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Subject: Why Time Travel is Implausible.

Without me, it's just "Aweso".

The Slipspace portal didn't have any error (which as far as we know is the only way time travel has occurred), it was just that the ship broke in two. Now for an analogy of why Chief didn't end up at Earth like the fore section of the ship:

Imagine that entering slipspace is like being shot from a giant slingshot into the air. If properly aligned, you will land precisely where you want, as long as you have taken into account the air currents (It has been mentioned that in slipspace, there are "current" which UNSC ships plow through, while Covenant ships glide along them for increased speed). Now, imagine that a piece of the projectile shot from the slingshot breaks off (the Chief's section of the ship). That piece will be on a different trajectory, and without a stable slipspace drive, it cannot plow through the currents, but instead, (depending on whether the slipspace engine is still being powered) will either be tossed off track by the currents, or the engines will drive it in a completely new direction with no nav center (located at the front of the ship) to guide it.

Another support for time travel is that people say that Guilty Spark has seen Master Chief before MC meets him.

That does not make much sense to me, as the Spark that had met John would still be in that timeline's future. S how would he know who he was? And what would happen to John when he returns? Future Chief does not appear in any Halo canon, so if the highly implausible time travel occurrence does actually occur, he would just be lost in space, and have no role to play in the story.

Here's an illustration for those too lazy to read:

Initial Jump-----------------_------------------------------->Eart h
____________________\----->In between the Ark and Earth.
____________________^Ship breaks in two

[Edited on 06.07.2009 10:35 AM PDT]

  • 06.03.2009 10:39 AM PDT
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Also, Chief fought at Reach. If he will be in the game, it will probably be Chief from that time. There is no need for time travel.

  • 06.03.2009 10:41 AM PDT

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Posted by: o0 PhoeniX 0o
Also, Chief fought at Reach. If he will be in the game, it will probably be Chief from that time. There is no need for time travel.

Exactley. And don't go saying, "But that could be the Future Chief!" Because if it was, wouldn't he have had the foresight not to repeat the mistakes he had made before?

  • 06.03.2009 10:43 AM PDT
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Clearly mc travelled through time and back to before he was born, at this point he cloned himself and his child was chosen for the spartan program only to grow up to be mc and eventually be flung back in time to repeat the cylce.

MC is a time paradox, nothing more, nothing less... something that awesome could not have originated from anything else.

/sarcasm.

  • 06.03.2009 10:54 AM PDT
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In Halo: Reach, the blockbuster prequel to the Halo trilogy, experience the events that transpired on the planet Reach.

Key word: prequel. If MC went back in time, it would probably be mentioned as a sequel, not a prequel.

  • 06.03.2009 10:58 AM PDT

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Posted by: Eliper
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In Halo: Reach, the blockbuster prequel to the Halo trilogy, experience the events that transpired on the planet Reach.

Key word: prequel. If MC went back in time, it would probably be mentioned as a sequel, not a prequel.

That's also a small hint ;D

  • 06.03.2009 11:22 AM PDT

Chief fought above reach. They said they had spartans on the ground.
Posted by: o0 PhoeniX 0o
Also, Chief fought at Reach. If he will be in the game, it will probably be Chief from that time. There is no need for time travel.

  • 06.03.2009 11:30 AM PDT

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Posted by: Blackfalcon55
Chief fought above reach. They said they had spartans on the ground.
Posted by: o0 PhoeniX 0o
Also, Chief fought at Reach. If he will be in the game, it will probably be Chief from that time. There is no need for time travel.

Same thing. The battle of Reach took place on land and in space.

[Edited on 06.03.2009 11:59 AM PDT]

  • 06.03.2009 11:35 AM PDT

I don't think anything in space is referred to as "Ground"

  • 06.03.2009 11:38 AM PDT

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Posted by: Blackfalcon55
I don't think anything in space is referred to as "Ground"

Typo. Sorry.

  • 06.03.2009 11:58 AM PDT

lol I was thinking that sounded weird.

  • 06.03.2009 12:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: Blackfalcon55
lol I was thinking that sounded weird.

Yeah.

  • 06.03.2009 12:01 PM PDT

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Posted by: Jimm607
Clearly mc travelled through time and back to before he was born, at this point he cloned himself and his child was chosen for the spartan program only to grow up to be mc and eventually be flung back in time to repeat the cylce.

MC is a time paradox, nothing more, nothing less... something that awesome could not have originated from anything else.

/sarcasm.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone posted something like that.

  • 06.03.2009 1:03 PM PDT
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A wise man once said...

"Don't worry about it."

Halo: Reach is a prequel and nothing more, IMO. If Chief went back in time, they'd just be copying Star Trek. lol.

  • 06.03.2009 1:12 PM PDT

Without me, it's just "Aweso".

Ugh. Too many time travel threads.

  • 06.05.2009 8:21 PM PDT

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Posted by: mike120593
Ugh. Too many time travel threads.

What do you mean? There sooooooo smart.

jk lol

  • 06.07.2009 9:44 AM PDT

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I'm probably completely wrong, but what if the Ark's Portal didn't use slipspace, and it was a completley different technology?

  • 06.07.2009 9:47 AM PDT

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Posted by: Halogen Omega
I'm probably completely wrong, but what if the Ark's Portal didn't use slipspace, and it was a completley different technology?

It was slipspace. The only difference between Forerunner slipspace and Covenant slipspace is that the Forerunners better understood it and could travel much faster.

  • 06.07.2009 10:34 AM PDT

Posted by: Eliper
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In Halo: Reach, the blockbuster prequel to the Halo trilogy, experience the events that transpired on the planet Reach.

Key word: prequel. If MC went back in time, it would probably be mentioned as a sequel, not a prequel.
Well the events would happen before then, the only difference would be the characters, which would still make it a prequal.

  • 06.07.2009 10:36 AM PDT

Mike, this idea seems solid, and I find it much, much more plausible than going back in time.

  • 06.07.2009 11:04 AM PDT

Without me, it's just "Aweso".

Posted by: chickenlittle
Mike, this idea seems solid, and I find it much, much more plausible than going back in time.

Why thank you Chicken, your thread is also quite intelligent.

  • 06.07.2009 11:13 AM PDT

Posted by: Duardo
Not really. Your mom is over quite enough to make my fears mute.
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Being alone.
You're a mod, you should be used to that.

if he does time travel.... if ...... Then wouldnt the future chief have already seen himself at reach?

if that was so he would already know how to prevent the tragedy from happening....

-colby

  • 06.07.2009 1:26 PM PDT

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Posted by: mike120593
Another support for time travel is that people say that Guilty Spark has seen Master Chief before MC meets him.
Nope. Spark sees him as a Forerunner, and he speaks to him as if he is the forerunner who asked him if "he would do it". He doesn't have to have seen the Chief himself.

  • 06.07.2009 1:29 PM PDT


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Posted by: mike120593
Posted by: chickenlittle
Mike, this idea seems solid, and I find it much, much more plausible than going back in time.

Why thank you Chicken, your thread is also quite intelligent.


I agree with both of the above statements, well done you two.

  • 06.07.2009 1:43 PM PDT

Armor Lock isn't overpowered. You just suck at Reach :)

Reach isn't bad, you're just a BK :)

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The time-travel theory is stupid. It isn't going to happen.

  • 06.07.2009 1:44 PM PDT

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