- TheBigJimboner
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It's like those hip musicians with their complicated shoes!
If violets are blue, then what colour is violet?
If you haven't guessed already, yes, this is another theory being thrown out there.
This is, so far, based almost entirely on coincidence and similarity.
I recently noticed that This Ringed Planet in the Background Found in the Halo: Reach Trailer, looks a lot like This Planet Found on Sandbox.
Let's first look at the similarities.
Aside from the immediate visual similarities, it seems to me that both planets would appear to be roughly the same size when viewed from both Reach, and the Sandbox location.
We also see that in both cases, the local star is the same colour.
Well, that's about it.
In the Reach trailer we see what appears to be the moon of the unknown planet. When viewed from Sandbox, it could simply be hidden behind the planet.
*** If you have not read 'Ghosts of Onyx' and do not wish to have the plot revealed, stop reading now.***
I believe that, possibly, Sandbox could actually be located on Reach, post glassing.
I would imagine that a planet that had been glassed would be quite devoid of water and would indeed become a desert.
Now we also know that much of Reach, like Castle Base for instance, was underground, and was yet to be explored. Forerunner artifacts, like the crystal, were found deep within the planet.
Perhaps the glassing of Reach, possibly with the addition of some large explosion, blew away part of the crust to reveal the Forerunner structures beneath, much like Onyx, but maybe not a Shield world.
The description for Sandbox is:
This endless wasteland still holds many secrets. Some of them are held more deeply than others.
Now this could, and probably does, alude to the Crypt buried beneath the sands. It may, however, also tell us that there is something more.
In considering all this, we have to ask ourselves if we can consider the multiplayer maps to be part of Halo canon.
It is my belief that the maps do indeed borrow from canonical locations, but may not be canon themselves.
However, in saying that, Sandbox needs to be located SOMEWHERE in the Haloverse. Much like Avalanche being located on a Halo ring.
Just a thought. Any ideas?
[Edited on 06.18.2009 3:23 AM PDT]