</font>''']]</u><sup>UserWiki:Lovemuffin|<font color="DarkSlateGray">Wiki Userpage</font>]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Editcount/Lovemuffin|<font color="Navy">Edit Count</font>]]</sub><sup>[[User talk:Lovemuffin|<font color="Gray">Talk Page</font>]]</sup><sub>[[Special:Contributions/Lovemuffin|<font color="black">Contributions</font>]]</sub>File:Dancing_master_chief.gif|35px]] 02:03, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
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| I agree that Fortress world is better. Halo is kinda what the Covenant called them. Ringworld, Fortress world and Arrays are the only names their owners, the Foreruners, called them.[[User talk:Hatchling001|Hatchling001]] 06:21, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
| | "The Shockwave has an effective radius of approximantely 25,000 light years." -- this article |
| | "Technically, ''this'' installation's pulse has a maximum effective radius of twenty-five thousand light years." -- 343 Guilty Spark |
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| Perhaps it should be mentioned in the opening paragraph that it is a fortress world, a term given to the rings by their creators. This would appease most people Im sure. [[User talk:Hatchling001|Hatchling001]] 01:17, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
| | This doesn't necessarily mean that all the Halos have a "maximum effective radius of twenty-five thousand light years," so I think that bit should be taken out. [[User:Guesty-Persony-Thingy|Guesty-Persony-Thingy]] 04:17, 28 December 2006 (UTC) |
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| I'm not sure if this edit ever happened, but if it did, then it should be removed. Because first of all, The Forerunners refer to it as "Halo" in Halo: Cryptum, and second of all, Halo's aren't Fortress Worlds, the Shield Worlds are Fortress Worlds![[User:Vegerot|<span style="color:midnightblue; font-weight:bold">Vegerot</span>]] ([[User talk:Vegerot|<span style="color:grey">talk</span>]]) 17:22, 1 March 2011 (EST)!!!!!!!!
| | :We haven't been given any evidence that there is any difference between the Halos in terms of power. Since not a lot is known about them and since only two are seen, the only thing that can be done is to assume they work the same. -[[User:ED|ED]] 05:04, 31 December 2006 (UTC) |
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| :The computer core within Installation 04's control room disagrees - Cortana even reads aloud that it is "what they called a 'Fortress world'". If the shield worlds were fortress worlds, that would be their name. -- '''[[User:Forerunner|<font color="blue">Fore</font>]]''[[User talk:Forerunner|<font color="green">run</font>]]''[[Special:Contributions/Forerunner|<font color="red">ner</font>]]''''' 19:28, 1 March 2011 (EST) | | ::Yeah, but we all know, "assume makes an a** out of you an me," so I changed it to say '''at least''' one of the Halos has a range of twenty-five thousand light years. If we get more info about them, I'll be sure to update it as soon as possible. '''[[User:Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="red">Guesty</font>]]-[[User talk:Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="blue">Persony</font>]]-[[Special:Contributions/Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="green">Thingy</font>]]''' 05:51, 31 December 2006 (UTC) |
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| ==Locations==
| | 7 installations each with a 25,000 light year range, can cover the estimated 80-100,000 light years that the milky way's disk covers, using one halo in the center of the galaxy, and the other 6 in a equidistant hexagon roughly 45,000 light years from the center. Just a comment from a new Halo fan with advanced math knowledge. [[User:71.70.211.134|71.70.211.134]] 20:17, 12 May 2007 (UTC) |
| It is curious that the other halo rings had not yet been found, since it would really only take knowledge of the location of perhaps two halo rings to determine the rough positions of the other six. The reason being all seven halos share the same design and consequently the same effective range. The halos would logically be arranged such that the entire inhabitable galaxy. The galaxy is relatively symmetrical, and consequently the halos would be placed opposite each-other on symmetrical sides of the galaxy. Dont know about the 7th, though. Perhaps that would be near the galactic core? [[User: ElFroCampeador|ElFroCampeador]] <sup>[[User talk:ElFroCampeador|<font color="red">TALK</font>]]</sup> File:Marine Corp CPL.JPG|20px]] 19:54, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
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| :I have a feeling that the two closest rings to our part of the Galaxy are 04 and 05, and they were found. It would take years for humans, with their limited slipspace capability, to reach another ring, but I can imagine that the Covenant may give it a try. --<b>[[User:ED|<font color="black">E</font>]][[User talk:ED|<font color="black">D</font>]]File:ArmyROTC.gif|15px]]</b> 22:16, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
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| ::In reference to the diagram in the Funtion section, the diagram is not a possible solution to probable locations. Firstly it is stated that the Array is not perfectly alligned with the galactic plane. Secondly, an installation is not possible in the centre of the galaxy as it is occupied by a super massive black hole.--[[User talk:Plasmic Physics|Plasmic Physics]] 14:24, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
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| :::You do know you're replying/commenting on a 2-year old discussion. >.>- <font face="Century Gothic">[[User:Subtank|<font color="gold"><font color="#FF4F00">5</font>əb<font color="#FF4F00">'7</font>aŋk</font>]]<sup>([[User talk:Subtank|<font color="#FF4F00">7alk</font>]])</sup></font> 14:30, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
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| ::Yes, I'm fully aware. Rather than create a new section, I chose this one, even though it is two years old.--[[User talk:Plasmic Physics|Plasmic Physics]] 14:34, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
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| ::::Perfectly or not, it should be rather close. And even though you are correct about the black hole, I would bet the Forerunners have some technology to make it survive. It is far from impossible.--[[User talk:Sangheili Commando 021: Fluffball Gato|Fluffball Gato]] 23:18, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
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| ::It is not close actually, Iota Horologii quite a distance above the galactic plane. A bet or a guess isn't really good enough for Halopedia, Halopedia an encyclopedia based on firmly established knowledge of the Haloverse, not speculative theories. So, unless the official locations of the collective Array is known, we shouldn't add information that can't be trusted.--[[User talk:Plasmic Physics|Plasmic Physics]] 23:51, March 12, 2010 (UTC)
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| ::::That wasn't exactly the point. You said the configuration was impossible, which is far from true in the Haloverse. Anyway, the term "possible" was used, not "this is ''the'' configuration". Changing the description to "an impossible configuration" verges on vandalism.--[[User talk:Sangheili Commando 021: Fluffball Gato|Fluffball Gato]] 01:56, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
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| ::How do you know that it is possible in the Haloverse? Ask an admin about speculation if you don't believe me.--[[User talk:Plasmic Physics|Plasmic Physics]] 01:59, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
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| ::::I just said is was possibly possible (cool phrase), not that is ''was'' possible. Speculation is only unacceptable when it is presented as truth. Saying "possible" means that it ''is'' speculation. --[[User talk:Sangheili Commando 021: Fluffball Gato|Fluffball Gato]] 02:34, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
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| ::Speculation is the presentation of ideas and unfounded information, read the about section in Halopedia. It is false to acknowledge that this configuration is possibly possible, a falsity does not belong here.--[[User talk:Plasmic Physics|Plasmic Physics]] 02:51, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
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| :::Although I don't agree, do whatever you want. I don't really care. --[[User talk:Sangheili Commando 021: Fluffball Gato|Fluffball Gato]] 03:41, March 13, 2010 (UTC)
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| ==Why?==
| | Also, if you combine the first two Halo's numbers: 01(installation number)+1(Monitor number)+7(Instillation 02's number) you get 117, also the MC's call number. -- [[User:Halokid|Halokid]] 23:22, 6 January 2007 |
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| According to GoO, the forerunner weren't able to make it to the sheild world(s) and we know from Halo 3 that the Forerunners didn't stay on the Ark, I have to ask: Why in god's name would you build the WMD to end all WMD's, places where you would be safe from the ultimate WMD, and then not use these safe places? I know if I were a forerunner I would stay in these places from when they were built until I was absolutely sure we weren't going to use it (again). Why even put a remote activation thingy on the Ark if your not going to use it. So why didn't the Forerunner survive? Why didn't they use their own lifeboats? I would expect world builders to be more ineligent.
