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Well when the covies came to earth, they landed in one place (mombasa) obviousely looking for something. If the dome is what they were looking for, how did they know it was near Mombasa?.....

  • 05.14.2006 7:42 PM PDT
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Maybe they scouted earth first before assaulting it and scanned the planet. Maybe the arcs location on earth was given to them in some holy texts. There are numerous posibilities on how they found out where the arc was.

  • 05.14.2006 7:45 PM PDT
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If you read the books, there are many Forerunner artifacts that both Covenant and Humans have found, mainly Covenant though. On these artifacts, there is cryptic writing, like heiroglyphics that are believed to be star maps or directions. That's how they found Reach, when on Reach, they went straight for the museum which had a forerunner artifact. I believe Cortana analyzed one of the artifacts and found the directions to Reach on it, she also found some to Earth I think. That's why Regret went there at the beginning at H2 but didn't know it was our homeworld.

  • 05.14.2006 8:35 PM PDT
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Oh...I red that the covies did get that artifact and cortana used the human one to find halo, but I didn't know one artifact had directions to go to another....

EDIT: Why do the covies/humans want the artifacts?

[Edited on 5/14/2006]

  • 05.14.2006 8:36 PM PDT
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From what I remember, an artifact could have multiple directions on it. It's just up to who ever has it to decode the heiroglyphics. The artifact that was in the human museum on Reach, the humans didn't know it was forerunner. The covenant probably got directions to Reach from another artifact. The artifacts seem to point to other planets with artifacts. Think of them being like the starmaps from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, if you played that. Come to think of it, I don't think the humans have realized completely that the artifacts that they possess are those of the Forerunner.

  • 05.14.2006 8:50 PM PDT