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Posted by: Sakanade
Remember guys the Milky way is HUGE.
I bet you not even the Forerunners explored 100% of it.
Chief and Cortana are somewhere in the Milky Way.
You're clearly outside of it while on the Ark. In fact not only is it confirmed in game, others have acknowledged it on Halopedia. They even have a lightyear count of 210,000 something of how far the Ark is from the Milky Way Galaxy.
Cortana says at the end of Halo 3 "When Halo fired it shook itself to pieces... did a number on the Ark. The portal couldn't sustain itself, we made it through just as it collapsed... well some of us made it."
So they made it through the portal just as it collapsed, however only the Arbiter made it all the way home. I would presume that that would mean one of two things:
1 that the ship is somehwere in the 210,000 distance between it and the milky way galaxy, assuming the portal is some sort of condensed passage way through space and goes through a sub path. On Halopedia it states that the Halos were sent through space from the Ark via Slipspace, but with Slipspace there is a direction in which things are meant to go, and if it cuts short, I assume you just come out of Slipspace... I realize that Halopedia is fan maintained but at the same time you can't deny it's very accurate and most information can be proven from some media source. So if it's slipspace, they should be somewhere inbetween The Ark and The Milky Way Galaxy, specifically Earth.
OR
2 if it is a Portal in the same sense the portals are in Halo Multiplayer, as in they either work or the don't, then they didn't get the ship all the way through the portal and the ship was cut in half. It would be like if half of you went through a portal and it shut down. It would split you in two.
Though it's difficult to give these atrributes to alien technology, it was either a Jump through space or it was a portal from Earth to the Ark, but Halopedia states Slipspace for some reason.
I would imagine the Ark would have multiple worlds it can be connected to, with multiple portals. So the only reasoning I really find acceptable are:
The two above.
Or.
The Ark is connected to several worlds and at the last minute Mendicant changed the portal/slipspace thing it was attatched to to another recieving portal, that being the Legendary planet, AND that's a stretch seeing as how in order for the portals to exist they need a send/receiver to work, like the one on Earth, and there wasn't one present where Cortana and Chief ended up, because they were floating in empty space, thus no reciever.
The fact that the Halos were distributed without a reciever prove that one isn't necessary however, unless the Halos themself can be navigated through space and all made it to portals like the one on Earth and drove themselves to their current spots.
I suppose you can pick where you are sent from the Ark somehow and I suppose Mendicant could have changed trajectory, but that's assuming that them not making it means NOT MAKING it out of the portal, not not making IN the portal.
For the record, they should have made Mendicant tampering with it a bit more clear. Normal people who play the game and like the story don't necessarilly know that. If he'll become the main antagonist for the next few games I hope they explain it better for a more casual audience.
[Edited on 08.20.2011 11:13 AM PDT]