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| :The Forerunners didnt make it to the Shield Worlds? I presume that would be speculation instead of cold hard fact, since no one knows what happened to them, really. Sides, the Shield World in Onyx is MEGA HUGEO. The Forerunners could be somewhere else in it, i.e. not where Halsey, Mendez, and the new Blue Team (including the S-IIIs) landed. Though, if that was the only portal, it'd make sense to begin building your cities there. And if you built gigantic stuff like the Micro-Dyson Sphere and the Halo Arrays and the Ark, your civilisation would probably be pretty big. Then again, I had this wild idea that the Forerunner were just one MASSIVE swarm of nanobot-like creatures. Also, there may be many (like... 7, cause Bungie would NEVA use any other number) Shield Worlds, so, just because the one on Onyx is uninhabited, doesn't mean the others are.
| | At the end of Halo 2, when the index is removed, a hologram appears showing the 7 installations. They appear to fit into eachother (cannot find a screenshot); but this wiki, as well as wikipedia, state that the halos have a diameter of 10,000km. In my opinion, this measurement probably refers to the size of installation 4. I'm not sure what the official source is that states the 10,000 km diameter of Halo, but if it's a book, this may be a canon issue. G-canon is anything that occurs in the video games, while the books would be considered C-canon; the games take precident over the books. I should mention that G and C-canon are categories for Star Wars, I just used them as an example. |
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| It is theorized that Mendicant Bias informed the flood of the shield worlds and they were abandoned or locked down for fear the creature would attack them or the compound mind would survive inside. The terminals mention in Didact's conversations that there was no place to go now where the Parasite cannot follow.
| | :I'm not sure what you mean when you say they "fit into eachother," but yeah, it's obvious that they're all different sizes. I guess that bit, like the bit about 25,000 light years, should be changed to say that it at least goes for Installation 04, but not necessarily the others. Yeah, for the most part, games are above books, but Bungie's official word, regardless of what it may contradict, is above all, so if they say anything about it, that's what goes, and that's what goes on the page. Until then, it should just say that it ''probably'' only goes for 04. '''[[User:Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="red">g<sup>u</sup>e<sub>s</sub>t<sup>y</sup></font>]]-[[User talk:Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="blue">p<sub>e</sub>r<sup>s</sup>o<sub>n</sub>y</font>]]-[[Special:Contributions/Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="green"><sup>t</sup>h<sub>i</sub>n<sup>g</sup>y</font>]]''' 05:33, 15 January 2007 (UTC) |
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| I couldn't help but add that the halos aren't the WMD to end all WMDs, [[M6D Personal Defense Weapon System|this]] is. | | ::The scene can be viewed in [[Halo 2 Cinematic Cutscenes]], the "Final Sequence". I used the "Prt Scrn" button to make a screenshot, but I don't know how to post it on the discussion page (bitmap made in paint). Any ideas? '''[[User:Chattur'gha|<font color="red">Chattur'gha</font>]] 01:04, 15 January 2007''' |
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| WMD? GoO?[[Special:Contributions/193.200.150.152|193.200.150.152]] 01:27, February 26, 2010 (UTC)!
| | :::Yeah, I know that they're kind of together or something, but my point was that I was too lazy to go and watch the cutscene, so there. :P But my poing about the diameter still stands, so I'll change that on the actual page. Anyway, I don't think you'll need to post the screenshot, but for future reference, [[Special:Upload]] is where you go to upload an image or audio clip, and then just use <nowiki>[[Image:IMAGENAMEHERE]]</nowiki> and it'll make it into an image tag. [[Help:Editing]] has all kinds of information on stuff like that, in case you ever need some help with editing. Also, thanks for using the colons at the beginning of your comments; I just hate when people insist on responding without any kind of threaded organiziation... =D Welcome to Halopedia, BTW. You seem pretty knowledgeable in the ways of Halo and the accuracy of this wiki, so you might consider registering before you get too good of a reputation as an IP address... I used to go by 24.251.185.125, but eventually I registered, got switched over, and claimed my 94 unregistered edits, but it's best if you just avoid all that hassle. '''[[User:Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="red">g<sup>u</sup>e<sub>s</sub>t<sup>y</sup></font>]]-[[User talk:Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="blue">p<sub>e</sub>r<sup>s</sup>o<sub>n</sub>y</font>]]-[[Special:Contributions/Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="green"><sup>t</sup>h<sub>i</sub>n<sup>g</sup>y</font>]]''' 07:50, 15 January 2007 (UTC) |
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| | I can't believe I was so stupid to all of a sudden relize this.After keyes,in the cutscene after you defeat tarterus,pulls out the index and the monitor(343 guilty spark)shows her that hologram/beacon, look at the purple halos and you will notice that they are larger than the rest of the halos.Also,in halo 04 in halo combat evolved, look up and you will see that the other side of halo is further away. Look up in halo 2 on delta halo and you will notice that the other side of halo is shorter away. The point is that halo 04 is larger than 05 and that not all halos are the same size.[[User:Halo3|Halo3]] 02:40, 19 January 2007 (UTC)--Halo please respond. |
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| | :Brilliant! Not ''completely'' concrete evidence that 04 is bigger, because of the new engine and all that... but yeah, still brilliant! Maybe that should be added to the article... '''[[User:Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="red">g<sup>u</sup>e<sub>s</sub>t<sup>y</sup></font>]]-[[User talk:Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="blue">p<sub>e</sub>r<sup>s</sup>o<sub>n</sub>y</font>]]-[[Special:Contributions/Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="green"><sup>t</sup>h<sub>i</sub>n<sup>g</sup>y</font>]]'''<font color="purple"><sup>I too have an AI... his name is [[User:RelentlessRecusant|Supreme Honcho.]]</sup></font> 02:56, 19 January 2007 (UTC) |
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| | =='I am your shield, I am your sword'== |
| | Here is what i think Cortana is talking about. |
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| Well the Forerunners did make it to ark [[User talk:Alertfiend|Alertfiend]]
| | If the Sword is the rings, and the shield can mean as in a shield world, making a 'shield' from the rings when activated. |
| | So.. For something to be a 'shield' and a sword, then its the [[Arc]]! |
| | Let me put it easier, the arc would most likely protect the people inside, making a reference of the bible story 'noahs arc'. And It activates the rings aswell. This means that when cortana was saying 'I am your shield, I am your sword' she was meaning as in the arc. though still more questions need to be answered, like, does she mean literal that shes the arc, or is it metaphoricaly. {{UserForerunner}} 16:49 22/2/07 |
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| == Various Environments on the rings ==
| | There are some rumors that the forerunners are humans. Maybe some forerunners were able to hide in the ark, and that's why they're still alive? (As humans?) --[[User:Geoffron|Geoffron]] 20:12, 23 March 2007 (UTC) |
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| In thinking about the various environments for the Halos seen in the Citadel in Halo 3 I think I have an idea of what could explain the differences. Beyond being aesthetically pleasing each environment could serve a tactical purpose in the case of a Flood outbreak. For instance if every installation had the exact same layout as 04 the Flood would know where all the important locations were immediately such as the Control Room and the Library if they were in fact under the control of a Gravemind. So rather then making a single environment the Forerunners changed them to further slow a Flood outbreak across the various rings, even with prior knowledge from another ring they would have to relearn each installation. As well the varying environments could be used to experiment on the Flood learning potential weaknesses. Let me know what you think.
| | Hey, in the final cutscene, in the hologram, notice the halo with the blinking red thing, I think that's Instalation 04 because it was destroyed and that thing was blinking and red. So if that was Alpha Halo, if we know how big 04 was, we could compare it to the other halos in the hologram, we would know the sizes.--[[User:Leckgolo434|prophit of war]] 18:21, 13 March 2007 (UTC) |
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| :Cool idea, but I had another. Maybe the different enviroments are due to their locations in the galaxy or thier size or the influence of the planet they orbited, or a combination of all.
| | The thing is though, that the forerunners made a "Shield" and a "Sword". And you know that thing in the first Halo 3 trailer? Yeah, the huge thing that sent out a huge flash of light? Well it was where New Mossba was. "The only place the coveant decided to land." We know that they fight for there lords, they're relgion. Now, we in that trailer we see a bunch of Coveant heading for the huge thingy. Lets think, why would the Covey's be heading towards a huge stuture? Why it could be the ark! Also, if you think about it, the Halos are more of daggers. They have a shorter range of 250,000 lightyears was it? The ark would turn them all on, covering the whole galaxy I would think. Thus, it has a huge range. Maybe it is the sword. The shield, would be Onyx... I would think anyway. |
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| It's possible that Bungie may have not given much thought to the surface of the other Halo Rings. So it may be that they may have simply used textures of planets and moons in our Solar System as a homage. It doesn't make sense why two rings would be perfectly habitable while the other aren't. 343 Guilty Spark has already stated that the rings are designed to be a habitat that can support life. Both to study the Flood and for the Reclaimers to activate the Ring's primary weapon.
