My guess that in this new Saga the Halo Array will need to be retrofitted to be used to bring back all the humans that have (and will be digitized) by the Didact back to be fleshly humans again. This way Halo rings are still important and instead of stopping them from being activated they will each have to be modded by Forerunner artifacts spread around the galaxy and then activated to bring humans back. The two surprises of this activation is that Cortana becomes totally human and the Domain gets restored.
I highly doubt this. If the Forerunner’s couldn’t figure out how to properly restore people who were composed, there is no way that Humanity will be able to.
I also hope that Cortana stays dead. I’ve never been a fan of characters making a sacrifice and then “magically” being brought back (one of many reason’s why I generally don’t read the main DC or marvel comics).
That’s my 2 cents
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The Halo rings can’t do any of that.
Forerunner tech is not magic.
Cortana is dead.
Everyone who was composed is dead.
The entire point of what happened in Halo 4 is to change the status quo of the Master Chief’s character and the Halo Universe.
They are not going to spend the next two games desperately backtracking on that.
> I also hope that Cortana stays dead. I’ve never been a fan of characters making a sacrifice and then “magically” being brought back
I still fail to understand how Cortana was able to create a hardlight shield protecting chief (despite the nuke literally blowing up in his face) even though she didn’t have a source to project herself from…Can someone please explain this.
OT: Yeah…i don’t think so. The whole purpose of the Halo rings would simply diminish as a result of this irreversible mistake. New tools would have to be constructed from scratch to allow this. Even still, it probably wouldn’t work, because forerunners have already tried this before, and it failed. I don’t think the Halo rings would be able to compensate for that.
To be fair it is possible for the halo ring to digitalise all sentient life because like the composer all plant life remained intact and so were the flood but the flood starved to death, so it seems quite specific. Also the forerunners did manage to send people to the digital world but bringing them back is a different story. The unsc have manage to use forerunner tech, in the unsc infinity they are using a forerunner engine so it could be possible that many years down the line with enough research we could find out what the halo ring truly does to people 
> > I also hope that Cortana stays dead. I’ve never been a fan of characters making a sacrifice and then “magically” being brought back
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> I still fail to understand how Cortana was able to create a hardlight shield protecting chief (despite the nuke literally blowing up in his face) even though she didn’t have a source to project herself from…Can someone please explain this.
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> OT: Yeah…i don’t think so. The whole purpose of the Halo rings would simply diminish as a result of this irreversible mistake. New tools would have to be constructed from scratch to allow this. Even still, it probably wouldn’t work, because forerunners have already tried this before, and it failed. I don’t think the Halo rings would be able to compensate for that.
Cortana used the shield bridge that they were standing on as a shield ball, it being made of pure energy it would of been easy to change the structure and that’s how she manage to touch chief
> Cortana used the shield bridge that they were standing on as a shield ball, it being made of pure energy it would of been easy to change the structure and that’s how she manage to touch chief
What about being able to project herself without a terminal? I know the bridge was made of pure energy, but can AIs do that without being connected to any technical port? Also, there’s the nuke…Technically Chief should have died. just saying.
> > Cortana used the shield bridge that they were standing on as a shield ball, it being made of pure energy it would of been easy to change the structure and that’s how she manage to touch chief
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> What about being able to project herself without a terminal? I know the bridge was made of pure energy, but can AIs do that without being connected to any technical port? Also, there’s the nuke…Technically Chief should have died. just saying.
She was connected to the ship but the shield energy was keeping her alive as she merged with it. Plus also chief had something the other Spartans didn’t, it was luck lol.
But yeah chief was probably lucky, maybe Cortana used the energy from the bridge to improve chief’s shield without him knowing
> She was connected to the ship but the shield energy was keeping her alive as she merged with it. Plus also chief had something the other Spartans didn’t, it was luck lol.
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> But yeah chief was probably lucky, <mark>maybe Cortana used the energy from the bridge to improve chief’s shield without him knowing</mark>
Or without 343i so much as bothering to provide an explanation? 
lol anyway thanks for the info
> > She was connected to the ship but the shield energy was keeping her alive as she merged with it. Plus also chief had something the other Spartans didn’t, it was luck lol.
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> > But yeah chief was probably lucky, <mark>maybe Cortana used the energy from the bridge to improve chief’s shield without him knowing</mark>
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> Or without 343i so much as bothering to provide an explanation? lol anyway thanks for the info
To be fair Cortana was about to die, so I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t use use her last words to explain how chief survived lol
> To be fair Cortana was about to die, so I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t use use her last words to explain how chief survived lol
True that. But they could have applied more logic to it. E.g. rather than having him blow the nuke IN HIS OWN DAMN FACE they could have allowed him to detonate it remotely, so at least there is a reasonable distance between him and the blast, thereby allowing Cortana to shield him. Or have a temporary timer on the bomb (say about 5 seconds) so that he has time to throw it before it blows. Again, there would be a good distance between him and it, and the shielding process would have looked smarter. True?
