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Re: All good, except...
Posted By: Eindrachen <jbardin@yahoo.com>Date: 6/5/05 6:51 a.m.

In Response To: All good, except... (58)

: The ship onboard the High Charity cannot be the Ark. It is simply "a
: Forerunner ship". If it were the Ark, the Covenant would have
: activated the Haloes long ago.

I don't think so. Note the dialogue at the end of the game, after you beat Tarturus (courtesy of a game script posted at GameFAQs):

[Commander Keyes jumps and ducks across rotating platforms until she gets an
opening to jump onto the central structure. Running across it, she snatches
the Index. The whole complex shudders. A bolt of energy fires from the top.
It heads straight to the center of the ring and collides with a ball of energy
that's been growing there. There is a large explosion. When it clears, Halo
and everything around it is intact and unharmed. Inside the control center,
Keyes is looking at a new hologram that's appeared where the Index had been.]
Keyes: What's that?
343: A beacon.
Keyes: What's it doing?
343: Communicating at super-luminal speeds with a frequency of-
Keyes: Communicating with what?
343: The other installations.
Keyes: Show me.
[A hologram appears of multiple halo rings moving into a formation.]
343: Fail-safe protocol: In the event of an unexpected shutdown, the entire
system will move to standby status. All remaining platforms are now waiting
for remote detonation.
Keyes: Remote detonation? From here?
343: Don't be ridiculous!
Johnson: Listen Tinkerbell, don't make me-
Keyes: Then where would someone go to activate the rings.
343: Why the Ark of course!
Arbiter: And where, Oracle, is that?

You might interpret this to mean that, in a normal operation, the Halos cannot be detonated from the Ark unless something interferes with the Halos being fired normally (i.e. someone at a Halo manually inserting the Index).

At least, that's how I see it. Your mileage, of course, can vary...

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Replies:

Best laid schemes of mice and AIs...Eindrachen 6/5/05 3:38 a.m.
     Re: Best laid schemes of mice and AIs...Jillybean 6/5/05 6:24 a.m.
           Re: Best laid schemes of mice and AIs...Eindrachen 6/5/05 6:52 a.m.
     All good, except...58 6/5/05 6:36 a.m.
           Re: All good, except...Eindrachen 6/5/05 6:51 a.m.
                 Re: All good, except...58 6/5/05 12:49 p.m.
     Re: Best laid schemes of mice and AIs...Crudeoyle 6/5/05 10:32 a.m.
           Re: Best laid schemes of mice and AIs...7he grunt w/a plasma pistol 6/5/05 7:58 p.m.
     Re: Best laid schemes of mice and AIs...deadmonkey 6/5/05 10:59 a.m.
     Re: Best laid schemes of mice and AIs...Psychophan7 6/5/05 12:36 p.m.
     Re: Best laid schemes of mice and AIs...rhinohumper 6/5/05 4:04 p.m.
     Little Help PleaseTyce 6/14/05 10:19 p.m.
           Re: Little Help PleaseSimpsons Rule 6/14/05 10:52 p.m.
                 Re: Little Help Pleasegspawn 6/15/05 1:53 a.m.
     Re: Best laid schemes of mice and AIs...SniperExtraordinaire 6/15/05 2:07 a.m.
           Re: Best laid schemes of mice and AIs...SniperExtraordinaire 6/15/05 2:08 a.m.
           Re: Best laid schemes of mice and AIs...UrsusArctos 6/15/05 5:24 a.m.
                 Re: Best laid schemes of mice and AIs...jman571 6/28/05 4:04 p.m.
     Letter #5 and a bit of Letter #1's endingSpecialNewb 7/4/05 3:27 p.m.
     Letter 1's fuzzy logic...Cipher 7/20/05 6:38 p.m.
           Re: Letter 1's fuzzy logic...Steve 7/20/05 6:57 p.m.



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