| | :Umm... well, we already pretty much knew that, but good job if you formulated that speculation all by yourself! '''[[w:c:halo:User:Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="#000000">G</font><font color="#770000"><sup>ü</sup></font><font color="#cc0000">é</font><font color="#ff0000"><sub>ß</sub></font><font color="#ff3333">Ł</font><font color="#ff6666"><sup>¥</sup></font>]]-[[w:c:halo:User talk:Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="#9999ff">∏</font><font color="#6666ff"><sub>é</sub></font><font color="#3333ff">Ґ</font><font color="#0000ff"><sup>∫</sup></font><font color="#0000cc">ø</font><font color="#000066"><sub>ñ</sub></font><font color="#000000">¥</font>]]-[[Special:Contributions/Guesty-Persony-Thingy|<font color="#000000"><sup>†</sup></font><font color="#007700">ħ</font><font color="#00cc00"><sub>î</sub></font><font color="#00ff00">И</font><font color="#44ff44"><sup>g</sup></font><font color="#99ff99">¥</font>]]''' 21:33, 19 April 2007 (UTC) |
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| | it is said that the halo desroys all CALCIUM based organisms, but humans are CARBON based, so why worry????[[User:Neo3000000|Neo3000000]] 11:39, 25 February 2007 (UTC) |
| | :Calcium is used in human bones, as well as the bones of most animals. Without calcium, most sentient animals can not survive. -[[User:ED|ED]] 18:40, 25 February 2007 (UTC) |
| | I have been confused about something, and I'm wndering if anyone here could assist me. I am a fan of the games, but i know little about the Halo universe outside of them. Now, we have seen no Grunt, Jackal, or Hunter variants of the Flood. Nor have we seen any Brute-Floods, but my guess is that they will be in Halo 3. Prophets are probly too rare to encounter for us to fight Prophet-Floods. As for the other covenant species, especially those that have been around as far back as Halo: CE? Clearly, we ain't gunna see them, cause they don't exist. Due to the Hunters' unique biology, particularly in having no central nervous system, it only make sense that they be immune to the flood. But as the the Grunts and Jackals? We can only assume they don't meet the size requirement. So here's my question: If the Halos are specifically designed to destroy the hosts of the flood, but allow other life still to thrive, could Grunts and Jackals (and perhaps Drones) actualy live through the activation of the Halo system? [[User:H Mutant|H Mutant]] 02:37, 13 May 2007 (UTC) |
| | :It is possible. As the Flood articles say, The Flood can't assimilate Grunts and Jackals because they don't have enough calcium and/or advanced nervous systems. The Halos are designed to destroy all living things "with sufficent mass and cognative capability" to sustain the flood. This includes most large animals, as well. Obviously, some animals survived the first activation, as they evolved into what we see today. Drones possibly could survive the activation (They have exoskeletons, not bones) however, Grunts and Jackals can still be infected, so they would likey not survive. --<b>[[User:ED|<font color="000000">ED</font>]]<sub>([[User talk:ED|<font color="000000">talk</font>]])</sub><sup>[http://halofanon.wikia.com/wiki/Halo:_Shock_Front<font color="000000">(shockfront)]</font></sup></b> 19:04, 13 May 2007 (UTC) |
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| howbout in the article, mention something about what appears to be a giant wall to hold in the atmosphere.
| | ::Here's a thought. What if mankind (and the Covenant races) had not evolved sufficiently for the Flood to take over when the Halo's were fired. Either that Earth and the planets with the Covenant species were somehow excluded from the firing radius. --[[Image:Final Goji.jpg|30px]] [[User:Lordofmonsterisland| <font color="green">Lordofmonsterisland]]</font>[[User talk:Lordofmonsterisland| <font color="green">"Roar to me"</font>]] 15:21, 28 July 2007 (UTC) |
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| I know this isn't supposed to be a forum but... If the Halo array was fired 100'000 years ago destroying all sentient life in the galaxy, then why is there still sentient life when in the time of the games. I know some people are saying that it is because the humans and the forunner somehow connected, but then how does one account for all the other sentient life (Elites, Grunts, Brutes, etc)? Even if one says that the 100'000 years figure refers to the length of Halo's year not Earth's, the numbers don't make sense: lets say that Halo has a year double the length in human years of Neptunes orbit (which would put it very very far away from the star it orbits), which would be 320 years, that would mean that the Halo's were fired 32'000'000 human years ago. However you look at it there is not enough time for new senteint life to evolve when you consider it took billions of years for senitent life to come about in the first place.
| | How does the blast from the rings tell what does have sufficient biomass and what doesn't? How can it tell one life form from another? It's a huge blast it doesn't know which creature to kill and what not to kill.-- [[User:Joshua 029|Joshua 029]] 21:06, 20 August 2007 (UTC) |
| This is probably a really obvious and irritating question, so sorry to disturb you. Thanks. [[User:81.151.247.65|81.151.247.65]] 18:14, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
| | :They target concentrated calcium, which is found in bones. It kills just about every complex life form. --<b>[[User:ED/Gaming|<font color="black">DEMON</font>]][[User talk:ED|<font color="black">SPAWN</font>]][[User:ED|<font color="blue">ED</font>]]</b> 16:28, 23 August 2007 (UTC) |
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| | But where does it say that? As far as I knew, the weapon just vaporized everything of sufficient mass to be infected. Humans and Elites would be wiped out, but so would cows and sharks. I was under the impression that life would have to start over more or less from scratch. Remember, 343 Guilty Spark said the Halos fired 100,000 ''local'' years ago. There could be a vast difference between Earth time and Halo time. [[User:Captain J|Captain J]] 02:54, 24 October 2007 (UTC) |
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| | I have a theory. The ark is in earth, if this is not proven then just sssume it for know. In GoO it is thought that no forerunners made it to the sheild world of onyx. So either their are more shield, like one for every halo, or that the ark, earth is protected. The reason that there would be on shield world for every halo is because, if a single halo can fire, then every forerunner in that vasinity would go to their shield world. plus, if the halos have been activated once, than why are there still flood. I predict that we will encounter forerunners in the ark in halo 3, and that the halos will activate, and earth will survive. The reason that earth will survive is, now bear with me, the halos can not reach it! the halos surround earth, just out of range. That way, the hero that activated the halos to kill the flood would live. and finally, what makes everyone think that the forerunners are affected by the halos, if they are smart enough to create life, halos, and huge plants with purpose, then they should create a life that wouldn't eat them, so the rings wouldn't kill them. The fact that the halos can't reach earth could also make it so some flood will live, continuing the story line, maby not in game form. Tell me what you think, and yes i already know that i am crazy.-- [[User:Darthmoran|Darthmoran]] 03:08, 4 April 2007 (UTC) |
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| ::::::Who says they had no memory? Mythology comes from somewhere - where there's smoke, there's fire. Flood myths are pretty common across all human-occupied continents, with most cultures and religions having them in some form - the earth gets scoured, with a few survivors who start again. In the Halo Universe, it may be a folktale memory of when the Forerunners saved them from The Flood, wiped the galaxy clean, and returned them to their planet to start again. -- <b>[[Halopedia:Administrators|<font color=blue>Administrator</font>]] [[User:Specops306|<font color=blue>Specops306</font>]] - ''[[User Talk:Specops306|<font color=purple>Qur'a 'Morhek</font>]]'' <sup>''[[halofanon:Operation: HOT GATES|<u><font color=blue>Honour Light Your Way!</font></u>]]''</sup></b> 02:09, 16 June 2009 (UTC) | | Hey maybe the halos going off could have caused the big bang? [[User:Snorkel378|Snorkel378]] 02:31, 8 April 2007 (UTC)Snorkel378 |
| | :Not likely. The Halos went off only a hundred thousand years ago. The Big Bang happened approximately 13.7 billion years ago. (100,000 vs 13,700,000,000) --<b>[[User:ED|<font color="000000">ED</font>]]<sub>([[User talk:ED|<font color="000000">talk</font>]])</sub><sup>[http://halofanon.wikia.com/wiki/Halo:_Shock_Front<font color="000000">(shockfront)]</font></sup></b> 03:31, 8 April 2007 (UTC) |
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| | Yes but spark said 100 000 ''Local years'' we don't know what that is compared to our timescale[[User:Snorkel378|Snorkel378]] 14:21, 8 April 2007 (UTC)Snorkel378 |
| :::::::This would mean the master chief is not the Luckiest spartan, Just the chosen one. Likely a forerunner clean-up of the flood left behind.
| | :That is true. --<b>[[User:ED|<font color="000000">ED</font>]]<sub>([[User talk:ED|<font color="000000">talk</font>]])</sub><sup>[http://halofanon.wikia.com/wiki/Halo:_Shock_Front<font color="000000">(shockfront)]</font></sup></b> 20:01, 8 April 2007 (UTC) |
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| | {c-match-reconfirmed}. Sphere secure to .1889 of passing fleet. Offensive tactics confirmed. |
| *[[Installation 03]] should be '''Gamma Halo''',
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| *[[Installation 04]] should be '''Delta Halo;''',
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| *[[Installation 05]] should be '''Epsilon Halo''',
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| *[[Installation 07]] should be '''Eta Halo'''.
