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Posted by: EldritchWarlord
Posted by: Non Unique
Posted by: EldritchWarlord
Posted by: Dream053
Posted by: Non Unique
Like the fact that humanity had 17 colonies, not hundreds.
We can name more than seventeen human colonies. That's not retconning, that's a plot inconsistency. Big difference.
There's a difference between Colony and colonized world. Do Reach, Circumstance, and Tribute count as individual colonies or is Epsilon Eridani the colony?
Looking through all Halo material the UNSC had permanent settlements in 16 known systems including Sol and I believe that some of these don't actually have a colony (like Onyx in the Zeta Doradus system, it's just a research base). So if only a colonized system counts as a "UNSC Colony" then it is consistent to have 17 colonies.When someone says colonies, do you think the individual one, or the large group? They called the U.S the Thirteen Colonies because that was the group of 13 individual colonies.
My point is, that a colony refers to one specific settlement, and would not make sense to consider the whole system as one colony, rather the individual planets.
Territorial definitions don't often make much sense when applied literally, for example a US State can't technically be called a state as it is not sovereign in that it is under the federal government.Except that state has dual meanings, either as a smaller section of a parent country or a full fledged country.