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| Re: I'll get my broom. | |
| Posted By: scarab | Date: 1/23/08 10:57 a.m. |
In Response To: I'll get my broom. (Narcogen) : The Covenant were led to Installation 04 by an artifact they found on Reach. : It's conceivable that the location to Earth was not revealed to them by : UNSC failing to follow the Cole protocol, but that some Forerunner : artifact or installation (perhaps 04 itself) revealed the location to : them. : All they would have known about it was that it was a world with a Forerunner
I think that the story changed between h2 and Halo 3. In the Halo 3 version... Earth was discovered late, some time fairly close to the array activation. It was outside of the Maginot Sphere and it was precious to the Forerunner. GM was powerful outside of the sphere, Earth was far away from the sphere. So earth's saftey lay in the fact that it was unknown and obscure. It would NOT be in the Forerunner's interests to advertise its existence or location. The Forerunners put a direct portal to the Ark on Earth. They wouldn't want to advertise its existence. <- unguarded direct route to highest importance Forerunner installation this way. Also note that the Forerunners knew that GM could crack the keyships' key given time. <-mentioned in Halo 3 terminals. It would NOT be logical to find pointers to Earth on nearby Forerunner locations. It was probably only discovered because the Librarian was searching the galaxy for species to index. The Forerunners probably ignored hunter-gatherer societies until the array activation idea forced them to go looking for species to index. I think that, prior to Halo 3, Bungie were thinking in terms of a breadcrumb trail from Forerunner world to Forerunner world. In this version of the story Earth would have been known to the Forerunner. It would have been of some importance, a part of their civ, and there would be clues in Forerunner artifacts and installations. That's the way the story seemed to have been shaping up prior to Halo 3. The breadcrumb trail makes less sense in the Halo 3 storyverse.
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| Story Shenanigans | Cody Miller | 1/22/08 2:24 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | scarab | 1/22/08 2:48 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Raulboy | 1/22/08 5:27 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Captain Spark | 1/22/08 2:50 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | McGrude | 1/22/08 3:04 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Captain Spark | 1/22/08 3:11 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Urban Reflex | 1/22/08 3:15 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Captain Spark | 1/22/08 3:25 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | the Light Show | 1/23/08 2:37 a.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | scarab | 1/23/08 8:15 a.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Don | 4/4/08 3:06 p.m. |
| Either Didact, or just a random Forerunner. *NM* | BlueNinja | 4/4/08 4:02 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Cthulhu117 | 1/22/08 7:10 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | DiscipleN2k | 1/22/08 3:27 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Cody Miller | 1/22/08 3:30 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Captain Spark | 1/22/08 3:37 p.m. |
| To borrow from Star Trek First Contact... | McGrude | 1/22/08 3:39 p.m. |
| I think we're overanalyzing | elpolloguapo | 1/22/08 4:52 p.m. |
| ^ i remember that! lol *NM* | the Light Show | 1/23/08 2:41 a.m. |
| No dice. | Narcogen | 1/23/08 10:01 a.m. |
| Other Answers | DHalo | 1/22/08 3:38 p.m. |
| ...and a few more... | Leviathan | 1/22/08 4:25 p.m. |
| Wait | Kockynvainn | 1/23/08 2:28 p.m. |
| Re: Wait | elpolloguapo | 1/23/08 2:29 p.m. |
| Re: Wait | Kockynvainn | 1/23/08 2:54 p.m. |
| Re: Wait | Louis Wu | 1/23/08 3:15 p.m. |
| OOPS! | Kockynvainn | 1/23/08 3:45 p.m. |
| And illiterate it seems... *NM* | Kockynvainn | 1/23/08 3:45 p.m. |
| SEE? *NM* | elpolloguapo | 1/23/08 4:29 p.m. |
| Re: ...and a few more... | Jillybean | 1/25/08 7:58 a.m. |