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| | {D-com} There is no peace left. No place where the parasite cannot reach. You were right about it |
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| :No, they shouldn't be named as that. The UNSC gave the greek letters. Installation 04 was encountered first, and is therefore Alpha Halo. I'm not sure how that works for Delta halo, as it was found second, and should be Beta, but we have currently listed them to how the Halo games have presented them, so therefore, canon. '''[[User:HaloDude|<font color="black">Ti</font>]]'''[[User talk:HaloDude|<font color="Orange">'''ger'''</font>]][[Special:Contributions/HaloDude|<font color="Black">'''rr'''</font>]][[halofanon:User:HaloDude|<font color="Orange">'''rr'''</font>]] 21:39, 7 January 2009 (UTC) | | Confrm: Array burn radium {check} 3.0 |
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| *They're supposed to be wrong, thats how they are in the Halo universe. [[User talk:FishType1|FishType1]] 21:02, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
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| | {c-match-line-hold} acceptable losses confirmed |
| | {D-com} It's done. By my hands. The pyrrhic solution is ignited. All I have left is the quiet of |
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| Furthermore, we know that that is what the Forerunners intended -- if the Flood themselves hadn't been directly killed by the Halo Array, then they would have, at Mendicant's direction, found the [[Ark]] and killed the sentient species that had been relocated ("indexed") to it.
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| Now, one could explain the inconsistency by claiming that Cortana (and others) had only a limited knowledge of the Halo Array. Cortana, however, hacked into [[Installation 04]]'s [[Core]] to learn about the Array's purpose, meaning that the Installation's own programming code indicated that it did not directly kill the Flood.
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| So we have an inconsistency here: what do the Halos actually kill? Everything but the Flood, or everything and the Flood? <span style="background:#AADDAA;display:inline-block;height:16px;padding-right:4px;line-height:1em;position:relative;top:-3px;-moz-border-radius:0 50% 50%"><b>File:DavidJCobb_Emblem.svg|16px]] [[User:DavidJCobb|<span style="color:#000;position:relative;top:.15em">DavidJCobb </span>]]</b></span> 05:58, September 20, 2009 (UTC)
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| :While what you say is true, I believe I have some reasoning. Based on what the terminals and in game references say, the forerunners believed the flood to be more of a parasite, a disease. In this respect, it is highly likely that the forerunners did not think of the flood as a living being, and the term ''life'' is in fact referring to all highly sentient life, such as that of the Forerunners themselves. If the Halo Array kill everything with, say, a specific brainwave, then all highly sentient live would be killed, while the underdeveloped life like that of the Humans would still be alive. That way, since the flood kill things with a certain brainwave, their "food" would all be killed. The process of evolution could later develop said brainwave into Human life, making us susceptible to the flood. ~[[wikia:User:Blade_bane|<font color="purple">'''Blade bane'''</font>]] ~ [[halowikia:Special: Contributions/Blade_bane|<font color="purple">'''Anti-Vandal'''</font>]]~ 06:06, September 20, 2009 (UTC)Blade bane
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| :I also think that the firing of the array might kill the hosts to the flood even if infected. If the flood is a parasite, it needs hosts, thus killing sentient life would kill the bodies the flood infest thus explaining what is mentioned in the terminals as Mendicant's ships being immobilized. The same was said about Offensive's fleet. Vessels strictly driven by pilots not the waring AI's were all lost when the rings fired. I imagine the little flood parasite crawling from the useless bodies after the firing and scurrying about looking for hosts. In a sense they were probably the only things to remain after all those years, which is why on Halo CE they burst from the containment rooms to infect you. The rings are said to kill only sentient life, man on earth wasn't around back then, and the most basic flood parasites are actually not intelligent thus they survived. But to kill those suckers you might have to kill all life which would be useless. Plants and small creatures that do not have (as Guilty spark puts it in Halo CE during the Library) Sufficient bio-mass necessary to sustain the flood would have to go too, leaving absolutely nothing. Imagine a galaxy with no life at all. How could you restart all that? What they did was basically do what Russia has done for many wars, abandon the towns being invaded and burn them to deny access to your enemy. It works. {{Unsigned|Hatchling001}}
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| ::Good theories, both of you. It didn't occur to me that Infection Forms are still separate from their hosts, even after they have warped the host's body to accommodate them. <span style="background:#AADDAA;display:inline-block;height:16px;padding-right:4px;line-height:1em;position:relative;top:-3px;-moz-border-radius:0 50% 50%"><b>File:DavidJCobb_Emblem.svg|16px]] [[User:DavidJCobb|<span style="color:#000;position:relative;top:.15em">DavidJCobb </span>]]</b></span> 18:35, September 20, 2009 (UTC)
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| The Array destroys neural matter, the parts of biology that correspond to thought, and what the flood desparately craves to increase it's own intelligence. When the rings fired the first time they destroyed the Flood's specialized neural cells rendering them, for the lack of a better term, dumb as algae and unable to pilot; though their basal forms,(the infectors, spores and various other infectious biomass) were left intact. It also destroyed the neural pathways of all other organic life in the galaxy, which explains why the flood wouldn't be able to infect other bodies and take off again, there was no neural tissue to use for their own brainpower. They also destroyed all precursor artifacts in the Milky Way as a side effect of their neural physics. Hope this helps. --[[User talk:Bruce2401|Bruce2401]] 03:15, 2 March 2011 (EST)
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| == Aftermath ==
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| Two questions I have about the Halos:
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| 1. Since the Halos are supposed to destroy all life-forms capable of infection, would this mean that "un-possesibles" like Grunts, Hunters, Jackals, and AI's would be left behind, or does the firing work to kill absolutely everything? (Kinda hilarious to imagine Grunts ruling the universe.)
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| 2. Since the Halos have now been revealed to work by harmonically targeting neurons, how could this damage the Ark? It would kill everything alive aboard, but wouldn't the structure itself remain intact?
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| [[User:Tuckerscreator|'''Tuckerscreator''']] 23:56, November 22, 2009 (UTC)
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| :1) Yes, it kills every living organisms in the galaxy.. but not the Flood. Read the article on why. 2) The Ark (or Installation 00) is located outside the firing range of the Halo Array, so it wouldn't be damaged. However, from the events of Halo 3, the new Installation 04 was mentioned by Cortana as "doing numbers on the Ark", suggesting that the Ark received major structural damages... and that it could mean that the Ark is still intact... or not.--<font face="century gothic"><font color="red">[[User:-Ascension-|<font color="#666666">Lol</font>]]@[[User talk:-Ascension-|<font color="#666666">Phailure</font>]]</font></font> 00:28, November 23, 2009 (UTC)
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| I think that it kills everything cause jackels and grunt make the more interesting forms, JUGGERNAUTS and the evolved forms from halo 3. as for the ark, the ring wasn't finished so when fired it exploded thus damaging the ark.
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| [[User talk:Hatchling001|Hatchling001]] 00:31, November 23, 2009 (UTC)
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| Well, yes, it would kill everything (Except flood), as they supposedly kill all sentient life in the Galaxy, as far as The Ark, I'm guessing the Halo 'ripping itself to pieces' would at least cause significant damage to The Ark, more specifically the halo-building area where the actual halo was.[[User talk:Papayaking|Papayaking]] 20:09, November 23, 2009 (UTC)
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| So the damage to the Ark was simply by the debris then, not the beam. But since the actual beam itself does not kill Flood, this means their plan was to simply disable the Ark so that the Flood wouldn't exploit it to build ships, and remain behind to starve to death? I suppose that makes sense. Thanks guys.[[User:Tuckerscreator|'''Tuckerscreator''']] 03:47, November 27, 2009 (UTC)
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| :Actually, my impression was that the harmonic pulse ''did'' destroy the Flood, but only its accumulated biomass, not the actual Flood spores. And as long as evena single spore survives, so does the Flood. During the battle between Mendicant Bias and Offensive Bias, portions of ''both'' fleets were rendered inoperable as the pulse swept through, killing all biologicals in it - giving Offensive Bias the advantage. Why would Mendicant Bias' forces be affected if the Flood was immune? -- <b>[[Halopedia:Administrators|<font color=indigo>Administrator</font>]] [[User:Specops306|<font color=indigo>Specops306</font>]]</b> - <i><b><u>[[User Talk:Specops306|<font color=blue>Qur'a 'Morhek</font>]]</u></b></i> 04:26, December 2, 2009 (UTC)
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| Ok, this is my theory: The halo super dense neutrinos pulse destroy every neural system in range, efectively killing all living organism posesing even a notocord, sparing moses, plants, fungus and bacteria, and (almost certain) the flood supercells (wich are posibly the organic dust found by humans 110,000 BC in the magellanic cloud). now, I was thinking about something Cortana says at the climax of Halo 3. "I we don't make it, John, it was an honor serve with you", why Cortana include herself in "If we don't make it"? Well, the human built AI's are made up from copying or scanning a human brain, replicating the neural path, thus, making the neural net of an AI a reproduction or an almost identical copy of a human brain. and thus, vulnerable to the Halo efect.
