That made no sense, a planet, whether natural or made through machinery cannot make a star go supernova. So, why did Epoloch supernova after Requiem was thrown into it?
> That made no sense, a planet, whether natural or made through machinery cannot make a star go supernova. So, why did Epoloch supernova after Requiem was thrown into it?
Because of space magic. Never forget that.
On a serious note, the Forerunners were capable of many things, many seem impossible to me, such as this.
But if they were able to create stars, planets, and whatnot, I don’t see why they couldn’t make a star go supernove though some mechanism. Maybe even Requiem had some reactive that would cause that…
Who knows…
As far as I understand it, gravity gives a supernova its energy. Mass flows into the core through the continuing formation of iron from nuclear fusion - and once the core has gained so much mass that it cannot withstand its own weight, the core implodes.
The implosion can usually be halted by neutrons, the only things in nature that can stop such a gravitational collapse. Neutrons sometimes fail, depending on the mass of the star’s core. When the collapse is abruptly halted by the neutrons, matter bounces off the hard iron core, and then turns the implosion into an explosion.
Requiem has several artificial stars within its many layers, that’s probably going to have an effect too. And who knows what other kinds of Forerunner hoo-ha there is within it which could destabilise Epoloch? Likewise, Requiem itself could have had enough mass in itself to destabilise Epoloch and cause it to go supernova.
> As far as I understand it, gravity gives a supernova its energy. Mass flows into the core through the continuing formation of iron from nuclear fusion - and once the core has gained so much mass that it cannot withstand its own weight, the core implodes.
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> The implosion can usually be halted by neutrons, the only things in nature that can stop such a gravitational collapse. Neutrons sometimes fail, depending on the mass of the star’s core. When the collapse is abruptly halted by the neutrons, matter bounces off the hard iron core, and then turns the implosion into an explosion.
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> Requiem has several artificial stars within its many layers, that’s probably going to have an effect too. And who knows what other kinds of Forerunner hoo-ha there is within it which could destabilise Epoloch? Likewise, Requiem itself could have had enough mass in itself to destabilise Epoloch and cause it to go supernova.
Didn’t Requiem’s gravity fields fluctuate at some point? Maybe something triggered immense amounts of gravity which helped cause the process?
> > As far as I understand it, gravity gives a supernova its energy. Mass flows into the core through the continuing formation of iron from nuclear fusion - and once the core has gained so much mass that it cannot withstand its own weight, the core implodes.
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> > The implosion can usually be halted by neutrons, the only things in nature that can stop such a gravitational collapse. Neutrons sometimes fail, depending on the mass of the star’s core. When the collapse is abruptly halted by the neutrons, matter bounces off the hard iron core, and then turns the implosion into an explosion.
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> > Requiem has several artificial stars within its many layers, that’s probably going to have an effect too. And who knows what other kinds of Forerunner hoo-ha there is within it which could destabilise Epoloch? Likewise, Requiem itself could have had enough mass in itself to destabilise Epoloch and cause it to go supernova.
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> Didn’t Requiem’s gravity fields fluctuate at some point? Maybe something triggered immense amounts of gravity which helped cause the process?
Indeed. Requiem had a number of artificial gravity systems that were going haywire as the planet hurdled toward its doom. I’ve always imagined that these systems were part of the cause of Epoloch going supernova.
We should also consider the class of star that Epoloch was. While it is yellowish in Spartan Ops, it is blue at the end of Halo 3, on Halo 4’s menu, and in the level “Dawn”. If Epoloch is indeed a blue star, a supernova may have been the inevitable end to that star, with Requiem only tipping the star in the right direction.
> As far as I understand it, gravity gives a supernova its energy. Mass flows into the core through the continuing formation of iron from nuclear fusion - and once the core has gained so much mass that it cannot withstand its own weight, the core implodes.
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> The implosion can usually be halted by neutrons, the only things in nature that can stop such a gravitational collapse. Neutrons sometimes fail, depending on the mass of the star’s core. When the collapse is abruptly halted by the neutrons, matter bounces off the hard iron core, and then turns the implosion into an explosion.
