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Re: Only one problem with that theory....
Posted By: Terminus <gregoryprill317@hotmail.com>	Date: 7/17/05 5:52 p.m.
In Response To: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners (DuckofDoom) : Let's get this straight out right here and ask the question- : Why did it take so long for the Covenant to find Earth, and why did they only : do so by random chance that we live on a Forerunner planet? : 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." : Marine: "No... Earth... it's not possible..." : Elite: "Hmm? Earth? I thought it was Reach they called it." : Marine: "Oh, yes, of course, Reach. Earth is what we called it in : Spanish." : Elite: "Of course. That makes perfect sense to me!" : 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? Good theory, but it has one hole. In the "Conversations from the Universe" pamphlet, which IS offiacial canon, a conversation between elites references the destruction of Reach[pg. 6, paragraph 6] AND the fact they don't know where the Human homeworld is[pg. 6, paragraph 3]. Sorry! :D

Message Index

Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	DuckofDoom	7/16/05 5:33 p.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	Lethal Industry	7/16/05 6:11 p.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	DuckofDoom	7/16/05 6:20 p.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	Peptuck	7/16/05 10:24 p.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	Peptuck	7/16/05 10:19 p.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	DuckofDoom	7/17/05 1:39 p.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	Peptuck	7/17/05 1:50 p.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	DuckofDoom	7/17/05 2:35 p.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	SGT AJ	7/18/05 3:52 p.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	Cody Miller	7/17/05 2:54 p.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	Ragashingo	7/17/05 3:18 p.m.
Re: Only one problem with that theory....	Terminus	7/17/05 5:52 p.m.
Re: Only one problem with that theory....	DuckofDoom	7/17/05 8:18 p.m.
Re: Only one problem with that theory....	Jillybean	7/18/05 7:25 a.m.
Covenant torture	Narcogen	7/18/05 9:23 a.m.
b/c a confession by torture, is 50/50 chance lie	Gggall78	7/18/05 11:30 a.m.
Re: b/c a confession by torture, is 50/50 chance l	Jillybean	7/18/05 12:02 p.m.
Re: b/c a confession by torture, is 50/50 chance l	Anton P. Nym (aka Steve)	7/18/05 12:59 p.m.
Power	Narcogen	7/18/05 11:42 p.m.
Re: Power	Count Zero	7/19/05 7:25 a.m.
Re: Power	Narcogen	7/19/05 10:22 p.m.
Re: Only one problem with that theory....	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	7/17/05 8:48 p.m.
Re: Only one problem with that theory....	w00tles	7/17/05 11:52 p.m.
Re: Only one problem with that theory....	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	7/18/05 5:04 p.m.
Re: Only one problem with that theory....	Peptuck	7/18/05 12:11 a.m.
Re: Only one problem with that theory....	Stephen L. (SoundEffect)	7/18/05 5:16 p.m.
Re: Only one problem with that theory....	Peptuck	7/19/05 12:20 a.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	w00tles	7/18/05 12:00 a.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	Jaden Conas	7/28/05 10:50 p.m.
Re: Earth and Taking/Breaking Prisoners	Jaden Conas	7/28/05 10:56 p.m.