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Good points
Posted By: Hamish SinclairDate: 8/1/01 8:37 a.m.

In Response To: Re: More Halo backstory details (elethiomel)

: The more I read of the Halo backstory the harder I find it to reconcile with
: the Marathon Story. The main problems I see are;

: If Earth (presumably the UESC) have FTL flight in the 26th century, why don't
: they
: 2, Start the colony at Tau Ceti with FTL ships. Tau Ceti must be the closest
: suitable colony world to Earth, because no sane person would send a
: generation ship on a longer flight than necessary (I mean a 300 year
: journey!).
: 3, Why weren't their any Human ships at least waiting Tau Ceti when the
: Marathon arrived several centuries latter.
: We can explain 1 and 3 by saying, "It would be to hard to intercept a
: ship in interstellar space doing some (small) fraction of the speed of
: light" and "Well the Covenant have knocked humanity back to the
: dark ages by the end of Halo!".

: However this still leaves 2, even if the Covenant blew a Tau Ceti colony sky
: high there would be traces of occupation that the crew of the Marathon
: could never overlook. Of course I could well be wrong.

As far as I'm aware Bungie have never gone on record stating that Halo fits into the Marathon timeline.

Cheers
Hamish

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More Halo backstory detailsHamish Sinclair 7/30/01 10:35 p.m.
     Re: More Halo backstory detailselethiomel 8/1/01 2:05 a.m.
           Good pointsHamish Sinclair 8/1/01 8:37 a.m.
           Re: More Halo backstory detailsSon of Grd'nl 8/1/01 10:44 a.m.
                 Re: More Halo backstory detailsBrian Dubick 8/1/01 12:12 p.m.
                       Re: More Halo backstory detailsInverted Sock Puppet 8/1/01 10:34 p.m.
                             Re: More Halo backstory detailsTynskel 8/2/01 2:41 a.m.
                                   Re: More Halo backstory detailsInverted Sock Puppet 8/3/01 1:03 a.m.
                                         Re: More Halo backstory detailsBrian Dubick 8/3/01 8:39 a.m.
                                               Re: More Halo backstory detailsREB 8/3/01 12:35 p.m.
                                                     Re: More Halo backstory detailsHamish Sinclair 8/3/01 1:06 p.m.
                                                           Re: More Halo backstory detailsREB 8/3/01 2:20 p.m.
           Re: More Halo backstory detailsNeutronBomb 8/2/01 4:19 p.m.
                 Re: More Halo backstory detailsSon of Grd'nl 8/2/01 5:56 p.m.
                       Re: More Halo backstory detailsAdmiral Tfear 8/3/01 9:44 a.m.
                 Re: More Halo backstory detailsNeutronBomb 8/3/01 6:43 p.m.
           Re: More Halo backstory detailsseptimus 8/3/01 10:50 a.m.
           Re: More Halo backstory detailsMatrixx 9/13/03 11:02 p.m.
                 Re: More Halo backstory detailsKillJoy 9/14/03 1:53 a.m.



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