: Back to the light speed message sent later in G-4 Sunbathing. Its been
: hammered to death before at this site, but since tau Ceti is about 11.9 LY
: from Sol/ Earth instead of 92 LY, (Bungie clearly didn't check its facts,
: er) the artificial sentient beings aboard the Marathon must have been
: damaged. What has been commonly explained is that Leela was damaged.
Actually Greg Kirkpatrick tried to explain this in The Lost Network Packets by saying that this muddling of facts was deliberate. Leela was trying to mislead the Pfhor.
When the Marathon was attacked, Leela began to scramble
and rewrite all of the historical information for mankind.
What better way to do it than by telling the Pfhor that our homeworld was 92 light years away. They'd be looking in the completely wrong place. :)
Cheers
Hamish