I’m curious as to what the Halo Array actually targets when it fires. From what I know, it targets anything with a nervous system. But from what I’ve read, some people have said it’s able to differentiate between some species. Does anyone know the actual scope of what it targets and kills?
> I’m curious as to what the Halo Array actually targets when it fires. From what I know, it targets anything with a nervous system. But from what I’ve read, some people have said it’s able to differentiate between some species. Does anyone know the actual scope of what it targets and kills?
You are correct about the Array targeting the nervous system. However the Array does not pick and chose which species it kills. It will kill anything evolved enough to have a nervous system and be sentient. If you are referring to the Array skipping over the Lekgolo when it fully activated, it is because at the time, Lekgolo were not fully sentient, they were just basically worms.
But this is not all an Installation can do. It has different power settings. It can be tuned to fire for a low distance radius, such as to only effect a planet, all the way up to it’s maximum distance which is approximately 1/7th of the Galaxy per Installation at minimum. It can also tune it’s effect. It can target small neural physics such as the brains of organic species up to destructive power than can annihilate entire cities and tecnology based on Neural Physics.
From Halopedian
“When activated, the Halo rings wipe out all sentient life within three radii of the Milky Way’s center by sending a burst of cross-phased supermassive neutrinos. This burst of neutrinos is carefully tuned to possess a harmonic frequency, which destroys the nervous system of any macroscopic organism that possesses one, even one as rudimentary as a notochord, as shown in the aftermath of a low-powered test firing of a Halo performed by Mendicant Bias in the system of Charum Hakkor.
This pulse is propelled across the Halo Array’s full radius at superluminal speeds, covering that area and cleansing it of all affected life, though simpler life forms that do not possess a neural system, such as microbes, fungi, algae, mosses, and traditional plants are unaffected.”
This information is covered in Halo Cryptum, pages 131-133.
> > I’m curious as to what the Halo Array actually targets when it fires. From what I know, it targets anything with a nervous system. But from what I’ve read, some people have said it’s able to differentiate between some species. Does anyone know the actual scope of what it targets and kills?
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> You are correct about the Array targeting the nervous system. However the Array does not pick and chose which species it kills. It will kill anything evolved enough to have a nervous system and be sentient. If you are referring to the Array skipping over the Lekgolo when it fully activated, it is because at the time, Lekgolo were not fully sentient, they were just basically worms.
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> But this is not all an Installation can do. It has different power settings. It can be tuned to fire for a low distance radius, such as to only effect a planet, all the way up to it’s maximum distance which is approximately 1/7th of the Galaxy per Installation at minimum. It can also tune it’s effect. It can target small neural physics such as the brains of organic species up to destructive power than can annihilate entire cities and tecnology based on Neural Physics.
Thanks, that helps clear some stuff up. One more thing though, that I just remembered. If to cleanse the galaxy only seven of the Halo rings were needed… Why did they build twelve?
Also, thanks Nihilus, though I did look at that before I posted this. I was curious mainly if it was able to differentiate, though I suppose I probably should have worded that better… Anyways, thanks!
> > > I’m curious as to what the Halo Array actually targets when it fires. From what I know, it targets anything with a nervous system. But from what I’ve read, some people have said it’s able to differentiate between some species. Does anyone know the actual scope of what it targets and kills?
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> > You are correct about the Array targeting the nervous system. However the Array does not pick and chose which species it kills. It will kill anything evolved enough to have a nervous system and be sentient. If you are referring to the Array skipping over the Lekgolo when it fully activated, it is because at the time, Lekgolo were not fully sentient, they were just basically worms.
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> > But this is not all an Installation can do. It has different power settings. It can be tuned to fire for a low distance radius, such as to only effect a planet, all the way up to it’s maximum distance which is approximately 1/7th of the Galaxy per Installation at minimum. It can also tune it’s effect. It can target small neural physics such as the brains of organic species up to destructive power than can annihilate entire cities and tecnology based on Neural Physics.
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> Thanks, that helps clear some stuff up. One more thing though, that I just remembered. If to cleanse the galaxy only seven of the Halo rings were needed… Why did they build twelve?
