Comments on: Installation 07

By: SFF

SFF — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:29:52 +0000

looks like a desert. kinda like sandtrap

By: Cross

Cross — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:40:16 +0000

Sorry, replace separately with differently in the third idea of my last comment

By: Cross

Cross — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:38:38 +0000

Here’s a thought: the Forerunner built each Halo with different climates because they wanted variety? Be more aesthetic? Interesting? Having 7 gigantic metal rings would look bland and get old after a while.

Or, this ring could have been covered with massive oceans and landmasses like 04 was, but climate control was/is malfunctioning.

Or maybe the climates of each ring evolved separately over time.

Or maybe they are located at different points of their respective solar systems, and their climates are reflective of that (like how planets in our solar system have different climates; 04 is in a “Goldilocks” location, like Earth; this one is in a Venus-like location).

By: the silver fox

the silver fox — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 00:00:14 +0000

Then again, the explosion from the reactors WAS awfully big…but I’m unsure if it would have had the same effect as a asteroid. It seems to me that an asteroid the size of the one that killed the dinosaurs would just tear right through a Halo, but these are just theories.

Keep speculating.

442 out

By: the silver fox

the silver fox — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:10:02 +0000

Well. Some people need to read more about the flood.
Anyway, I don’t think this installation (which by the way is actually installation 01, vociferous got the rings backward) was hit by an asteroid. The simple reason is that if it was, it wouldn’t be there anymore. Think about it: that kind of impact would have been huge, and even the Forerunner materials have there limit (think Pillar of Autumn).

By: Shadow Of Faith

Shadow Of Faith — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:03:21 +0000

Well on the topic of different environments - and i don’t know if this has been said yet, i don’t have enough time to read all the comments - the different climates may be a way to study the Flood? Think about it, the only reason i can see so make so many different inhabitable places for the Flood is to see which one they thrive/cannot survive in. Thats my personal opinion.

By: BaconPR

BaconPR — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:20:35 +0000

Roswellian’s on to something. The rings depicted here have a single surface, very different from what we saw on installation 04. Why would the rest of the rings have a single climate? We didn’t even see much diversity on 05.

The flood can obviously survive and thrive anywhere, even in space with 0 atmosphere and no much more temperature. Maybe the forerunner were testing where the flood liked to go on vacation? A tropical island by the silent cartographer, or hit the slopes by the control room?

As far as this one goes, the ark looks a bit sandier for the most part. This looks a little rockier, maybe like New Mexico or where those Jawas captured R2D2. I dont see enough green to say Jungle, but we haven’t seen a plains environment yet.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:18:30 +0000

This ring is quite strange, has a jungle/forest look on the top, and a desert like environment. I think it’s either a deserts/plains environment with some water or jungle, or maybe once a plains/jungle environment that changed with that meteor/asteroid hitting the ring’s surface and killing much of the vegetation.

And as many said above, it does look something like Africa, I would say that the upper part looks like the Mediterranean with Africa below.

By: roswellian

roswellian — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:10:38 +0000

i think the rings were built to be habitable as a way to test flood infection on a large scale. the forerunner were were very advanced, and probably did not need a giant planet-like world to do simple laboratory tests on the flood. instead, maybe the forerunner would allow the ring to flourish with life, and then infect it with some flood spores as a way to see how fast they could control the world, etc without risking anyones life. this would explain why some rings have wide varieties of climates (like earth) and some are large stretches of desert or ice, as those types of planets are probably common in the galaxy. as well, the forerunner would probably have been very interested to see if the flood could conquer an ice world. also, this is conjecture, but we’ve heard Guilty Spark say he has gone through multiple test firings of his installation. maybe, once the flood had conquered the ring, it was fired locally to start another round of tests. this to me would be the best way to actually test the damn things.

heres another interesting thought; when u first touch down on delta halo in halo 2, your fighting in some ancient ruins, which is a departure from the “normal” forerunner architecture, as its built from rock. maybe the forerunner placed a primitive, but sentient species on that halo, and they were the builders of the ruins? i could be totally wrong, but the ruins dont seem “forerunner-y”. of course, directly putting another sentient race in harms would seem to be against their mantle, but keep in mind that the halos were built as a last resort, so perhaps they began to cut some corners out of desperation. also keep in mind that a gravemind was able to form underneath the surface of this ring and no where else (im assuming there is only one gravemind at a time). we know that flood feed on sentient life, so this would explain why the grave mind formed here in particular.

anyway, sorry if i went off topic also, purely another guess, but maybe the circles inside the glyph have something to do with the solar system the ring is located in? in this case, a binary system? im not sure, but to me it would make sense for the glyph to either be the name of the ring, or its location in space; so maybe its naming the star system, not the ring itself

By: SMG90

SMG90 — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:32:51 +0000

Just because the rings were in a stable system does not mean that their climates are stable. A simple asteroid/meteor strike or even a simple change in the rotation, tilt, or revolution of the ring could issue in a change in climate. Just because the forrunner built the monitors and setinals does not mean they are perfect. Their purpose was to watch over and take care of the rings. We know that they were not invincible. 2401 was captured by the Gravemind and rendered rather useless. If somethng were to happen to the monitor and setinals (assuming that their maintenance significantly affects the ring and its environment) the climate and even stability of the ring could shatter. We know the flood impact environments first hand. In Halo CE it was apparent that Halo had it’s own artificail weather and climate systems (Cortana makes it clear on AotCR). A malfunction in one of the systems could have a significant impact on the rings environment. It seems that the Halos had different environment in different locations for a reason (possibly for aesthetics or research purposes).

In my opinion, the rings were constructed to be habitable but, the tests of time affected the installations in various ways. A lot of things could have affected the rings over time. I think we sometimes give the Forrunner too much credit and see them more as Gods like the Covenant do and not like another species that had the time to evolve and grow with its own imperfections.