"When you first saw HALO, were you blinded by its majesty?" That line brought back so many good times from Halo 2 on PC release now we have the MCC and I am blinded by its majesty. Infinity is looking pretty nice. I just hope the campaign is gonna be awesome.
I was a little saddened with the MCC - Only because when I played Halo Combat Evolved on the original Xbox, on every map I used to spend ages looking up in the sky and look at the land masses and water on the other side of the Halo ring and just stare at its wonder - then they added weather on the anniversary edition so you could barely see it because it was covered. (Obviously I know this was because that generation of consoles were limited and didn’t have the processing power to render anything close to what the 360 or the Xbox one could).
I first remember Halo 2 being my original introduction to the series. The collector's edition (OG Xbox) in the silver case was a present from my mom in middle school after I broke my arm one day at lunch. I spent a solid week playing and replaying that game.
Just imagine the Halo arrays in 40k?. Factions will scramble to control or destroy this things less they fell into the wrong hands. Reprogrammed them to target ork spores and you got galaxy wide fungicide.
Assuming ork spores or fungus even have a nervous system. The tyrannids would be fucked and the Ruinous Powers may be taken aback by so much consciousness(the source of their power) being snuffed out.
"When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?" "Blinded?" "Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?" "No!" "Yet the humans were able to evade your ships, land on the sacred ring and desecrate it with their filthy footsteps!" "Noble Hierarchs. Surely you understand that once the parasite attacked...." *Proceeds to get booed by the council and declared a heretic, effectively beginning the end of the Covenant.* That opening cutscene for Halo 2 does so much in terms of world building for the Covenant.... Probably my favorite cutscene from the entirety of the Halo series next to the Gravemind scene later on in the game. Also: HAPPY 11th BIRTHDAY TO HALO REACH. Edit: looking at how this scene between the Hierarchs and The Arbiter is the first scene of the entire game, it makes Regret’s words “When you first saw Halo…” have much more meaning: it brings the player back to when *THEY* first saw Alpha Halo. The story telling of *this* first scene is simply phenomenal. God DAMN the Bungie Halos were so fucking good.
All three of my favorite cutscenes from the series are from Halo 2 two of them from the first levels. The arbiter being made and the grave mind scene are both included in that and of course you can't forget "to give the covenant back their bomb"
@@Jammermaker Can’t deny that. You’ve also got to include the first mission we play as the Arbiter, where the Elite leader (I don’t know his name) is doing that chant. Halo 2 definitely has the most memorable scenes from the Bungie era (don’t get me wrong, all the others have great cutscenes too, but Halo 2 will always stick out to me).
Weird thing about the Halos is that they are meant to be spread across the galaxy to get good coverage , yet at least 4 are within only a few weeks FTL from human space, located in the Orion arm.
@@seemslegit6203, The Battle of Installation 04 was only a few weeks after the Fall of Reach, and we know the Autumn went straight from Reach to 04. Regrets’s ship went from Earth to 05 and although Covenant ships are faster than human ones, it isn’t by that much. Johnson doesn’t even seem to have changed clothes in the time it took to reach 05. As for 07 and the one in Halo 5, I don’t have anything other than that Humans could still reach then in a reasonable time even with their relatively slow FTL. Even if a ship spend a year in FTL with the crew in cryo to reach them, they still can’t go massive distance on a galactic scale, which is what the Halos are meant to be working on.
For Zero Four? Yes, 343 did a good job keeping a lid on the Flood until the Covies broke the doors open. For Zero Five though...2401 lost control of the situation AEONS before anyone landed there. Zero Five was autonomously and barely quarantining the Flood until the Covenent landed.
@@ryankoh917yep, 05 had a design failure in one of its containment facilities. I think 2401 just ignored the request when the food escaped cause he cracked and wanted to watch the flood’s progression on its ring.
"Halo, it's divine powers will unlock the age old secrets of the Forerunners and deliver onto me the blessings of bladder control!" - Prophet of Mercy, Halo Dubs
You should give it a try. If not, I definitely recommend the books. To be fair, it might just be nostalgia speaking, but they present the setting in a great way.
