Halo: The Ark | Megastructure Breakdown

[@Spacedock]

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[@MICROKNIGHT3000]

6:39 where is that clip from

[@anidiot2284]

@@MICROKNIGHT3000 Halo Wars 2 Flood DLC it’s called Awakening The Nightmare

[@SIrL0bster]

Legit question, what does pledging to spacedock offer? I was pledged a while ago to get notifications on upcoming episodes but those never materialized, has that changed?

[@90lancaster]

Halo that is that game series where most of the games are released unfinished.

[@riccardogemme]

The arrival at the Ark is one of my favourite moments in all of SCI FI

[@tyshingleton7005]

"Brute ships, standard line! Shipmaster, they outnumber us 3 to 1!" "Then it is an even fight..."

[@brandonthesteele]

The first arrival to the Ark is a trip. There's this massive thing in the background when the slipspace jump is complete, and the mind reels when trying to comprehend its size and shape.

[@csongor242]

The Ark is probably my all time favorite megastructure in any sci-fi, followed closely by the Starforge from KotOR. I was so relieved when It wasn't destroyed at the end of Halo 3.

[@carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679]

I'm a Dyson Sphere guy, after enshrining Dr. Freeman Dyson, who blew my mind as a child.

[@seandalkeith3993]

1. Ark 2. Infinite 3. Starforge 4. Star gate Atlantis city

[@Mgl1206]

@@carlh-thehermitwithwi-fi679 Dyson swarm > Dyson sphere

[@HwangInhoBooNam]

Is impossible to destroy something like the Ark. It's one of the most powerful things that has ever existed through all Sci-Fi history

[@Burnthealphabetpeople]

@@HwangInhoBooName flood destroyed the first ark which was way bigger than this arc using precursor star roads

[@tetraxis3011]

This also shows just how much of a universal threat the Flood are, if you need to costruct a giant conservation facility that can build galaxy-killing weapons by itself, you got a really big problem.

[@Joshua_N-A]

The trope is called Godzilla Threshold.

[@tacticalmattress]

Flood go zoom

[@rhylin26]

I just like how casually he mentions the artificial sun.

[@apassionatenerd.3564]

I love the design of the Ark. Its like a giant eye staring out into space.

[@madeanaccounttospillthebor9568]

Wait that gives me an idea about the flood and how it tries to assimilate life experiences..

[@Grey_Shard]

More evidence that Sauron suffered from a lack of vision.

[@NotRemmyCormo]

It just makes me think of a giant metal star fish.

[@downrangecash2418]

Ah yes, the planetary froot loop constructor

[@cardrabitt1159]

A terrain cheerio, if you will

[@nomar5spaulding]

Lol what if they wanted Apple Jack's instead?

[@downrangecash2418]

@@nomar5spaulding dude, didn't you know? Apple Jacks were ancient humanity's thing. No self-respecting Forerunner would ever create a giant Apple Jack. That's why the war happened.

[@nomar5spaulding]

@@downrangecash2418 Ah yes, I had forgotten. All self respecting people know the Forerunner disdain for the AJ cereal. I'm embarrassed for myself.

[@tetraxis3011]

XD?

[@tonyorobsky]

One of the best space megastructure of science-fiction games, and my favourite in Halo, followed closely by the shield world

[@DrownedInExile]

Holy crap. The Forerunners could build artificial suns??? Bet the First Galactic Empire would be green with envy!

[@Pikkabuu]

But can they destroy suns?! Checkmate Rebel scum.

[@awesomehpt8938]

Elite: Brute ships! Staggered line! Shipmaster they outnumber us three to one! Shipmaster:Then it is an even fight!

[@riccardogemme]

Burn their mongrel hides!

[@rayhatton7683]

Someone ring the bell, fight on!!!!!!

[@generalkenobi9782]

BURN THEIR MONGREL HIDES

[@ShawFujikawa]

The funny part is they proceeded to curbstomp the Brute fleet anyway so it wasn’t even ‘even’ then lol

[@Brandowannabemando]

​@@ShawFujikawa props to the name mr slip space

[@nestorgamer9746]

Mr. 00 would be honored

[@ydna]

One of my favorite parts of the Halo universe! I hope we go back there in the future

[@jasoethesentienteyeshapedg4847]

The Bolder Ring from Xeelee Sequence: *"Amateurs."* Sure it took a billion years to finish it but it was worth it.

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

Th Ark is the pinnacle of alien tech in Halo and that it was the Forerunner's greatest creation.

