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Edited by Lord of Admirals:
4/8/2014 2:38:25 AM
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Why High Charity Can't Go to the Ark
[url=https://docs.google.com/document/d/163ACM83IdR65Sf6-cj6w3fDouCnHesm7eJDZ1cN03Qs/edit?usp=sharing][b][u]Sources:[/u][/b]
[u]“Diameter: 72.79 miles (117km)"*
-Page 146, Portal at Voi, Halo EVG
“Diameter: 216 miles (348km)”
-Page 93, High Charity, Halo EVG[/u]
[b][u]Math:[/u][/b]
Start:
1/X = 117/348
Cross Multiply:
117X = 348
Divide by 117:
117X/117 = 348/117
Simplify and Finish:
X = 2.97
[b][u]Conclusion:[/u][/b]
Based on the math equation, if we round up, we can say that the portal to the Ark is ⅓ the diameter of High Charity’s diameter. There has yet been an instance in Halo’s canon where a Forerunner slipspace portal has allowed an object larger than it to pass through it. Therefore, we can not make an accurate inference/suggestion/conclusion that objects larger than a Forerunner portal can travel through it. If such a conclusion is made anyway, then an answer needs to exist as to why the Forerunners waste energy on opening portals larger than the object that is passing through it. (See: Halo 4) This irrefutably means that it is implausible for High Charity to have used the portal at Voi to travel to the Ark.
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[i]*The Halo EVG page titled “Portal at Voi” states it is referring directly to the slipspace portal, and not the machine generating it.
“COMPOSISTION: Slipspace field generated by a massive gateway machine”
-Page 146, Portal at Voi, Halo EVG[/i][/url]
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5 RepliesCould it be possible that High Charity used a portal at one of the rings or a shield world? The portal at the Ark is big enough for the rings to go through so they can get to their destination. Since High charity was at a ring, Gravemind could of got the coordinates from the ring since it was sent from the Arc thousands of years ago and gone to the nearest Shield world and opened a portal. Also he might of been able to activate a portal from the ruined Installation 04 since there is probably a protocol in place that would allow for a ring to be sent back to the Ark for bigger repairs. Though obviously installation 04 was destroyed beyond repair thus the reason a new one being built, but the Gravemind could of override the protocol to open a portal. Also if I remember correctly from one of the Halo books they brought some of the rings inside one of the big shield worlds to show them but a battle broke out so they raced to send them back out. Something along those lines. it was an audio book that i listened to a while ago but i remember something along those lines. It's possible that Gravemind changed course instead of going to earth and headed to a shield world that was closer but sent a flood occupied covenant cruiser to earth as a backup plan or in hopes to help stop them before they went through the portal and also build up a stronger army.