343 Guilty Spark: "Technically, this installation's pulse has a maximum effective radius of twenty-five thousand light years. But, once the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life..." *I play back this part of the video* Spacedock "... as well as being able to scale down the area of effect to target specific systems or even single planets." *I stop the video and look at Guilty Spark* Me to Guilty Spark: "If the pulse can be scaled down... WHY THE FUCK did you try to fire it AT FULL POWER and try to WIPE OUT, ALL OF LIFE in the galaxy instead of just... I don't know... seting it so it will just sterilize the ring and then just tell the remaining humans to get off the ring before having someone trigger it?"
As soon as I heard that I was thinking the same thing, if he'd tried to start a limited pulse instead of trying to trigger the whole array then Master Chief wouldn't of needed to destroy the thing.
Rampancy, for the most part. Or the Forerunner AI equivilent. To be fair, all Monitors were, to our knowlage, Composed essences of some form or another so
@@KillerOrca I know this but that doesn't change the fact that the near complete outbreak of the flood would've been Guilty 343's fault rampancy or not. Also you'd think that the Librarian would've made the containment systems to destroy the flood spores and infection forms if anything disturbed them.
@@Archangel1862 no. It is later revealed that the cure was an elaborate ruse on the part of the Flood to make the Forerunners believe humanity had found a way to defeat them. Humanity was never close to defeating the Flood, given that their strategy for winning was basically to feed it half their population on the blind hope that the cure would work.
@@Archangel1862 I thought they were just destroying or sterilizing worlds taken over by the flood so it wouldn't spread, which angered the Forerunners who thought they were just commiting genocide and caused the war between the two races. So they didn't really defeat the flood they just killed it's food source
This is brilliant content. I love the high quality of production. The writing, music and editing is top notch. Thanks to all those involved in making this video I really enjoyed it. Thoroughly entertaining. Cheers. PS most importantly I love the narration of each episode sorry I inadvertently forgot to mention it.
I had to get fairly far down in the comments to find out someone else knew the Ringworld was the mother of this concept. And the Ringworld was spawned by the Dyson Sphere...
I read Larry Niven's RingWorld many years ago, still a classic and over the years a lot of attention was given it from an actual Engineering perspective. That's probably why I like Halo. Now if someone would design an Xbox controller that doesn't mangle the hands...
Not being a gamer, but an avid Sci-Fi reader, I am totally familiar with Larry Niven's 'Ringworld', and only got to discover Halo from watching the 'Rooster Teeth's' 'Red vs Blue' series. After watching this, all I can say is that the game writers took Larry's science and technology, and wound it up to 1̶1̶ 50! I'm not even sure if the total power of any single solar system could drive this tech 0_0. Still, like Arthur C.Clarke said, "Any suitably advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
I didn't realize that you folks did mega structures. I gotta hand it to ya, that was one of the most in depth videos on the Halos in a long time. What do you think about doing one on the Ark?
Hey new announcer guy! You are ROCKIN’ IT, my friend!! You are easy to listen to, very articulate, your timing and pace is perfect, etc. Excellent work!!
Halo Rings: exist. Larry Niven's Ringworld: Aww, aren't they just SO cute? [600 million miles long, it can maneuver in normal space AND it has a Quantum II hyperdrive]
At 8:20 that's basically the only time we've seen a Halo being fired, not triggered nor semi-activated, but fully working to fire, in the game itself it's evident that the CGI depict the ring starting to siphon local vacuum-energy to harness energy before priming and firing.
I always wondered how there was gravity allowing someone to walk all the way around the ring as well as why a galaxy doomsday weapon just has habitable terrain. Pretty interesting
The rings spin, creating their own gravity. Given these are Forerunner structures, it's not a stretch stating they have gravity technology embedded in them as well. As for why they are habitable? Well 1 is plain rule of cool, and 2 is speculation, but it would make sense the forerunners added terrain to the rings in case any lifeforms were to be kept there. Given the rings generate the blast, they likely wouldn't be effected by it and lifeforms on the rings would be safe.
Now, things get FUN. I do wish to note that Thel's name isn't one word, the apostrophy is just kinda THERE. Sangheili naming convention be weird like that.
Daniel apparently is busy heading up the Sojourn audio drama and hired a new narrator to give himself more time for that. I miss Dan’s narration honestly.