> > She was connected to the ship but the shield energy was keeping her alive as she merged with it. Plus also chief had something the other Spartans didn’t, it was luck lol.
> >
> > But yeah chief was probably lucky, <mark>maybe Cortana used the energy from the bridge to improve chief’s shield without him knowing</mark>
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> Or without 343i so much as bothering to provide an explanation? lol anyway thanks for the info
The explanation is that Cortana saved him from the nuke with a hardlight bubble. The bubble dissipated after the Mantle’s Approach was destroyed, allowing the Chief to survive the nuke and be recovered by the UNSC.
> To be fair it is possible for the halo ring to digitalise all sentient life because like the composer all plant life remained intact and so were the flood but the flood starved to death
What? Since when?
> To be fair it is possible for the halo ring to digitalise all sentient life because like the composer all plant life remained intact and so were the flood but the flood starved to death, so it seems quite specific. Also the forerunners did manage to send people to the digital world but bringing them back is a different story. The unsc have manage to use forerunner tech, in the unsc infinity they are using a forerunner engine so it could be possible that many years down the line with enough research we could find out what the halo ring truly does to people
The only reason plant life remained intact was due to the Forerunners spraying planets ahead of time so the mass deaths the Halo Array caused wouldn’t create an ecological collapse of the environment. Remember Faun Hakkor and how when it was tested on with a Halo the environment was beginning to degrade? The Composer doesn’t have that kind of ramification. The Halos do not have some super secret function, it kills sentient life. Simple as that.
> > To be fair it is possible for the halo ring to digitalise all sentient life because like the composer all plant life remained intact and so were the flood but the flood starved to death
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> What? Since when?
I mean it’s fair to speculate we don’t truly know what happens to the sentient life when the ring detonates and one of the halo rings gets blown up and the other, the coordinates gets lost so we haven’t manage to research them
> > > To be fair it is possible for the halo ring to digitalise all sentient life because like the composer all plant life remained intact and so were the flood but the flood starved to death
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> > What? Since when?
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> I mean it’s fair to speculate we don’t truly know what happens to the sentient life when the ring detonates and one of the halo rings gets blown up and the other, the coordinates gets lost so we haven’t manage to research them
So what would be the point of the Composer if the Halo Array did the same thing but better? The Didact didn’t even bother with Installation 05 in Halo 4, he went straight for the Composer. Obviously the Composer, and not the ring, was the weapon he needed in order to compose humanity.
> > To be fair it is possible for the halo ring to digitalise all sentient life because like the composer all plant life remained intact and so were the flood but the flood starved to death, so it seems quite specific. Also the forerunners did manage to send people to the digital world but bringing them back is a different story. The unsc have manage to use forerunner tech, in the unsc infinity they are using a forerunner engine so it could be possible that many years down the line with enough research we could find out what the halo ring truly does to people
>
> The only reason plant life remained intact was due to the Forerunners spraying planets ahead of time so the mass deaths the Halo Array caused wouldn’t create an ecological collapse of the environment. Remember Faun Hakkor and how when it was tested on with a Halo the environment was beginning to degrade? The Composer doesn’t have that kind of ramification. The Halos do not have some super secret function, it kills sentient life. Simple as that.
We know it’s kills sentient life but why leave the flood intact to starve to death. It’s understandable to think that when hit by the blast the sentient life get digitalise and sent to the ark like a radio-wave or something along those lines because the the ark sort of look like a satellite dish also in Noah’s ark it protected and stored all types of animals from a flood nd the ark in halo does the same protects and stores all sentient life
All I’m saying is we know it kills sentient but how does the life form’s body vanish does it become ash, does it digitalise the body or does it rip every atom apart
> > > > To be fair it is possible for the halo ring to digitalise all sentient life because like the composer all plant life remained intact and so were the flood but the flood starved to death
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> > > What? Since when?
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> > I mean it’s fair to speculate we don’t truly know what happens to the sentient life when the ring detonates and one of the halo rings gets blown up and the other, the coordinates gets lost so we haven’t manage to research them
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> So what would be the point of the Composer if the Halo Array did the same thing but better? The Didact didn’t even bother with Installation 05 in Halo 4, he went straight for the Composer. Obviously the Composer, and not the ring, was the weapon he needed in order to compose humanity.
Well if he activated the ring closes to earth he would kill himself plus also the composer sends them straight to requiem