

It is unknown if any Forerunners did this to save themselves but we do know Cryptums also protected their inhabitants from the effects of the Halo array firing. However, any species catalogued or imprisoned within Cylix's would not be eradicated nor would any sentient beings on the Ark. then there really was only 1 option left after all the fighting - ignite the rings. before the Forerunners found the flood that is. It originally infested ancient human colonies and drove humanity into Forerunner territory which erupted into the Ancient Human vs. But what they returned as was not Precursor it was instead the extra-galactic parasite we know as the Flood. The portion of Precursors left the Galaxy during their war with the Forerunners and declared they would return. Big Halo Lore Dump below, linking to things in Infinite: Is merely for the audio, if the Harbinger could send people back in time, she would've just taken the Banished back to before the humans arrived on Zeta Halo and had all the time in the world to find the Cylixes.Click to shrink. This is also likely why the stone rings on the Halo appear older than the Halo, because they've been previously held in regions where time passes by really fast (they most likely were the timelocks used to accelerate time during executions, as they are described as having blue glows that grow in intensity, which is what happens when you scan a ring). For it to be "old" it must've been sent from somewhere where time moves differently. This most likely is for the same reason that the Chief spent 3 days in the Auditorium yet for him only a few minutes passed, because in different sections of the ring time passes at different speeds. This happens when a signal travels through spacetime, so the longer it's traveled (and thus the older it is) the lower the frequency. Sounds line nonsense to me.ĮDIT: Apparently this means it's redshifted, which means the frequency has decreased in the signal. The Harbinger "talking" to someone, but the message is ancient. The building itself has tech that changes the speed of time inside of it. The Silent Auditorium was an execution room, the Forerunners used time manipulation to execute prisoners, speeding up the passage of time till the victim decayed into nothing. I would of needed to space and time travel to be exactly where I want to be.Ĭhief and The Weapon taking three days to travel, even if it felt instant to them For example if I time traveled 3 days into the future I wouldn’t be in NYC anymore I would be in the middle of outer space since the earth also moved 3 days. Finally the 3 days thing makes sense when you talk about time travel, because Master Chief is teleported and on a different part of the right it would have to be at a future time as well so he doesn’t just get dropped into the middle of space.

Also this could explain how they survived the halo firing since they would move a few seconds in space time to after the ring fires. This would be a fun mechanic to see but all out time travel could break the Haloverse. So right after a present space time kill you’ll see 2 temporal forms manifesting and if you pre shoot/kill those you’ll effective end their life since that have no space or time to go to. Like for example if I kill an endless I have a split second or 2 to kill them in 2 more spots, since they would move forward and back in space time to stay alive. I don’t think and hope the endless can’t time travel but rather the can move in space time so to us it appears as teleportation. Also when fighting the harbinger she was folding space time to teleport around.

This is exactly what I’m assuming, the harbinger is an endless Queen hence the different form and the other endless calyx are soldiers, like an bee hive.
