I’m not sure if this is an obvious question but I’m still not quite sure, what happened to the Ark when it was heavily damaged during the events of Halo 3? The Flood-infested High Charity crashed into it, then Master Chief fired an unfinished Halo Ring to kill off the Flood on it. Apparently the Ark took heavy damage.
In Halo Wars 2, it is mentioned that after those events that some Humans settled on the Ark to study it, and to also help it ‘heal’. I understand that the Ark has massive and high-tech Forerunner systems in place to repair damaged parts of it, and that isn’t what I’m confused about.
My question is; wouldn’t firing a Halo Ring near the Ark kill off all the sentient life on it? Wouldn’t it be barren and lifeless then after the events of Halo 3? How did the Ark repair itself in this sense by repopulating its entire segments which should house millions of wildlife, within a few years? Assuming that it was swept clean of all sentient life, how is the Ark still so lush and green in Halo Wars 2, and can still serve as the living space for an entire army? When all the animals died, ecosystems across the Ark should have collapsed, and most of all vegetation would die along with the animals. However, obviously this did not happen or at least the Ark managed to repopulate itself since the Banished obviously has a decent source of food in Halo Wars 2, which can only be from the local wildlife and crops.
Basically, how did the Ark repopulate itself, or did the Halo Ring leave the local wildlife on the Ark unharmed somehow?
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> Hey dude I edited my post, I think you didn’t see the whole thing, now try to answer my question again I’m really puzzled
All life got killed on the ark after Halo3,but in the time gap between Halo3 and Hunters in the Dark,the arcs monitor repopulated he ark with samples stored on it.These samples are stored in an way that they dont get affected by the Halo effect.
This is why the ark looks how it looks in Halo wars2.
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> I’m not sure if this is an obvious question but I’m still not quite sure, what happened to the Ark when it was heavily damaged during the events of Halo 3? The Flood-infested High Charity crashed into it, then Master Chief fired an unfinished Halo Ring to kill off the Flood on it. Apparently the Ark took heavy damage.
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> In Halo Wars 2, it is mentioned that after those events that some Humans settled on the Ark to study it, and to also help it ‘heal’. I understand that the Ark has massive and high-tech Forerunner systems in place to repair damaged parts of it, and that isn’t what I’m confused about.
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> My question is; wouldn’t firing a Halo Ring near the Ark kill off all the sentient life on it? Wouldn’t it be barren and lifeless then after the events of Halo 3? How did the Ark repair itself in this sense by repopulating its entire segments which should house millions of wildlife, within a few years? Assuming that it was swept clean of all sentient life, how is the Ark still so lush and green in Halo Wars 2, and can still serve as the living space for an entire army? When all the animals died, ecosystems across the Ark should have collapsed, and most of all vegetation would die along with the animals. However, obviously this did not happen or at least the Ark managed to repopulate itself since the Banished obviously has a decent source of food in Halo Wars 2, which can only be from the local wildlife and crops.
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> Basically, how did the Ark repopulate itself, or did the Halo Ring leave the local wildlife on the Ark unharmed somehow?
Plants aren’t sentient and thus they were not targeted by the firing of Installation 04b. Guilty Spark also mentioned that “the galaxy would be quite devoid of life, at least any biomass large enough to sustain the Flood”, this could also mean that small animals are also exempt from extermination by the ring.
I was always under the impression that the Halo didn’t fire in H3. Instead, attempting to fire it before it was complete, it overloaded and simply exploded. Not firing its cleansing wave. I think that explosion was enough to eradicate the Flood within that range. Am I way off?
As was mentioned before, plants and small things like microbes/fungi aren’t affected by Halos. This could also extend to small animals, like insects, and maybe even small mammals/birds/reptiles/fish. The damage to the Ark referred to its ability to create new Halos and maintain the portal. Those systems needed to be repaired after the Installation 04b incident.
Also, it’s highly likely that the Ark houses genetic samples of multiple species from throughout the galaxy for reseeding purposes after cleansing by Halo array. Even if every single organism on the Ark had been destroyed, it could have just been reseeded with the appropriate wildlife.
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> I was always under the impression that the Halo didn’t fire in H3. Instead, attempting to fire it before it was complete, it overloaded and simply exploded. Not firing its cleansing wave. I think that explosion was enough to eradicate the Flood within that range. Am I way off?
You are. The unfinished Installation 04b did in fact fire a local pulse, large enough to cleanse the Ark of the Flood. The process of the firing was too much for the Halo, though, and it fell apart during the firing. But it was still successful.
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> As was mentioned before, plants and small things like microbes/fungi aren’t affected by Halos. This could also extend to small animals, like insects, and maybe even small mammals/birds/reptiles/fish. The damage to the Ark referred to its ability to create new Halos and maintain the portal. Those systems needed to be repaired after the Installation 04b incident.
> Also, it’s highly likely that the Ark houses genetic samples of multiple species from throughout the galaxy for reseeding purposes after cleansing by Halo array. Even if every single organism on the Ark had been destroyed, it could have just been reseeded with the appropriate wildlife.
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> > I was always under the impression that the Halo didn’t fire in H3. Instead, attempting to fire it before it was complete, it overloaded and simply exploded. Not firing its cleansing wave. I think that explosion was enough to eradicate the Flood within that range. Am I way off?
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> You are. The unfinished Installation 04b did in fact fire a local pulse, large enough to cleanse the Ark of the Flood. The process of the firing was too much for the Halo, though, and it fell apart during the firing. But it was still successful.
Thank you for clearing that up for me. I’ll pay extra attention on my next playthrough.
I would like to point out that the statements regarding small life surviving the Halos is mostly based on the Librarian’s speculation and Guilty Spark’s conservative description of the Halos’ purpose. In contrast, the Didact’s direct observation of locations where a Halo was fired revealed that no thinking life of any size was left alive. Even the sentient trees and the insects they used to communicate with each other were killed. This is also reinforced in Halo Fractures, where a prototype Halo erases three Sangheilli from existence, leaving no trace particles behind, not even from the blood that had spattered the ground before their deaths.
I believe the early design phases of the Halos could have allowed small life to survive, but in the end, before they were fired, they were tuned to wipe out all thinking organisms. As such I believe the Halo misfiring in Halo 3 means it didn’t have the effect it was designed for, making it possible for life to survive at least on parts of the Ark.