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DiscipleN2k
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 		Even the ships holding position, once completely shut down, would be affected by gravity from some source. Even if it were at a complete standstill, eventually it would get slowly pulled toward the nearest body of sufficient mass (likely a star, planet or black hole), slowly gaining momentum until it slams into the surface. This would likely either destroy it (in the case of a sun or black hole) or at least turn it into a largely unrecognizable pile of garbage.

When you think about it, the ships would have likely been in one of three states: traveling through space, idling in space, or parked at home. Those traveling through space, as Siege88 said, would have continued on their own inertia until striking something of sufficient mass to bring it to a dead stop, probably destroying it in the process. Those idling would have met the fate mentioned above. The remaining ships that were left at home or on other planets, would be all that remained and a good portion of those appear to have been scavenged by the Covenant.

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 		This isn't Star Wars . . .
DiscipleN2k wrote:
Even the ships holding position, once completely shut down, would be affected by gravity from some source. Even if it were at a complete standstill, eventually it would get slowly pulled toward the nearest body of sufficient mass (likely a star, planet or black hole), slowly gaining momentum until it slams into the surface. This would likely either destroy it (in the case of a sun or black hole) or at least turn it into a largely unrecognizable pile of garbage.

When you think about it, the ships would have likely been in one of three states: traveling through space, idling in space, or parked at home. Those traveling through space, as Siege88 said, would have continued on their own inertia until striking something of sufficient mass to bring it to a dead stop, probably destroying it in the process. Those idling would have met the fate mentioned above. The remaining ships that were left at home or on other planets, would be all that remained and a good portion of those appear to have been scavenged by the Covenant.

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I am sure the 80% of the core fleet keeping station would have had some sort of "auto-pilot" to maintain station until their fuel ran out (which would only sip at the nearly "infinite" amount of fuel (nuclear cores can have half lives of over 10000 years - I'm sure advanced technologies would have insanely increased fuel capacity), and to maximize that fuel, they'd be pretty far away from any local celetial bodies, thus making the orbital decay veeeeeeerrrrrrrry slow, probably to the point that more likely the gravitational attraction of the ships themselves would draw each other together within that timeframe.

If you think about the moving spacecraft, it's more likely than not that these ships would stay intact for a long period, as there's a lot more space than significant matter to hit or get hit by. And that's without factoring shielding technology. Of course we're talking the sub-light ships, since different FTL technologies would have different risks (slipstream would have energy tidal forces to contend with, space folding would have grav/magenetic forces, etc.)

Remember, the Halo's we've seen so far are not near any asteroid field, and if we look at earth's history, catastrophic collisions on earth do not happen on the 100k year timeframes, but more on the millions of years cycles (Earth is 4.5 billion years old, and the dinosaur killer is in the realm of tens of millions of years.)

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The earths atmosphere protects us from smaller asteroids since they break apart upon entry. The ships dont have this. Although the halflife idea is pretty good, I think that their ships, while more efficient, would be using huge amounts of power to travel the distances and speeds that they do.

I do think, however, that its possible the forerunners are still alive as Cortana hints to the fact that they must be "trapped", in one of her first letters. Trapped where? The slipstream? Maybe in another Dyson sphere they couldnt return from after the firing?

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 		This thread reminds me of a line from the intro themesong to Mystery Science Theater 3000.

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 		hey
ok guys there are a few people that are interlinked from the irc chat to deal with ARG i am one of them i think you guys are going more in depth wth the code but most of us have been here i believe i am newer but still. im not sure but there was an AdGlyph( you can see it at http://halo.wikibruce.com) and there are numbers going around the glyph i had an idea of how the lines go out and were the numbers are at took the numbers put them together as cordinates but there were five. There was one that i could trust to be something i took it out. Took out the 0's like you guys did with the countdown and i found something on google maps. A place in Canada. There is a little more behind this i dono what led to the Containment Control Center, but there also was a phone number(1-8880778-5672) there is some message that plays and has an echo to it like it was tampered with on purpose If you press *(star) while the message is going, a voice says"please enter your password followed by the pound key" this message has stuff to do with something cant find out what yet but maybe if we find the password put it in it will take us pretty far not sure. Back to the adglyph and Canada find. Here is a link (http://tinyurl.com/3998wt) you will notice that in the message from above they do mention from 0-8 but are missing 5 and 9 through out the message. The streets for this place in canada are 15 and 9 there is a 5 and a 9 and it says Cana No. 241 ( add 2+4+1=7 bungie has used this a lot before) the weird patterns on the map might have to do with something not sure yet. But this is all starting to relate good and i think im on to something. also i did something with cordinates before and found some where in africa on the right side coast. thought it was useless, untill now i went to look at all the pics again and the AdGlyph has ciement and moss in it the ciement and moss show a certain part of the right side cost in africa ill put some links to show.

AdGlyph- is at http://halo.wikibruce.com/outline

Here is a pic showing the similarity between the Adglyph and this part of Africa from what i said above. (http://s130.photobucket.com/albums/p268/CrazyMidg3t/?action=view&current=idea.jpg)

And here is a link to a pic of how i came up with the order for the numbers. ( http://s130.photobucket.com/albums/p268/CrazyMidg3t/?action=view&current=idea1.jpg)


If i have something then good if i have a little bit of something help me. I have spent hours on end reading through ever page on two threads on this forum about the arg . The begining thread and this newer one to do with the servers. Plus the other stuff that im telling you about( you mgiht already know it)

But all i am asking is for some help or some opinons! Please

~Curtis, pheww my head hurts.

EDIT - tinyurled and fixed the really big link -xnbomb

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MariusDarkwolf
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 		Welcome to the madness, you might want to reg. Also, the stuff for FCC is mostly being run here.

also remember spacing and link tags are your friend. That said, good job, you brought something to my attention, I'm gonna check out, shape wise. I'll post it in the thread I linked to.

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