So the last defence mechanism monitors have at their disposal to contain the flood outbreak aboard their installation is the halo itself which Guilty Spark attempts to fire in CE/A but I’m confused how that will accomplish anything on the actual halo because the Halo itself protects the occupants aboard it from the pulses effects from my understanding of Halo: Silentium and the general implications that the halo games provide. Am I missing something?
Hmmm from what I know the pulse doesn’t kill anything on the ring itself. Because it protects beings from being killed, like you state, they’ll survive. Also I believe they would be able to find food and water if the ring has those supplies. That part I don’t know for sure.
No canonical answer. If I had to guess, though, monitors have the authority to disable the protective slipspace bubble – because if they didn’t and they failed to act, that would be a huge hole in containment. Heck, that exact hole must have happened, because the Gravemind was on a Halo. But if Guilty Spark’s reaction to learning that the Flood was loosed on his ring was “activate the ring,” then he must have had a practical reason for it.
Nevermind that the exact functionality of a Halo has shifted over time as Bungie and then 343 Industries tried to use them for storytelling and expand on them. But based on everything that’s been set in stone, the above is my best answer.
Don’t think using the ring was supposed to stop the flood on the ring itself, just prevent their spread. Guessing the closest we have, outside of him disabling the shield like was suggested would be tearing off infected chunks. That or turn those specialized “only used for halo defense,” sentinels from Cryptum onto the flood. Those things were capable of fighting forerunner warships.
I imagine that the plan would be to fire the Halo to kill all ‘local’ life surrounding the Halo, leaving any flood forms and other organic beings on the surface.
Then they would work on a local basis, physically burning flood with the sentinels, or even ejecting sections of the ring when there is substantial infection in the area.
Im pretty sure the live-stream said that the life on a Halo isnt immune to the firing of the weapon itself.