: I know this is an ancient thread now, but I just came across it bored at
: work... The only way the Nar could have "sprung into being" a
: week after the universe was created is via time travel. In which case it's
: entirely possible that they did have some interaction with the Jjaro. The
: only thing that really stands out as odd about them now is the fact that
: they seem fairly low-tech for such an old and apparently
: time-travel-capable race. Coal-powered battle wagons?
I think you're making a lot of assumptions here - the most fallable being that they are a life form in the sense that we are. When the universe was a week old, it was still a small, hot, rapidly inflating pool of energy, plasma, early elements and the beginnings of stars and galaxies. The very fabric of space was far from uniform (it still isn't but, on a much larger scale, the inhomogeneities are much less visible). Who knows what the Nar are made of - for all we know they aren't even made of conventional matter, let alone organic molecules. Indeed, elemental carbon didn't even exist until the universe was hundreds of millions or perhaps even billions of years old. Could they have traveled back in time? Perhaps, but the universe wouldn't have exactly been hospitable to any beings of our era. More liklely to me is a life form unlike any we can relate to, in which case who knows what significance time or space would have to them? Or perhaps Bungie was just pulling our legs with this one.
