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Xanedon
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Wells of history... hmm..... Ok this triggered a memory. I need to dig out my books...didn't H.G. Wells have a book named a Short History of the World? Anyone familiar with it?

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Killswitch333
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I know he wrote War Of The Worlds. Might have some parallels to the Halo universe.

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violentvixen
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So the way to defeat the Flood is to sneeze on them?

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rush
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violentvixen wrote:
So the way to defeat the Flood is to sneeze on them?


lol

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It seems we made a mistake with the audio. Somebody cleaned it up and it definitely says "Perhaps through others eyes" rather than "Perhaps through others of us". That changes everything.
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snyder007
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Ok Im new. I mostly follow these things. This is my first participation in an ARG. While I play Halo and whatnot Im more intrugied by the Halo Universe. These are just some ramblings Ive put together since the server unlock.

I was thinking to myself while reading through all the information, the Halo's are designed to eradicate life. Life that can support the flood. It destroys nothing else, just biomass on a grand scale. My question is how. How does it vaporize that much stuff. Something like EMP? And now that MC has destroyed one and neutralized another can the floods food source ever be completely destroyed?

Another point. Assuming the Forerunners created the flood, being the genius's they are, dont you think they would have a more efficent way to combat it other then vaporizing all the life in the universe? And if you know you cant create something to destroy it why keep it around? Whats the point?

Firing the halo's once obviously failed. Why? Why did it fail. It did fire as evident by the transcript. It obviously destroyed alot of critters. A. What survived to feed the flood the first time. or B. Did someone or something release the flood again out of a containment area? C. If the halo's where originally research facilities for the flood why would you need to research something you created?

Whew. Just some ponderings. Take them for what they are I suppose.

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rush
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How does it vaporize that much stuff. Something like EMP? And now that MC has destroyed one and neutralized another can the floods food source ever be completely destroyed? Delta Halo can still fire, it's just idling.

Another point. Assuming the Forerunners created the flood, being the genius's they are, dont you think they would have a more efficent way to combat it other then vaporizing all the life in the universe? And if you know you cant create something to destroy it why keep it around? Whats the point? Hey look at me! I'm a Forerunner scientist just messing around with the Flood virusteria. Don't worry it can't harm me, I'm a genius! I don't need to wear a Class 12 combat skin, I'M a genius! Oh wait it went 28 Days Later on me and got into my bloodstream. Now I'm a Flood host who knows all of the pass codes and secrets to this research facility. It's time to infect everyone else and find a ship.

Firing the halo's once obviously failed. Why? Why did it fail. It did fire as evident by the transcript. It obviously destroyed alot of critters. A. What survived to feed the flood the first time. or B. Did someone or something release the flood again out of a containment area? Those Covenant fools. They must have known, there must have been signs. C. If the halo's where originally research facilities for the flood why would you need to research something you created? The Forerunner didn't want to activate the rings again, so they spent the time analyzing the Flood to find another way to kill them (you can see where they were held in giant glass cages in the level Guilty Spark).

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jellyfish_green
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cha1nmast3r86 wrote:
Is it possible that the Forerunners can travel through time, or send their monitors back through time. I am only saying this becasue the tranmsission log talks about altering time.

My wild theory is that forerunners are from the future. they are sending information back in time to fix a problem. I think they are sending the monitors and other machines back intime because organic bodies would get destroyed in the process of time travel.


That's a very cute theory (spec). ilovebees was the only other suggestion of time travel in the Halo universe, IIRC, but it's not a great leap to say that if it's possible, the Forerunners may have developed a use for it. It depends on whether the storytellers want to add time travel to the canon, but it would be a good hook for getting us (present day) involved in the future (2552) events.

Maybe they just need a programmer to go in and edit the code that's causing the Year2084* problem, or somesuch.

-See also "Rush's Forerunner Iris Manifesto" post

*I made this up. 2084's not special. Unless you're Robotron.
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snyder007
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I like your answers however you missed one vital piece. Why did the original firing of the Halo's fail?

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eolith
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the firing didn't fail, the problem is that flood infection forms (and possible Gravemind) were kept around for study and the Halos themselves appear to be safe ground. The flood was released by the Covenant in their misguided attempt to initiate the Great Journey

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nights
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So what is the spinning thing on Server 05 suppose to mean?

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