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The reason I say that is because it would seem like a counter-productive plan to put the Flood on the things that you need to get to to destroy them. If you can't get anyone through to activate the dang things, and from what 343 makes it sound like the Ark can only be used if there is a abort in th...

ODST Epsilon wrote:150,000,000 KM according to GoO, Halsey says it's 2 AU.

2 AU in diameter. Which would make it 1 AU in radius, a standard Dyson Sphere.

(If it were any larger, there would be no liquid water on the surface due to distance from the sun.)

-ACE

I can think of several reasons... A. Perhaps the ecosystem was necessary for the testing of new countermeasures against the Flood. Remember, they aren't solely killing machines--that's just the backup. B. Or maybe it's purely decorative. Why do we have landscaping out in front of military HQs? The F...

UNSC HighCom is in Sydney, Australia. (In First Strike)

-ACE

spartan117 wrote:the ark is in New Mombassa. just to let you know.

Uh... it's quite a ways away from Mombasa.

Voi is a much more likely location.

-ACE

SKR wrote:It's an angry penguin!

Does ONI run Linux?

-ACE

Onyx was a shield world, but wasn't the dyson sphere significantly smaller than an entire planet? Umm... the sphere is what's at the far end of the Slipspace gate on Onyx. A Dyson Sphere encircles a small star at about 1 AU. It would be much, much, much larger than any planet. (Think along the line...

Step 5: Take over planets that have had 25,000 years to regenerate. This is your error. 25,000 years is not a particularly long time by evolutionary standards. The most that could have evolved in that timeframe is a primitive fish. (Remember, gamma radiation resets evolution back to bacteria.) It d...

Is it really so inconceivable that the Halos would use radiation? Think about it. It's only 25,000 years until the galaxy is wiped clean. Even if the Flood were to run, the blast would inevitably catch up to them. With the entire galaxy stripped barren, they don't have time to wait for new species t...

But that brings up the question of the Shield Worlds. Why build them if you weren't going to use them? I have a feeling that they were en route when something bad happened. perhaps infestations on the transports, and they had no choice but to kill themselves. And perhaps a select few who went earli...