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| The Precursor artifacts must be include a neural net in their fabric too, but Forerunner AIs and computer systems must be quite diferent to be inmune to the Halo efect. [User:'''AlphaLima1980''', February 21, 2011 (UTC)] | |
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| == How Halo Works(Speculation) ==
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| I was finishing up campaign on legendary and as I watched the final cinimatic, it occurd to me that the Halos could be using high-frequency electromagnetic rays(something beyond gamma rays) to disrupt the brain-waves of sentient life forms in range. Not every world would be hit at the same time, multiple slipspace portals would have to be used to move the energy from the Halo ring to indipendint systems where the waves of energy move out at the pace we see at the end of Halo 3. Any organism without sentience could be targeted by their brainwaves and be unaffected by the energy, while sentient or near sentient species are moved out of range or into sheild worlds for preservation(such as humans, elites, prophets, brutes, etc.)
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| THIS IS ONLY A THEORY AND MOST LIKELY NOT TRUE IN ANY WAY--[[User talk:Navypilot1046|Navypilot1046]] 02:29, December 1, 2009 (UTC)
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| Halo Encyclopedia explains how it works. It issues a harmonic pulse wave that disrupts the nervous systems of host lifeforms. Each Halo has the effective firing range stated within the game, 10,000 light years. They charge up form the pulse seen in Halo2 and 3 and then expand to the max range.
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| [[User talk:ProphetofTruth|ProphetofTruth]] 03:30, December 1, 2009 (UTC)
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| Oh, thanks, I havn't seen the encyclopedia.--[[User talk:Navypilot1046|Navypilot1046]] 00:10, December 2, 2009 (UTC)
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| == How long would it take? ==
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| This morning I was thinking about how the Halo Array works and I've just noticed an impossibility. Each Halo Array has a firing range of about 25,000 lightyears and that pulse activates the others rings that it happens to hit along the way. But that doesn't work because that would mean that, assuming the pulse is traveling at lightspeed, it would 25,000 years for it to get there! They can't be using slipspace here, because that would mean the pulse is being taken out of the universe and thus it would have no effect! So it seems to be a major scientific flaw in its design.
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| There MAY be a way to reconcile it. It may be that the Halo doesn't actually launch a wave, but instead creates a 25,000 lightyear wide field, much like a magnetic field or a gravitational field, only this would be a "brain field" that is set at a certain frequency. Then, when the Halo is activated, the frequency within the field instantly changes to a harmful one, and thus kills anything within it. And that frequency goes on to activate the other rings and they change their frequency and... Does this sound like a plausible solution?[[User:Tuckerscreator|'''Tuckerscreator''']] 03:51, December 1, 2009 (UTC)
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| :Delta Halo is able to communicate with the Ark, billions of lightyears away, instantaneously - presumably this involves tachyon particles, travelling at superluminal speeds. This is supposedly impossible - but, then again, the Forerunners always seem to be able to pull off the impossible, don't they? Personally, I'm sure they use slipspace in some capacity to diseminate whatever field they use, dropping out to sterilise systems as needed, perhaps explaining why a "buildup" was needed - it wasn't building up the harmonic pulse, it was building up the slipspace portal needed for it. But of course, this is just theoretical. -- <b>[[Halopedia:Administrators|<font color=indigo>Administrator</font>]] [[User:Specops306|<font color=indigo>Specops306</font>]]</b> - <i><b><u>[[User Talk:Specops306|<font color=blue>Qur'a 'Morhek</font>]]</u></b></i> 01:20, December 2, 2009 (UTC)
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| So the "death pulse" itself is put into slipspace and dropped out as needed? I suppose that could work, though wouldn't it compromise the integrity of the Micro Dyson worlds? Since they are encased in slipspace, wouldn't that allow the "death wave" to hit them?
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| Aside from that, your theory seems to work. But since the lightspeed barrier would otherwise be a major flaw to the Halos' design, should it be noted in the the article? I know that speculation is generally discouraged on the articles but I think this should be noted, since without it some might get the wrong impression that the wave is able to travel throughout the whole galaxy in a matter of seconds.[[User:Tuckerscreator|'''Tuckerscreator''']] 02:50, December 2, 2009 (UTC)
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| :We certainly know there is [[Forerunner Crystal|more than one type of slipspace]]. But until we know ''exactly'' what kind of harmonic wave is generated, what medium it travels through, and whether this explicitly violates relativistic theory, I would say we keep it to the talk page. -- <b>[[Halopedia:Administrators|<font color=indigo>Administrator</font>]] [[User:Specops306|<font color=indigo>Specops306</font>]]</b> - <i><b><u>[[User Talk:Specops306|<font color=blue>Qur'a 'Morhek</font>]]</u></b></i> 04:19, December 2, 2009 (UTC)
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| It appers to me that when an Installation is fired, three things happen. 1: The ring fired and that decimating pulse travels at superluminal speeds and wipes out every living thing within its radius more or less instantly. 2: It alerts the Ark that the ring has been fired, or in one case aborted. And 3: During the charging sequence the Installation sends out another superluminal signal to the other rings, and they proceed to fire in synch with each other. Just my theory. --[[User talk:Bruce2401|Bruce2401]] 03:06, 2 March 2011 (EST)
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| ==About the undoing "There is an unexplained conflict with reallife history regarding the firing record of the Array.".==
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| Dude it is a game!!! Nothing in this game or book or TV show never happened! It will not happen nor has it ever happened. You need to see a psychiatrist if you think anything in this trilogy is real or will ever be. o now that I have no fear of being banned for undoing posts without reason I will be undoing your post which was
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| "There is an unexplained conflict with reallife history regarding the firing record of the Array. In Halo Legends: Origins, it is insinuated that there was a total extinction event of all sentient life on Earth. according to reallife,it didn't happen, there is no fossil record of such a complete extinction event.".[[Special:Contributions/193.200.150.152|193.200.150.152]] 01:25, February 26, 2010 (UTC)!
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| lol anyways theres a difference the halo arrays most likely destroy the entire body to prevent infection but it totally never happened [[User talk:Alertfiend|Alertfiend]]
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| ==What do the Halo's kill?==
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| I have a question after watching Halo Legends. Do the Halo Rings kill just sentient life and starve the Flood? Or does it kill both and starve whatever Flood managed to survive? Because in Halo legends it shows Flood being destroyed by the Rings, yet in the games it's always talking about starving them.
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| :The latter to an extent. The Flood Super Cel and spore formsl will survive and infect any potential hosts, while any Flood in stasis are immune to its effects.. -- [[User talk:Forerunner|Forerunner]] 23:52, August 3, 2010 (UTC)
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| Your question have been answered in an above section: What do these things kill. These is an interisting discussion on [[Talk:Ross-Ziegler Blip]]--[[User talk:Plasmic Physics|Plasmic Physics]] 03:10, August 4, 2010 (UTC)
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| == Halo Legends Positions. ==
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| In ''Halo Legends Origins'' the halos are shown being slipped to many different systems, It shows one exiting at Eayn (Kig-yar homeworld),one exiting at Doisac (Jiralhanae homeworld), One at Sanghelios (sangheili), and one that seems to be Te (lekgolo) so should they still be there? The Halo rings probably aren't able to jump to slipspace on their own, so shouldn't the halo rings be still at these worlds?
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| Just a thought. [[User talk:Tentacletornado|Tentacletornado]] 20:43, September 10, 2010 (UTC)
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| :Artistic License. You need a slipspace drive to get in and out of slipspace, unless you're using a slipspace portal (which is essentially a giant drive, itself).-- '''[[User:Forerunner|<font color="blue">Fore</font>]]''[[User talk:Forerunner|<font color="green">run</font>]]''[[Special:Contributions/Forerunner|<font color="red">ner</font>]]''''' 22:45, September 10, 2010 (UTC)''
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| ::Another thing to consider: artistic license that was being told through the mind of a near-rampant AI. -- [[User talk:SFH|SFH]] 23:42, September 10, 2010 (UTC)
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| ::Oh. ok, But I just thought the halo array didn't have a slipspace drive. thats why I said '''they aren't able to slip '''On their own.'''''' [[User talk:Tentacletornado|Tentacletornado]] 13:19, September 11, 2010 (UTC)
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| :::Not anymore. They seem to be partly automated in Cryptum, and CAN travel in slipspace independently. http://img810.imageshack.us/img810/9315/signxb.jpg 13:49, 19 January 2011 (EST)
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| == Number of Halos ==
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| There seems to be several contradictions of the number of 'Halo' installations created. In Halo: Cryptum, it is stated that 12 were commissioned, and it can be assumed that the 5 that Mendicant Bias tried to control were destroyed, leaving the 7 from the games. However, when Bornstella reaches the Ark, he sees 6 rings that were above the ark, and learns that only 1 survived the transition from the capital to the Ark, meaning that there were 5 OTHER Halos that had been commissioned. Anyone have any explanations for this? [[User talk:Anriel|Anriel]] 02:15, 26 January 2011 (EST)
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| :I got the impression that all seven of them came through the portal, but one of them was damaged from the transition. I'll have to go back to that section - if not, then the rest of the Halo's at the Capital were probably destroyed when Mendicant Bias fired his own. -- [[User:Specops306|<b><font color=indigo>Specops306</font></b>]] [[halofanon:user:Specops306|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>Qur'a 'Morhek</sup></font></i></u>]] 04:06, 26 January 2011 (EST)
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| :: Hate to say it but you're wrong there were 18. Chapter 40 pg 329, final paragraph "I was looking upon another array of installations:six rings," Then again pg 335, second paragraph "In the battle of the capital, only on installation had survived the passage through the portal without breaking up." So we have Faber's 12 and the Librarian's 6. Of the 12 one makes it back, and that gives us the final seven. [[User talk:ProphetofTruth|ProphetofTruth]] 01:46, 23 February 2011 (EST)
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| This is what happened. All of them got destroyed besides for one. Then they build 6 more at the Ark. Giving us 7![[User:Vegerot|<span style="color:midnightblue; font-weight:bold">Vegerot</span>]] ([[User talk:Vegerot|<span style="color:grey">talk</span>]]) 19:59, 23 February 2011 (EST)!!!!!!!!!!