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> Also, thanks Nihilus, though I did look at that before I posted this. I was curious mainly if it was able to differentiate, though I suppose I probably should have worded that better… Anyways, thanks!
I don’t get it, how does the Supercharged neutrinos travel and span the entire galaxy if traveling at the speed of light?? It would take 25000 years for the whole galaxy to be covered?? Unless they defy physics all together by allowing a particle that has mass to go faster than light in REGULAR space, as slip space traveling wouldn’t do anything…or did i miss something?
> > > > I’m curious as to what the Halo Array actually targets when it fires. From what I know, it targets anything with a nervous system. But from what I’ve read, some people have said it’s able to differentiate between some species. Does anyone know the actual scope of what it targets and kills?
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> > > You are correct about the Array targeting the nervous system. However the Array does not pick and chose which species it kills. It will kill anything evolved enough to have a nervous system and be sentient. If you are referring to the Array skipping over the Lekgolo when it fully activated, it is because at the time, Lekgolo were not fully sentient, they were just basically worms.
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> > > But this is not all an Installation can do. It has different power settings. It can be tuned to fire for a low distance radius, such as to only effect a planet, all the way up to it’s maximum distance which is approximately 1/7th of the Galaxy per Installation at minimum. It can also tune it’s effect. It can target small neural physics such as the brains of organic species up to destructive power than can annihilate entire cities and tecnology based on Neural Physics.
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> > Thanks, that helps clear some stuff up. One more thing though, that I just remembered. If to cleanse the galaxy only seven of the Halo rings were needed… Why did they build twelve?
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> > Also, thanks Nihilus, though I did look at that before I posted this. I was curious mainly if it was able to differentiate, though I suppose I probably should have worded that better… Anyways, thanks!
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> I don’t get it, how does the Supercharged neutrinos travel and span the entire galaxy if traveling at the speed of light?? It would take 25000 years for the whole galaxy to be covered?? Unless they defy physics all together by allowing a particle that has mass to go faster than light in REGULAR space, as slip space traveling wouldn’t do anything…or did i miss something?
Well it travels at speeds faster than those of the speed of light… How, I don’t know. They are far more advanced than we are.
it doesn’t matter if you are intelligent or not; if you can be infected by the flood the array will kill you.
Correct me if I’m wrong, SPOILERS ahead considering the Halo Rings can destroy precursor structures, which come from a realm of Science known as neural physics and which were previously indestructible, is it safe to assume that the Halo Rings are the result of the Forerunners, first and possibly only research into Neural Physics Phew sorry for the spoiler tags.
> it doesn’t matter if you are intelligent or not; if you can be infected by the flood the array will kill you.
Well when people said the Lekgolo got skipped over, I was curious. I’m guessing that by them not being fully sentient, they hadn’t flly developed their nervous system yet.
Sentience has absolutely no relation to a nervous system -_-
Cortana’s statement shouldn’t be used so widely seeing has she just told john something watered down so he would understand it and get moving. In order to be infected by the flood you need a spinal cord,central nervous system, and sufficient calcium deposits- intelligence is a bonus not a factor and if you don’t have one of those three things the flood can’t infect you nor will the rings kill you.
> Sentience has absolutely no relation to a nervous system -_-
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> Cortana’s statement shouldn’t be used so widely seeing has she just told john something watered down so he would understand it and get moving. In order to be infected by the flood you need a spinal cord,central nervous system, and sufficient calcium deposits- intelligence is a bonus not a factor and if you don’t have one of those three things the flood can’t infect you nor will the rings kill you.
I wasn’t saying they were connected, I meant that they weren’t developed enough to have a central nervous system. But, I write things rather vaguely sometimes, I suppose I should work on that… Anyways, if you only have two of the three things, can you still be infected? Or do you need all three?
All 3.
There have been many speculations (I think they rooted from a CEA Terminal or something, not sure. I don;t remember 
) that the Halos are capable of being tuned in a way so as to only eliminate an individual species and probably those with similar neural networks.