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Subject: The Pillar of Autumn
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The other day I was thinking about where Bungie got the idea for the ship's name. Usually they use a lot of mythology in naming things, but I had never heard of the Pillar of Autumn before I played Halo. Any idea where they got the name from?

  • 05.15.2006 4:48 PM PDT
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Carrots.

Once again, thank you for using a quote from me in your signature.
Anyways, I'm pretty sure the name just came up, I mean, ships like the Cascadia (ship) and the Warthog (Vehicle named for a type of animal) Banshee (Vehicle, named for a spirit) ghost (The name of a spirit) Phantom(Spirit) and Scarab (After an animal) I'm pretty sure those names just came up one day, I'm pretty sure the Pillar of Autumn just sounded right, so they used it.
Its not like there is a Pillar of winter, Pillar of Spring, and Pillar of Summer.

  • 05.15.2006 5:02 PM PDT
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Once again, thank you for using a quote from me in your signature.
Anyways, I'm pretty sure the name just came up, I mean, ships like the Cascadia (ship) and the Warthog (Vehicle named for a type of animal) Banshee (Vehicle, named for a spirit) ghost (The name of a spirit) Phantom(Spirit) and Scarab (After an animal) I'm pretty sure those names just came up one day, I'm pretty sure the Pillar of Autumn just sounded right, so they used it.
Its not like there is a Pillar of winter, Pillar of Spring, and Pillar of Summer.

No, someone said (i forgot who) there was an interesting story behind the name.

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At any rate, it's a very origenal name it owns Enterprise's ass any day.

  • 05.16.2006 11:57 AM PDT

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well duh, it was made in the fall

  • 05.16.2006 1:00 PM PDT
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Carrots.

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well duh, it was made in the fall


No, Halo took over a year to complete, fall is a season of around four months, thats impossible.
It was released in fall, but they couldn't know exacly when it came out, its not because of that.
Well duh, games don't get made in two months!

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  • 05.16.2006 1:42 PM PDT

-Its a MG42!
-My favorite color is bubble shield

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Posted by: moneyburner
well duh, it was made in the fall


No, Halo took over a year to complete, fall is a season of around four months, thats impossible.
It was released in fall, but they couldn't know exacly when it came out, its not because of that.
Well duh, games don't get made in two months!

I am just kidding

  • 05.16.2006 2:55 PM PDT