Locations in space

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:05 pm

exactly the new installation 04 wasn't complete so its fire radius was severely reduced to not even a fraction i think of its normal range, hence why you got away on a ship -_- as for the chain reactions yes when one halo is fired it fires them all, the ark is what you can call a fall back, if something fails the ark can be used to remote activate them all and as seen in halo 3 apparently builds new halo's if there destroyed, but i think that its primary use is for people to get to it activate it and remain safe. The Forerunner sure did there home work when devising a weapon to kill everything lol.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:08 pm

Which is what everyone's been saying for the past like, 20 posts.

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:18 pm

Tural wrote:
shadowkhas wrote:Also, yeah, disregard my comment about individual Halos not starting a chain reaction. I looked into it and they do, apparently. I must've just misunderstood some dialog.
Indeed. When installation 05 almost fired, they mentioned it set all of the other rings to standby status, which would fit in with one ring affecting all of them.

Yamagushi wrote:2) So if it was indeed close enough to destroy our galaxy, why didnt it?
This is a majorly flawed argument. Why are you bringing it up constantly? The ring was not ready to be fired. When they fired it, it blew itself up. It was so unstable that it destroyed itself, and considering that, I find it unimaginably unlikely that it fired correctly, at full potential. Logic would dictate that it had a very small range.

Nah i just wasnt getting it all, i get it fully now, tho it makes me wonder, MC survived, maybe it didnt take out hardly anything and some flood survived as well o.o There are still 6 rings floatin around i doubt if they make another they wont tie the story into them. As somebody else said earlier as well, the prophet is gone but i doubt the war is over between the covenant and the elites(as they likely wouldnt return and have the brutes step down willingly.)

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:20 pm

Yamagushi wrote:Nah i just wasnt getting it all, i get it fully now, tho it makes me wonder, MC survived, maybe it didnt take out hardly anything and some flood survived as well o.o There are still 6 rings floatin around i doubt if they make another they wont tie the story into them. As somebody else said earlier as well, the prophet is gone but i doubt the war is over between the covenant and the elites(as they likely wouldnt return and have the brutes step down willingly.)

I'm pretty sure most, if not all of the Prophets and Brutes are dead. Everyone on High Charity has to be dead, anyone who was on the Ark died, and I think they attacked Earth with everything they had...so since the war on Earth is over at the end of the game, we can assume they don't have a ship stationed there.

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 3:27 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:
Yamagushi wrote:Nah i just wasnt getting it all, i get it fully now, tho it makes me wonder, MC survived, maybe it didnt take out hardly anything and some flood survived as well o.o There are still 6 rings floatin around i doubt if they make another they wont tie the story into them. As somebody else said earlier as well, the prophet is gone but i doubt the war is over between the covenant and the elites(as they likely wouldnt return and have the brutes step down willingly.)
I'm pretty sure most, if not all of the Prophets and Brutes are dead. Everyone on High Charity has to be dead, anyone who was on the Ark died, and I think they attacked Earth with everything they had...so since the war on Earth is over at the end of the game, we can assume they don't have a ship stationed there.

We can send our whole army to another country and loose it entirely, dont mean we wont still be here

Also I didnt mean between earth and the covenant, i meant between the Elites and the Covenant(Brutes, grunts, jackals, the whole shibang) when the Elites return home. Im pretty sure all the prophets were killed already(hence no leaders and someones gonna want that power) The Brutes are gonna want it cause there already there, and well there the Brutes, and u know the elite arent gonna hand it over to em.

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 5:51 pm

i thought of that too like the next game revolving around the Arbiter and how he has to squash the Brutes that are remaining. And you never know maybe as sated in another topic there is a Covenant world that doesn't know of the Alliance between humans and Elites and a Prophet has taken over that little section of Covenant so its your elites versus the other Prophet and his army of grunts jackals ect ect.

CDK908 · Post by **CDK908** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:28 pm

the installation nevered fired....it was activated tho...now it's w8ting for further instructions since it was canceled unexpectingly and put all the other halos on stand by. the flash for me was the signal that tell the other halo to be on standby. if it did than all the floods and well mc would be dead... watch the ending on youtube or whatever and listen carefully.

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 6:43 pm

the ending on youtube isn't the legendary ending

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:10 pm

newbymodder wrote:the ending on youtube isn't the legendary ending

then you dont know how to use a simple search function.

CDK908 · Post by **CDK908** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:19 pm

Yamagushi wrote:
newbymodder wrote:the ending on youtube isn't the legendary ending
then you dont know how to use a simple search function.

seriously....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pmD4v8LK_Ig

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 7:25 pm

CDK908 wrote:
Yamagushi wrote:
newbymodder wrote:the ending on youtube isn't the legendary ending
then you dont know how to use a simple search function.
seriously....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pmD4v8LK_Ig

If that was meant to be 3s ending.... you dont know how to use one either..

