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| Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners | |
| Posted By: DuckofDoom | Date: 7/16/05 5:33 p.m. |
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Let's get this straight out right here and ask the question-
The Elites seem to think that Reach was the Human homeworld. ("Where were you when we burned your planet?" and "They fled, while we burned their planet." seem to place emphasis on the last word.) The Prophets have mysterious motives. This is all standard stuff. But why didn't the Covenant just start torturing people until they got an answer as to where the homeworld is? They'd invariably get some sort of distance. Everybody seems to know how close they are to Earth (some random guy says 10.9 LY or some such number like he knows it). Coral is 17 Light Years away, give or take. So why not just abduct some random person, Marine or otherwise (Preferrably a Naval Officer in charge of Astrogation), and start breaking fingers until they give you a distance from a planet you know, or to a new one where they know the distance from it (Reach is a preeminant example)? If they don't answer once they're out of ideas to test human physiology with, get a new one and repeat. Once they get an answer, they grab a star chart and a holometer stick, and measuer how many systems are that many light years away, give or take a bit. Proceed to every system you find. It'd lead you right to important planets where everybody knows how far they are from them when they immigrated- IE- the Homeworld. However, when the Elites and their supposed brutal and cunning intelligence get to Earth, they're as clueless as to everybody. Did they verify their intelligence/use psychological warfare with a pathological liar as a prisoner? Elite: "We burned your planet, primate. Your race is doomed."
Shouldn't the Enforcers of the Prophets' Will have found Earth a bit earlier unless they're massively incompetant (always a possibility) or rather squeemish for a bunch of crusading zealots? | |
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