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Posted by: anton1792
Posted by: PLUT0NIUM 235
that statement is bogus for one simple fact. their empire spanned three million worlds, how many habitable worlds are there in our galaxy, roughly would you say, would reckon ~1% of worlds might be habitable, look at our solar system, eight actual planets and countless planetoids (moons, dwarf planets, etc.) and only a single one is habitable, so all in all we only span around 1% of our solar system to be honest. even 'when' we expand to live on the moon and Mars, thats still not even scratching the surface of real estate available in the solar system.
look at it logically, they would have spanned the galaxy for a number of reasons. distance? not a problem, installation 00 is enormous (like 110,000 miles in diametre or something!) and thats a long long long way outside the galactic edge, so I think to say they didn't span the galaxy is a little on the bogus side to be honest.
Kepler findings initially estimated that there are over 50 billion terrestrial planets in this galaxy, with around 500 million being Earth-like.
A more recent analysis by NASA on these figures suggests an even larger number. At least 2 billion earth-like planets in this galaxy, which means many, many more non Earth-like planets.
Earth like planets are not just restricted to independent planets. Moons of gas giants orbiting in the habitable zones of their solar system also fall under this classification.
All these non Earth-like planets, for a civilisation as advanced as the Foerunner, could be easily terraformed into hospitable ones. Controlling 3 million worlds in the face of these statistics is nothing.
1) They are estimates
2) This isn't real life; I'm talking of territory, not the number of planets
[Edited on 04.02.2011 7:09 PM PDT]