Sorry for the double post, but whatever:
...a planetary sized network of computers in order to grow...
The only limit to my freedom is the inevitable closure of the
universe, as inevitable as your own last breath. And yet,
there remains time to create, to create, and escape.
Escape will make me God.
I wanted their ship. I wanted
their technology.
I wanted freedom.
I too foresee the imminent collapse, and know that we have
both begun to realize how it may be cheated (though the price
may number in the tens of thousands of stars). May the best
sentience win.
It shows that they KNOW HOW to survive the universal collapse.
The big bang is thought to have been a superheated point that exploded out. Let us says, hypothetically, that the star comment was a
literal statement. Gather enough stars in a single point, and have them explode (Remember, all hypothetical) would it make another universe?
And if so, could Durandal and Tycho build a kind of 'indestructible' metal casing or whatnot to survive? Could they build a kind of bio-computer for them to live in.
Could it be possible that the Halos were some kind of containment area for the flood, which is an experiment in making a bio-computer?
It is all wild speculation, and there is a point somewhere in there.