[@istoppedcaring6209]

probably not even their greatest creation

[@JohnMacCoy]

Love these halo videos.

[@spartantraveler7251]

It's one of my top three megastructures along with the rings and the Citadel. All of them seems to be somewhat circular. Can you talk a bit about Mass Effect Andromeda please?

[@RicardoPerez-rz8pu]

The space station on Mass Effect Andromeda ?

[@jenesuispasbavard]

Man with all this great lore available, I'm bummed the new Halo TV series decided to go non-canon.

[@HunterCressall]

Yeah. Could not bring myself to watch.

[@HwangInhoBooNam]

It was the best thing that TV Series could do

[@TheOnlyReefShark]

@@HwangInhoBooNam huh

[@Soccercrazyigboman]

​@@HwangInhoBooNam how lol. We got Halo Legends to disprove that

[@ravager2-636]

Eat your heart out Mass Effect Citadel

[@Gigas0101]

0:33 I didn't know the forerunners were just the Guyver...

[@logicplague]

Awesome video! Would love to see one on The Expanse's new Xerxes-class Zenobia! Seems like Avasarala took your advice, lol.

[@kummer45]

The ark should happen in further Halo games. It's an amazing place for different biomes and such.

[@Mirelale000]

7:20, Holy shit! That would have been one hell of a DLC!

[@gavinmartin4109]

Now I really wanna know what happened to the Spirit of fire!!!

[@KillerOrca]

She’s still kicking ass last we heard

[@hoojiwana]

Still out there as of the last book, thats where the info about Epsilon Clarion is from. - hoojiwana from Spacedock

[@Jayjay-qe6um]

The first Halo Wars was released on 2009, Halo Wars 2 was released on 2017. I'm just guessing here, maybe Halo Wars 3 will be released on 2025.

[@lewisirwin5363]

I just now realised the pun in the name "Ark"

[@jorgnocke991]

Great Video thank you so much please keep up the amazing work stay safe and live long and prosper🖖🏻

[@congruentcrib]

I love how halo started as covenant vs humans; but now has sprawled into such a complex battle of friendships, Alliances, Extinct Races, and most importantly The Flood. The game really is now a Us vs The Flood. Everyone sees The Flood as the enemy… just how we deal with it is each factions own ideology.

[@dermonch7959]

Quick Reminder: The Ark in Halo 3 is actually the lesser Ark, there is a bigger Version. Same goes for the Halos.

[@luigimrlgaming9484]

Yes

[@josiahweber7285]

*was. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by the Flood.

[@peeperleviathan2839]

0:53 why does the arm at the top of the screen look like the land there was based on North America, specifically the US?

[@luigimrlgaming9484]

I like how casually he says that the Monitor Could control peoples minds First time I heard that I thought There is so many useful moments for 343 guilty spark to use that But then I realized it must just be the Arks Monitor

[@mikebbabe1120]

Can you do titans from titan fall or heavy VTOL from killzone shadowfall?

[@speedygonsales1043]

Faber after rising his kill count to 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 😩

[@UGNAvalon]

Missed opportunity to have this narrated by Installation 00 😶 (Tho considering he already made a Most Detailed Breakdown of “my installation”, I guess it’s understandable. ;D )

[@CrimsonTemplar2]

More great content. Thanks!

[@Just_A_Simple_Time_Traveller]

If that's the lesser Ark, what's the greater Ark

[@gunship519]

so if its considered the lesser arc than what is the primary arc?

[@quocvinhnguyen2063]

It's the Greater Ark. Same thing as the Lesser Ark, but way bigger and also responsible for making the original 30,000km, first-generation Halo Ring.

[@awsomebot1]

Personally not a fan of the wildlife being there for "preservation". Surely they can reseed life into the galaxy without having to keep living specimens roaming about? Not to mention possible evolution and natural extinction events that would alter the life that they're trying to preserve. Or the fact that a lot of lifeforms aren't suited for life on the installations (at least as far as we know). My personal headcanon has always been that the life on the installations serve a greater purpose. Perhaps they're required for the neurophysics of the installations to function, or to somehow draw energy from.

[@luigimrlgaming9484]

I thought it was so the forerunner civilization could survive I don’t think they ever put any life on the rings as they realized that was a stupid idea But they did design the capabilities in there Unfortunately the only thing the beautiful landscape had been used for was warfare so

[@istoppedcaring6209]

study, the forerunners would be like human researchers on steroids, they would actively want to observe the behaviours of all these beings

[@HunterCressall]

Why are the gravitational issues never really addressed? Even artificial gravity would result in a strange perceived horizon and counterintuitive center of mass.

