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Description Behold the galactic coverage of the Halo rings in all their devastating magnitude. With each Halo having a coverage of 25,000 light years (approximately 146,965,634,289,180,000 miles), and assuming the edges of the six external rings meet at the center (where the Omega Halo, or Installation 07, is located), the arrays cover a diameter of 100,000 light years. You may notice that there are various stars and parts of the galactic arms that stretch outside of the areas of the Halos. It can be conjectured that the initiation of the Omega Halo's firing sequence might augment the radius of the total Halo Array by as much as 500% by recalling 343 Guilty Spark's claim that, upon the arrays firing, all life within three radii of the galaxy would be killed.
The only confirmed locations on this coverage map are Installations 04 (Alpha Halo), 07 (Omega Halo), and 01 (Beta Halo), due to the idea that Omega Halo is in the center of the galaxy and, in turn, puts Beta Halo across from Alpha Halo. If the observation of the Soell System is correct and its central star is, indeed, Iota Horologii, then Alpha Halo is approximately 56 light years from Sol (Our star), and the two would therefore only be under a pixel apart. In this map, however, Installation 04 is instead represented to be between 1150 and 1250 light years distant.
The locations of other four halo rings are ideas based on observations of the surrounding stars and other celestial bodies of Installation 05. For the reason that Delta Halo seems to be surrounded by relatively dense star formation, I have come to the conclusion that, based on this representation of the galaxy, it is located approximately 62 degrees relative to Sol in the galactic longitude, where the edges of the singular ranges of Alpha and Omega Halo meet, which also has a much denser cluster of stars in comparison to its other possible location (assuming, of course, that the Installations number are in sequence and are relative to the surrounding Halos). The rest of the halo rings are arranged in ascending order clockwise around the conjectured location of Omega Halo, or the Nuclear Bulge.

As you can see, a lot of research went into the making of this map, but there is no way I would have been able to make that map alone. The background image of the Milky Way Galaxy is used from Wikipedia's Milky Way article, and the image itself can be found here . The basic design, inspiration, orientation, and mapping of the Halo Array coverage can be found Halopedia's Milky Way article, and the basis image can be found here .

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Comments: 33

22happy22 [2023-05-23 07:19:10 +0000 UTC]

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websplorer [2017-07-09 16:02:30 +0000 UTC]

  Let the Great Journey begin!   

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ZanarNaryon [2015-05-26 08:29:47 +0000 UTC]

And of course instalation 00, the ark
A safe haven outside the effect

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NeptuneGate [2013-08-23 19:43:56 +0000 UTC]

I think the Sun should be more correctly located somewhere under where it says " Orion Spur". Great map nonetheless.

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Tuckerscreator [2013-02-19 07:12:21 +0000 UTC]

The ultimate deadly red flower. Bleh, lame joke.

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dehydromon In reply to Tuckerscreator [2014-01-06 05:50:58 +0000 UTC]

The deadly rose!

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Tuckerscreator In reply to dehydromon [2014-01-07 12:20:17 +0000 UTC]

If the Haloes are fired, the prospects for the galaxy are not rosy.

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ONI-Defense [2013-01-23 23:32:02 +0000 UTC]

The map makes sense as it would make sense for the forerunners to position the rings for maximum coverage, and interestingly, it follows a petal pattern like the Ark's design does.

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SIERRA-116 [2013-01-13 04:28:59 +0000 UTC]

If it's sentient, this galaxy is not the place to be.

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magshi [2012-10-04 01:14:30 +0000 UTC]

covers the whole galaxy = yes

covers the entire universe? = nope.avi

sure, you can purge the milky way of flood, but what about the remaining 99.99999% of the universe?

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SIERRA-116 In reply to magshi [2013-01-13 04:25:21 +0000 UTC]

They can only do so much.

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dehydromon In reply to magshi [2012-10-04 07:26:01 +0000 UTC]

That's an excellent point. The Forerunners must not care much about all the other aliens. It's racist, I tell you! Racist!!

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magshi In reply to dehydromon [2012-10-04 18:31:44 +0000 UTC]

That, and there could be more flood armies waiting outside of the milky way galaxy

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Biospartan [2012-06-19 03:22:03 +0000 UTC]

It would seem that instillation 07 will help propel the "blast wave" of the other installations making beyond galactic coverage for any stray ships. Completely distorting the flood and all sentient life.