Installation 08 and 09 also were known as 04B and 04C - since they were replacements for the original Installation 04 and not intended to be new additions or expansions of the [DESTRUCTIVE ARRAYED MATRIX].
The way it's constructed, I doubt there's any natural resources like mineral ores to be mined besides as a place for agriculture, service, tourism, medical and manufacturing.
@@Joshua_N-A You don't need mineral resources. You're in space. Surrounded by an embarrassment of asteroids full of more iron, and rare earths than a entire civilization could ever need. Mining ships and orbital refineries would handle all that.
Probably never. I started asking years ago and my comments got ignored and buried. The squirrelly-voiced cowadoody zoomers who watch this channel have zero interest in anything older than last week.
A lot of the early books tried to make the universe as scientifically sound as possible, right down to the little detail that UNSC Navy personnel tended to have an unusual gait due to the gravity systems on their ships.
3:45 Fake news! Halo Silentium we actually got a direct quote from the Librarian saying she was horrified that the rings would be used to preserve life because it stripped her of her last argument against them being built in the first place... she blamed the builder rate and only speculated it was the Master Builder Faber's idea. Pretty sure it's in the first couple of chapter, on the extra galactic trip.
Fun fact, I just plugged the numbers into the artificial gravity spin calculator. With halos diameter of 10000km to have 1g it'd have to be spinning at 0.01337 rotations per minute.
This is the video that made me realize most of the videos on this channel are gibberish unless you're already familiar with the lore of the associated franchises. I'm familiar with all of them _except_ Halo, and this video was nothing but incomprehensible jargon to me. I thought I knew a bit about megastructures in hard SF: Niven's "Ringworld" series, Clarke's "Rama" series, Bear's "The Way" series, Banks' "The Culture" series, just about anything with a Dyson sphere… But this? Nope, I got nuthin'.
TL:DR Its a really big fucking ring capable of producing an energy blast that eradicates all sentient life in 25,000Lr radius. Intended to work as a final solution against an out of control parasite that devoured all organic life. On top of that, it comes complete with its own artificial biomes and houses many facilities with various uses.
I've never gotten into Halo, but that's some interesting. Can you do Ringworld next? I'm past the point where I want things like that. But it is cool. I'm sure people'll love it.
Sorry, but if I remember correctly, you missed a major plot point. The halo rings were originally built in secret by the builder clan as a means to cement their power, and there were more than 12. Their use against the flood as "sword worlds" were supposed to be complimented by the use of "shield worlds" like the one we saw the diadect imprisoned on but they ran out of time. I do not remember the particulars of how most of the original rings were lost but they were absolutely built before the conflict with the flood.
It is noted that the halos have defenses as seen in the Halo CE remastered terminals. Other 5hqn of course plot why would 343 not have used them against the covenant ships attacking the pillar of autumn or because they were not human. Unless the defenses was a tactical pulse of the array
343 was already off his meds long before Halo CE, and the covenant wasn't technically posing a threat to the installation nor was a reclaimer strictly required because the halo did not need to be fired at that time
It's really nice. It has forests and mountains similar to the Pacific Northwest of the US, snowy Arctic regions, vast deserts, you name it. There's even wildlife.
As many have said with the true respect and reverence of this game. It's is bar none one of the most awe inspiration and terror in the same sentence. Truly if this was real. It will be the most important peice of Halo realastate bar none. This is spartan 117 out.
Pre-Order the Moonbase Alpha Technical Manual and Support Spacedock:
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Would you please consider doing a spacedock on the progenitor of the Halo Ring, "Larry Nivens Ringworld"
@@gbg9343 Known Space series introduced United Nations Space Command into science fiction.
@@subraxas I just saw. That sucks, but at least I got the Standard Edition.
Awesome breakdown.
Now I have the stupid music stuck in my head.
"When you first saw HALO, were you blinded by its majesty?" That line brought back so many good times from Halo 2 on PC release now we have the MCC and I am blinded by its majesty. Infinity is looking pretty nice. I just hope the campaign is gonna be awesome.
we need Halo 5 on PC first
PaRaLyZeD? DuMbStRuCk?
Halo: Infinity, Everyone is here!
