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Posted By: Narcogen <narcogen@rampancy.net> | Date: 1/27/08 11:16 p.m. |
In Response To: ooooo! (scarab) : He would only be indexing non-Forerunner worlds. Forerunners would be looking : after themeslevs. That is a very good explanation, actually. However I still contend that the question of HOW Regret found Earth is irrelevant. He wanted to do it and he did. The Covenant are seeking to wipe out humanity as well as find a way to activate the Array. These separate, but parallel objectives, converge at an unlikely location (Earth) which the Covenant are surprised to find is an indexed world, humanity's homeworld, and home to the Ark/Portal to the Ark (depending on which game you're playing). In essence, the Covenant were ALWAYS looking for Earth. They just didn't know it was Earth they were looking for. So it shouldn't be surprising at all that eventually they manage to find it. Certainly humanity is not surprised-- they developed an entire protocol to prevent it. The need for the protocol implies a danger the Covenant would search for Earth and find it, and also implies a possiblity that the Protocol would fail. Although the games don't offer any direct evidence of it, it is a plausible assumption, and one the novels back up. However, it should not at all be surprising that eventually the Covenant would find Earth. Therefore the 'how' does not require explanation for in order to maintain the suspension of disbelief. Therefore not providing such an explanation is, in my view, not a flaw in Halo's storytelling. It's just a detail webfans like to obsess over... like continuity errors in Star Trek.
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