- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I loved looking into the timeline hole . . . until that is, I joined in on the Marathon Speculation Thread that bobs up and down on the underground everynow and then . . . and we realized, looking at both the Halo and Marathon timelines, that the evolution of technology in both universes does not match (at all).
Just to point out one "contradition" without having to do any background research, if Halo takes place while the Marathon is enroute, then that means FTL travel was discovered not too long after the marathon left. Now comes the contradition? Tau Ceti is very close to earth. Wouldn't some ship go out to meet the Marathon as it putters slowly out to Tau Ceti, and refit it with FTL drives? Or at least, wouldn't Tau Ceti be colonized by FTL colony ships when it gets there?
(these are not my original ideas).
Either way, a cursurory glance at the two timelines at HBO yield technological differences (FTL, teleportation, etc) as well as different colonizing methods that would cause a confliction between the two. Which is a darn shame. I'd like to think there is a deeper meaning to forerunner, covenant, and human vehicles being adorned with the Marathon Logo. Blasted.