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| Re: Trying to understand the Halos' blast pattern | |
| Posted By: Vorpal Sword <mccowen@tampabay.rr.com> | Date: 1/27/05 9:47 a.m. |
In Response To: Trying to understand the Halos' blast pattern (Ain Soph Aur) Installation 04, at least, was fixed in location. There are several facts that point to this, but here are the two most compelling (to me). First, the "rock" in the museum on Reach, which contained in its crystal structure the astronavigational data to find Halo. This is not information that could be easily updated to reflect a new location. The rock also (presumably) had no way to receive data, so it wouldn't have been able to find out where the Halo installation was. Second, Installation 04 was placed at a stable Lagrange point of Threshold and its moon, Basis. Without going into the physics of the three-body gravitational problem, this means that an object placed there would be in a stable orbit, predictable by any civilization that has discovered algebra, forever. If the installation was likely to move--or even able to move, for station-keeping purposes--why would it have been placed in proximity to any celestial body? Why not place each installation as far as possible from any place the Flood could ever even possibly escape to? | |
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