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Posted by: OrderedComa
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Posted by: privet caboose
In the early morning of the 30th, Halsey tells Noble Team that the pillar is already waiting for them. Keyes was apparently already on the planet when the sun was just rising.
Are you referring to what Halsey says in the Artifact, or after they've gone outside? Because Halsey's line in Lab is written in the future tense talking about what they are to do and what they will find there. That is not saying the Autumn is already at Aszod waiting.
And when they're on the landing pad, it's Dot who mentions the Autumn, and not Halsey. I've estimated by the level of light outside at that point that it would be between 7:00 and 8:00. And remember, the Autumn had picked up Blue at approximately 6:15. That's plenty of time for the Autumn to get to Aszod and be there waiting for them.
Yes but don't forget that the lighting has been skewed thanks to the fires burning all around Reach. It's supposed to be the dead of night by the time The Package starts, and I find it personally hard to grasp that Noble Team spent several hours infiltrating Sword Base, then extracting Halsey before finally leaving. Nor would the Covenant sit idly by for so long after that initial attack for the humans to destroy the artifact.
That said, Dot's dialogue wouldn't add up as a result as it wouldn't explain why several human convoys en route to the site were already decimated there prior to Noble Team leaving. Along with Covenant forces heading to the site and the Autumn waiting there in the present tense.
Hmm...
Yes, the lighting is messed up slightly due to the fire raging everywhere, yet you can see a clear difference in the natural light at the beginning of the mission and the light in the final cutscene. While you're playing the mission the light is rather orange in tone (like fires), and then the light when they're leaving has a much more natural, clear tone to it. I think it's obvious that the sun is just starting to rise or is at least partially up by the time the mission ends.
Why is it hard to believe that the mission took a couple hours? I don't know how much a click is (or even if it's a real measurement of distance), so I don't know how quickly they'd be able to travel across it, but I don't think it'd be very fast in that little rail car thing, and I don't think it'd be able to descend 2,000 feet all that quickly either. And it also looked to me like Noble and Halsey had a bit of a walk in order to get to the launch pad that was skipped over. That's how it looked to me from the scene transition at least.
A click is the term for kilometer in military speech if I'm not mistaken.