I was a little saddened with the MCC - Only because when I played Halo Combat Evolved on the original Xbox, on every map I used to spend ages looking up in the sky and look at the land masses and water on the other side of the Halo ring and just stare at its wonder - then they added weather on the anniversary edition so you could barely see it because it was covered. (Obviously I know this was because that generation of consoles were limited and didn’t have the processing power to render anything close to what the 360 or the Xbox one could).
I first remember Halo 2 being my original introduction to the series. The collector's edition (OG Xbox) in the silver case was a present from my mom in middle school after I broke my arm one day at lunch. I spent a solid week playing and replaying that game.
Dr. Anders: "We're going to make a Halo."
Isabel: "Halo. You mean Galaxy destroying super weapons."
"I don't care if it's a giant hula hoop or God's own anti-sonuvabitch machine!"
WE ARENT GONNA LET THEM HAVE IT
WHAT WE ARE GONNA LET THEM HAVE IS A BELLY FULL OF LEAD AND A POOL OF THEIR OWN BLOOD TO DROWN IN!!
@@Comet5551 AM I RIGHT MARINES
@@marsar1775 SIR YES SIR!!
@@Comet5551 Mmhmm Damn right I am. Now move it out, double time!
"And if you don't think this is unbelievably cool, you're on the wrong channel"
By that logic alone, this is exactly where I want to be.
AGREED! BTW, the Special Edition version is already sold out. So I had to pre-order the regular one. :(
But I'm still Stoked!
Meh the ships look crappy. Never knew why people drooled over this 1999 stuff
@@LordTalax heretic
Living on a Halo ring is like a dream for me
*...that is, until it starts g l o w i n g*
Hehe boi
It's fun living on a Halo ring!
Until Faber shows up.
You would be fine. In fact you would be immune to the halo rings blast.
As long as it's not Zeta Halo.
Faber, The Master Builder
Just imagine the Halo arrays in 40k?. Factions will scramble to control or destroy this things less they fell into the wrong hands. Reprogrammed them to target ork spores and you got galaxy wide fungicide.
the Inquisition alone is gonna tear itself appart over using or destoying them XD
Orks and Tyranids are prime targets
Assuming ork spores or fungus even have a nervous system. The tyrannids would be fucked and the Ruinous Powers may be taken aback by so much consciousness(the source of their power) being snuffed out.
Wouldn’t this be similar to the blackstone fortresses? 🤔
I'm assuming the Necrons will be fine, what with the metal bodies and all.
Thanks to Larry Niven for writing Ringworld, introducing the concept to the galaxy!
"When you first saw Halo, were you blinded by its majesty?"
"Blinded?"
"Paralyzed? Dumbstruck?"
"No!"
"Yet the humans were able to evade your ships, land on the sacred ring and desecrate it with their filthy footsteps!"
"Noble Hierarchs. Surely you understand that once the parasite attacked...."
*Proceeds to get booed by the council and declared a heretic, effectively beginning the end of the Covenant.*
That opening cutscene for Halo 2 does so much in terms of world building for the Covenant.... Probably my favorite cutscene from the entirety of the Halo series next to the Gravemind scene later on in the game.
Also: HAPPY 11th BIRTHDAY TO HALO REACH.
Edit: looking at how this scene between the Hierarchs and The Arbiter is the first scene of the entire game, it makes Regret’s words “When you first saw Halo…” have much more meaning: it brings the player back to when *THEY* first saw Alpha Halo. The story telling of *this* first scene is simply phenomenal. God DAMN the Bungie Halos were so fucking good.
Halo 1 will be 20 in 2 months. Fun fact: That means i was less than 20 when if first played it, the day it was released.
All three of my favorite cutscenes from the series are from Halo 2 two of them from the first levels. The arbiter being made and the grave mind scene are both included in that and of course you can't forget "to give the covenant back their bomb"
@@Jammermaker my "4 & 5" would probably be the opening and ending of Long Night of Solace from Halo Reach, being a huge rocket /starship nerd
@@Jammermaker Can’t deny that. You’ve also got to include the first mission we play as the Arbiter, where the Elite leader (I don’t know his name) is doing that chant. Halo 2 definitely has the most memorable scenes from the Bungie era (don’t get me wrong, all the others have great cutscenes too, but Halo 2 will always stick out to me).
