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Re: Information on "The Glide dragon"
Posted By: Stephen L. (SoundEffect)Date: 10/24/05 5:22 p.m.

In Response To: Information on "The Glide dragon" (Se7en One)

: Glide Dragon

: Latin name: Drago Della Scivalata

: Dragáta

: Introduction:

:

: The Glide dragon is a creature that lives near the lakes of Delta Halo.
: Though once they populated all of Delta Halos surface, they are very
: slowly dying out as what was once a peaceful land is now sparsely
: populated by race known as the Covenant. This "cult", as it is,
: uses the Glide Dragon as sniper practices as they are slow, easy targets.
: Fortunately the Covenant has not covered the entire ring and so in most
: places the Glide Dragon flows freely in the wind.
: Though the Glide Dragon looks like a Dragonfly at a distance, they are in
: fact related to the butterfly and moth family. It eats off a healthy diet
: of smaller insects and fish, nectar and tree sap, found on Delta. It’s
: only known enemy is a predator bird, related to the Gull, which, despite
: its size, relies on the Glide dragon for food, as it does not fight back.

: Movement:

: The Glide dragon hovers and floats in the direction of the wind, though if it
: wants to steer, it can flap its wings whilst keeping the tips virtually
: horizontal.

:

: After a while it looses all sense of direction and needs to re-find its
: bearings. To do this, the Glide dragon flies face first with the wind and
: rises high.

: Below shows live footage of the Glide dragon moving. The first couple of
: stops show the direction in which it flaps its wings. Also in the
: animation below, it shows how the Glide dragon rises high.

:

: When gliding it is almost completely flat, apart from two feelers at the
: bottom of its chest. These are used to help steer the Glide dragon, and to
: help it land. Though not seen anywhere the Glide dragon does have legs and
: arms. Like most insects the Glide dragon hides its legs in flight, and
: because nobody has seen a Glide dragon not in-flight, no one knows exactly
: what the legs look like.

: Head:

: Though not clear from any footage as of yet, we are almost certain that the
: Glide dragon has 6 eyes, like most insects. However unlike most insects
: the Glide dragon has eyes on both sides of its head. This is so it can see
: a 360 radius around its whole body. Using a 3dimention program I have
: reconstructed what the head of the Glide dragon looks like:

: Torso:

: Below show some pictures created by the same 3dimention simulator above,
: showing the whole body of the Glide dragon:

: Also, using a complex program, the below shows a photograph of the ruins of
: Delta Halo, with some computer enhanced Glide dragons, flying above its
: surface.

:

: All this information can be found at the Helljumpers.Bungie.Org website,
: kindly hosted by MereCatfish:
: http://helljumpers.bungie.org/content.php?id=12

: Also a big thank you to everyone on irc for helping me, especially Stefander
: and dogchow ;)

: --Se7en

Very cool article. I never really got a good look at that critter before. Is that a name you made of the creature's actual name from the game files or something?

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Information on "The Glide dragon"Se7en One 10/24/05 11:30 a.m.
     Nice work Se7en :P *NM* *NM*Fozma 10/24/05 11:33 a.m.
     Simply awesome work. *NM*Cullen 10/24/05 11:34 a.m.
     Frontpage Material? *NM*Pixellated 10/24/05 11:39 a.m.
           Re: Frontpage Material?Louis Wu 10/24/05 11:57 a.m.
                 Sorry...Se7en One 10/24/05 12:05 p.m.
                       Hes talentedAndz 10/24/05 12:10 p.m.
                             Talented? Pffft...MereCatfish 10/24/05 12:16 p.m.
                                   Re: Talented? Pffft...Nom 10/24/05 1:30 p.m.
                                         Re: Talented? Pffft...MereCatfish 10/24/05 1:44 p.m.
                                               Re: Talented? Pffft...Nom 10/24/05 2:03 p.m.
                                               Re: Talented? Pffft...GryphonOsiris 10/24/05 2:48 p.m.
                                   re:Dojorkan 10/24/05 1:49 p.m.
     That's Awesome *NM*BJB 10/24/05 11:39 a.m.
     Very impressive! *NM*Anton P. Nym (aka Steve) 10/24/05 11:57 a.m.
     Um . . . creative *NM*Jillybean 10/24/05 1:26 p.m.
     Nice work! *NM*Michael M. 10/24/05 1:26 p.m.
     joke?Fletcher 10/24/05 2:49 p.m.
           Re: joke?Miguel Chavez 10/24/05 3:00 p.m.
           Re: joke?Echoes 10/24/05 3:01 p.m.
           Re: joke?MereCatfish 10/24/05 4:12 p.m.
                 Re: joke?BJB 10/24/05 4:48 p.m.
     Giant, high res Glide dragon *IMG*Se7en One 10/24/05 4:28 p.m.
           Re: Giant, high res Glide dragonMichael M. 10/24/05 10:06 p.m.
     Typo.Simpsons Rule 10/24/05 4:46 p.m.
           knit-pick?hminn 10/24/05 5:55 p.m.
                 Don't mock him...Miguel Chavez 10/24/05 6:30 p.m.
                       Re: Don't mock him...hminn 10/25/05 12:21 p.m.
                       You LIKE stories!?!? *grabs a pen* *NM*skavenger_s7 10/30/05 8:19 a.m.
                             *shudders*Boris 10/30/05 3:59 p.m.
                                   :) *NM*skavenger_s7 10/30/05 5:27 p.m.
                                   All Hail Skav!*THASF* A.K.A. The Halo And Sonic Fan 10/31/05 6:50 a.m.
                 *nitpick *NM*Hawaiian Pig 10/25/05 5:37 p.m.
     Re: Information on "The Glide dragon"Stephen L. (SoundEffect) 10/24/05 5:22 p.m.
           Nah, I made it up *NM*Se7en One 10/25/05 1:10 a.m.



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