Also whats the purpose of the firing order names? What does it matter which order they fired? Is it just that Delta Halo sounds cooler then 04 or something

  • CTDummy@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    I thought it could go either way, like single installation or the entire array but no idea. They did fire the entire array and then reseeded life prior to the events of the first game from my understanding.

    • redsand@infosec.pub
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      1 day ago

      All six of the smaller ones made by the lesser ark from halo 3 as well as one bigger older ones fire about 100000 years before the events of the games. The 19th halo, installation 08 that was being built to replace 04(that we blew up) also fires independently destroying its self(because incomplete) and is replaced by 09.

      So one array fire and one incomplete solo fire both to wipe out flood infestations.

      • CTDummy@piefed.socialEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Neat! All of this is making me sad about the current state of the franchise because I’m now wanting play through the first 3 again.

        • redsand@infosec.pub
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          1 day ago

          Originally the forerunners built 12 30,000km wide rings on the less secret greater ark. That ark and 11 rings are destroyed before the array fires. In the process of building those they learned they could make the rings 10,000km wide and they would only need 6 of them. Far more efficient and logistically much easier to move and build. These are the rings you interact with in the games and the smaller and more secretive ark is the one you see.

          TL;DR the tech got smaller and more efficient over the millennia it took to build the first 12.

    • shyguyblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      I get that it could be a one-or-all kinda firing, but in my mind, a species that could build the Halo array wouldn’t be limited by something as trivial as light-speed-lag; nevermind the fact that it was supposed to to be an “end-of-days” solution, implying that it needed to hit everything, everywhere, all at once.

      So hitting the “fire all dem bitches” button should be instantaneous, to the point the flood couldn’t survive by slipping in between the firing patterns…