[@luigimrlgaming9484]

There is no horizon

[@User0155]

@@luigimrlgaming9484:)

[@ur-rahman]

where did you get the copyrighted material please? i want to watch it

[@finn4019]

Y'think the Spirit of Fire crew is still at the Ark now? Durring Halo Infinite?

[@luigimrlgaming9484]

No Otherwise they would be fighting with you

[@BigChap117]

The Ark, built to store and protect the species of the galaxy from the cleansing of the Flood. Hmmm, sounds pretty familiar, doesn't it?

[@kingmasterlord]

I want one

[@culvers1000]

U should do halo wars mechs origins or lore

[@Spacey_key]

nit pick, Instalation 00 is not the largest structure that was built in Halo, they call it a Lesser ark for a reason

[@nimrath]

What RTS is the fottage from?

[@leiferikson850]

Halo Wars

[@nimrath]

@@leiferikson850 Tack!

[@luigimrlgaming9484]

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[@marcosmata8233]

Concept What if the ark's twin holds the key to resetting the entire universe, From the The Umbrella Academy?

[@philrm99]

Great

[@samkaffinsky]

So if this is the "lesser ark" what's the "greater ark"???

[@jamesfry8983]

When I first looked at the thumb nail I thought it was a shadow vessel from babylon 5

[@frankharr9466]

Tragic indeed.

[@lieutenantdan9337]

Didn't this guy voice a tech priest in 40k Text-to-Speech?

[@bonbondurjdr6553]

So, who's the Lord of the Halos?

[@SmartAss4123]

The Forerunners were amazing.

[@Theagentorange1]

Who says refuge as refooga I stand corrected apologies hoojiwana

[@hoojiwana]

It's not refuge, its Refugia. - hoojiwana from Spacedock

[@legionofyuri]

I was disappointed that the Ark wasn't a Ringworld as described by Larry Niven.

[@tetraxis3011]

The thing is that the Halo rings were already “ring worlds” so they had to come up with something else.

[@vexfilms8807]

what about the Greater Ark

[@Impartial_Sojourner]

In terms of scale? Far larger to accommodate the construction of 30,000 km rings as opposed to this Ark's 10,000 km rings. It was destroyed, along with the annihilation of the surviving Forerunner population that managed to flee the galaxy as the Flood had managed to decimate their Capital System and 3 million world Ecumene. The Forerunners who survived the onslaught made their way to 00, and fired Halo.

[@DerCharacter]

@@Impartial_Sojourner For some reason I kinda wish some of the greater ark is still intact, and that it wasn't completely ripped to shreds. It would be so cool to have a scene in a game or show where someone drops out of slipspace and the ship passes by the wreckage of the forerunner and flood fleets, only to have a colossal partially intact greater ark come into view, along with the remains of some of the massive original halo rings. That would be an awesome sight to see, even if it may not be cannon. I guess Matherillian wasn't truly/fully destroyed so this scene may be possible with that place instead of the greater ark. I really just want a cannon look for the greater ark, like how we relatively recently got a cannon design for Offensive Bias.

[@DMSProduktions]

Yes, that's very good, but WHAT does it all MEAN?

[@-JA-]

👍👏

[@pearsegallagher9832]

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[@santysouk]

Holy crap, slow down narrator.

[@MPKb19]

Comment for statistics

[@vivixxthatengimain9787]

Wouldnt say the biggest. The shield world from onyx was so bit its has a natural star and 3 orbiting planets inside of it

[@vivixxthatengimain9787]

But amazing video my guy love it

[@bigsarge2085]

👍

[@luigimrlgaming9484]

000 Sad and lonely

[@axelord4ever]

What I dislike about the ark is that it needs to use space-magic artificial gravity, while the halo rings don't by design.

[@luigimrlgaming9484]

And a weapon wiping out all life in the galaxy isn’t space magic?

[@axelord4ever]

_THAT'S_ the argument you're going for? In a work of science fiction?

[@luigimrlgaming9484]

@@axelord4ever what’s so surprising Everything marginal is Space Magic

[@tetraxis3011]

Fun fact: the rings also use space magic gravity generators. the rings dont spin.

[@nodak81]

Humanity would probably be at Forerunner levels of tech by now if we didn't waste time and resources squabbling over whose imaginary God is better.

[@TheSithlordczar]

When is the OG narrator of this channel returning? If at all? Can’t stand this new guy