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| : Yes that is what I said, thank you for explaining it so well. [[User talk:ProphetofTruth|ProphetofTruth]] 21:05, 23 February 2011 (EST)
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| ::I wonder if we'll ever know which of the seven was one of the original twelve... [[User talk:Alex T Snow|Alex T Snow]] 07:40, 25 February 2011 (EST)
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| == Halo Names ==
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| On the Delta Halo page there is a transcript of how the ring got infected, and in it I found this:
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| "[alpha, beta, gamma, epsilon, zeta, and kappa sites] have all replied [systems normal] within expected constraints."
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| The other six Halos. Alpha is 04, but is first on the list, and Delta is 05, but as the subject of the events, is not on the list, which means we still don't know is which ones are 01, 02, 03, 06, and 07. [[User talk:Alex T Snow|Alex T Snow]] 07:40, 25 February 2011 (EST)
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| == Forerunner Trilogy like Halo: Reach==
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| I think we should do like what we did with Halo: Reach, in that we don't add data about it unless we are 117%(see what I did there?) sure it's true (like "The Battle for The Citadel" article, we know it happened so that's good). So, where we put above the "Firing" section, about how one of the rings during the Battle of the Capitol is in the Halo series, we should say that it MIGHT be one of the rings from the Halo series, because it could be that they use the weapon in one of the other 2 books, to destroy an enemy, destroying the ring in the process. Or it received a lot of damage so they took it apart and used the pieces on the other Halos. But until we know what happened, I think it should be changed. [[User:Vegerot|<span style="color:midnightblue; font-weight:bold">Vegerot</span>]] ([[User talk:Vegerot|<span style="color:grey">talk</span>]]) 17:19, 1 March 2011 (EST)!!!
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| :There were many ringworlds built; don't assume that because attention was focused on one in particular that it is, say, Installation 04. It would be best to remove anything on the page giving it a designation as speculative. Until they can provide a source, it stays off.-- '''[[User:Forerunner|<font color="blue">Fore</font>]]''[[User talk:Forerunner|<font color="green">run</font>]]''[[Special:Contributions/Forerunner|<font color="red">ner</font>]]''''' 19:32, 1 March 2011 (EST)
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| ::I never put in it that it might be 04, only that as far as we know one of them is the bigger original. Unless that gets changed in the coming books, that should stay on. [[User talk:Alex T Snow|Alex T Snow]] 03:10, 2 March 2011 (EST)
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| == Lemme get this straight. ==
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| All of the Halos can be fired at once from the Ark. I know that. But I thought the Halo rings would each have to be activated individually otherwise. But from what I read in the article, it sounds like if you manually activate one halo, it will fire and then all of the other rings will follow. Which means you can't fire one without firing them all. Is that correct or am I mixed up? --[[User:XSuperGamer|<span style="color:#FFD700">'''''X'''''</span><span style="color:#FF7518">'''''Super'''''</span><span style="color:#CE0000">'''''Gamer'''''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:XSuperGamer|<span style="color:#303030">'''''Talk'''''</span>]]</sup> 18:25, 4 April 2011 (EDT)
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| :I'd imagine that the rings can be fired individually. It would be a major design oversight on the Forerunners' part if they can't. However, I don't recall any source stating that firing such a "tactical" pulse is possible, unless the ring is not linked to the rest of the array, like at Charum Hakkor and the Ark. --[[User talk:Braidenvl|"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have." -Thomas Jefferson]] 18:55, 4 April 2011 (EDT)
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| Guilty Spark does say that "technically" his own Installation will only work toward a certain range, but says that "the others [will] follow suit". It definitely makes it sound as though firing one makes them all go off once the blast reaches another's ring territory. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 19:02, 4 April 2011 (EDT)
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| :Alright. I only have one more question. I know the Halo rings are all "networked" together and form the Halo Array. My question is, do they all connect to each other directly or do they use the Ark as a "server" of sorts to communicate with each other?
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| :Simply put, if a Halo fires does it send a signal directly to the 6 other rings or does it send a signal to the Ark, which relays the signal to the other 6 installations? --[[User:XSuperGamer|<span style="color:#FFD700">'''''X'''''</span><span style="color:#FF7518">'''''Super'''''</span><span style="color:#CE0000">'''''Gamer'''''</span>]]<sup>[[User talk:XSuperGamer|<span style="color:#303030">'''''Talk'''''</span>]]</sup> 19:16, 4 April 2011 (EDT)
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| ::It is quite possible that both methods are used for the sake of redundancy. I'd imagine that a signal is sent to the Ark and to the other Halos simultaneously. --[[User talk:Braidenvl|"Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have." -Thomas Jefferson]] 19:18, 4 April 2011 (EDT)
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| I had figured that firing a ring on its own would make them go off one at a time once the blast from one reached another's territory, and firing from the Ark would make them all fire simultaneously. At least, that's what it sounded like by "follow suit". [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 20:08, 4 April 2011 (EDT)
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| :The plot issue I have with this is at the end of Halo 2 and the beginning of Halo 3 it is stated that the Ark is the place you had to go to to activate them all, that was the whole plot of Halo 3 really. :/ [[User talk:Alex T Snow|Alex T Snow]] 03:45, 5 April 2011 (EDT)
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| ::It is stated throughout ''Cryptum'' that the Halos can be fired individually. They can be fired with variable pulse radii, ranging from a single planet to a huge section of the galaxy. They can also be "tuned" to kill all life, as happened at Charum Hakkor, or only neurologically complex life, as happened during the final activation. The Ark could be thought of as an analogue to the [[Wikipedia:Cheyenne Mountain|Cheyenne Mountain Directorate]], from which the order can be given to launch all the United States' nukes; it is also the most advanced fallout bunker ever built. This mirrors the Ark's purpose both as a safe haven and as the control center for the entire array. --[[User talk:Braidenvl|Courage never dies.]] 11:35, 18 June 2011 (EDT)
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| :::I have supplied relavant page sources on [[User:Forerunner/Useful Cryptum notes]]. -- '''[[User:Forerunner|<font color="blue">Fore</font>]]''[[User talk:Forerunner|<font color="green">run</font>]]''[[Special:Contributions/Forerunner|<font color="red">ner</font>]]''''' 11:48, 18 June 2011 (EDT)
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| == How Many? ==
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| :If I counted correctly it sounds like 18 original Halos were created, twelve which were supposed to be the Original Array and then six at the Ark. When rampant Mendicant Bias showed up he took control of four of them so he had control of five (including the one he was charged with) and then one of those was destroyed. The Forerunners tried to send the other seven to the Ark but only one made it leaving the four left that were controlled by Mendicant Bias, the one that made it through the portal safely and the six at the Ark. That one and the other six presumably became the New Array and the status of the renegade four is unknown. Finally with the creation of Installation 04(B) it appears that a total of 19 Halos were created by the Forerunners. Can anyone please confirm what I just said and can the overall total and status of them all be clearly marked on the page because that is the main reason why I am asking all of this. [[Special:Contributions/109.153.42.0|109.153.42.0]] 13:29, 5 June 2011 (EDT)
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| The way I understand it, twelve were made originally, and five of those were commanded by Mendicant Bias during the Battle of the Capital. The remaining seven were destroyed except for the semi-damaged one that made it to the Ark. The six that were already at the Ark when it arrived were more recently made, and were explicitly intended to be a part of the actual Array of seven halos that we are all familiar with. This is all just my interpretation, though [[User talk:SPARTAN-347|SPARTAN-347]] 14:15, 5 June 2011 (EDT)
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| :I'm pretty sure you both are right, that's how I understand it as well. Though the problem with this is, what happened to the bigger 7th one that made it through? The six at the Ark were smaller (the ones we're familiar with), but the original 12 were much bigger, so one of the 7 in the array must be much bigger, even though in Legends it shows seven of the same size. I supposed it could be a retcon. [[User talk:Alex T Snow|Alex T Snow]] 15:49, 5 June 2011 (EDT)
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| ::Surprisingly, no. That legends episode was designed to remain canon despite errors - it's just what Cortana ''thinks'' happened. That's why she assumed that the Covenant and humans were working together to beat the flood.-- '''[[User:Forerunner|<font color="blue">Fore</font>]]''[[User talk:Forerunner|<font color="green">run</font>]]''[[Special:Contributions/Forerunner|<font color="red">ner</font>]]''''' 11:45, 18 June 2011 (EDT)
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| ==Megastructure==
