Wedding Date Approaches

Several days later.

February 17, 2027.

Jupiter's orbit in the Solar System.

The Ark, more than ten times larger than Earth, was orbiting the Sun. Its position was exactly on the "opposite side" of Jupiter, and its speed was identical to Jupiter's orbital speed.

Thus, unless someone manually controlled the Ark to change its speed or alter its orbital direction, it would never collide with Jupiter.

And...

There were also seven gigantic ring-shaped celestial bodies orbiting the Ark, seemingly becoming its satellites.

The inner surfaces of these ring-shaped celestial bodies had atmospheres suitable for human respiration, along with natural landscapes such as mountains, lakes, oceans, grasslands, and deserts.

These were the crucial "characters" in Halo, or Halo Array—one of the ultimate weapons the Tier 3 Civilization Forerunners had created against biological life: the Halo rings.

Each Halo ring had a diameter of exactly ten thousand kilometers, a thickness of approximately twenty-two kilometers, and a width of around one hundred kilometers.

In fact.

The Ark and seven Halo rings currently controlled by the Umbrella Corporation were all "small Arks" and "small Halo rings."

The small Ark was the Ark currently located in satellite orbit. Its exact diameter was 127,530 kilometers, while Jupiter's diameter was approximately 139,822 kilometers.

This meant that the small Ark was already comparable in size to Jupiter.

During their battles against the Flood and the rebel AI, the Forerunners had constructed the "Great Ark" and the "Great Halo rings."

There were no exact figures for the Great Ark, but the Great Halo rings had diameters of thirty thousand kilometers, while the small Halo rings had diameters of ten thousand kilometers.

Multiplying 127,530 kilometers by three gave 382,590 kilometers. That was already enough to qualify as the diameter of a small star.

From this, it was clear just how