The forerunners defined the word overkill.

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dehydromon In reply to Biospartan [2012-06-19 22:24:43 +0000 UTC]

That would make sense, but that is assuming that this shows the correct locations for all the Halos.

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Etsoree [2011-05-19 21:04:57 +0000 UTC]

It would make sense if the original, 30,000KM Halo array could fire further than the others. Maybe that one has a bigger coverage of the galaxy and its' in the middle, letting the others be spread further apart to cover the outter arms.

Good picture.

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experimentalDeity [2011-02-26 22:14:35 +0000 UTC]

Whoa.

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EK-71 [2010-09-19 08:09:33 +0000 UTC]

I wouldnt be suprised if Bungie was willing to make this canon. The reasoning behind where these are placed would make sense, and you did all the homework too.

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dehydromon In reply to EK-71 [2010-11-27 04:29:38 +0000 UTC]

Thanks.

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blackholefart [2010-08-16 02:27:46 +0000 UTC]

How do you know where Omega Halo is?

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dehydromon In reply to blackholefart [2010-08-16 23:54:12 +0000 UTC]

I actually don't, but I based this image off of an older version from Halopdeia ([link] !Halo-7-coverage.jpg) which said one of the Halos was in the middle. This is just a recreation.

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Chris000 [2010-06-27 20:45:43 +0000 UTC]

Very small window of survival, and I doubt very many life-giving worlds would exist on the galactic borders

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dehydromon In reply to Chris000 [2010-06-27 22:39:02 +0000 UTC]

That's the same thing I was thinking. I don't remember where, but I remember seeing something announcing that there is only a small ring in the galaxy that can possibly be inhabited, and our sun is on that ring. Of course, I recall it being nearly 20000 to 30000 lightyears thick, so it still could stretch outside of the coverage of the Halos if they are fired individually. As I said in the comments, I believe that the firing of Installation 07 enlarges the radius of the total array by as much as 500%, which would completely engulf the galaxy.

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Chris000 In reply to dehydromon [2010-06-27 22:44:23 +0000 UTC]

Hmm. Interesting that the Installations wouldn't cover Satellite Galaxies, since they definitely took care of a parent galaxy.

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dehydromon In reply to Chris000 [2010-06-28 05:46:27 +0000 UTC]

Maybe there was no life found in the satellite galaxies, so the Forerunners felt no need to build installations there.

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Chris000 In reply to dehydromon [2010-06-28 14:48:30 +0000 UTC]

Possibly. All these things are taken into consideration.

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Nocte-Vagus [2010-06-26 15:53:40 +0000 UTC]

Wow, it seems you put a lot of time and effort in this, and it shows. Great job dehydromon. Perhaps you could also make one that includes Instalation 00 (The Ark).

Anways I look forward to more of your work.

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dehydromon In reply to Nocte-Vagus [2010-06-26 22:18:16 +0000 UTC]

Not as much as you think. The research done specifically for this project only took about two days maximum if you put it all together, and the deviation itself was thrown together in under ten minutes.
I was going to add the Ark to this, but if you play the level The Ark on Halo 3, you'd see that this map is tantamount to looking at the galaxy from the Ark.
According to 343 Guilty Spark, the Ark is 262,144 light years from the galactic center, and is above the galactic plain. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

And more work you will see. Once I feel I have researched enough on Halo, I plan to begin writing a fan fiction.

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Nocte-Vagus In reply to dehydromon [2010-06-27 00:24:00 +0000 UTC]

Yes you are right. Also would mind including Onyx in your next one?

I can't wait to see you fan-fic. I am working on one as well. ^_^

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dehydromon In reply to Nocte-Vagus [2010-06-27 01:01:06 +0000 UTC]

I may end up simply updating this one with the locations of several planets, systems, Forerunner artifacts, and more. I will probably also include another map that shows objects which are much closer to the sun. Thanks or the suggestion! ^^

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Nocte-Vagus In reply to dehydromon [2010-06-27 03:23:23 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome! ^_^
Again I can't wait to see what you make next.

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dehydromon In reply to Nocte-Vagus [2010-06-27 16:48:21 +0000 UTC]

After a long night of work, I finished you request, and the product can be found here .

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dehydromon In reply to Nocte-Vagus [2010-06-27 07:48:33 +0000 UTC]

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