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any one know how the covavnt find earth? maybe they found guilty spark and he told them all he knew from teh pillar or autum or maybe the followed a ship on earths hyperspace routes

any ideas?

  • 07.25.2004 2:21 PM PDT

[color=white]Have you read the three books?
The Fall of Reach, written by Eric Nylund, happens before Halo.
The Flood, written by William somethingorother, is the story of the game, with embellishments.
First Strike, also by Nylund, details the events between Halo's end and Halo 2's beginning (or close to it). I believe F.S. also gives a clue or explanation how the Covenant find Earth.
It's been a while since I read it.

Also, Reach isn't too far from Earth. Theoretically, the Covenant just had to look at the planets near Reach, realize there was a lot of human activity, and make an educated guess. And glass any planets between Reach and Earth on the way....[/color]

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  • 07.25.2004 2:26 PM PDT
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no i havent thats why im asking for any good ideas

  • 07.25.2004 2:32 PM PDT
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Well I'm glad that this has nothing to do with bees.

In FOR I remember it saying something about a tracking device being placed on Captain Keyes ship. I think that is how they found earth.

  • 07.25.2004 2:34 PM PDT
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They guessed.

  • 07.25.2004 2:35 PM PDT
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How they found out?
Bungie programmed them there.

  • 07.25.2004 2:36 PM PDT

I'll be on my own side.

they probably got the coordinates for Earth in one of those "Minor artifacts" they found on Reach. Seeing that the Forerunners left behind artifacts that had stellar coordinates in them,maybe theres some Forerunner tech on Earth so the Forerunners leave directions to it for their descendants to find?? like the artifact on Sigma Octanus IV,that had the coordinates for Halo,and the markings in Ackerson's files that had the coordinates for Reach. the artifact with those coordinates was most likely found on another planet,because it would be dumb to leave coordinates behind for a planet,when those coordinates are actually on the planet they point to.

  • 07.25.2004 2:38 PM PDT
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Posted by: Halifax
Well I'm glad that this has nothing to do with bees.

In FOR I remember it saying something about a tracking device being placed on Captain Keyes ship. I think that is how they found earth.


That's how the covenant found Reach. I haven't gotten to First Strike yet, so I don't know how they actually found Earth.

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  • 07.25.2004 2:39 PM PDT
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Posted by: Halifax
Well I'm glad that this has nothing to do with bees.

In FOR I remember it saying something about a tracking device being placed on Captain Keyes ship. I think that is how they found earth.


That's how the covenant found Reach. I haven't gotten to First Strike yet, so I don't know how they actually found Earth.

OH ok. Well Im glad you told me. Thanks.

  • 07.25.2004 2:41 PM PDT
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Well, Cortana finds out the Covenant know the location of Earth only 1 day after Halo is destroyed.

Reference: First Strike.

1637 hours, September 22, 2552: Installation-04 is destroyed.

0640 hours, September 23, 2552: Cortana uses captured Covenant AI's translation algorithms to decipher the Covenant transmissions and find out that the Covenant know the location of Earth.

  • 07.25.2004 2:43 PM PDT
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when keyes commanded the iroquios the covies planted a tracker on his ship.. thats my thoughts

  • 07.25.2004 2:43 PM PDT
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That's how they found Reach, not Earth.

  • 07.25.2004 2:44 PM PDT
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i think 343 gs was somehow connected to the covies bc in FS in the epilogue the prophet asks Tartarus (the brute) about "the keeper of the Luminous Key" now what is a key and lluminus i thought that the index would fit nicly and who keeps that key GASP 343 gs and then the prophet orders "the keeper executed"

  • 07.25.2004 2:48 PM PDT
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i also had a hunch on that monitor had soemthing to do with it

but some say the covies planted a tracer on keyes ship. Well keyes never got of Halo and neither did his ship only a pelican and MC made it off.

  • 07.25.2004 2:53 PM PDT
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I don't think they got it from the PIllar of Autumn (or from 343 GS, who "got it from the autumn"). Because doesn't the Cole Protocol require the deletion of data on the coordinates of Earth if there is a risk it might fall into Covenant hands? Unless Keyes didn't follow the protocal, in which case he's a loser who screwed us over.

  • 07.25.2004 2:54 PM PDT
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True, plus protacal said that cortana must not come into covanant hands at any cost for she had the knowledge that the covies needed therfore it must not have been in the autum for guilty spark to find so that being said i have absolutly no clue on how they found earth

  • 07.25.2004 2:58 PM PDT
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the covenent found earth because they found out that we were the forerunners and we created the halos so not only are they here to destroy us they are here looking for the controls to operate the halos and continue there conquest to conquer the universe. the controls are some where in a desert temple

  • 07.25.2004 11:32 PM PDT