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Re: Marathon timeline
Posted By: septimusDate: 9/6/01 10:48 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Marathon timeline (Max Etchemendy)

All completely true. But for Leela, the attempt at subturfuge was absolutely necessary, no matter how weak it might seem. Because the Phfor, at all costs, had to be prevented from finding Earth. Leela made a good attempt at it, as seen in the Lost Network Packets.



Durandal seems to be missing some of the chronology of
events that occurred before the launch of the Marathon.
When the Marathon was attacked, Leela began to scramble
and rewrite all of the historical information for mankind.
Of course, she was damaged, and her efforts were cut off
by the compilers and by Durandal. The result is that some
but not all of the Marathon's data was muddled. Leela's
effort at confusion failed to trick the Pfhor, but it has
confused Durandal, and that is funny.

She failed, but she had to make the attempt. I think it's fairly likely that the Marathon was at Tau Ceti, and Leela simply lied about the distance. (After carefully giving the Phfor a direction to look by beaming high powered radio waves at Earth. Hmm...)

-sep

: It was my impression that Bungie made a joking reply to this timeline
: problem about Leela being busted. Frankly I think that a super-intelligent
: species like the S'pht would not be fooled into thinking that the Marathon
: came from somewhere 92 light years away based on Leela's message. After
: all, wouldn't the ship have records of the flight? Or spectrum information
: on the star Sol that would give away its true location? The cold fact is
: that, if I were a Pfhor commander watching a miserable band of apes
: colonizing a planet orbiting a G8Vp star, I'd look straight to Sol. Why?

: Imagine that you are a Pfhor intelligence analyst. Sending a STL ship like
: the U.E.S.C. Marathon to another star system takes hundreds of years, so
: you can't send probes ahead of time to check for good planets. (That would
: more than DOUBLE the already vast amount of time required to colonize,
: since the probe would have to go to the system on its own and send back
: the message, which would take an extra few years to trasmit.) What this
: means is that you can't take chances with potentially lousy star systems;
: you have to pick the best. Tau Ceti is very much like Sol, which means
: that in our stellar neighborhood, it's by far the best choice for
: colonizing if you're taking a "shot in the dark" by sending a
: ship before exploring the system remotely. Let's face it, if we came from
: an O class star system, we wouldn't be farting around in G class systems
: with insanely expensive STL colonization projects. So, as a Pfhor
: intelligence analyst, you can trace the humans back to Sol from Tau Ceti
: by seeing that if the humans chose to gamble trillions of dollars and
: decades worth of labor on Tau Ceti, it must be very similar to the home
: system, which naturally leads to Sol, since Tau Ceti and Sol are VERY much
: alike. Furthermore, an intelligence analyst might comment on the fact that
: 92 light years is a stupidly lengthy distance to travel at reasonably
: plausable STL speeds; it would take MILLENIA. Any competent military fleet
: would have teams of these intelligence analysts (probably all geniuses, I
: might add) obsessing over details like this for hours...Leela would have
: to create a pretty elaborate hoax to fool them.

: Just my opinion...

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Replies:

Marathon timelineUriel 8/28/01 12:26 a.m.
     Re: Marathon timelineMartin Antell 8/28/01 12:30 a.m.
           Re: Marathon timelineUriel 8/28/01 12:34 a.m.
                 Re: Marathon timelineMartin Antell 8/28/01 1:18 a.m.
                       Re: Marathon timelineUriel 8/28/01 1:27 a.m.
     Re: Marathon timelineWilliam Spencer 8/28/01 10:51 a.m.
           Re: Marathon timelineUriel 8/28/01 2:48 p.m.
                 Re: Marathon timelineMax Etchemendy 9/1/01 12:18 a.m.
                       Re: Marathon timelineAndrew Nagy 9/3/01 11:23 a.m.
                       Re: Marathon timelineseptimus 9/6/01 10:48 a.m.



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