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Subject: How did we not find Halo Earlier?
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We made hundreds of colonies throughout the Galaxy, and we never find a single Halo, a little unrealistic.

  • 05.08.2011 8:29 PM PDT

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  • 05.08.2011 8:32 PM PDT

If only there was someone as egotistical and funny as my clone.


oh wait.

so out of cazillions of galaxys it took us 500 years to find it? thats unrealistic.

  • 05.08.2011 8:32 PM PDT

At it's widest the UNSC empire covered around 100 lightyears. The galaxy is significantly larger than this. It's actually a miracle that any were found.

An interesting note, Installation 04 was discovered as early as 2524, but it was overlooked by the government. In Halsey's journal, there's a photograph someone sent her identifiying a large ring object out in space and inviting her to comment.

[Edited on 05.08.2011 8:39 PM PDT]

  • 05.08.2011 8:37 PM PDT
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Posted by: Omanisat
At it's widest the UNSC empire covered around 100 lightyears. The galaxy is significantly larger than this. It's actually a miracle that any were found.

An interesting note, Installation 04 was discovered as early as 2524, but it was overlooked by the government. In Halsey's journal, there's a photograph someone sent her identifiying a large ring object out in space and inviting her to comment.


If you mean the blurry object in space, on that one picture, the only picture that matches your description. There is no mention of a ring object and it doesn't even look like a ring object. It's in fact High Charity. You can even see the mushroom shape in that picture. I apologize if there was another picture which I didn't know about. That was the only picture I found.

On topic: Space is a big place. You would need exact coordinates to find Halo, or just impossibly good luck.

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  • 05.08.2011 9:29 PM PDT

Posted by: Spartan 100
Space is big if you didn't know.

lol yep.

  • 05.08.2011 9:46 PM PDT

Yeah... space is BIG AS -blam!-! There are BILLIONS of stars in our galaxy with billions of planets orbiting them. It's like finding a needle in goddamn Jupiter.

  • 05.08.2011 10:17 PM PDT


Posted by: tsassi2
Posted by: Omanisat
At it's widest the UNSC empire covered around 100 lightyears. The galaxy is significantly larger than this. It's actually a miracle that any were found.

An interesting note, Installation 04 was discovered as early as 2524, but it was overlooked by the government. In Halsey's journal, there's a photograph someone sent her identifiying a large ring object out in space and inviting her to comment.


If you mean the blurry object in space, on that one picture, the only picture that matches your description. There is no mention of a ring object and it doesn't even look like a ring object. It's in fact High Charity. You can even see the mushroom shape in that picture. I apologize if there was another picture which I didn't know about. That was the only picture I found.

On topic: Space is a big place. You would need exact coordinates to find Halo, or just impossibly good luck.


if i remember corectly our first encounter was extremly lucky. or unlucky i guess.

  • 05.08.2011 10:32 PM PDT


Posted by: XxKill3rJakeXx
We made hundreds of colonies throughout the Galaxy, and we never find a single Halo, a little unrealistic.


By the same logic, you could pose the question, how did we not find the Covenant earlier? They had way more colonies than the humans did. The galaxy is a large place.

  • 05.08.2011 10:39 PM PDT

http://www.halo-forum.com

Posted by: Spartan 100
Space is big if you didn't know.

  • 05.09.2011 7:41 AM PDT

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Posted by: XxKill3rJakeXx
We made hundreds of colonies throughout the Galaxy, and we never find a single Halo, a little unrealistic.


By the same logic, you could pose the question, how did we not find the Covenant earlier? They had way more colonies than the humans did. The galaxy is a large place.


Yes, nearly 800 planets were under UNSC control by 2492. Only about 12 Covenant planets are ever mentioned but I'm sure the amount of Covenant controlled worlds numbers in hundreds of thousands if not millions, seeing as they have had nearly 3000 years more than humanity to gain planets and systems.

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  • 05.09.2011 8:50 AM PDT

For one simple reason, space is gimongofreakingnormous, the odds of randomly coming across Halo are pretty much the same as finding a needle in a haystack. The odds of Humanity and the Covenant running into each other were also equally slim.

  • 05.09.2011 10:33 AM PDT

I'd like to know how we didn't find the Ark earlier.

  • 05.09.2011 10:37 AM PDT


Posted by: tsassi2
Posted by: Omanisat
At it's widest the UNSC empire covered around 100 lightyears. The galaxy is significantly larger than this. It's actually a miracle that any were found.

An interesting note, Installation 04 was discovered as early as 2524, but it was overlooked by the government. In Halsey's journal, there's a photograph someone sent her identifiying a large ring object out in space and inviting her to comment.


If you mean the blurry object in space, on that one picture, the only picture that matches your description. There is no mention of a ring object and it doesn't even look like a ring object. It's in fact High Charity. You can even see the mushroom shape in that picture. I apologize if there was another picture which I didn't know about. That was the only picture I found.

On topic: Space is a big place. You would need exact coordinates to find Halo, or just impossibly good luck.


