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Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
It makes isolated parts of the Universe travel through time.
It doesn't magically alter events timelines.
It might do. Had it the time alteration not happened, Ascendant Justice would not have arrived at Reach until the end of September. The Unyielding Heirophant and the fleet of 500 would have therefore destroyed Earth and finished Humanity.
Dragging Ascendant Justice back through time therefore altered the timeline in Humanitys favour.
What did the crystal actually do though? Did it just time dilate Reach so that time passed slower there (Or across all of UNSC/Covenant space, except for Alpha Halo), or did it actually drag Ascendant Justice back through time to September 12? I have never gotten my head fully around this.
Anyway, that would be a paradox OP. Altering the events on Reach that led to Alpha Halo and the crystals activation could result in those events not taking place. If they did not take place, then no time travel. No time travel; events do not change, so the crystal is activated, etc.
That's the whole issue with time-travel, it's a very tricky area.
Most science-fiction explanations lean towards the "New time line overlaps old time line" kinda thing. With the anomaly present and most of the time unexplained.
Hell, technically we're all time-travelling. Each travelling a second closer to the future. :P