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[yakaman]

[Cloaked Hunter]

[MariusDarkwolf]

Flood/Flood samples in the Halo's

[carbonize]

Personally I'd say that the Halo does kill things in slipspace because otherwise they'd run the risk of missing some potential flood food. I don't think it is slipspace that makes the Dyson sphere safe but rather the sphere it's self. The sphere is a self contained eco system (on an astronomical scale) condensed into a small area. So either the sphere has to small a footprint to be affected by the weapon or there is something in the material of the sphere it's self that makes it impermeable to the effects of the weapon.

I'd say evidence supports the 'dimming the sun' theory which would also tie in with the Dyson sphere since it's sun is contained in the center of the sphere.

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How the heck they intend to search the whole of the sphere is beyond me though given that the thing is huger than huge. Also how did they know there would be food in there that they could eat?

I do like the fact you can get a Spartan 3 helmet to use in Halo 3.
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[sarge2552]

wasnt it said somewhere that the halos fire a "smart" beam (i no they dont actually fire a beam but i counldnt think of another word) that kills things the flood can feed on

that and i think that the halos do more than 'kill' they must like desintagrate things of a large enough biomass everywhere, otherwise we would see remains of Forerunners all over, that and cant the flood reanimate dead things?

[frontieruk]

[eolith]

I just re-read the book, and hit that section earlier today. It says a slipspace "field" not slipspace itself. A slipspace field is used to get into and out of slipspace, tearing the hole between the two dimensions. A fine hair to split, but it's there nonetheless.

[frontieruk]

I think your interpretation is wrong, I think what is trying to be described is that the Spartans are held within a 'field of' slipspace which is what Helsey tries to explain using the descriptions extruded into an alternate set of spatial coordinates.

This describes the amount of energy used to create the field and forcing the contents into a point within a different dimension.

extruded slipspace within is not in this dimension.

this describes that the pod contains a 'shaped' slipspace the only way you could shape slipspace would be within a containment field, and with the forerunners knowledge of controlling slipspace I'm sure they could do it, the benefit of that would be they wouldn't lose track of the item the placed into slipspace.