It’s just a thought really. Is Jupiter a big enough gas giant to have a Halo orbit it. And how big is Threshold compared to it?
In theory it could, but there probably aren’t any. If there was a Halo around Jupiter, it would have been discovered by now.
Jupiter is bigger than Threshold, so it could indeed have a Halo.
> Jupiter is bigger than Threshold, so it could indeed have a Halo.
I think you mean Jupiter is bigger than Substance, which Installation 05 orbits. Threshold, which Installation 04 orbits, is larger than Jupiter.
> > Jupiter is bigger than Threshold, so it could indeed have a Halo.
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> I think you mean Jupiter is bigger than Substance, which Installation 05 orbits. Threshold, which Installation 04 orbits, is larger than Jupiter.
Indeed. I was using miles for Threshold and Kilometers for Jupiter, my bad.
I would say that a Halo could orbit anything larger in diameter than 20000 km. Maybe.
Now that I think about it, Installation 04 was only about 2000 km in diameter less than Earth. Cool fact.
Probably.
But Halos don’t always have to orbit gas giants.
03 in Halo 4 was near a big rocky planet. There may have been a gas giant we didn’t see, but that doesn’t exactly seem likely. All those asteroids would probably be taken by the gravity if there was anything big enough nearby.
Whoa, Threshold is huge. Where did everyone get the information on the planets which 04 and 05 orbit?
As for if it could orbit, I’m pretty sure that a halo could orbit any sort of planet, provided it’s at the right height and orbiting velocity.
> Whoa, Threshold is huge. Where did everyone get the information on the planets which 04 and 05 orbit?
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> As for if it could orbit, I’m pretty sure that a halo could orbit any sort of planet, provided it’s at the right height and orbiting velocity.
Various sources such as the Halo Encyclopedia and the Essential Visual Guide.
> Whoa, Threshold is huge. Where did everyone get the information on the planets which 04 and 05 orbit?
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> As for if it could orbit, I’m pretty sure that a halo could orbit any sort of planet, provided it’s at the right height and orbiting velocity.
In Halo 2. Installation 05 was by a big blue gas giant, and two missions take place on Threshold
I doubt there is a Halo anywhere near Jupiter otherwise the Covenant would have hauled -Yoink- there rather than to any other part of the array.
> I doubt there is a Halo anywhere near Jupiter otherwise the Covenant would have hauled -Yoink!- there rather than to any other part of the array.
I didn’t ask if there IS a Halo round Jupiter. I asked COULD a Halo orbit around Jupiter!
A Halo can likely be deployed anywhere.
There are probably 2reasons why theyare where they are.
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They have to be a certain distance from each other to cover as much of the galaxy as possible and still have their waves overlap.
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The Halos need to be protected as well. Gas Giants will suck up any major object near the Halo, and will act as a nice shield if the Halo can maintain orbit. 2Of the 3 known rings orbited gas giants.
Installation 03 is orbiting a large rocky planet. Its possible this location was chosen simply because of its positioning. We do know that the planet is important, since the Composer was put there.
> Whoa, Threshold is huge. Where did everyone get the information on the planets which 04 and 05 orbit?
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> As for if it could orbit, I’m pretty sure that a halo could orbit any sort of planet, provided it’s at the right height and orbiting velocity.
Hi, I’m the one who determined the size of Threshold in the pic linked above in the thread. The way I determined its size was to use the 3D mesh of the hologram of Threshold, Halo, and Basis at the center of the Halo Control Room using the known diameter of Halo and working the ratios.
I helped 343i determine the diameter of Substance and both of these values have been added to the Halo: The Essential Visual Guide.
In the same article as Threshold’s size, I also more recently calculated the distance that Halo orbits these worlds. The full article is here:
http://halo.bungie.org/misc/sloftus_planetscale/
- Stephen
> > Whoa, Threshold is huge. Where did everyone get the information on the planets which 04 and 05 orbit?
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> > As for if it could orbit, I’m pretty sure that a halo could orbit any sort of planet, provided it’s at the right height and orbiting velocity.
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> Hi, I’m the one who determined the size of Threshold in the pic linked above in the thread. The way I determined it’s size was to use the 3D mesh of the hologram of Threshold, Halo, and Basis at the center of the Halo Control Room using the known diameter of Halo and working the ratios.
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> I helped 343i determine the diameter of Substance and both of these values have been added to the Halo: The Essential Visual Guide.
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> In the same article as Threshold’s size, I also more recently calculated the distance that Halo orbits these worlds. The full article is here:
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> Halo-verse Planetary Scale
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> - Stephen
I would love to see a book released with all this type of information. The Essential Visual Guide has a few already but I mean a book dedicated to it. Something along the lines of the Star Trek Star Charts book which shows where all the major Homeworlds and colonies of the Federation, Klingon Empire, Cardassian Union, etc are located.
It should have detailed information on all the Capitol worlds like Sanghelios, Doisac, Eayn, etc and all of the known and identified Human colonies. Technically the Bestiarum covers some of this but it would be nice to have them in a big book anyways. Not everyone owns the Bestiarum after all. They could include a large HD image of what the planet looks like and maybe show a map of all the continents, oceans, mountain ranges, etc. Besides that a new book could show off the actual positions of these star system in relation to Earth. Let us see how far UNSC space goes and where it ends and Covenant space begins.
I would totally buy that book.
I agree with JSA343, we’ve seen Halos float around the Ark in what definitely didn’t look like an orbit. We’ve seen Halos move from location to location seemingly on their own power or propulsion. So them orbiting gas gaints or other satellites is probably because of the reasons stated by JSA, and to simply conserve power.
I think the issue isn’t in Jupiter itself but in Jupiter’s many moons. Is there even a corridor that a Halo could orbit in without being affected by the gravitational forces of the moons around it.
> I think the issue isn’t in Jupiter itself but in Jupiter’s many moons. Is there even a corridor that a Halo could orbit in without being affected by the gravitational forces of the moons around it.
I don’t think so. Threshold has 12 moons and Substance has 8. Although Jupiter has a ridiculous amount of moons, the fact that the other planets also had numerous moons it’s possible the Halo Ring is unaffected.
> I would love to see a book released with all this type of information. The Essential Visual Guide has a few already but I mean a book dedicated to it. Something along the lines of the Star Trek Star Charts book which shows where all the major Homeworlds and colonies of the Federation, Klingon Empire, Cardassian Union, etc are located.
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> It should have detailed information on all the Capitol worlds like Sanghelios, Doisac, Eayn, etc and all of the known and identified Human colonies. Technically the Bestiarum covers some of this but it would be nice to have them in a big book anyways. Not everyone owns the Bestiarum after all. They could include a large HD image of what the planet looks like and maybe show a map of all the continents, oceans, mountain ranges, etc. Besides that a new book could show off the actual positions of these star system in relation to Earth. Let us see how far UNSC space goes and where it ends and Covenant space begins.
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> I would totally buy that book.
Beginning in mid 2010, I actually did start compiling a Halo star chart and I adapted Mr. Mandel’s Star Charts as a guide for doing one for the Halo universe.
A sample of what I have done is here:
It’s been expanded since then and incorporates about 80-100 or so actual stars in the Haloverse plus several nearby stars to help fill out the chart. It goes out to about a 500 light year radius.
I’ll post it to HBO when I can determine a decent way to present it. I’m still adding items, but it’s awkward not knowing more real Halo planet locations and I’m not going to make it up.
So, long story short, I have been working on such a thing for years but I don’t know when it will be done enough to do something with. Still workin’ though… 