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Posted by: Evil Elite
[/quote]Um, no. The forward half of the ship made it through the slipspace window. The back half with the Chief and Cortana did not. They are stuck outside the rim of our galaxy, probably in the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160,000 lightyears away.[/quote]
actually, if you pay attention, you can see the iris nebula in the background of the legendary ending. The Iris Nebula is around 1300 light years away.
One problem:
The Milky Way is 100,000 lightyears across. Earth sits about 26,000 lightyears from the galactic center. The Ark is BEYOND the galactic rim, which is about 24,000 lightyears away. The Iris Nebula is withing the Milky Way.
Bungie likely took an artistic lisence and used the nebula as a backdrop, or a whole heck of a lot of years have passed and the Forward Unto Dawn has drifted tens of thousands of lightyears, which would take a hell of a lot of time (the power system would probably fail) and Chief would die.
I wish Bungie would clear these distances up and whatnot. Galactic rim is 24,000 lightyears from us, Iris nebula is 1300 lightyears away, and the Ark is over 24,000 lightyears away since it's beyond the rim (also because the Halo has an effective "blast" radius of 12,500 lightyears).
Since the ring was fired, it must've been a minimum of 12,500 lightyears away.
I'm going to go with Bungie taking an artistic license on the Iris Nebula.