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Posted by: eMCee
Ah, I didn't read the link you provided carefully enough. My mistake.
In an attempt to dig myself out of my pit of ignorance, I'll contribute
to your observation.
Your interpretation of the Halo story is great, and very realistic. The
Angel of Time makes perfect sense, and supports your thoughts
extremely well.
I'm curious to know deep you think these time "warps" go however.
For example, "are the 101,217 local years long or short? Is
the rotation around Threshold a year, or is the rotation around the
sun a year?" It is very possible that the gas giant can count as
a star, because there are some gas giants classified as brown
dwarfs. There has been some speculation on the possibility of
Halo getting heat from the gas giant, and maybe even it's power.
On the other hand, what if a year is a full rotation around the sun?
From what I can tell, the sun in Halo is far away, and would make
for a local year even longer than Earth. Maybe 9 times as long. . .
(an epic battle 900,000 years ago) I'm no astrologist, but it made
for an interesting thought. I think you addressed this in one of your
earlier theories, but I don't recall exactly what you said about it.
Time warping is not a new Bungie theme. In fact, I started a
thread not to long ago partially on the subject in Marathon. Here's a
link if you're interested.
In[color=red] THIS [/color]interview, Eric Nylund tells us that Halo's yearly cycle is computed from how long it takes a local planet to to make a complete revolution around it's local star.
As for the length of the yearly cycle on Halo, I'm not quite sure. On one hand, the size of the sun, when viewed from the surface of Halo, looks close to the size of Earth's sun. On the other hand, the MC experiences all the extreams of climate while on Halo... as in an extreamly quick yearly cycle. On that note, I really have no clue:)
I looked at your theory on Marathon, but I've never played it. So, I really don't know what to say???
Thanks,
-Eagle 117
[Edited on 8/24/2004 8:38:20 PM]