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| Can someone with the Essential Visual Guide add the Megastructure template instead of the Halo ring Template to all of the rings' pages? Vegerot goes RAWR! [[User:Vegerot|<span style="color:midnightblue; font-weight:bold">Vegerot</span>]] ([[User talk:Vegerot|<span style="color:grey">talk</span>]]) 08:30, 3 October 2011 (EDT)
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| :I actually first made the Megastructure template for constructs that are ''not'' Halo installations, and as such it's lacking some of the necessary fields that are only relevant with Halo rings, such as "Firing record". It could work as a universal template, though, if those fields are added. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 08:41, 3 October 2011 (EDT)
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| ::I don't think it should go into that much detail. An infobox should only provide a very brief summary of the subject and nothing more/less.— <span style="font-size:16px; font-family:OrbitronMedium;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 08:44, 3 October 2011 (EDT)
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| :::I guess so, though infoboxes can sometimes be useful to quickly convey information that isn't detailed in the article proper. Still, we don't know the firing records of most Halo installations so that field is ultimately inconsequential. --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 08:52, 3 October 2011 (EDT)
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| ==Terraforming==
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| Why? I simply cannot se a reason to terraform them. I just don't get it. [[User talk:Infernal-Blaze|Infernal-Blaze]] 14:37, 10 November 2011 (EST)
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| :It has already been explained. The Librarian and the Master Builder agreed to terraform the original Halos so that they could conduct research on the Flood's ability to harvest biomatter. That's why flora and fauna appear.-- '''[[User:Forerunner|<font color="blue">Fore</font>]]''[[User talk:Forerunner|<font color="green">run</font>]]''[[Special:Contributions/Forerunner|<font color="red">ner</font>]]''''' 16:00, 10 November 2011 (EST)
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| == Diameter ==
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| Should there be a "Citation Needed" template after the diameter (located in the infobox) of each Halo's pages? (Installations [[Installation 01|01]], [[Installation 02|02]], [[Installation 03|03]], [[Installation 04|04]], [[Installation 05|05]], [[Installation 06|06]], [[Installation 07|07]]). Unless, of course, it's directly stated. The reason for this is that in ''Halo: Cryptum'', one of the seven original installations survived and became part of the present Halo Array. This surviving Halo had a diameter of 30,000 kilometers as opposed to the others having a diameter of only 10,000 kilometers. Keep in mind, I've never read ''Cryptum'', so I could be wrong. [[User:Iota Eta Pi|<span style="font-family:font; color:#B80000;">Ιι</span>]] [[User talk:Iota Eta Pi|<span style="font-family:font; color:#B80000;">Ηη</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Iota Eta Pi|<span style="font-family:font; color:#B80000;">Ππ</span>]] 20:17, 5 December 2011 (EST)
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| == Survival of organisms on the Ring ==
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| Primordium gives us a good deal of evidence that sentient life on the surface of an Installation survive the effects of the firing. Its mentioned a few times that humans were on Installation 07 prior to the test firing at Charum Hakkor, and during the firing in the San Shyuum system. We also know that Forerunners and Humans, as well as Flood forms, were on the ring when Mendicant Bias fires its weapon on the capital world. Everyone on 07 survives the Halo Effect. Do we think its possible that the rings themselves are shelters? The Librarian intended to use them as environments for cataloged species, it would not have been prudent to store life-forms on the ring if each firing killed the archived species.
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| It radically alters our perception of the rings function if that is the case.
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| [[User:ProphetofTruth|ProphetofTruth]] ([[User talk:ProphetofTruth|talk]]) 00:29, 27 January 2013 (EST)
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| :Well, that would certainly contradict with the ending of ''Halo 3'', where Master Chief fires the ring and then has to hurry to get off of it. Additionally, firing wouldn't kill the Flood at all if it didn't affect those on the ring, since they were all aboard. Certainly curious. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 00:35, 27 January 2013 (EST)
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| ::It would also contradict Halo CE and Halo 2, but it wouldn't be the first time. Perhaps they fled to escape the destruction of the ring?
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| ::I get the sense that they were originally meant to be crewed and used as... for lack of a better term... wildlife refuges... With each activation being meant to cleanse separate systems. The Forerunners on board would have to survive each activation to move the ring to the next infected area of space. The Didact locks portions of Installation 07 in stasis(like the time bubbles of Onyx?). Perhaps the rings could be locked down when they fired, and this was disabled for the ultimate use at the end of the war? Lots of ifs, ands or buts. But I'm certainly at a loss to explain it. [[User:ProphetofTruth|ProphetofTruth]] ([[User talk:ProphetofTruth|talk]]) 00:41, 27 January 2013 (EST)
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| Figured out a possible reconciliation with ''Halo 3''; The intention was to destroy the Flood through the destruction of the Halo itself once Gravemind revealed he had teleported himself there, hence why they didn't bother waiting for the ring to finish building itself. There's a possible plot hole as to how the heroes knew the ring would be destroyed, but it's the most likely answer I can think of. [[User:Tuckerscreator|<span style="color:#6600cc;">'''''Tuckerscreator'''''</span>]]<sup>([[User talk:Tuckerscreator|<font color="#008000">stalk</font>]])</sup> 01:59, 20 February 2013 (EST)
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| == Info from Nightfall second story ONI: Unit 54 / Trade Barriers ==
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| In ONI: Unit 54, it explains that the biological/radiative agent used in the bomb in nightfall operated and inflicted injures in the same way the halo arrays do. This info should be added, but I am pretty sure it conflicts with existing info. Trade Barriers goes over the medical side of it a bit more. [[User:Jabberwockxeno|Jabberwock xeno]] ([[User talk:Jabberwockxeno|talk]]) 20:43, 19 December 2014 (EST)
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| :I'll have to rewatch the video to pin down the specifics, but thought the explanation was kind of bizarre—the Halo effect doesn't break down your DNA, much less a specific species' DNA, it obliterates all forms of nervous systems. It's always possible the human scientists responsible for the theory were mostly clueless about the way the Array works (I can't see it being exactly common knowledge). --[[User:Jugus|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] | [[Special:Contributions/Jugus|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 10:59, 21 December 2014 (EST)
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| == New Information from 343 ==
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| While I was at PAX this year (2017), I visited 343 Industries. While there, one of the activities available was a presentation about the Halo Array. In that, we learned some interesting new info. The big thing is that the Installation number indicate the order in which the rings were constructed. Installation 01 was first, 02 was second, and so on. Installation 07, though constructed long before the other rings, gets the "07" designation because it was the 7th ring added to the Array. As such, Installations 04B and 04C are canonically Installations 08 and 09, respectively.
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| This second bit of info I'll leave you all to decide what to do with, but internally, 343 refers to the original 12-ring Halo Array as the Senescent Array (from "senescence" meaning "the condition or process of deterioration with age") and the newer 7-ring Array as the Neoteric Array (neoteric meaning "new or modern; recent").
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| I'll be making a video on this soon if ya'll need a "source" to cite [[User:Toa Freak|Toa Freak]] ([[User talk:Toa Freak|talk]]) 08:01, 6 September 2017 (EDT)
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| :Whoa, thanks! Weve never actually had any thhhing refer to "Installation 04B" have we?[[User:TheEld|TheEld]] ([[User talk:TheEld|talk]]) 09:33, 6 September 2017 (EDT)TheEld
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| ::Well there was the ''Halo Encyclopedia'' for the I04B.
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| ::2010 edition page 176
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| ::2011 edition page 186
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| ::But I think that might of been a case of them coping the wiki's. Regardless it wasnt based on nothing. -[[User:CIA391|CIA391]] ([[User talk:CIA391|talk]]) 09:39, 6 September 2017 (EDT)
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| :::So at least for I08 we should keep the I04B as an ", otherwise known as '''Installation 04B''',". -[[User:CIA391|CIA391]] ([[User talk:CIA391|talk]]) 09:42, 6 September 2017 (EDT)
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| ::::I might recommend keeping that to trivia. The way it was presented, "04B" is, canonically, just Installation 08. "04B" was only brought up when noting that it's incorrect. Take that how you will. [[User:Toa Freak|Toa Freak]] ([[User talk:Toa Freak|talk]]) 09:56, 6 September 2017 (EDT)
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| :::::So, would you say that the name Installation 04B is still a recognised (albeit not 'correct') designation in-universe? Or is the 04B designation completely non-canon?
