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"I may not be perfect, but always been true."

While I was investigating on the Elites and the likes, I came across this particularly interesting quote regarding their standard combat harness:

"This helmet has remained unchanged for eleven hundred cycles, and the thoracic cage has remained unchanged for fifty generations."

So I was wondering, how long is a cycle? is it a decade? a century? a millennium?

Discuss.

  • 01.31.2012 10:49 PM PDT

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Posted by: Sigma617
A cycle, I assume is how long it takes Sanghelios to orbit it's Primary.

A Sanghelian year if you will.


It would soung logical, but in repeated cases throughout the novels, cycles are used in obvious measures for hours, and in other cases for much longer period of times.

It's either an overlooked aspect of the canon, or it gains specific meaning depending on the situation and context.

  • 02.01.2012 6:35 AM PDT

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Posted by: HipiO7
It's either an overlooked aspect of the canon, or it gains specific meaning depending on the situation and context.


This would be my guess.

  • 02.01.2012 7:06 AM PDT

I have researched Sanghelios a LOT, and I haven't found anything concrete about it. Let me say however that I know that Sanghelios has "seasons" that changes a lot during Sanghelios orbit around the primary star/stars. In fact, in the hot period, there's no night, and vice versa in the cold period. Also, remember that I haven't included the possibilities of an angled rotation and angled orbit the secondary star/stars might have. If you think about it, it makes your ming blown.

  • 02.01.2012 7:59 AM PDT

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Posted by: snip3r dud33
Honestly, this is a good cover up for all the idiots who won't know its a cover up .

A cycle was a day on HIgh Charity.

  • 02.01.2012 8:14 AM PDT
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Posted by: NinStarRune
A cycle was a day on HIgh Charity.

How long is a High Charity day?

  • 02.01.2012 8:57 AM PDT

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A cycle was a day on HIgh Charity.

How long is a High Charity day?

265 hours

I don't know if the cycle Snake is talking about is the same as a cycle on High Charity. It might not be, and be context dependant. The unit is an example context dependance; it has been used in both measurement of time and distance.

  • 02.01.2012 9:11 AM PDT
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"but you already knew that, I mean, how couldn't you?

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The "Cycle" referred to is probably the equivalent of a Covenant calender year, how long that is I don't know, but it's what makes the most sense in context.

The writer has just used cycle in stead of a unit like day, month, year, century... etc to keep the 'alien' feel and avoid throwing the reader a bit by using an Earth-defined unit.

  • 02.01.2012 9:21 AM PDT