I’m wondering does Forerunner technology internally contain wires, moving parts, circuitry, or anything else found in normal human mechanical devices?
Sometimes?
The stuff we see varies vastly in design and function. The sentinels we see in Halo: CE, 2 and 3 could very easily contain wiring and circuitry as we understand it. The Prometheans we see in Halo 4 and 5… I could believe that we might not, in those. I recall that, in the novel Last Light, a Forerunner ancilla’s body was described as having “quantum dots.” When it was damaged, it altered the quantum state of the dots, then unaltered them, and some of the damage was undone. I’d have to look it over again to offer better details, but what I took from what I read is that this particular machine operated on quantum entanglement principles, and the parts within it probably wouldn’t appear connected to each other to the naked eye.
This is exactly the kind of thing that 343 Industries will avoid answering for as long as they can, though. They gain nothing by determining this stuff before they can use it for a story point. As long as we don’t have a canon answer, the canon answer can be whatever they need it to be, down the road. I wouldn’t worry too much about it, as such.
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> The stuff we see varies vastly in design and function. The sentinels we see in Halo: CE, 2 and 3 could very easily contain wiring and circuitry as we understand it. The Prometheans we see in Halo 4 and 5… I could believe that we might not, in those. I recall that, in the novel Last Light, a Forerunner ancilla’s body was described as having “quantum dots.” When it was damaged, it altered the quantum state of the dots, then unaltered them, and some of the damage was undone. I’d have to look it over again to offer better details, but what I took from what I read is that this particular machine operated on quantum entanglement principles, and the parts within it probably wouldn’t appear connected to each other to the naked eye.
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> This is exactly the kind of thing that 343 Industries will avoid answering for as long as they can, though. They gain nothing by determining this stuff before they can use it for a story point. As long as we don’t have a canon answer, the canon answer can be whatever they need it to be, down the road. I wouldn’t worry too much about it, as such.
I’ll have to read Last Light. I was thinking about the internal mechanisms of Forerunner tech after looking at the Forerunner Architecture and tech in HCE and HCEA and all the weird crystalline looking parts and whatnot in the walls and broken tech and how they kinda looked like circuits or computer chips. Also I was in a debate about Forerunner tech vs Stargate Ancient, Asgard, Tollan tech and the discussion moved towards technical things, operation, internal mechanisms etc. I also wonder how it is with Covenant tech.
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> I’m wondering does Forerunner technology internally contain wires, moving parts, circuitry, or anything else found in normal human mechanical devices?
Not necessarily. It’s theorized that much of the Forerunner weapons’ mechanisms reside in slipspace itself - the Needler, a Covenant weapon that was based on Forerunner tech, also contains no direct firing mechanism - no physical connection between the trigger and the launcher itself - leading people to believe that these weapons’ mechanisms are in slipspace, connected to the weapon somehow.
The Prometheans’ weapons are also made of hardlight, so it’s possible that technical information and mechanics are sent through the hardlight itself.
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> > I’m wondering does Forerunner technology internally contain wires, moving parts, circuitry, or anything else found in normal human mechanical devices?
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> Not necessarily. It’s theorized that much of the Forerunner weapons’ mechanisms reside in slipspace itself - the Needler, a Covenant weapon that was based on Forerunner tech, also contains no direct firing mechanism - no physical connection between the trigger and the launcher itself - leading people to believe that these weapons’ mechanisms are in slipspace, connected to the weapon somehow.
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> The Prometheans’ weapons are also made of hardlight, so it’s possible that technical information and mechanics are sent through the hardlight itself.
The thing is if there’s no circuitry or wires then do they use interlinking crystals or something like the Ancients’ technology from Stargate? They must contain some moving parts internally for some of their doors (the Halo CE levels, Library level) etc.
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> > > I’m wondering does Forerunner technology internally contain wires, moving parts, circuitry, or anything else found in normal human mechanical devices?
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> > Not necessarily. It’s theorized that much of the Forerunner weapons’ mechanisms reside in slipspace itself - the Needler, a Covenant weapon that was based on Forerunner tech, also contains no direct firing mechanism - no physical connection between the trigger and the launcher itself - leading people to believe that these weapons’ mechanisms are in slipspace, connected to the weapon somehow.
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> > The Prometheans’ weapons are also made of hardlight, so it’s possible that technical information and mechanics are sent through the hardlight itself.
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> The thing is if there’s no circuitry or wires then do they use interlinking crystals or something like the Ancients’ technology from Stargate? They must contain some moving parts internally for some of their doors (the Halo CE levels, Library level) etc.
That, I don’t think we know for sure. I do know that a lot of the doors in Halo CE, at least, use hardlight-locks to lock the doors closed.