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| :::::[[User:Dab1001|Dab1001]] ([[User talk:Dab1001|talk]]) 13:05, 6 September 2017 (EDT)
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| :::The name "Installation 04B" was actually one of the Encyclopedia's original ideas; we had called the page "Installation 04 (II)" at the time. Still, seeing as it's the Encyclopedia and 343i is pretty much disowning the info now, we can get rid of it. --[[User:Jugus|Jugus]] ([[User talk:Jugus|talk]]) 09:58, 6 September 2017 (EDT)
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| :About the names for the two Halo Arrays: are they actual canonical names (i.e. that would be appropriate for page names), or just unofficial nicknames that 343 uses internally?
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| :[[User:Dab1001|Dab1001]] ([[User talk:Dab1001|talk]]) 13:05, 6 September 2017 (EDT)
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| ::Internal, so not canon at the moment. Just thought I'd include it, figure you guys could add it to the "trivia" section if nothing else. [[User:Toa Freak|Toa Freak]] ([[User talk:Toa Freak|talk]]) 22:47, 6 September 2017 (EDT)
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| :::So moving them may've been a bit premature. I think it's safer to use the designations we had as the main titles unless 343i chooses to make their internal names official. And "Installation 04B" is a fair bit more descriptive IMO than "Installation 08". --[[User:Jugus|Jugus]] ([[User talk:Jugus|talk]]) 01:27, 7 September 2017 (EDT)
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| ::::Installation 04B is canonically incorrect, though. Installation 08 is the official designation of the Halo 3 Halo ring, and 09 the designation of the HW2 ring. The numbers indicate the order in which they were constructed (with the exception of 07, as detailed above). [[User:Toa Freak|Toa Freak]] ([[User talk:Toa Freak|talk]]) 09:34, 7 September 2017 (EDT)
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| :::::I guess it depends on whether 343i's internal (but formally unreleased) names qualify as canon superior to either edition of the Encyclopedia. I'm fully aware of the issues with that book, but as mentioned before, "Installation 04B" was actually a thing 343i themselves came up with, given that Halopedia used to call the page "Installation 04 (II)" before the Encyclopedia was released. If they want to retcon it, that's fine, though it's odd they wouldn't come out and do it officially in a CF, for instance. --[[User:Jugus|Jugus]] ([[User talk:Jugus|talk]]) 11:51, 7 September 2017 (EDT)
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| ::::::I literally got this information from Jeremy Patenaude, so yes, it's superior to the Encyclopedia. The Encyclopedia was mainly done by a third party. I'm sure they'll talk about this in an official capacity at some point, but when I asked Jeremy about that, he said "why don't you do it?". So here I am, doing it. [[User:Toa Freak|Toa Freak]] ([[User talk:Toa Freak|talk]]) 17:24, 7 September 2017 (EDT)
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| :::::::You sound like [[Mission Intel#Meridian Station|Priya Singh]]. But seriously, thanks for the info.[[User:TheEld|TheEld]] ([[User talk:TheEld|talk]]) 17:36, 7 September 2017 (EDT)TheEld
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| :::::::Okay, thanks. I was mainly worried about how committed 343i is to this - i.e. if it's just an interesting piece of trivia they ''might'' choose to expand on in the future, or something they're actually adamant on being canon. In light of this, I wonder how valid the rest of the Encyclopedia info should be held as. --[[User:Jugus|Jugus]] ([[User talk:Jugus|talk]]) 00:07, 8 September 2017 (EDT)
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| (Indent reset) The Encyclopedia should still be treated canon unless another piece of Halo Media or 343i contradict it(Past, present, or future). This is one such case where 343i contradict it, thus we follow the new canon. -[[User:CIA391|CIA391]] ([[User talk:CIA391|talk]]) 18:39, 16 September 2017 (EDT)
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| === Using this discussion as a citation ===
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| I think using a talk page discussion as a citation could set a bad precedent for future scenarios, and we should still push for a quote from 343i. ToaFreak, may I ask if you still plan on mentioning your discussion with Jeremy briefly in a future video? That would make for a better source than a talk page. Thanks![[User:Editorguy|Editorguy]] ([[User talk:Editorguy|talk]]) 22:20, 18 September 2017 (EDT)
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| :We've cited talk pages in the past in regards to [[User:ScaleMaster117|Stephen Loftus']] statements, but it's generally not the ideal solution. IMO, 343i are the ones setting a bad precedent here, limiting this clearly important canonical information to an exclusive event rather than include it in a Canon Fodder article or something like ''Warfleet''. --[[User:Jugus|Jugus]] ([[User talk:Jugus|talk]]) 11:00, 19 September 2017 (EDT)
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| ::May I suggest a {{plain|[http://bfy.tw/E0qa nuclear option]}}: to consider ToaFreak's statement as hearsay unless shown to the contrary. It is unlike Stephen Loftus' situation cited above and resolves all issues. — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 12:38, 19 September 2017 (EDT)
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| ::::Guys, just go to Reddit. Grim explained all of this yesterday. Pretty sure Grim is a credible source.[[User:TheEld|TheEld]] ([[User talk:TheEld|talk]]) 12:46, 19 September 2017 (EDT)TheEld
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| :::::Yea here, https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/70wbxc/return_to_the_denomination_installation_04_b_c/dn6n4h7/
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| :::::Hope this helps.-[[User:CIA391|CIA391]] ([[User talk:CIA391|talk]]) 12:50, 19 September 2017 (EDT)
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| ::::::Still gonna recommend the nuclear option. Fans, be it the learned, the popular or the famous, are still just that, fans. Anyhow, that link would do good as a source. — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 12:56, 19 September 2017 (EDT)
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| :::::::Thank you GrimBrotherOne on reddit! Appropriate citations have been made. And yeah, 343i really does need to make stuff like this more official.[[User:Editorguy|Editorguy]] ([[User talk:Editorguy|talk]]) 18:51, 19 September 2017 (EDT)
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| == Gravity on the rings? ==
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| So I made an account based on one of my concerns. After watching a video on it by the game theorists i realised gravity on the halo rings cant possibly be by centripetal force by itself. Rotating 19 times wont work. So ive come to the conclusion that its both centripetal and something else generating gravity. link to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrLey-pX7Bc {{Unsigned|UnleadedCube}}
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| :Makes sense to me. I've watched a similar video, and concluded that it must be a combination of centripetal force and artificial gravity(the c-force likely serves to simply remove some strain from the artificial gravity systems) or the Forerunners used tech beyond our understanding to negate the negative effects of c-force. That said, has it been said in any official sources? Or do we not need them, since the physics on the matter is solid? Also, please sign your comments.--[[User:D9328|D9328]] ([[User talk:D9328|talk]]) 08:01, 26 December 2017 (EST)d9328
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| ::I think the intent is that artificial gravity is at work. It's 0.992G according to the Halo Visual Guide. Cortana points out in The Fall of Reach (and again in The Flood) that Halo has a gravity field. Since it was noteworthy, that's where I'd say artificial is implied. Any mass exerts gravity and Cortana wouldn't call out that Mars, say, had a gravity field, but she makes a note of Halo having one.Keep in mind that Earth's gravitational influence is due to its mass. Although Halo is almost the diameter of Earth it is far less massive in the extreme, so mass alone couldn't account for Earth-normal gravity. The spin, as shown in Halo 1, rotates fully around every 34 minutes, 12 seconds. That's not enough to produce that value for gravity. -[[User:ScaleMaster117|ScaleMaster117]] ([[User talk:ScaleMaster117|talk]]) 11:17, 26 December 2017 (EST)
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| :::The Forerunners do use Buffer fields (text link cause in this case I'd rather not create a link in a talk page https://www.halopedia.org/Buffer_field ) for Gravity. So its not out the question they are used on Halos. --[[User:CIA391|CIA391]] ([[User talk:CIA391|talk]]) 19:16, 26 December 2017 (EST)
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| == Large Edits Needed Re: Installation 08's "firing" ==
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| Given things that we now know from both ''Hunters in the Dark'' and ''Halo Wars 2: Awakening The Nightmare'', I think this article (and possibly others) needs cleaned up quite a bit. Namely in that the fourth paragraph of the "Background" section states the following: ''"A replacement Halo for the destroyed Installation 04 was successfully activated outside of the galaxy, eliminating the Flood massed at Installation 00, but it was incomplete and thus not networked to the rest of the Array."'' Frankly, this should have never been written as such. The activation of Installation 08 was nowhere ''near'' "successful", and resulted in the ring tearing itself apart. We know that it did not successfully fire, as there was surviving fauna on the Ark Installation and John-117 wasn't dead. Neither did it eliminate the Flood, as that's not how the Halos work and High Charity was still a hive. As best can be told, I-08 ''attempted'' to fire, and when it did it resulted in catastrophic self-destruction.[[User:The Ragin Pagan|The Ragin Pagan]] ([[User talk:The Ragin Pagan|talk]]) 18:55, 11 January 2018 (EST)
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