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Subject: Canonical Error?

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2/15/12: Francisco Porras, I'll miss you. Rest in Peace.

Last night I finished The Flood and I'm now about halfway through First Strike. As I was looking at the dates, I realized that they didn't add up(at least to me they didn't).

The end of FoR during the epilogue it states that the PoA arrived at Instillation 04 on August 30th 2552, and in The Flood (Chapter 1) it says that they arrived there on September 19th 2552.

Would anyone like to enlighten me on why that is?

  • 01.06.2011 10:10 PM PDT

Can't we all just get along?

Possibly a typo.

Reach fell on August 30 2552, and that is the day that the Pillar of Autumn jumped to a 'random' destination.

After 3 weeks in slipspace, they arrived at their destination, the location of Alpha Halo.

The flood has the correct dates, so it was probably misprinted in FoR.

  • 01.06.2011 10:35 PM PDT
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I believe that chapters are time and date stamped from when they start. Since the Epilogue begins on August 30th, that's what the date is given as. The arrival date isn't mentioned(as far as I can tell, I might be forgetting something), but there's lines to suggest that some amount of time has passed.

  • 01.06.2011 10:47 PM PDT

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2/15/12: Francisco Porras, I'll miss you. Rest in Peace.

So pretty much they left Reach on August 30 and were in slip space for 3 weeks, then on the 19th they arrived at Halo? That seems reasonable.

  • 01.06.2011 11:00 PM PDT