What page was that on again? I'd like to go look at that.

  • 05.09.2011 10:39 AM PDT
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Posted by: tsassi2
Posted by: Omanisat
At it's widest the UNSC empire covered around 100 lightyears. The galaxy is significantly larger than this. It's actually a miracle that any were found.

An interesting note, Installation 04 was discovered as early as 2524, but it was overlooked by the government. In Halsey's journal, there's a photograph someone sent her identifiying a large ring object out in space and inviting her to comment.


If you mean the blurry object in space, on that one picture, the only picture that matches your description. There is no mention of a ring object and it doesn't even look like a ring object. It's in fact High Charity. You can even see the mushroom shape in that picture. I apologize if there was another picture which I didn't know about. That was the only picture I found.

On topic: Space is a big place. You would need exact coordinates to find Halo, or just impossibly good luck.


What page was that on again? I'd like to go look at that.


It was behind that book,inside all of those documents

  • 05.09.2011 10:41 AM PDT
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Space is quite big. Thinking on it, I think they would have maybe found one. But I don't know. As far As I know, Halo Arrays firing range was quite large, and so maybe there only needed to be one in a very large distance.

  • 05.09.2011 10:55 AM PDT


Posted by: nmiactkt
I'd like to know how we didn't find the Ark earlier.


You mean the Portal? Finding the Ark would be just as hard finding Alpha or Delta Halo, especially since the Ark was basically outside the galaxy in order to protect all the lifeforms brought there by the Librarian to protect them from the firing of the Halos, and then the Keyships they were on (or other type of ship possibly) reseeded life throughout the galaxy after it was safe once more. If the Ark was inside the galaxy then all life in the Milky Way would have ceased because of the Halos, even if all the Flood died off.

  • 05.09.2011 11:29 AM PDT

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The person who said participating is important, not winning, obviously never won anything.

The Halo rings (Alpha and Delta) were far away from UNSC space. It's normal the UNSC had not stumbled upon any.

If I remember correctly, Earth was well beyond the Maginot Line the Forerunners established.

  • 05.09.2011 12:02 PM PDT
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As other's have pointed out, you fail to grasp how immense space is. There's an estimated 400 billion stars in our galaxy, so 100 colonies is literally nothing on that scale. I did some calculations cause I was really bored, so I'll try to give you a sense of scale.

Finding a Halo in our galaxy would be like trying to find something the size of a red blood cell on Earth. ie. If the galaxy was shrunk down to the size of Earth, a halo would be the size of a red blood cell. Good luck trying to find that. Similarly, the odds of finding the Covenant would be incredibly small.

Posted by: nmiactkt
I'd like to know how we didn't find the Ark earlier.
The ark is outside our galaxy, that's why. We won't want to travel outside our galaxy because there would be no point in doing so. And the massive distances and pure emptiness of space between galaxies puts the whole "red blood cell/Earth" analogy to shame.

Scale of the universe - for any of those interested.

  • 05.09.2011 12:38 PM PDT


Posted by: ODST27
As other's have pointed out, you fail to grasp how immense space is. There's an estimated 400 billion stars in our galaxy, so 100 colonies is literally nothing on that scale. I did some calculations cause I was really bored, so I'll try to give you a sense of scale.

Finding a Halo in our galaxy would be like trying to find something the size of a red blood cell on Earth. ie. If the galaxy was shrunk down to the size of Earth, a halo would be the size of a red blood cell. Good luck trying to find that. Similarly, the odds of finding the Covenant would be incredibly small.

Posted by: nmiactkt
I'd like to know how we didn't find the Ark earlier.
The ark is outside our galaxy, that's why. We won't want to travel outside our galaxy because there would be no point in doing so. And the massive distances and pure emptiness of space between galaxies puts the whole "red blood cell/Earth" analogy to shame.

Scale of the universe - for any of those interested.


...damn. that's big.

  • 05.09.2011 12:53 PM PDT

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Posted by: ODST27
As other's have pointed out, you fail to grasp how immense space is. There's an estimated 400 billion stars in our galaxy, so 100 colonies is literally nothing on that scale. I did some calculations cause I was really bored, so I'll try to give you a sense of scale.

Finding a Halo in our galaxy would be like trying to find something the size of a red blood cell on Earth. ie. If the galaxy was shrunk down to the size of Earth, a halo would be the size of a red blood cell. Good luck trying to find that. Similarly, the odds of finding the Covenant would be incredibly small.

Posted by: nmiactkt
I'd like to know how we didn't find the Ark earlier.
The ark is outside our galaxy, that's why. We won't want to travel outside our galaxy because there would be no point in doing so. And the massive distances and pure emptiness of space between galaxies puts the whole "red blood cell/Earth" analogy to shame.

Scale of the universe - for any of those interested.


Excuse me for a moment while I clean the poop out of my pants.

That stuff is amazing. The Universe, that is...not my poop.

  • 05.09.2011 1:34 PM PDT