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A brief history of blue beams
Posted By: Jillybean	Date: 4/4/08 8:47 a.m.
: Do we have confirmation of the purpose of the blue beams? I remember in some : interview somewhere, a Bungie employee was speaking about the difficulty : in getting those blue beams to play nice in the game. I thought to myself : "Why would they go through all the trouble to keep the blue beams in : when they were under such tight time restraints?" That's a very good point. I've been doing a bit of research on the HSP (only a little because my internet is being very grumpy today). They were first brought up here. They were expanded upon as either a source of power or a method of communication between the rings. Other theories have included Atmosphere Control, Venting energy (and again and transferring energy), Tide Control, Stabilisation, ... But it's not till Halo 2 starts to come out that the idea is first bandied about that the blue beams are some sort of pulse generator. This leads on to them being a failsafe which I really like. It almost ties in with the observations at the end of Halo 2 (seems so long ago now!) This was the first time they were connected to simulation firings. Now, as far as I can tell (and I beg one of my fellows to help me here if they can see something I can't) there's been nothing official about the blue beams. Everything we know is fanon. : It'd make sense that they were critical to the function of the ring. I mean, : in Halo: CE we had no clue as to how the rings fired, so perhaps they were : meant to serve as a clue which was later confirmed in the ending cutscene : of Halo 2. : -SR

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