Those ruins are an ancient religious site. There are altars with planters that face the lake and bell towers like a cathedral. You can't see the bells but in some of the rooms you can look up to see where it would be with a rope too (looks like a big vine). The underwater section probably wasn't used to be flooded but it's an exhibit of the lake bottom littered with ruins from the last war. Also interesting to note is that there are lots of locked doors with glyphs of the human eye and we may never know what secrets are behind those doors.
Ethan Thomson Probably cause 2401 Penitent Tangent began shirking his duties and stopped maintaining the ring, to the point the Flood escaped containment too, and he was later captured by the Gravemind. In the past there probably wasn't even a lake there but a lake could've formed over time.
Wouldn't mind revisiting Delta Halo, true enough. Halo 2 was my main introduction to the franchise, and Delta Halo is one of my favourite locations in all Halo.
Could it be that ancient humans or some other species built the stone structure trying to imitate the Forerunner design? Since it's made of stone and not whatever the Forerunners usually use it could be much younger than structures that are not in ruins even though it looks older.
@@moeman5122 I think they're meaning that the ruins weren't preserved, but built in imitation of the Forerunner architecture by post-Activation sapient species kept on the rings.
Imagine if you had to go back to a flood infested delta Halo in Halo infinite to get to a particular place in the story through one of various portals maybe the flood for you through just a thought
I love the idea of going through a teleporter to end up back on Delta Halo. However, I always like to think of the Forerunners as a more noble race, not egotistical.
I keep hearing about these ancient stone structures with blocks so tightly fit that paper couldn't be fit between them. I think this is likely due to airblown sand and dust becoming cemented in the cracks with what little moisture these desert environments get.
Nah dude, one can tell by looking at some of these structures that the blocks have been shaped with high precision. It wouldn't be too difficult to fit two blocks perfectly together. The ancient people could get a good enough cut for two adjacent blocks and then grind their surfaces against each other until the blocks are perfectly mated.
@@aidancalfee2634 The problem is that we, of the modern era, often assume that people of ancient cultures were stupid. The fact is that many of the techniques they used have long since been forgotten. We know how WE would do it, but we're trying to figure out how THEY did it with the tools they had.
one could always just assume that the Forerunners who constructed those segments thought that the "ancient ruins" look was appropriate for the structures, or fit well with the environment, as I assumed.
Yeah I don't buy the whole we couldnt rebuild the pyramids either, there's churches much more intricate and basically just as big, the Romans could build bridges in a day because they had a army of people at work😂 people are smart we would just do it differently now
There wouldn't be an ancient Forerunner architecture on a relatively new creation like the Halo ring that would mean their society started on the Halo ring the thing they created
Unless they moved them there? The builder rate had a near obsession with their own ancient past, assuming that their ancestors possessed superior technology. They revered any ancient constructs they came across. Cortana commented that those temples had newer shells around more ancient structures, to protect them. Think its at all likely?
