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| Re: The Rings COULDN'T be over their planets SPOIL | |
| Posted By: scarab | Date: 1/2/10 10:26 a.m. |
In Response To: Re: The Rings COULDN'T be over their planets SPOIL (Grimlock) : This is what I was thinking. Maybe since the Halos were so close to their : homeplanets when they fired, there was an untold devestation of the : planets, making them uninhabitable, so that when their species needed to : be reseeded, new homeworlds needed to be found. The positions of the rings at the time of firing would have been dictated entirely by geometry, they needed to be in specific locations relative to each other in order to have total coverage of the galaxy. For the sake of argument lets assume that the pattern was a simple 7 sided polygon with the vertices of the polygon somewhere between galactic center and the rim. We could rotate the entire polygon around its center giving an infinite number of possible locations along a circle that was a fixed distance from galactic center. But it is extremely unlikely that all the homeworlds were on the vertices of any regular polygon. They would all have to lie on that circle, separated by exactly 360/7 degrees from each other. That isn't going to happen by chance. Whatever your preferred array layout, it is extremely unlikely that enough Halo's would have positions that corresponded to homeworld positions. even to hit one would depend on that homeworld being very very very very close to the ideal distance from galactic center. Either it is artistic license or 343 is trying to tell us that the locations of their homeworlds was not random or they had forgotten about the limited range of the installations. I suspect that it is just artistic license. Did we see that the installations were still near homeworlds when they fired?
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