@@M3PH11 bruh, I turned 20 earlier this year; I grew up playing Halo 2 on the OG Xbox (along with the original Star Wars Battlefront II)
Wait a minute... HALO RINGS ARE ACTUAL SPACESHIPS!!
And I thought they were giant hula-hoops.
Always has been
@tans117 _Gets nervous system zapped_
@@shoootme hula hoops? I thought they were god's own anti-sonovabitch machine
@@kimarykorlumiose7728 well, maybe we can agree we ain't going to let the covy have it
One ring to rule them all
One ring to find them.
One ring to bring them all
And in the darkness bind them .
wrong franchise
In the land of... the Milky Way where the... Flood lies?
Weird thing about the Halos is that they are meant to be spread across the galaxy to get good coverage , yet at least 4 are within only a few weeks FTL from human space, located in the Orion arm.
Forerunners were really smart, but they regularly failed to double check their numbers
Where do you get this info from though? Pretty sure we got to see a map which showed their locations.
Also
They can move.
@@seemslegit6203, The Battle of Installation 04 was only a few weeks after the Fall of Reach, and we know the Autumn went straight from Reach to 04. Regrets’s ship went from Earth to 05 and although Covenant ships are faster than human ones, it isn’t by that much. Johnson doesn’t even seem to have changed clothes in the time it took to reach 05. As for 07 and the one in Halo 5, I don’t have anything other than that Humans could still reach then in a reasonable time even with their relatively slow FTL. Even if a ship spend a year in FTL with the crew in cryo to reach them, they still can’t go massive distance on a galactic scale, which is what the Halos are meant to be working on.
I'd like to note that the containment of the flood on the rings was actually pretty good. Until the Covies and Humies boned everything.
For Zero Four? Yes, 343 did a good job keeping a lid on the Flood until the Covies broke the doors open.
For Zero Five though...2401 lost control of the situation AEONS before anyone landed there. Zero Five was autonomously and barely quarantining the Flood until the Covenent landed.
@@ryankoh917yep, 05 had a design failure in one of its containment facilities. I think 2401 just ignored the request when the food escaped cause he cracked and wanted to watch the flood’s progression on its ring.
“Halo...it’s finished.”
“No, I think we’re just getting started.”
"Halo, it's divine powers will unlock the age old secrets of the Forerunners and deliver onto me the blessings of bladder control!"
- Prophet of Mercy, Halo Dubs
My captions rendered Pillar of Autumn as "Pillar of Awesome" and I'm not annoyed.
Wouldnt suprise me if thats cannon, would be up there with the based USS say my name
I have never even played Halo, and I think this is pretty fascinating. Impressive sci-fi world building.
You should give it a try. If not, I definitely recommend the books. To be fair, it might just be nostalgia speaking, but they present the setting in a great way.
You are missing out
343 Guilty Spark: "Technically, this installation's pulse has a maximum effective radius of twenty-five thousand light years. But, once the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life..."
*I play back this part of the video*
Spacedock "... as well as being able to scale down the area of effect to target specific systems or even single planets."
*I stop the video and look at Guilty Spark*
Me to Guilty Spark: "If the pulse can be scaled down... WHY THE FUCK did you try to fire it AT FULL POWER and try to WIPE OUT, ALL OF LIFE in the galaxy instead of just... I don't know... seting it so it will just sterilize the ring and then just tell the remaining humans to get off the ring before having someone trigger it?"
As soon as I heard that I was thinking the same thing, if he'd tried to start a limited pulse instead of trying to trigger the whole array then Master Chief wouldn't of needed to destroy the thing.
Rampancy, for the most part. Or the Forerunner AI equivilent.
To be fair, all Monitors were, to our knowlage, Composed essences of some form or another so
@@KillerOrca I know this but that doesn't change the fact that the near complete outbreak of the flood would've been Guilty 343's fault rampancy or not. Also you'd think that the Librarian would've made the containment systems to destroy the flood spores and infection forms if anything disturbed them.
