“Last time, you asked me, if it was my choice, would I do it? Having had considerable time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed. There is no choice. We must activate the ring.” -343 Guilty Spark (Halo CE)
My question to you, fellow Halo lovers, if it was YOUR choice, would you do it? Would you activate Halo? COULD you do it?
I’m still undecided.
I could, yes.
For the future of the Galaxy.
Better to have all sentient life wiped out, then to have it all assimilated into the Flood consciousness. .
Fire the rings off, sure. But first, I’d build a few worlds like Requiem, and just put a bunch of people in that ball that the Didact was chilling inside. No sense in killing everyone if they don’t have to die
Either people die instantly and in no pain, or be terrorized by an infectious space parasite that slowly steals you memories and incorporates you into a Galaxy spanning collective of similarly tormented souls.
I would do it to save all life in the galaxy by killing them repopulating it.
Very tough choice, but I like living so I guess I’m off to save the universe now!
Good question. It would ultimately depend on the level of infection in the galaxy and efforts made to reseed. I’d do what was neccesary
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> Fire the rings off, sure. But first, I’d build a few worlds like Requiem, and just put a bunch of people in that ball that the Didact was chilling inside. No sense in killing everyone if they don’t have to die
That was kind of the plan until everything fell apart.
As for the question: That’s a lot to ask anyone. Assuming I have equal status and knowledge to that of the Iso-Didact, then yes, probably. However, if I were just a simple civilian or soldier, probably not. The burden would weight too heavily on my conscience.
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> The burden would weight too heavily on my conscience.
On the bright side, it wouldn’t weigh heavily on it for long lol.
To the OP: It would take a pretty dang high level of certainty that there was no other viable option. If I had it, I probably would. There’s so little room for error when dealing with the flood and would be so hard to eradicate completely for certain, using anything other than the rings.
With that said and with the evidence of flood presence on planets/installations outside the range of the rings, it makes me wonder if that would really be an effective solution. It obviously didn’t work the first time. The flood may already exist and thrive outside of our galaxy.
I would not.
Not because I wouldn’t be able to bear the burden but rather to allow evolution to run it’s course. Sentient species shall have their chance to do all that is necessary to survive the Flood. If they do not, then the Flood ascends to dominance.
The Flood is no more inherently evil than Human, Sanghelli or Foreruner. It is simply a new contender. It does not believe in the perpetuation of strife inherent in the Forerunners’ Mantel and humanity and the elites are no less selfish.
Or fire the rings and withhold reseeding. Set everything back to zero.
To keep life from being wiped out by the Flood… I would think so. I would just hope our races got to the Shield Worlds this time…
In my opinion the Didact had the better alternative- shield worlds…There you could seek refuge from the Flood, establish strongholds from which you could engage Flood forces and in the event of a Halo event, hide many species on the interior…It just seemed like the better idea but if there were no alternatives then yes, I would fire the Array.
I guess it really depends on the severity of the outbreak, and what other viable options are available accordingly. Also how much time we had, and the presence/absence of reachable shield worlds.
It may be for the greater good, but I don’t think my conscience could bear the weight of a decision like that. Yes, perhaps it won’t for long anyway, but I’m not sure I could bring myself to actually do it. Maybe if I was sure we’re screwed at that point, then yes.
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> I would not.
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> Not because I wouldn’t be able to bear the burden but rather to allow evolution to run it’s course. Sentient species shall have their chance to do all that is necessary to survive the Flood. If they do not, then the Flood ascends to dominance.
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> The Flood is no more inherently evil than Human, Sanghelli or Foreruner. It is simply a new contender. It does not believe in the perpetuation of strife inherent in the Forerunners’ Mantel and humanity and the elites are no less selfish.
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> Or fire the rings and withhold reseeding. Set everything back to zero.
That’s a very interesting perspective. I have thought about it this way before. Parasite or not, we’re all just trying to survive. Humans hunt and eat the animals we kill. The Flood, likewise, is just doing what it’s “meant” to do. We’re just unlucky enough to be their food.
That being said, is the construction and firing of the Halo rings not just our own method to survive? It would make sense to defend ourselves in any way we can muster. Given the Forerunners’ technology at hand, they were just doing so as best they could.
At first, like chief I would of said yes. But when I find out what they actually do I would of hands down said no.
Depends. Being the Iso-Didact, there would never be a doubt… basically the last remnant of his Forerunners died at the Ark, leaving the Ur-Didact in Requiem and maybe others we don’t know about still left. In his case, there’s not much downside since the Lifeworkers had prepared the re-seeding of the galaxy already as best they could. For the MC, there is no ‘backp plan’ of re-seeding that has been done, so your actions may be some of the last in the galaxy… I’d think it’d take much longer for any sentient life to repopulate naturally than Forerunner re-seeding (could be wrong).