Posted by: phearmaker
It seems that some people are not understanding why you see a nebula in the legendary ending.
MIKEFLOUNDERS said it best.
Posted by: MIKEFLOUNDERS
Small Magellanic Cloud is 200,000 light years away from our galaxy ,our galaxy is 100,000 light years across so the radius is 50,000 light years so 2.5 galactic radius would be 150,000 light years to where chief is and 50.000 light years the the small magellanic cloud in the back ground so he is prity much still in our universe and in marathon you tack off from earth in the marathon as a secruity guard....
Halo 3 takes place 200 YEARS before marathon, When master chief's part of the ship slips into the marathon universe, It is still the same exact year he was just in. He floats in space for 200 years until you see the colonized mars appear, And then get eclipsed by the sun eclipsing luna in the background.
There's a problem with this part. The Small Magellanic Cloud is not a nebula. It's a dwarf galaxy (a picture of it here). Though the galaxy does appear blue at times, it looks cleary different from the nebula in the legendary ending. There is a blue nebula in the small magellanic cloud, but that doesn't necessarily mean Chief is actually there.
Even if Chief was there it would've take WAY more than 200 years to get back to Earth assuming he would even be floating in that direction.
I don't know if somebody posted this already or if I'm missing something, and I'm not disproving your theory, I'm just trying to clear this up because that part isn't adding up in my head.
[Edited on 11.27.2010 9:11 AM PST]