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I've Got An Idea
Posted By: Steve <eaglesalltheway2@yahoo.com>Date: 6/9/06 3:46 p.m.

In Response To: High Charity the Ark (bikeman704)

:

: These are some pictures that have been floating around in my head for a
: few days, so I made them. Ever since Bungie mentioned that the shape of
: the Halo 3 Ark should be reminiscent of something else from the Halo
: universe, I’ve been trying to think of what that might be. I think I may
: have found the answer in High Charity. Both are big. Both are circular.
: Both have a big glowing thing above them. We don’t really know what either
: of them does or why they are there and, as Lewis Black would say, they are
: both big f***ing things.

:

: The scenario I am thinking of is this: First, obviously, the theory assumes
: that there is more than one ark. For whatever reason, an ark happens to be
: on a Covenant planet – possibly the home world of the prophets or the
: elites. The Covenant find it probably by chance and build their religion
: around the find. They also build a city on top of their ark.

: The covenant become a space-faring collective, or at least once of their
: species does… maybe the actual Covenant hasn’t formed yet. Again, for
: whatever reason, they decide they want to take their ark and the city
: they’ve built on top of it with them into space. They build an atmosphere
: container and protective barrier for their city (the ark needs no
: protecting itself as its pretty much indestructible as we know). They
: blast out the ground that their ark is buried in, slap a few engines on it
: and… well… you get High Charity.

: Maybe the Covenant found their ark and their forerunner ship in a package
: deal.

: I see some problems in my own design – namely scale. High Charity is
: implicitly much BIGGER than Earth’s ark, but they seem to fit so well
: otherwise that I’m temped to just ignore that part. If you look at their
: sizes relative to Covenant ships… do they really look that much different?
: Compared to a Halo they look very different.

: These pictures have been created using Halo 3 announcement trailer screen
: shots and many different HUD-less images from the newly reinstated
: www.halouvre.org . They are hosted by photobucket so if they give out,
: that’s why.

:

:

: [ hosting local now - no worries about lost images. -lwu ]

Assuming that there is one of these "arks" on The Covie homeworld, Earth, and Coral, that wouldn't make sense, since only one Ark is mentioned (343GS says, "The Ark, of course.") Perhaps the Forerunner put or built these things around or in planets within solar systems that could support life, and what the Halos actually do is send out signals to these catalyst planets and then the these ark planets only need to wipe out life within their solar system.
So, what I'm saying is that there is only one Ark, and maybe this particular planet (Earth) contains the Ark that sends the go-ahead signal to destroy all life in the galaxy, but each habitable solar system has one catalyst planet that will somehow activate and kill everything in the system. This process would aviod the problem of having gaps in the circular killing pattern in teh prefered theory.
The only hole in my theory I can see is when 343GS said, "This installation has a maximum effective radius of 25,000 lightyears" (or something like that). Tha implies that the installation itself kills things, and that there is a radius to this. Even so, what 343GS said could still mean that any catalyst planet within 25,000LY can be triggered, but I think that's going out on a little bit of a limb.
-Hope that made sense.
-Steve

Message Index



Replies:

High Charity the Arkbikeman704 6/9/06 3:05 p.m.
     Re: High Charity the ArkThe Ash 6/9/06 3:39 p.m.
     Re: High Charity the ArkFullforce 6/9/06 3:44 p.m.
           Re: High Charity the Arkdoober187 6/10/06 1:06 a.m.
     I've Got An IdeaSteve 6/9/06 3:46 p.m.
           Re: I've Got An IdeaHavokBlue 6/9/06 3:52 p.m.
                 Re: I've Got An IdeacDringer 6/9/06 4:03 p.m.
           Re: I've Got An Ideabikeman704 6/9/06 4:02 p.m.
                 Re: I've Got An IdeaDark One 6/9/06 6:33 p.m.
     Re: High Charity the ArkMarv Spaulding 6/9/06 4:05 p.m.
           Re: High Charity the ArkOozyGorilla 6/9/06 4:18 p.m.
                 Re: High Charity the ArkMid7night 6/11/06 9:21 a.m.
                       Re: High Charity the ArkDangerousHippo 6/11/06 12:40 p.m.
           Re: High Charity the Arkbikeman704 6/9/06 4:33 p.m.
                 Re: High Charity the ArkWillem 6/9/06 11:12 p.m.
           Re: ^^I like that. Plus:gspawn 6/9/06 11:16 p.m.
                 Why didn't I put it together before?bikeman704 6/9/06 11:43 p.m.
                       Re: Why didn't I put it together before?HavokBlue 6/10/06 12:11 a.m.
     Everybody gets and Arkbikeman704 6/9/06 4:14 p.m.
           Re: Everybody gets and Arkgunluva 6/9/06 4:24 p.m.
           Re: Everybody gets and ArkOmega 6/9/06 6:41 p.m.
                 Re: Everybody gets and Arkbikeman704 6/9/06 10:33 p.m.
     Re: Adds up with a post on Rampancy.MrAlexZander 6/9/06 6:08 p.m.
           Re: Adds up with a post on Rampancy.UrsusArctos 6/9/06 8:50 p.m.
           Actually, it doesn't *NM*UrsusArctos 6/10/06 12:19 a.m.
     Re: High Charity the Arkandrey 6/9/06 6:14 p.m.
           Re: High Charity the ArkFeenix 6/9/06 6:23 p.m.
                 Re: High Charity the Arkandrey 6/9/06 6:29 p.m.
                       Re: High Charity the ArkFeenix 6/9/06 6:39 p.m.
                             Re: High Charity the Arkandrey 6/9/06 6:46 p.m.
                                   Re: High Charity the ArkHavokBlue 6/9/06 7:01 p.m.
                                         Re: High Charity the Arkandrey 6/9/06 7:07 p.m.
                                               Re: High Charity the ArkHavokBlue 6/9/06 8:11 p.m.
     Re: High Charity the ArkQuikthnkr 6/9/06 7:00 p.m.
     Re: High Charity the ArkStephen L. (SoundEffect) 6/9/06 7:21 p.m.
           Re: High Charity the ArkHavokBlue 6/9/06 8:14 p.m.
                 Re: High Charity the ArkOmega 6/9/06 10:26 p.m.
                       Re: High Charity the ArkCipher 6/9/06 10:59 p.m.
                       Re: High Charity the ArkHavokBlue 6/9/06 11:26 p.m.
           High Charity the moon?UrsusArctos 6/9/06 9:12 p.m.
                 High Charity as a moon *IMG*UrsusArctos 6/9/06 9:28 p.m.
                       Re: High Charity as a moonHavokBlue 6/9/06 10:15 p.m.
                             Re: High Charity as a moonUrsusArctos 6/9/06 10:18 p.m.
                                   Re: High Charity as a moonHavokBlue 6/9/06 11:25 p.m.
                                         Re: High Charity as a moonbikeman704 6/9/06 11:49 p.m.
                                               Re: High Charity as a moonHavokBlue 6/10/06 12:06 a.m.
                                                     Re: High Charity as a moonandrey 6/10/06 9:55 a.m.
                                         Re: High Charity as a moonUrsusArctos 6/9/06 11:58 p.m.
                                               Re: High Charity as a moonHavokBlue 6/10/06 12:08 a.m.
                                                     Re: High Charity as a moonWellsley 6/10/06 12:45 a.m.
                                                           Re: High Charity as a moonHavokBlue 6/10/06 10:26 a.m.
                                                                 Re: High Charity as a moonStephen L. (SoundEffect) 6/10/06 2:31 p.m.
     well it MIGHT work BUT.....reaper001 6/10/06 8:00 p.m.
     Re: High Charity the Arkrhinohumper 6/11/06 9:04 p.m.
           Re: High Charity the Arkgijake 6/11/06 9:45 p.m.
                 Re: High Charity the ArkSparkamus 6/11/06 11:51 p.m.
                       The Ark didn't leave.58 6/12/06 10:26 a.m.
                             Re: The Ark didn't leave.reaper001 6/12/06 3:10 p.m.
     Re: High Charity the Arkfireman11 6/16/06 8:41 p.m.



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