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> Requiem has several artificial stars within its many layers, that’s probably going to have an effect too. And who knows what other kinds of Forerunner hoo-ha there is within it which could destabilise Epoloch? Likewise, Requiem itself could have had enough mass in itself to destabilise Epoloch and cause it to go supernova.
> That made no sense, a planet, whether natural or made through machinery cannot make a star go supernova. So, why did Epoloch supernova after Requiem was thrown into it?
Because there are times where cool factor trumps actual science in science fiction. Besides this is a game series about massive ring-shaped super weapons that use what is essentially space magic to kill everything in the galaxy. Haha I think we threw actual science out with that.
What if Epoloch was an artificial star? It’s certainly feasible and practical for the UrDidacts center of command to have a good fail safe, whats better than having complete control over it other than having it’s own artificial star he could on demand go supernova with mechanisms within that generate a lethal amount of gravity once Requiem makes contact with the star. Perfect failsafe to deny the flood control over an important fortress world.
This explains everything in what is easily in the Forerunner’s technological grasp aswell as not defaulting to “spacemagic”…
> What if Epoloch was an artificial star? It’s certainly feasible and practical for the UrDidacts center of command to have a good fail safe, whats better than having complete control over it other than having it’s own artificial star he could on demand go supernova with mechanisms within that generate a lethal amount of gravity once Requiem makes contact with the star. Perfect failsafe to deny the flood control over an important fortress world.
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> This explains everything in what is easily in the Forerunner’s technological grasp aswell as not defaulting to “spacemagic”…
Exactly, if the Forerunner can create artificial stars and cause stars to go supernova then they can create a planet that can cause a star to go supernova.
Maybe they developed things to make stars go supernova as fail safes too and certain planets have them.
> Maybe they developed things to make stars go supernova as fail safes too and certain planets have them.
Requiem failsafe.
In the event the installation is overrun by the Flood, it plunges into the nearby star, triggering a supernova that sterilizes the whole system.
Sounds like something the Forerunners would do. They caused premature supernovae all the time to try to halt the Flood.
A star like sun only consumes a tiny fraction of its fuel during its 10 billion year life time. Perhaps the forerunner can use up all these fuels in less than 1 second. The energy released must be massive and create a explosion~~~~.
I suppose it is as if you droped a match into your car’s petrol tank instead of let it run smoothly.
But that star should be blue as halo 3 ending shows a blue/ whitish star which goes to supernova more easily.
> But that star should be blue as halo 3 ending shows a blue/whitish star which goes to supernova more easily.
Yeah, there were a lot of inconsistencies in the SpOps cutscenes. Lack of shields, Promethean Knights going down to single pistol shots, Halsey running into the Librarian shrine and apparently being translocated away, but in the next video she is just suspended in midair in the middle of the shrine, Requiem’s star being a main-sequence G-K star rather than the B-A (doesn’t appear to be an O-type, not large enough).
OT: This.
> As far as I understand it, gravity gives a supernova its energy. Mass flows into the core through the continuing formation of iron from nuclear fusion - and once the core has gained so much mass that it cannot withstand its own weight, the core implodes.
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> The implosion can usually be halted by neutrons, the only things in nature that can stop such a gravitational collapse. Neutrons sometimes fail, depending on the mass of the star’s core. When the collapse is abruptly halted by the neutrons, matter bounces off the hard iron core, and then turns the implosion into an explosion.
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> Requiem has several artificial stars within its many layers, that’s probably going to have an effect too. And who knows what other kinds of Forerunner hoo-ha there is within it which could destabilise Epoloch? Likewise, Requiem itself could have had enough mass in itself to destabilise Epoloch and cause it to go supernova.
Double post, sorry.
Stupid iPhone.
Maybe Requiems own star/stars started to produce iron as a failsafe (when a star starts to produce iron, it will kill itself) and that caused the bigger star to produce iron.
Pretty awesome failsafe.
If the Forerunners had technology capable of suspending the deaths of stars, I’m sure that similar technology is used to trigger it.