Something Guilty Spark said ("The Ark is out of range!  Of all the active instalations!") made me think: if there are active instaltions, mabye there are in-active instalations?  Like mabye proto-type Halo rings are floating in space, dormant.

Also, to add another topic, has anyone given any thought as to how the Forerunners got the flood on the rings in the first place?  They were fighting a lossing battle, so how did the flood end up on the Halos?  To expand on that, how did the flood get trapped in those containment cells?  One possibility I thought of is the Forerunners lured the flood there with food: a.k.a. the Forerunners, then shut and locked the door.

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Well, you bring up a very good point. My theory is that there are other forerunner installations out there. In order to have a galaxy spanning empire like they did (read all the teminals) there would have had to been "Jump Stations" where there ships could resupply. It woundt be enough to merely jump planet to planet as there might not have been a direct route to some of the colonized planets. There could also be strategic military installations like slipspace torpedoe launchers to assist in battles that take place in the middle of nowhere. I could go on and on...

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I'd say that they glassed every world with a hint of a Flood spore, then kept a few alive and dropped them in the containment cells, then studied them.

They probably do have inactive stations. But not the Jump Stations like you theorized. They could probably make the trip across their empire in a week, or a month tops. Henceforth, they wouldn't need those stations, because even if they didn't use cryo-sleep, then they should have enough food for 6 months, because you would be stupid to have less on a warship, or even a Cruiser Liner.   

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They did not glass the flood infected planets, and you would know this if you read all the terminals. If they did do that why would there have been the need to activate the halos and flee the galaxy (hence mention of the "great journey" in the 2nd to last terminal) because they would have won the war.

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I think 343 is just referring to the fact that Installation 04 was destroyed by the Chief (making it inactive) and all the other installations were set to a standby status from the events at Delta Halo (making them active).  The Ark is outside the Milky Way and so isn't near any of those.  Which leads to the discovery of a replacement Alpha Halo and the plan to activate it, purging the Ark of the Flood.

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There is also the not widely known "hunter-installation" though. In contact harvest the prophets discoverd a forerunner Non-halo installation, which would have been much cause for celebration except the worms that hunters consist of had eaten most of it.

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They did not glass the flood infected planets, and you would know this if you read all the terminals. If they did do that why would there have been the need to activate the halos and flee the galaxy (hence mention of the "great journey" in the 2nd to last terminal) because they would have won the war.

They could have been talking about another Great Journey. They could be talking about another thing entirely, and for all we know they could mean Ascension like in Stargate. They could be talking about a project to leave the galaxy and settle in another. For all we know, the firing of the Halos could have been a group of rouge Forerunners, or a malfunction. For all we know, they all committed ritual suicide after glassing the worlds because of all the innocents they had killed. For all we know, several Flood infection forms may have boarded a ship, and gotten to the last Forerunner world, and they may have caused the Sun(s) of the system to go Supernova, henceforth killing them. You see my drift here?   

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What happenend to the forerunners anyways? If they made it to the ark, wouldn't they still be alive? Some of the halo gun makes sense but then their are some parts that always makes me wonde..

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They used the Ark to as a staging point for there evacuation to another galaxy and to fire the Halos when everyone else had left.

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Here we come to another point. What if they never evacuated? I do not believe that it had been confirmed that any Forerunner made it out alive. All we have are the pre-attempted evacuation reports. Very little after that.

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Well lets here your theoy and evidence to back it up because all your doing is talking trash about others theories, still without any evidence of your own.

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Oh, and if no one survived, then where the *** did we come from and what was the point of constructing another portal for reclaimers to come back to this galaxy for? Think it through.

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Oh, and if no one survived and everyone commited ritual suicide as you say, then where the *** did we come from and what was the point of constructing a final portal for "reclaimers" to come back to this galaxy for. Do you know the odds of a species re-evolving exactly as they once were after 500,000 years or more. Think your comments through.

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I never said that your theory was wrong except for the Way stations.

Perhaps we were on shield worlds, or perhaps some Forerunners did survive, but were blasted back to the time of the Cro-Magnon. Perhaps we evolved from the other bi-pedal race on Earth. Hell, perhaps some Forerunners created us in a lab, set us down on Earth, and left. I never said that I believed that none of the Forerunners survived, I was playing Devil's Advocate, unless you've never heard of that.

Perhaps they constructed the Portal earlier on, to allow easier travel, from the Ark to Earth. For all we know, they could travel through time, and foresaw the finding of the Flood by use.

 

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