Halo

[Lenin64]

Here's something I don't understand.

 

 

 

[hide=I`ll put it in hide tags in case Windex didn`t finish 2 yet]If Halo can be activated from any ring's control center, and all of them will be activated (as implied by the Monitor when he says the others would "follow suit"), what's the point of the Ark, which as I understand it only exists to fire all the rings?[/hide]

[Bluejayfan94]

Here's something I don't understand.

 

 

 

[hide=I`ll put it in hide tags in case Windex didn`t finish 2 yet]If Halo can be activated from any ring's control center, and all of them will be activated (as implied by the Monitor when he says the others would "follow suit"), what's the point of the Ark, which as I understand it only exists to fire all the rings?[/hide]

 

 

 

[hide=Answer (Includes spoiler)]The Ark is also out of the reach of the Halo's firing radius... on the level "The Ark," right when you start look up... Thats the Milky Way, where the Halos are. Onyx and The Ark were the only safe spots for the firings, unless you were a flood in one of the Halo's reasearch centres.

 

 

 

With the remainder of the Sangheili squad keeping the area secure, 343 Guilty Spark explained to Johnson and Keyes that the other Installations were ready to fire. This is a fail-safe if one of the Halo installations misfires, allowing them to be put on standby mode. This allowed them to be fired by the Ark.

 

 

 

From the friendly old guys at Halopedia :D[/hide]

[aquariusman]

Here's something I don't understand.

 

 

 

[hide=I`ll put it in hide tags in case Windex didn`t finish 2 yet]If Halo can be activated from any ring's control center, and all of them will be activated (as implied by the Monitor when he says the others would "follow suit"), what's the point of the Ark, which as I understand it only exists to fire all the rings?[/hide]

 

 

 

[hide=Answer (Includes spoiler)]The Ark is also out of the reach of the Halo's firing radius... on the level "The Ark," right when you start look up... Thats the Milky Way, where the Halos are. Onyx and The Ark were the only safe spots for the firings, unless you were a flood in one of the Halo's reasearch centres.

 

 

 

With the remainder of the Sangheili squad keeping the area secure, 343 Guilty Spark explained to Johnson and Keyes that the other Installations were ready to fire. This is a fail-safe if one of the Halo installations misfires, allowing them to be put on standby mode. This allowed them to be fired by the Ark.

 

 

 

From the friendly old guys at Halopedia :D[/hide]

 

 

 

Basically what I got from the Terminals. I try to explain the whole use of the Ark. It is a bit of a spoiler.

 

[hide=To go even further]The Ark isn't just for firing the other Halos. Like you said, the Ark is outside of the firing radii of the Halos. The Ark was meant to be a safe haven for the remaining Forerunners when they fire the rings. The Ark is not just outside of the firing zone, but also the infected zone (Earth was outside the infected zone, but not the firing zone I believe, not too sure though). One of the Forerunners was in charge of a team archiving all known species within the firing zone. She came across Earth, and humans. She decided to stay on Earth. There is more, but I'd have to go and read through all of the Terminals to get it. Maybe I'll record all of the text from them. That actually sounds like a good idea :geek:

 

 

 

You'll pick it up if you read the Terminals, they revealed some very interesting things. And in case you didn't know, you have to wait a bit to access the "real" Terminals when you access one. A siren will go off, the text will be encoded, and the background will be red. Wait for a few seconds and then the sirens will stop and an animation that looks as if you are looking through some honey-comb shaped archive will start. After the animation, you get the real Terminal. Pressing 'A' and 'X' lets you scroll.

 

 

 

Oh, and (pending my memory of the Halo 2 ending) I don't think the monitor said that Halo (The correct term is actually Delta Halo, Halo is the original one destroyed in CE) can be activated from any ring's control center.[/hide]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[hide=Recording (Said text from said archives)]Someone PM if you're interested in helping me record all of the Terminals. It would add about 15-30 minutes onto each level (The levels being The Ark and The Covenent)[/hide]

[Bluejayfan94]

Here's something I don't understand.

