Frequently Asked Forum Questions
Search the HBO News Archives Any All Exact		Search the Halo Updates DBs Halo Halo2		Bungie Webcam HBO XBL Gamertags *Ar's Simple HTML Guide Shishka's Guide for Newcomers The Lowdown on Download Accelerators Red Loser's Anti-Spamming Guide Egg FAQ | More Egg Stuff c0ld's Movie Starter Guide Shishka's HaloPC Pre-Release FAQ 3.1 AutoMagic 117 StripzMaker
Search Older Posts on This Forum: Posts on Current Forum | Archived Posts

Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.
Posted By: scarab	Date: 12/23/10 8:03 p.m.
In Response To: Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up. (YNation913) : I had always assumed that the Librarian only discovered Earth towards the end : of the Flood War and was surprised to find a species there that was so : similar to the Forerunners. IRIS had that bit, after all, about the irony : of Earth being discovered at the end of things. That was my understanding before I read chapter one. Things have definitely changed. I'm not sure that these changes can be reconciled with what had gone before. : I have a feeling that this hasn't been fully explained yet, and that the role : of the Precursors in both races' histories is far more elaborate. I'm probably being too picky. If the story was a hard hard SF story then we would have to share a common ancestor but even hard science fiction is rarely that concerned with scientific accuracy. : What seems really interesting to me is that if humans somehow forgot over : generations that they were once an interstellar species before being : blasted into the stone age by the Forerunners, then the story could just : as easily have been what Guilty Spark's comments seem to have implied : throughout the trilogy. Specifically that the humans of 2552 were : descendants of the leftover Forerunners after the Flood war, and had : similarly forgotten their history over generations. I think that they want to include the Cortana letters, bring them further into the canon fold. In those letters Sol once had colonies and then lost them and reverted to a pee-scientific state. Once they went back into space they found humans already living on the planets that they found. The funny thing is that there is no mention of lost colonies in the books or the games. Will this change in future? Will we find that the Humans of the UNSC era now know of lost colonies? Will it turn out that Arcadia (for instance) already had Humans on it when it was 'discovered'? Could the Cortana letters be brought into the fold without changing the timing of Earth's discovery? In one scenario the Forerunners could have played the Covenant's role and could have bombed Sol's colonies back into the stone age but maybe they didn't find Earth. Earth's ciiv could have collapsed on its own due to the cost of the war or due to overpopulation. In that scenario they would have been hunting Human worlds just as the Covenant did many years later. This would leave Earth undiscovered for perhaps thousands of years until L: finally found it just before the Array activation.

Message Index

Cryptum chapters 1&2 available online	Archilen	12/22/10 12:22 p.m.
Re: SPOILERS within	CaptainTony	12/22/10 12:41 p.m.
Re: SPOILERS within	General Battuta	12/22/10 1:14 p.m.
Re: SPOILERS within	CaptainTony	12/22/10 1:18 p.m.
So. EXCITED.	GrimBrother One	12/22/10 12:41 p.m.
Wow, I'll be picking this up.	serpx	12/22/10 1:45 p.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	Archilen	12/22/10 2:47 p.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	YNation913	12/23/10 3:18 p.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	scarab	12/23/10 5:13 p.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	YNation913	12/23/10 5:23 p.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	scarab	12/23/10 5:58 p.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	YNation913	12/23/10 6:15 p.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	scarab	12/23/10 8:03 p.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	YNation913	12/23/10 8:17 p.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	scarab	12/24/10 4:13 a.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	General Vagueness	12/24/10 12:37 a.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	scarab	12/24/10 4:06 a.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	Metalingus627	12/23/10 7:47 p.m.
Re: Wow, I'll be picking this up.	scarab	12/23/10 8:09 p.m.
I must be late to the party	Joony Joon	12/22/10 1:54 p.m.
Re: I must be late to the party	Beckx	12/22/10 2:05 p.m.
Re: I must be late to the party	BlueNinja	12/22/10 2:08 p.m.
Re: I must be late to the party	Joony Joon	12/22/10 2:30 p.m.
Re: I must be late to the party	Beckx	12/22/10 2:38 p.m.
Re: I must be late to the party	yakaman	12/22/10 3:44 p.m.
Open to interpretation *SP*	De Laal	12/22/10 3:49 p.m.
Re: Open to interpretation *SP*	General Vagueness	12/22/10 4:16 p.m.
Nothing was written in stone	scarab	12/22/10 6:55 p.m.
Re: Nothing was written in stone	Joony Joon	12/23/10 1:46 p.m.
Re: Cryptum chapters 1&2 available EXCELLENT	yakaman	12/22/10 3:21 p.m.
Oh, wow...	SPARTAN-034	12/22/10 9:42 p.m.
Re: Oh, wow...	Louis Wu	12/22/10 9:47 p.m.
Re: Oh, wow...	General Battuta	12/22/10 9:55 p.m.
Re: Oh, wow...	SPARTAN-034	12/22/10 10:07 p.m.
Re: Oh, wow...	General Vagueness	12/22/10 11:23 p.m.
I see your problem, 034	Riceatron	12/25/10 7:29 a.m.
Re: Oh, wow...	Archilen	12/23/10 5:03 a.m.
If you say so	De Laal	12/23/10 5:15 a.m.
Re: Cryptum chapters 1&2 available online	CaneCutter	12/22/10 9:00 p.m.
Re: Cryptum chapters 1&2 available online	General Vagueness	12/22/10 11:51 p.m.
Re: Cryptum chapters 1&2 available online	General Battuta	12/23/10 12:27 a.m.
Re: Cryptum chapters 1&2 available online	De Laal	12/23/10 5:01 a.m.
Halo: story evolved!	scarab	12/23/10 6:13 a.m.
Re: Halo: story evolved!	Frankie	12/24/10 11:38 a.m.
Re: Halo: story evolved!	Louis Wu	12/24/10 12:09 p.m.
Re: Halo: story evolved!	Frankie	12/24/10 12:38 p.m.
Re: Halo: story evolved!	Metalingus627	12/24/10 4:48 p.m.
WAIT WAIT WAIT	Riceatron	12/25/10 7:13 a.m.