Excuse: They Didnt Know They Could Have Scaled It Down
A few thousand years of solitude does funny things to the Monitor's problem solving skills
Who would win? An intergalactic parasite capable of devouring all forms of life in order to accelerate its own evolution,
Or
7 froot loop bois
On a technicality Humanity did defeat the Flood
@@Archangel1862 actually no, neither ancient humanity or UNSC defeated flood, they just stretched the time of ragnarok
@@ur-didact1991 yes they did and they fought the Forerunners at the same time
@@Archangel1862 no. It is later revealed that the cure was an elaborate ruse on the part of the Flood to make the Forerunners believe humanity had found a way to defeat them. Humanity was never close to defeating the Flood, given that their strategy for winning was basically to feed it half their population on the blind hope that the cure would work.
@@Archangel1862 I thought they were just destroying or sterilizing worlds taken over by the flood so it wouldn't spread, which angered the Forerunners who thought they were just commiting genocide and caused the war between the two races. So they didn't really defeat the flood they just killed it's food source
Iv never played halo ( yes I know don’t kill me) but I’ve always found the tech and story fascinating and the rings
The games are great but it is special as you can read and get the same awe from reading the books without even playing the game. So much lore as well.
You are missing out.
I love how you used, “Under The Cover of Night” as the opening song!!! Super nostalgic and always brings me back to Truth and Reconciliation level!
This is brilliant content. I love the high quality of production. The writing, music and editing is top notch. Thanks to all those involved in making this video I really enjoyed it. Thoroughly entertaining. Cheers. PS most importantly I love the narration of each episode sorry I inadvertently forgot to mention it.
I would love for you to do a breakdown of Nivens Ringworld.
I had to get fairly far down in the comments to find out someone else knew the Ringworld was the mother of this concept. And the Ringworld was spawned by the Dyson Sphere...
I read Larry Niven's RingWorld many years ago, still a classic and over the years a lot of attention was given it from an actual Engineering perspective. That's probably why I like Halo. Now if someone would design an Xbox controller that doesn't mangle the hands...
Not being a gamer, but an avid Sci-Fi reader, I am totally familiar with Larry Niven's 'Ringworld', and only got to discover Halo from watching the 'Rooster Teeth's' 'Red vs Blue' series.
After watching this, all I can say is that the game writers took Larry's science and technology, and wound it up to 1̶1̶ 50!
I'm not even sure if the total power of any single solar system could drive this tech 0_0.
Still, like Arthur C.Clarke said, "Any suitably advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic".
First time I've ever been more impressed with the advertisement than the channel content, but I love the Space-1999 book.
I didn't realize that you folks did mega structures. I gotta hand it to ya, that was one of the most in depth videos on the Halos in a long time. What do you think about doing one on the Ark?
Hey new announcer guy! You are ROCKIN’ IT, my friend!! You are easy to listen to, very articulate, your timing and pace is perfect, etc. Excellent work!!
"Oracle, what is halo's purpose?"
Collectively? Weapons of last resort built by the forerunner to neutralize any potential flood host thereby rendering the parasite harmless.
Halo Rings: exist.
Larry Niven's Ringworld: Aww, aren't they just SO cute?
[600 million miles long, it can maneuver in normal space AND it has a Quantum II hyperdrive]
the virgin Larry Niven's ringworld can't eradicate all life in the universe like the chad Halo Array
There would be no Halo if not for Ringworld.
At 8:20 that's basically the only time we've seen a Halo being fired, not triggered nor semi-activated, but fully working to fire, in the game itself it's evident that the CGI depict the ring starting to siphon local vacuum-energy to harness energy before priming and firing.
I always wondered how there was gravity allowing someone to walk all the way around the ring as well as why a galaxy doomsday weapon just has habitable terrain. Pretty interesting
The rings spin, creating their own gravity. Given these are Forerunner structures, it's not a stretch stating they have gravity technology embedded in them as well. As for why they are habitable? Well 1 is plain rule of cool, and 2 is speculation, but it would make sense the forerunners added terrain to the rings in case any lifeforms were to be kept there. Given the rings generate the blast, they likely wouldn't be effected by it and lifeforms on the rings would be safe.
Spacedock are been on rapid fire with content lately and I’m all for it
Never has a hoola hoop inspired such feelings
"A thousand other plans tried & failed..."
Damn can you imagine how big the operating manual of that halo ring would be...