 

 

 

[hide=I`ll put it in hide tags in case Windex didn`t finish 2 yet]If Halo can be activated from any ring's control center, and all of them will be activated (as implied by the Monitor when he says the others would "follow suit"), what's the point of the Ark, which as I understand it only exists to fire all the rings?[/hide]

 

 

 

[hide=Answer (Includes spoiler)]The Ark is also out of the reach of the Halo's firing radius... on the level "The Ark," right when you start look up... Thats the Milky Way, where the Halos are. Onyx and The Ark were the only safe spots for the firings, unless you were a flood in one of the Halo's reasearch centres.

 

 

 

With the remainder of the Sangheili squad keeping the area secure, 343 Guilty Spark explained to Johnson and Keyes that the other Installations were ready to fire. This is a fail-safe if one of the Halo installations misfires, allowing them to be put on standby mode. This allowed them to be fired by the Ark.

 

 

 

From the friendly old guys at Halopedia :D[/hide]

 

[hide=To go even further]The Ark isn't just for firing the other Halos. Like you said, the Ark is outside of the firing radii of the Halos. The Ark was meant to be a safe haven for the remaining Forerunners when they fire the rings. The Ark is not just outside of the firing zone, but also the infected zone (Earth was outside the infected zone, but not the firing zone I believe, not too sure though). One of the Forerunners was in charge of a team archiving all known species within the firing zone. She came across Earth, and humans. She decided to stay on Earth. There is more, but I'd have to go and read through all of the Terminals to get it. Maybe I'll record all of the text from them. That actually sounds like a good idea :geek:

 

 

 

You'll pick it up if you read the Terminals, they revealed some very interesting things. And in case you didn't know, you have to wait a bit to access the "real" Terminals when you access one. A siren will go off, the text will be encoded, and the background will be red. Wait for a few seconds and then the sirens will stop and an animation that looks as if you are looking through some honey-comb shaped archive will start. After the animation, you get the real Terminal. Pressing 'A' and 'X' lets you scroll.[/hide]

 

 

 

Basically what I got from the Terminals. I try to explain the whole use of the Ark. It is a bit of a spoiler.

 

 

 

Thant's basically it though I must add a few things...

 

 

 

[hide=Other Facts]Earth is in the firing zone of the Halos. When the halos went off and removed all sentinent life from the galaxy, the Librarian was perched upon Mt. Kilamanjaro. She was able to index a human man and woman, taking them to the Ark for the safety. Though, the Forerunners didn't survive the blast (Unknown why). When the galaxy was safe, the Humans went back through the portal to Africa (where most people believe life started on Earth ;) ).

 

I saw a picture of all the halo's locations and their firing radius. I'll try to find it. :ugeek:[/hide]

[aquariusman]

 

[hide=To go even further]The Ark isn't just for firing the other Halos. Like you said, the Ark is outside of the firing radii of the Halos. The Ark was meant to be a safe haven for the remaining Forerunners when they fire the rings. The Ark is not just outside of the firing zone, but also the infected zone (Earth was outside the infected zone, but not the firing zone I believe, not too sure though). One of the Forerunners was in charge of a team archiving all known species within the firing zone. She came across Earth, and humans. She decided to stay on Earth. There is more, but I'd have to go and read through all of the Terminals to get it. Maybe I'll record all of the text from them. That actually sounds like a good idea :geek:

 

 

 

You'll pick it up if you read the Terminals, they revealed some very interesting things. And in case you didn't know, you have to wait a bit to access the "real" Terminals when you access one. A siren will go off, the text will be encoded, and the background will be red. Wait for a few seconds and then the sirens will stop and an animation that looks as if you are looking through some honey-comb shaped archive will start. After the animation, you get the real Terminal. Pressing 'A' and 'X' lets you scroll.[/hide]

 

 

 

Basically what I got from the Terminals. I try to explain the whole use of the Ark. It is a bit of a spoiler.

 

 

 

Thant's basically it though I must add a few things...

 

 

 

[hide=Other Facts]Earth is in the firing zone of the Halos. When the halos went off and removed all sentinent life from the galaxy, the Librarian was perched upon Mt. Kilamanjaro. She was able to index a human man and woman, taking them to the Ark for the safety. Though, the Forerunners didn't survive the blast (Unknown why). When the galaxy was safe, the Humans went back through the portal to Africa (where most people believe life started on Earth ;) ).

