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Re: More Halo backstory details
Posted By: septimusDate: 8/3/01 10:50 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.

Taken from the invisible Cortana Mssg. (v1.3 Myth:TFL CD)

Entry: 97 - SC1C

In a relatively brief period of time, the achievements of SolCore had resulted in an economically stable, technologically mature, rapidly expanding empire of eight human worlds. Advancements in technology arrived at a faster pace than the most optimistic scientists could have ever envisioned. Unexpected contact with indigenous human populations on four "lost colony" worlds led to a frenzy of research as archaeologists, theologians, astronomers, and evolutionary biologists competed to offer an explanation for the startling discovery. Many accepted the findings as proof that their privileged civilization must surely be the most advanced in the universe. Others eagerly anticipated future interaction with intelligent "aliens". The fear of not being the only sentient species in the universe was forgotten in the giddy excitement of a new era for humanity.

No one was prepared for their arrival.

No one expected this.

< Transfer Interrupted! >

Even though this piece of backstory appeared in late 1999 with no mention of SolCore having been made since from Bungie, it nevertheless seems to offer some plausible means for integrating the Marathon and Halo universes.

First, the UESC appears to be no more. SolCore is apparently the government of humanity. Whether the transition of power was evolutionary or revolutionary is obviously open to speculation, but records can be lost in revolutions, and there are four lost colonies to lend evidence to that. Could there have been other forgotton colonies that were overlooked? Could SolCore have failed to notice that Mars was missing a moon? This might explain why there was no contact between SolCore and the Marathon at Tau Ceti.

But then again, this part of the story was probably dropped from the game some time ago.

-septimus (desperately trying to integrate Halo and Marathon)

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Replies:

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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