How does this work, anyway? Do those inhabiting a ring die when it activates?
Based off of Primordium the inhabitants survive if an individual ring is fired. When you fire the entire array though, the overlapping waves will still get you.
I would think you’d live through an individual firing. Halo: Legends Origins show a Forerunner firing a ring and then later hanging up their armor. That said, since it was Cortana telling that story, who knows.
Well the rings could lock in time I guess so surviving when the overlapping waves might be possible.
As others say, surviving an individual most likely but a whole array, highly doubtful.
Unless there are section of the Halo that can protect inhabitants from the Halo Effect, I don’t think anything on the surface is safe. In both Halo 1 and 2, the Monitors tell use to activate the rings in order to wipe out the Flood infestations on the rings. To, this implies that the rings are not safe from their own firing.
However, in Halo Cryptum, it’s implied that some Halos were used to store specimens for Galactic re-population after the firing of a Halo Array. Granted, these were the 100,000 km diameter rings. This could imply a difference in the construction and function of the different types of Halo rings, but I could be reading to far into such things. Who knows?
Tuning.
> Tuning.
This I guess. They probably have different firing modes.
It’s true Halo Rings have different settings. A Ring was activated to wipe out the system Charum Hakkor was in as well as the San 'Shyuum homeworld.
> It’s true Halo Rings have different settings. A Ring was activated to wipe out the system Charum Hakkor was in as well as the San 'Shyuum homeworld.
Those were differences in range than “tune”. At least, that’s how I interpreted the text.
> > It’s true Halo Rings have different settings. A Ring was activated to wipe out the system Charum Hakkor was in as well as the San 'Shyuum homeworld.
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> Those were differences in range than “tune”. At least, that’s how I interpreted the text.
Perhaps. I still don’t think it would kill the people on the surface though. Seems odd to give it the ability to be activated from the surface but then the person who activated it would be killed by it. Why create a weapon that kills the one who wields it? I mean unless your intention is to kill yourself that is lol.
> > > It’s true Halo Rings have different settings. A Ring was activated to wipe out the system Charum Hakkor was in as well as the San 'Shyuum homeworld.
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> > Those were differences in range than “tune”. At least, that’s how I interpreted the text.
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> Perhaps. I still don’t think it would kill the people on the surface though. Seems odd to give it the ability to be activated from the surface but then the person who activated it would be killed by it. Why create a weapon that kills the one who wields it? I mean unless your intention is to kill yourself that is lol.
There may be sections that are safe from the Halo Effect, but everything in Halo 1 and dialogue from Halo 2 seems to imply that the surface of a Halo is not immune the the Halo Effect.
If the Halo is fired because the infection got loose on the surface it would have to kill everything on the surface. There may be different firing modes, but the Dyson sphere is the only truly safe place when the Halos fire.
It would make sense for it to be safe on certain parts of the ring, probably the Control Room would be one such place.
Hello?
I said time lock! Meaning the firing of the other halos shouldn’t take them. If they don’t lock in time, perhaps they die but if they do, they don’t because they’re locked in time!
> I would think you’d live through an individual firing. Halo: Legends Origins show a Forerunner firing a ring and then later hanging up their armor. That said, <mark>since it was Cortana telling that story, who knows</mark>.
was the story cortana told inaccurate?
> > I would think you’d live through an individual firing. Halo: Legends Origins show a Forerunner firing a ring and then later hanging up their armor. That said, <mark>since it was Cortana telling that story, who knows</mark>.
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> was the story cortana told inaccurate?
It’s been said that because Cortana is on the verge of rampancy, she would have interpreted the events inaccurately.
> > I would think you’d live through an individual firing. Halo: Legends Origins show a Forerunner firing a ring and then later hanging up their armor. That said, <mark>since it was Cortana telling that story, who knows</mark>.
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> was the story cortana told inaccurate?
There were a lot of generalizations, and the visuals weren’t 100%. For example, Halo Legends shows a forerunner activation a Halo Ring, but far as we know, the one time the array was activated, it was activated from the Ark by the Didact.
> > > I would think you’d live through an individual firing. Halo: Legends Origins show a Forerunner firing a ring and then later hanging up their armor. That said, <mark>since it was Cortana telling that story, who knows</mark>.
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> > was the story cortana told inaccurate?
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> There were a lot of generalizations, and the visuals weren’t 100%. For example, Halo Legends shows a forerunner activation a Halo Ring, but far as we know, the one time the array was activated, it was activated from the Ark by the Didact.
Haven’t watched it in a while, but didn’t it show a visual of Chief on the destroyed Ark, too?
> > > > I would think you’d live through an individual firing. Halo: Legends Origins show a Forerunner firing a ring and then later hanging up their armor. That said, <mark>since it was Cortana telling that story, who knows</mark>.
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> > > was the story cortana told inaccurate?
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> > There were a lot of generalizations, and the visuals weren’t 100%. For example, Halo Legends shows a forerunner activation a Halo Ring, but far as we know, the one time the array was activated, it was activated from the Ark by the Didact.
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> Haven’t watched it in a while, but didn’t it show a visual of Chief on the destroyed Ark, too?
Yep, and another of the Chief being handed the Cortana chip by the Gravemind. While Origins probably had the most accurate visuals, it still had a lot generalizations and plain inaccuracies.