0:05 The first thing that popped into my head - "John Madden! John Madden! John Madden!"
Now, things get FUN.
I do wish to note that Thel's name isn't one word, the apostrophy is just kinda THERE. Sangheili naming convention be weird like that.
Space 1999. I love that show I wish it was available somewhere
Gerry Anderson is a legend. If you see "Filmed in Videcolor and Supermarionation" pop up on the screen, you're going to watch a great show
Finally!!!!! My favorite sci-fi superstructure
Yay more spacedock
Just introduced my own Space Jetty to "Johnny Quest" and will be classic Sci-Fi soon. He really enjoys your videos.
When I saw that the new video was about the Halo rings, I was blinded by its majesty!
Great video, very informative and then I got distracted by the Space 1999 ad and zoomed to the end! Loved that series!
why is the gentleman who normally does these vids no longer doing them? The voiceover individual that is.
Daniel apparently is busy heading up the Sojourn audio drama and hired a new narrator to give himself more time for that. I miss Dan’s narration honestly.
Oh boy time for the great journey
Special Edition of the Moonbase Alpha book is sold out. Just FYI for anyone interested.
I'm off to stand in an echoey stairwell and sing like a monk.
Could you do the UNSC Infinity next?
i think he did it already
@@Obsidian_Gargantuan_Leviathan Really? Cause I looked for it and couldn’t find it.
Installation 08 and 09 also were known as 04B and 04C - since they were replacements for the original Installation 04 and not intended to be new additions or expansions of the [DESTRUCTIVE ARRAYED MATRIX].
That was awesome..can you possibly make a part 2 seriously getting into the layout of a Ring.
That is no Moon, it's a Space Station - Obi Wan Kenobi upon seeing Requiem Shield World
Repurposed they would make one hell of a colony.
The way it's constructed, I doubt there's any natural resources like mineral ores to be mined besides as a place for agriculture, service, tourism, medical and manufacturing.
@@Joshua_N-A You don't need mineral resources. You're in space. Surrounded by an embarrassment of asteroids full of more iron, and rare earths than a entire civilization could ever need. Mining ships and orbital refineries would handle all that.
My question is : When will you do the engines/spaceships of Space: 1999 and UFO (they are the same universe)? ty.
Probably never. I started asking years ago and my comments got ignored and buried. The squirrelly-voiced cowadoody zoomers who watch this channel have zero interest in anything older than last week.
@@NoJusticeNoPeace - damn boomer that's a good way to get smacked by a kid with an Aldiss novel
it's me. i'm the kid with the Aldiss novel.
I'd like to know your opinion about reimagination of Halo univers as a hard science fiction.
I think it does well. Not too much 'space-magic' involved, just seriously advanced technology.
A lot of the early books tried to make the universe as scientifically sound as possible, right down to the little detail that UNSC Navy personnel tended to have an unusual gait due to the gravity systems on their ships.
@@SuperGman117 yup, 'space gait'. Something that will happen when we eventually reach that point in space travel.
Ringworld next? Seems strange to cover the copy before the original.
The idea for the Halo Rings obviously came from Larry niven's ring world but a lot smaller.
BROOOOOOOO!!!!!! That nostalgia train hit me when I heard that Battlezone 2 music. Good times.
You reminded me about the Moonbase Alpha technical manual... got that and a Walter Koenig long sleeve shirt, so yay! Oh yeah, Halo rings.
WoW! the nostalgia is real! Thanks!
That was very comprehensive. Thank you.
You are the child of my makers, inheritor of all they left behind.
You are Forerunner, but this ring...is mine!
mysterious megastructure? yep I like me some of that, any day of the week!
Time to revisit Installation 04.
3:45 Fake news!
Halo Silentium we actually got a direct quote from the Librarian saying she was horrified that the rings would be used to preserve life because it stripped her of her last argument against them being built in the first place... she blamed the builder rate and only speculated it was the Master Builder Faber's idea.
Pretty sure it's in the first couple of chapter, on the extra galactic trip.
Thank you for making this video 👍
*Cue the Halo theme song*
The Good old Space 1999 music is always great.
I Really L❤VE this sound track ! 🌞😉✌
Just saw one of these on the Boba Fett show on Disney+
Great video. I liked all the animations to supplement the in-game footage.