| Re: ...and a few more... | UrsusArctos | 1/25/08 8:47 a.m. |
| Re: ...and a few more... | Narcogen | 1/26/08 12:34 a.m. |
| Re: ...and a few more... | UrsusArctos | 1/26/08 7:23 p.m. |
| Thanks, intersting *NM* | Cody Miller | 1/22/08 9:33 p.m. |
| Re: Other Answers | Rosco-128 | 1/22/08 9:44 p.m. |
| Re: Other Answers | scarab | 1/23/08 12:18 p.m. |
| ooooh, i see | Rosco-128 | 1/23/08 4:02 p.m. |
| I can no longer like this theory | Jillybean | 1/25/08 8:37 a.m. |
| You STILL hate Cortana? | UrsusArctos | 1/25/08 8:51 a.m. |
| Re: I can no longer like this theory | Peptuck | 1/25/08 10:50 a.m. |
| Re: I can no longer like this theory | Cody Miller | 1/25/08 12:37 p.m. |
| Re: I can no longer like this theory | Captain Spark | 1/25/08 2:04 p.m. |
| Re: I can no longer like this theory | Leviathan | 1/25/08 2:49 p.m. |
| Re: I can no longer like this theory | elpolloguapo | 1/25/08 3:09 p.m. |
| Re: I can no longer like this theory | Leviathan | 1/25/08 6:59 p.m. |
| Re: I can no longer like this theory | elpolloguapo | 1/25/08 2:51 p.m. |
| Re: I can no longer like this theory | scarab | 1/25/08 5:57 p.m. |
| Re: I can no longer like this theory | elpolloguapo | 1/25/08 8:53 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Clefton Twain | 1/22/08 3:47 p.m. |
| Answers. | InnerRayg | 1/22/08 4:38 p.m. |
| Canon: Best Defensive Option Is A Last Offensive.. | Narcogen | 1/23/08 9:57 a.m. |
| Re: Canon: Best Defensive Option Is A Last Offensi | Simpsons Rule | 1/23/08 10:03 a.m. |
| Re: Canon: Best Defensive Option Is A Last Offensi | Narcogen | 1/23/08 10:19 a.m. |
| Re: Answers. | scarab | 1/23/08 12:21 p.m. |
| Shamez-vous, CT | elpolloguapo | 1/22/08 4:56 p.m. |
| Re: Shamez-vous, CT | Clefton Twain | 1/23/08 8:23 a.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Peptuck | 1/22/08 5:51 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | reprobate | 1/22/08 7:37 p.m. |
| WTF do I know? | Clefton Twain | 1/23/08 7:58 a.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | elpolloguapo | 1/22/08 4:48 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Peptuck | 1/22/08 5:49 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | DHalo | 1/22/08 5:56 p.m. |
| Two Things *Minor Contact Harvest spoilers* | reprobate | 1/22/08 7:46 p.m. |
| Re: Two Things *Minor Contact Harvest spoilers* | InnerRayg | 1/22/08 10:23 p.m. |
| Re: Two Things *Minor Contact Harvest spoilers* | reprobate | 1/22/08 11:14 p.m. |
| Re: Two Things *Minor Contact Harvest spoilers* | scarab | 1/23/08 1:08 a.m. |
| Mendicant also has to do with Orders that do Chari | Zohak | 1/23/08 1:01 a.m. |
| Someone who lives on Charity :-) | scarab | 1/23/08 1:10 a.m. |
| Re: Someone who lives on Charity :-) | reprobate | 1/23/08 4:21 a.m. |
| > | DHalo | 1/23/08 6:12 a.m. |
| ^^ Its so much simpler than that... | DHalo | 1/23/08 6:15 a.m. |
| Re: ^^ Its so much simpler than that... | scarab | 1/23/08 7:48 a.m. |
| Actual quote, p276 | scarab | 1/23/08 12:40 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | scarab | 1/23/08 7:46 a.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Ragashingo | 1/22/08 6:57 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Cthulhu117 | 1/22/08 7:13 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Cthulhu117 | 1/22/08 7:07 p.m. |
| Purottohoru ga! | UrsusArctos | 1/22/08 8:33 p.m. |
| Liar. *BLAM!* | Gravemind | 1/23/08 12:15 a.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Omega | 1/22/08 11:13 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Avateur | 1/23/08 2:29 a.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Cthulhu117 | 1/23/08 12:56 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Avateur | 1/23/08 6:14 p.m. |
| I'll get my broom. | Narcogen | 1/23/08 8:27 a.m. |
| Re: I'll get my broom. | scarab | 1/23/08 10:57 a.m. |
| Re: I'll get my broom. | scarab | 1/23/08 11:03 a.m. |
| Just a thought | scarab | 1/23/08 11:07 a.m. |
| Re: Just a thought | Cthulhu117 | 1/23/08 12:58 p.m. |
| Years | Narcogen | 1/23/08 7:57 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | bedlam | 1/23/08 4:30 p.m. |
| Re: Story Shenanigans | Kockynvainn | 1/23/08 5:19 p.m. |
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