Because had he not been stopped Truth would have died with the rest of his enemies, instead of riding out Halo’s fire from the safety of the Ark and then returning to rebuild the galaxy, with his devout followers, in his image. So, even when the Sangheili were no longer in the Covenant they were still a pawn in Truth’s schemes.
I believe he didn’t want him to fail. He wanted him to succeed and wipe out the Humans that were there, along with the Arbiter & the elites and the flood, while he quite easily got away in the Forerunner Key-ship. Thus making it easier for him to take Earth and the Ark.
He would have wiped out the majority of his enemies in one go.
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But had Tarturus activated I-05, Truth most likely wouldnt have been on the Ark by the time it and the others fired.
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But only that installation would have fired. You can only fire all of them from the Ark
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Actually in Halo CE 343 pretty much said that after one Halo is activated, they others would follow.
343 Guilty Spark: “Technically, this installation’s pulse has a maximum effective radius of twenty-five thousand light years. But, once the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life, or at least any life with sufficient biomass to sustain the Flood.”
So the Ark was used to activate the Halo’s remotely, safely. It was how the Halos were suppose to be activated, activating them from one of the installations would just be a last resort.
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343 guilty spark means with all the halos combined their range would make the galaxy quite devoid of life, you just misunderstood it.
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Yes, but that means in order for them to work they would all have to be activated. And still we dont know if Earth is in I-05’s range. if it is, Truth would still be killed. Not a risk he would want to take.
And if you could only activate them all from the Ark (instead of the Ark just being a safe way and activating one Halo would cause others to activate in response) why would humans want to stop Halo from being activating?
Is it canon that Truth definitely knew and understood what firing a Halo actually meant?
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I think so. He said something along the lines of them being able to “ride out Halo’s fire”. which means he was atleast aware it was meant to kill things that werent in the safety of the Ark.
Wasn’t it mentioned in the one of the books that if one was fired, the others would follow protocol and fire as well?
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Yes! Thats what i was talking about.
Didn’t they fire Installation-03 in Halo Escalation ? I havn’t read it yet , so I don’t know for sure.
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Well, Truth routinely mentions in Halo 3 that the Ark is a shelter from Halo’s fire.
If you don’t count this as a jarring plot hole (that so much of his followers would willingly go to the only place they can’t proceed on the Great Journey, or assume that Truth rewrote the Great Journey sometime prior), then you can come to the conclusion that Truth planned this. Activate the Array while he’s on the Ark, emptying the galaxy of his enemies and those that can overthrow him.
Perhaps that could be why he left Tartarus behind as well.
As for the Halo hitting Earth:
Technically, Installation 05 should be outside Earth range, but Halo locations have been a bit odd lately.
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The Brutes are dumb. No, seriously, they are, They are so fanatical no matter how much Truth changes things they wont stop following him until he died. In a word, they are loyal to the Covenant, but not its ideals.
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No, the rings do not all fire at once when one is activated during normal operations. This is demonstrated in Halo 3 with the firing of Installation 04 II, it’s noted once again when the Chief considered firing Installation 03 as an option to kill the Didact (but noted it would kill everything within that particular installation’s range), and it’s demonstrated multiple times over the course of the Forerunner trilogy of books.
As Sparks states in Halo 2, in the event that any one installation’s firing sequence was interrupted it would activate a failsafe that would bring all installations into stand by mode which in of itself implies that whilst firing Detla Halo the other installations didn’t budge in revving up their systems until Detla Halo’s cycle was interrupted. Even though it has never been explicitly mentioned, it’s implied by practicality that the fail safe exists under the assumption that the failure to initiate a tactical pulse would allow the Flood to continue rapidly spreading beyond the range of the initial installation in question, thus necessitating a panic button to just blanket the whole galaxy just to be safe at that point.
Truth clearly knew more than he was letting long before Earth was stumbled upon by Regret. That much was clear with just the mere existence of the Unyielding Hierophant staging area. His speeches one the Ark, particularly on the Scarab’s comm systems made it crystal clear that he knew exactly what the Halos did as well as the safety brought on by the Ark. While yes, it’s not explicitly stated where Detla Halo’s (or any for that matter) position is to us, it’s not a stretch to believe that Truth carefully calculated that as well. Halo 2A’s terminals also provide one very fascinating tidbit that should also be considered…Regret had the coordinates to every single Halo, and that longshot as to whether or not Truth knew where the rings laid in relation to Earth prior to its invasion becomes considerably less of a gap.
The only thing that Truth seemed to not count on however, was the Flood following them through the portal which, would be reasonable, if Truth was under the assumption that Delta Halo indeed fired. And at that point he’d pretty much cinch the deal when it came to total control. The other Halo rings may not be in stand by mode and in a state to be activated from the Ark, but all the same Truth would be in total control with the vast majority of opponents vaporized by Delta Halo, the one major threat to his lie reduced to defending one major planet, access to other Covenant fleets still elsewhere, and the biggest treasure trove of Forerunner technology found yet to validate his existence and importance to his followers…
Actually, I think the reason I-04B’s activation didnt cause the others to activate because it wasnt complete. I think what would have happened if I-05 successfully fired is that it woudl send a single for the others to fire shortly after, I-04B was destroyed before it could send the signal. Im also curious why the Forerunners didnt add a “clean up” feature on the Halos that would wipe out all life on and in orbit of the ring, while not wiping out all life beyond that point. That would have clearly taken care of I-05’s infestation.
This whole topic is rather confusing but has been an interesting read. If the all the rings can be simultaneously activated at the ark then what is the point in having them go into standby mode if one of the rings firing sequences is interrupted? In order to fire from the ark, do the rings have to be in standby mode? Meaning that before you can safely activate the rings on the ark, you first have to deliberately fail to activate one manually.
that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me and if that isn’t the case then it makes the whole “rings being in standby mode redundant” what I find my likely is the case is that when one ring is fired, it sends a signal to the other rings to initiate firing sequence, and this may take a while to do. However if the firing fails, then a signal is sent to the other rings to fire yet, but be prepared to at further notice. I still think that firing one ring, will cause the others to follow suit. I think having them in standby just causes them to activate more. Quickly like how having your computer in standby will boot it up more quickly. When tatrarus activates I-05, it takes a while for it to actually go off. Who knows canonically how long it took the arbiter and his elites to slay tartarus and for for Miranda to grab the index cancelling the rings firing.
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Could be…We didn’t know for sure Truth’s plans.