The Halo rings required enormous foundries as well as the rings themselves. The Greater Ark produced rings 30,000 kilometres across, while the Lesser Ark produced rings 10,000 kilometres across. That investment prompts the objection that the same industrial capacity should have supported a less destructive way to fight the Flood. Robotic forces are one proposed alternative, challenged by a viewer who points out that robots had already failed. The scale of the infrastructure makes resource allocation part of the criticism.
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The Arks and the cost of building Halo
The scale of ring and Ark construction prompts a debate about other ways to fight the Flood.