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Posted by: Cmdr DaeFaron
Another thing, looking at a picture of the hologram. How do you know which color icons belong to which side?
I see lots of yellow, and a few red.
Personally I'm working to figure that out myself. The dots are a mystery at the moment, but judging by how the Spirits and Corvettes have yellow icons I'd imagine that that would be the color of friendly (Covenant) forces to prevent confusion.
In any case I'm currently working on trying to fix a location for points of interest on Reach (such as Castle, the various Highland mountain facilities like Hathcock, etc, etc) and so far I'm fairly confidant that I have a good idea what one symbol is.
There's a yellow square, and within that yellow square is a red one. These particular symbols are strewn out all across the hologram seemingly at random. However, there are three that caught my eye. For those that have Halsey's map from the journal she has three particular areas circled with the designations "SWO (can't tell if it's SWD), VIS, and CAS". I'm under the impression that these stand for Sword Base, Visegrad, and Castle. These three locations, are coincidentally marked on the Covenant's hologram as well. My current theory is that this symbol represents the locations of possible Forerunner artifacts. A secondary guess being that the symbols represent an area where strong human presence was detected. My money is more on the former so far, but if it turns out to be the latter it will still be a useful way to track down key locations both in the games and books.