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Re: Hah.
Posted By: gspawn <bob20407@hotmail.com>Date: 11/4/07 3:12 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Hah. (Orpheus)


: Hahah, I remember finding the same thing. After hearing there are 300 SMACs
: at Earth I was like...wait, could the entire Covenant armada even destroy
: that many?

Technically, that makes a lot more sense. Think about trying to defend Earth in three-dimensional space- you need a LOT of guns just to make sure there are two or three actually facing any given enemy, if they only come from one vector. All the rest would have to swing into place.

: IIRC ILB was confirmed by Frankie or someone as canon. Maybe I'm
: hallucinating though.

Half-canon. They basically said, like the novels (other Spartans alive in novels, nonexistant in games is a good example), not everything is strictly 100% canon, but so long as Bungie doesn't feel like doing anything that contradicts these sorces, it's not like the differences matter much. The books always weaved other Spartans in so they disappeared conveniently before each game started- no conflict there, even if Bungie feels MC truly is the only surviving Spartan.

: I'm going to propose that those numbers are just wrong. We have hundreds of
: human-controlled worlds, but I'm guesstimating that we have maybe 30 to 50
: worlds with populations that number in the millions.

I think that fits into the "hinterland" an "terraforming" bits. We might have hundreds of planets in our grasp that are only used for scientific experimentation by tiny crews, or that are undergoing terraforming and are not inhabited, or that are home to a tiny camp of refugees, etc etc.

: Were they talking about 17 outer-edge colonies like Harvest?

Or maybe that there were only actually 17 "major" inhabited worlds, with the rest all being in various stages of development.

something.



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Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvestkr-1426 11/4/07 11:05 a.m.
     Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestCthulhu117 11/4/07 11:06 a.m.
           Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvestkr-1426 11/4/07 2:00 p.m.
                 Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestVVM 11/4/07 3:04 p.m.
                       Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestCthulhu117 11/4/07 3:07 p.m.
                             Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestVVM 11/4/07 3:22 p.m.
                                   Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestCthulhu117 11/4/07 3:46 p.m.
                                         Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestVVM 11/4/07 4:08 p.m.
                                               Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvest58 11/4/07 5:36 p.m.
                                               Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestBry 11/4/07 11:59 p.m.
                                                     Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestDeckard 11/5/07 12:36 a.m.
                                                           Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvestkr-1426 11/5/07 5:33 a.m.
                                                                 Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestDeckard 11/5/07 12:46 p.m.
                                                                       Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: Harvestkr-1426 11/5/07 2:50 p.m.
                                                                       Dekard was a real assholeSinisterSamurai 11/6/07 1:35 a.m.
                                                                             Yes, but was he human?Narcogen 11/6/07 10:54 p.m.
                                   Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestLouis Wu 11/4/07 6:53 p.m.
     Hmm... that's really low...Walshicus 11/4/07 11:14 a.m.
           From the Halo timeline:Jordan117 11/4/07 11:30 a.m.
                 Re: From the Halo timeline:Dundradal 11/4/07 1:00 p.m.
                       Thanks *NM*Jordan117 11/4/07 1:25 p.m.
                 Re: From the Halo timeline:kr-1426 11/4/07 2:04 p.m.
           Hah.58 11/4/07 11:30 a.m.
                 Re: Hah.BirDMaN 11/4/07 11:41 a.m.
                       Re: Hah.58 11/4/07 1:09 p.m.
                             Re: Hah.Thanatos119 11/4/07 1:15 p.m.
                             Re: Hah.Orpheus 11/4/07 2:43 p.m.
                                   Re: Hah.kr-1426 11/4/07 3:08 p.m.
                                   Re: Hah.gspawn 11/4/07 3:12 p.m.
                                         Re: Hah.kr-1426 11/4/07 3:23 p.m.
                             Re: Hah.Omega 11/4/07 5:23 p.m.
                                   Re: Hah.kr-1426 11/4/07 5:32 p.m.
                                   Re: Hah.58 11/4/07 5:47 p.m.
                                         Re: Hah.dude2 11/4/07 9:18 p.m.
                                               Re: Hah.58 11/4/07 9:27 p.m.
                                                     Re: Hah.dude2 11/4/07 10:15 p.m.
                                                     Re: Hah.Omega 11/4/07 11:04 p.m.
                 Re: Hah.Walshicus 11/4/07 2:08 p.m.
                 Re: Hah.VVM 11/4/07 3:08 p.m.
                       Re: Hah.kr-1426 11/4/07 3:11 p.m.
                             Re: Hah.58 11/4/07 3:33 p.m.
                                   Re: Hah.kr-1426 11/4/07 5:10 p.m.
                                         That, I can believe. *NM*58 11/4/07 5:35 p.m.
                                         Re: Hah.Orpheus 11/4/07 6:01 p.m.
                                               Re: Hah.kr-1426 11/4/07 6:18 p.m.
                             Re: Hah.dude2 11/4/07 9:08 p.m.
                                   Re: Hah.Omega 11/4/07 10:26 p.m.
                                         Um... not quiteWalshicus 11/6/07 1:26 p.m.
                                               Re: Um... not quiteOmega 11/6/07 4:38 p.m.
                 Re: Hah.Peptuck 11/4/07 7:40 p.m.
                       Re: Hah.58 11/4/07 8:37 p.m.
                             Re: Hah.Peptuck 11/5/07 1:01 a.m.
                                   Re: Hah.58 11/5/07 12:29 p.m.
                                         Re: Hah.Peptuck 11/5/07 8:11 p.m.
     I assumed it was semantics.Funkmon 11/4/07 4:55 p.m.
     Re: Number of Colonies and Contact: HarvestKorsriddare 11/5/07 9:47 p.m.
     800 FTWDevrous 11/12/07 3:18 p.m.
           Contact Harvest *Spoilers* Above *NM*Simpsons Rule 11/12/07 4:24 p.m.
           Re: 800 FTW *sp*Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 11/12/07 7:07 p.m.
                 Re: 800 FTW *sp*Devrous 11/13/07 12:36 a.m.
           More! (+calculations) *Spoilers*Devrous 11/13/07 3:34 a.m.
                 Re: More! (+calculations) *Spoilers*kr-1426 11/13/07 2:31 p.m.



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