This was great cant wait for more like this.
Great video! Well done
Lets be honest, we NEED a Spacedock review of the Space 1999 'Eagle' and her variants. Still for my money the coolest looking spaceship out there.
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Read Larry Niven, Ringworld, and Ringworld Engineers, damn good books
Thanks for the content
Sarge really gets around.
Speaking of Gerry Anderson, anyone else remember Terrahawks? I really loved that show. Tiger Ninestein also looks just like my dentist.
great video!! can you do the Installation 00 next??
Fun fact, I just plugged the numbers into the artificial gravity spin calculator. With halos diameter of 10000km to have 1g it'd have to be spinning at 0.01337 rotations per minute.
Which is why it has gravity generators
This is the video that made me realize most of the videos on this channel are gibberish unless you're already familiar with the lore of the associated franchises. I'm familiar with all of them _except_ Halo, and this video was nothing but incomprehensible jargon to me. I thought I knew a bit about megastructures in hard SF: Niven's "Ringworld" series, Clarke's "Rama" series, Bear's "The Way" series, Banks' "The Culture" series, just about anything with a Dyson sphere… But this? Nope, I got nuthin'.
TL:DR
Its a really big fucking ring capable of producing an energy blast that eradicates all sentient life in 25,000Lr radius. Intended to work as a final solution against an out of control parasite that devoured all organic life. On top of that, it comes complete with its own artificial biomes and houses many facilities with various uses.
I Really Like Halo, Star Gate, Iron Man and Dark matter ! 🌞😉👍
Nice and wow space 1999 tech manual…that’s a blast from my past wow…cooll
I highly recommend the novel Ringworld, by Larry Niven.
This is your first megastructure SD and what better way to start it off than with the iconic Halo Ring itself.
I've never gotten into Halo, but that's some interesting. Can you do Ringworld next?
I'm past the point where I want things like that. But it is cool. I'm sure people'll love it.
Damn now I want to build some Space 1999 themed ship in Space Engineers lol. Nice video also love see break downs of the larger stuff in sci fi
Sorry, but if I remember correctly, you missed a major plot point. The halo rings were originally built in secret by the builder clan as a means to cement their power, and there were more than 12. Their use against the flood as "sword worlds" were supposed to be complimented by the use of "shield worlds" like the one we saw the diadect imprisoned on but they ran out of time. I do not remember the particulars of how most of the original rings were lost but they were absolutely built before the conflict with the flood.
I'm not sure what's cooler, the original Halo lore, or the Red vs Blue lore. Both are heckin sweet
It is noted that the halos have defenses as seen in the Halo CE remastered terminals. Other 5hqn of course plot why would 343 not have used them against the covenant ships attacking the pillar of autumn or because they were not human. Unless the defenses was a tactical pulse of the array
343 was already off his meds long before Halo CE, and the covenant wasn't technically posing a threat to the installation nor was a reclaimer strictly required because the halo did not need to be fired at that time
Here I am being a hippy, not caring about the galaxy killing capabilities and just wanting to know what the landscape is like
Short answer to that is "Yes." Halo rings contain vast collection of different biomes.
It's really nice. It has forests and mountains similar to the Pacific Northwest of the US, snowy Arctic regions, vast deserts, you name it. There's even wildlife.
As many have said with the true respect and reverence of this game. It's is bar none one of the most awe inspiration and terror in the same sentence. Truly if this was real. It will be the most important peice of Halo realastate bar none. This is spartan 117 out.
ohhh good pick.
Nobody talks about the OG, which was ringworld, the book that made this idea in the first place :((
Regarding your love of Gerry Anderson stuff...how about some episodes about e.g. the Interceptors and Skydivers from UFO?
I heard "Moonbase Alpha Technical Manual" and was already sold
The music used in the video... Is that from Descent: Freespace: The Great War?
Thank you
Where are those animated clips (of the forerunner history) at the begining of the video from?
Halo: Legends, an old anime anthology based on the Halo series.
How about Larry Niven’s ringworld
Re Gerry Anderson, UFO is way OVERDUE for a reboot or TNG! There WAS supposed to be a 3 movie series, but it never got off the ground around 2010!