I noticed this a few days ago. During Composer, you have to defend some people from 2 hunters in a lab. In this lab, you can see the Activation Index for Installation 03.
I noticed that after the campaign, the fate of Ivanoff station remains unclear. It is possible that the Covenant forces retrieved the Index, and if they get their hands on a captured human (like they always do) they could fire the Installation.
If what I said is going to become part of the story in the future, I really expect a change in the way it is prevented, as it has always changed.
In HCE, Cortana absorbed the Index.
In H2 Miranda forced it out.
In H3 it was not prevented at all.
Maybe sending it trough a portal to outside the galaxy would do. But will be happy as long as the story differs from the others.
I would like to know what you think about this and if you have any theory.
You’re assuming there are still factions of the Covenant that want to initiate the Great Journey. While the Covenant faction in Halo 4 still believes that the Forerunners were Gods, I don’t think they still believe in the Great Journey. Even if they did, I doubt Jul (who knows it’s a lie) would allow such a thing to happen.
> You’re assuming there are still factions of the Covenant that want to initiate the Great Journey. While the Covenant faction in Halo 4 still believes that the Forerunners were Gods, I don’t think they still believe in the Great Journey. Even if they did, I doubt Jul (who knows it’s a lie) would allow such a thing to happen.
No I was not thinking about The Great Journey, I was actually thinking they could bring it to Earth and fire it.
Thus killing off their faction? Yeah… no…
> > You’re assuming there are still factions of the Covenant that want to initiate the Great Journey. While the Covenant faction in Halo 4 still believes that the Forerunners were Gods, I don’t think they still believe in the Great Journey. Even if they did, I doubt Jul (who knows it’s a lie) would allow such a thing to happen.
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> No I was not thinking about The Great Journey, I was actually thinking they could bring it to Earth and fire it.
Ah, I misunderstood. My mistake.
Even with that in mind, I doubt it would happen. It would require the monitor of the installation co-operating with the Covenant remnant. Further, there is a strong possibility that Sanghelios is within 25000 light-years of Earth, meaning that firing the ring would endanger Sanghelios. I doubt any Sangheili would want to risk that.
Do you realize they could just run away trough slipspace before it fires?
> No I was not thinking about The Great Journey, I was actually thinking they could bring it to Earth and fire it.
Ah, I misunderstood. My mistake.
Even with that in mind, I doubt it would happen. It would require the monitor of the installation co-operating with the Covenant remnant. Further, there is a strong possibility that Sanghelios is within 25000 light-years of Earth, meaning that firing the ring would endanger Sanghelios. I doubt any Sangheili would want to risk that.
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Yes, you are right. Good point there.
> Do you realize they could just run away trough slipspace before it fires?
Again though, what about Sanghelios, or other Sangheili colony worlds? In addition, we don’t know 100% that being in slipspace is enough to survive the Halo Effect. If it were, Flood ships could have easily just gone into Slipspace during the Forerunner-Flood War, avoiding the Halo Array’s deadly pulse.