 

I saw a picture of all the halo's locations and their firing radius. I'll try to find it. :ugeek:[/hide]

 

 

 

That picture would be awesome. This is really making me want to read the Halo Novels. Either way, I'm off to do some recording.

 

 

 

EDIT: Brother is playing Fable atm, so looks like I'll have to wait.

 

 

 

EDIT2: Would this be the picture you are talking about?

 

And to save me some work I found the Terminal text

 

For something a little bit cooler Interactive Terminal

 

 

 

[hide=Addition to what Bluejay said]After reading through halo.wikia articles, I think I know what happened. The Forerunners' plan was to destroy the Gravemind using an AI called "Mendicant Bias". Mendicant Bias was put in direct contact with the Gravemind, in order to learn of any weaknesses. This direct contact allowed the Gravemind to convince Mendicant Bias that the Forerunners were denying evolution, the next step of which being the Flood. Mendicant Bias turned on the Forerunners. He commanded a fleet to break through what is called the Maginot Line or Sphere, which was basically a defensive line set up around the Forerunner inner colonies. In response to this, and to give them time to finish building the Halo arrays, they created Offensive Bias. Offensive was outnumbered 436.6:1. During the battle, the Halo Arrays were built and fired. This rendered many of Mendicant's ships useless, allowing Offensive to win. Offensive fragmented Mendicant Bias across many ships, with the intention of safely delivering him to The Ark. Only one part of Mendicant reached the Ark, and that is the part supplying the information for the Terminals. Now, the reason the Forerunners did not survive the activation of the Halos is because they planned on retreating into "Shield Worlds" which would protect them from the Halo activations. The betrayal of Mendicant Bias prevented them from doing so. I believe this is because Keyships were needed to enter the shield worlds or pass through the Maginot barrier, but in order to prevent Mendicant from passing through the barrier, most of the Keyships were destroyed. The ship that Truth was on was a Keyship, and that is the reason it was able to activate the portal to the Ark.

 

 

 

To sum that all up, an AI betrayed the Forerunners, preventing them from finding safe haven within Shield Worlds when they activated the Halo Array. Oh, and The Ark acted as a control center for the Array, allowing simultaneous activation and a "Foundry" for automatically re-building and Halos that were destroyed. It was located outside of the firing zone for the Halos, but not too far, since you are able to see the Milky Way on the level the Ark, while the Earth was inside the firing zone.

 

 

 

Theory: All events regarding Halo, with the exception of those surrounding the Ark, take place within the Milky Way Galaxy.[/hide]

[Bluejayfan94]

Nope, thats not the picture. And anyways, All the Halos are the exact same dimensions, so that picture is untrue. Also, from what this picture said it kinda looks like the 7th column. The Centre of the Milky Way is the Middle, and each Halo is part of the outward dashes.

 

 

 

I still am trying to find that picture :wall: :geek:

[sithlord_man]

I beat Halo :twss:

 

 

 

Getting in the Warthog and escaping was awesome. Now to start Halo 2.

 

 

 

 

 

I hated that, I crashed so many times.

 

 

 

That part was so epic.

 

 

 

More epic if you play "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey.

 

 

 

Halo is just an awesome game. Get XBL and its more fun :P

[Bluejayfan94]

I beat Halo :twss:

 

 

 

Getting in the Warthog and escaping was awesome. Now to start Halo 2.

 

 

 

 

 

I hated that, I crashed so many times.

 

 

 

That part was so epic.

 

 

 

More epic if you play "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey.

 

 

 

Halo is just an awesome game. Get XBL and its more fun :P

 

 

 

Especially if you get Halo 3. Never get bored there.

[baalboy5]

keep that Halo info up. can some1 give me the link to halopedia?

[Bluejayfan94]

http://halo.wikia.com

[Lenin64]

Yea, already knew all that stuff about the Ark. Guess I didn't piece it together right or something. And are spoiler tags really necessary?