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:00 pm

Yamagushi wrote:If that was meant to be 3s ending.... you dont know how to use one either..

It wasn't.

Let's repurpose this thread. It's no longer just specifically where the Halos and the Ark are located, but it can be a discussion on the mechanics of Forerunner constructions in general.

CDK908 · Post by **CDK908** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 4:51 am

CDK908 wrote:the installation nevered fired....it was activated tho...now it's w8ting for further instructions since it was canceled unexpectingly and put all the other halos on stand by. the flash for me was the signal that tell the other halo to be on standby. if it did than all the floods and well mc would be dead... watch the ending on youtube or whatever and listen carefully.

ok i still proposed that in halo 2 the ring nevered fire but it did in halo 3. but in halo 3 it wasn't as powerful cuz the ring was not completed or haven't been completely repeared.

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:55 am

yea, okay so we get what all the halo's do what the ark essentially is, and how the firing mechanism works on the rings. I had thought about this after talking to my friend (who doesn't have an xbox or 360) and we thought, um why would the forerunner have made the flood anyway? arn't they an after effect of a experiment or do i need to go back and re read the books?

um at the end of halo 2 ya the rings are on standby, the new installation 04 was fired but wasn't finished, as we've said many times over. so it couldn't have tirggered the rest of them because for 1. it was activated by its index, 2 the ark remote activates them all not a single halo. so if the other rings are in stand by phase the ark is the only thing that can activate them all. and now its blow up so if you going to activate one now you have to have the index, and well what happened to delta halo's index, Miranda had it so where did it go?

CDK908 · Post by **CDK908** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:43 pm

newbymodder wrote:yea, okay so we get what all the halo's do what the ark essentially is, and how the firing mechanism works on the rings. I had thought about this after talking to my friend (who doesn't have an xbox or 360) and we thought, um why would the forerunner have made the flood anyway? arn't they an after effect of a experiment or do i need to go back and re read the books?

um at the end of halo 2 ya the rings are on standby, the new installation 04 was fired but wasn't finished, as we've said many times over. so it couldn't have tirggered the rest of them because for 1. it was activated by its index, 2 the ark remote activates them all not a single halo. so if the other rings are in stand by phase the ark is the only thing that can activate them all. and now its blow up so if you going to activate one now you have to have the index, and well what happened to delta halo's index, Miranda had it so where did it go?

ok...you got to go back and play the game....in halo 1 they NEVERED fired the halo!!!!!!!! They blew it up using the nuclear core of the Pillar of Autum! Cortana Had the index til now and didn't let anyone active the ring/rings.

Yamagushi · Post by **Yamagushi** » Fri Oct 05, 2007 5:22 pm

shadowkhas said back on topic, i have a topic that this would more relate to, http://forums.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=69802

kanki · Post by **kanki** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:28 pm

CDK908 wrote:
newbymodder wrote:yea, okay so we get what all the halo's do what the ark essentially is, and how the firing mechanism works on the rings. I had thought about this after talking to my friend (who doesn't have an xbox or 360) and we thought, um why would the forerunner have made the flood anyway? arn't they an after effect of a experiment or do i need to go back and re read the books?

um at the end of halo 2 ya the rings are on standby, the new installation 04 was fired but wasn't finished, as we've said many times over. so it couldn't have tirggered the rest of them because for 1. it was activated by its index, 2 the ark remote activates them all not a single halo. so if the other rings are in stand by phase the ark is the only thing that can activate them all. and now its blow up so if you going to activate one now you have to have the index, and well what happened to delta halo's index, Miranda had it so where did it go?

ok...you got to go back and play the game....in halo 1 they NEVERED fired the halo!!!!!!!! They blew it up using the nuclear core of the Pillar of Autum! Cortana Had the index til now and didn't let anyone active the ring/rings.

i thought in halo 1, the pillar of autumn destroyed the ring,
in halo 2, it was disabled,
in halo 3, the fusion cores of the covenant ship full of flood were set off.

none of them activated or fired.

i could be wrong.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:32 pm

kanki wrote:in halo 3, the fusion cores of the covenant ship full of flood were set off.

That was High Charity, and it only blew up itself. The remake of Installation 04 was activated, but because of the premature activation, it lolsploded.

newbymodder · Post by **newbymodder** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 7:37 pm

1 yes the pillar of autumn destroyed the original installation 04
2 yes the activation never occurred the sequence was interrupted sending the rings into stand by
3 that was already answered
now if any one wants to activate a halo they have to go to that ring find its index and activate it, since the ark is gone. the only ring that can't be activated is delta halo since its index is mia idk who or what has it.

TheTyckoMan · Post by **TheTyckoMan** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 6:52 pm

here are some pics of the general location of the ark (very exact =p )