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Re: Delta Halo
Posted By: SchedonnardusDate: 4/19/06 1:49 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Delta Halo (Stephen L. (SoundEffect))

Is "Alpha Halo" ever used in game or in any official Bungie materials? I'm not all that up to date prolly, but the only place I have ever heard people use the term Alpha halo was on the forums; like it was merely created to denote between Halo 1 and Halo 2.

The fact is 343 says "Greetings. I am the Monitor of installation 04. I am 343 Guilty Spark." and 2401 says "Greetings! I am 2401 Penitent Tangent. I am the monitor of installation 05."

So why is installation 4 referred to as Alpha Halo, and installation 5 referred to as Delta Halo? You could argue that Halo 04 was called Alpha, b/c it was the first Halo discovered, but then that would mean that 05 should be Beta Halo.

We know that the Covenant haven't been to the Beta or Gamma Halo, otherwise, they wouldn't have needed 343 to find Delta Halo. In the cutscence before Sacred Icon, they maintained their faith that other rings would be found. They used 343 in order to find them.

So either somebody at bungie doesn't know their greek numerals very well, delta means "change" and Alpha was fan-added, or ONI has been to all the Halos and Delta is the designation for the 4th ring that they explored.


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