 

 

 

[hide=still hidden in case they are necessary]And what was Cortana's solution? Blow up High Charity since she knew the Flood would follow? Or did she know that another halo ring was being built there?[/hide]

[Echofish]

Making flood buddies are fun. I've only had 8 at a time at most. :lol:

[Lenin64]

Sadly, flood buddies are no longer an option in Halo 2 and 3. I almost cried when I realized it. Ok, not really, but still.

[Bluejayfan94]

Sadly, flood buddies are no longer an option in Halo 2 and 3. I almost cried when I realized it. Ok, not really, but still.

 

 

 

Lol, I had an army of them.

[nine naked men]

Sadly, flood buddies are no longer an option in Halo 2 and 3. I almost cried when I realized it. Ok, not really, but still.

 

 

 

Lol, I had an army of them.

 

 

 

They get in the way sometimes. When me and my friend were screwing around in Co-Op, we had a couple, and I was RPGing. Shot at a bunch of Flood, one of my buddies got in front of me just before I shot, blew us both up. :lol:

[Bluejayfan94]

Hahaha.

[Echofish]

Anyone up for a game on multiplayer? Pistol-only and no shields ftw \

 

 

 

I got PC version #-o

[Bluejayfan94]

Anyone up for a game on multiplayer? Pistol-only and no shields ftw \

 

 

 

I got PC version #-o

 

 

 

You know it's easier to set it to Instant kill

[jjrox32]

Ugh, Halo PC has the worst netcode of any game ever created. The bullet lag on the guns just makes it unplayable.

[aquariusman]

 

[hide=still hidden in case they are necessary]And what was Cortana's solution? Blow up High Charity since she knew the Flood would follow? Or did she know that another halo ring was being built there?[/hide]

 

 

 

[hide=Since it's part of the main plot, I'd say they're necessary]I'm almost certain that Cortana knew that the Ark was an installation foundry. Part of Mendicant Bias was trapped in High Charity's network (Or was it the Forerunner Dreadnought) and Cortana 'battled' Mendicant in order to delay the launch of the Dreadnought so that Chief could board it. I think this is the time that she learned or the Ark[/hide]

[Harakiri]

[hide=]ARBY AND THE CHIEF IS AWESOME[/hide]

 

 

 

Halo is not that cool IMO, I just like all the halo machinimas.

[Bluejayfan94]

 

[hide=still hidden in case they are necessary]And what was Cortana's solution? Blow up High Charity since she knew the Flood would follow? Or did she know that another halo ring was being built there?[/hide]

 

 

 

[hide=Since it's part of the main plot, I'd say they're necessary]I'm almost certain that Cortana knew that the Ark was an installation foundry. Part of Mendicant Bias was trapped in High Charity's network (Or was it the Forerunner Dreadnought) and Cortana 'battled' Mendicant in order to delay the launch of the Dreadnought so that Chief could board it. I think this is the time that she learned or the Ark[/hide]

 

 

 

Yes, that is it.

 

 

 

Ratchet, ARBY AND THE CHIEF IS AWSOME!

 

But, it isn't as awsome as Red Vs. Blue and their achieveablez

[Lenin64]

 

[hide=still hidden in case they are necessary]And what was Cortana's solution? Blow up High Charity since she knew the Flood would follow? Or did she know that another halo ring was being built there?[/hide]

 

 

 

[hide=Since it's part of the main plot, I'd say they're necessary]I'm almost certain that Cortana knew that the Ark was an installation foundry. Part of Mendicant Bias was trapped in High Charity's network (Or was it the Forerunner Dreadnought) and Cortana 'battled' Mendicant in order to delay the launch of the Dreadnought so that Chief could board it. I think this is the time that she learned or the Ark[/hide]

 

Yea, that's what I thought. See, I know all this stuff, I just don't put it together quite right.

[Bluejayfan94]

You only put your plans for world domination together right, right?

[mrpez]

whats with that pistol being one of the best weapons in halo?

 

 

 

i was playing a few weeks ago and thats pretty much all i need to use. it works close range and medium.

 

 

 

i really like how master chief reloads it though.