That would be interesting if we went to Path Kethona and discover what’s there. Do you think we’ll go there at all?
I really hope so. I actually want to see Forerunner civilization, or what’s left of it at least.
Nah, way too far and I’d estimate 1% of Halo fans have read any book, let alone the Forerunner Saga. Heck, even at the midnight launch of Halo 4, I was the only one who had read them, and I live in a pretty populated area.
Although, to make it possible, there would have to be some sort of slipspace portal. A cool parallel would be, when they return home, mention a huge distortion of slipspace travel-- much like they mentioned how long distance travel screws up slipspace in the book.
Well seeing as humanity has somehow ended up at every other important location i wouldn’t be shocked nor impressed that they already set up base in the LMC.
Didn’t it take the Forerunners nearly 100 years to get to the LMC?
> Didn’t it take the Forerunners nearly 100 years to get to the LMC?
That’s what I was gonna mention. I don’t recall how long it actually was, but I remember it not only being a while - but IIRC, it also costed the Forerunner a lot (in terms of - what was it called - slipspace debt?)
If the Forerunner needed to expend massive resources, and (please correct me if I’m wrong, I’ve barely slept this week and don’t have the energy to go back and read it) slow down slipspace traffic to make the jumps necessary, then I don’t see Humans making that trip.
I realize that we’re supposed to be Reclaiming the galaxy, but we still have significant boosts to go before we’re up on par with the Forerunner of the time.
I’m not saying it’s impossible, but if the storyline has Humanity advance that quickly I’ll be rather disappointed. Unless they have significant gaps between the games in after the Janus Key is recovered… I don’t want to see humans just going anywhere they want. It’d be throwing the canon completely away, IMO.
> I don’t want to see humans just going anywhere they want.
Yet they got to the ark without using a portal and somehow found the hakkor system which is on the edge of the galaxy.
Well what kind of damage did the halo do?
obliteration
> > I don’t want to see humans just going anywhere they want.
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> Yet they got to the ark without using a portal and somehow found the hakkor system which is on the edge of the galaxy.
True. Seems like a pretty big inconsistency, then, that the Forerunner had a difficult time traveling such great distances but the modern humans don’t. (in reference to slipspace debt or whatever.
Unless I’m just misgauging the distances involved here. Is the ark significantly closer than Path Ketona?
The reasoning for that is the forerunners traveling in larger ships and with billions more ships than the humans. Their connection with the domain and the precise technologies they used would have affected this also.
Humans don’t have such a large span nor do they have large ships. For all we know slipspace may be different post array than prior.
It has an explanation but i still don’t like the humans traveling to all this places yet for some reason it is so expensive for them to go to neptune.
Well I just looked it up, Wiki says that the LMC is about 160 thousand light years away, although it was unclear if that was from the center or edge of our galaxy.
The ark, according to Halo Wikia is 262144 lightyears from the galactic center.
Yeah, so this seems like a big inconsistency to me - that Forerunner had such trouble and humans either don’t have that problem or it just hasn’t been mentioned at all.
> It has an explanation but i still don’t like the humans traveling to all this places yet for some reason it is so expensive for them to go to neptune.
Huh? In the game universe, or IRL? Where’s that from?
Also, didn’t the Librarian and her crew take one ship, “Audacity”?
Everything i just stated was from silientium. yes and the government had to completely shut down slipspace travel for a full year for them to leave. even so the trip was hard on their vessel.
When in Silentium does it state humans have trouble getting to Neptune? Everything else is reasonable. The Forerunner connections w/ the Domain and stuff… Perhaps the fact that the Ecumeme had much more slipspace activity clogged it up, causing the reconciliation effects.
Makes some amount of sense. Not very intuitive, though.
It wouldn’t do us very much good to go there, and since Silentium is a testimony of what was once there, there is no need for us to go there. ONI now knows there were forerunners there, they know there were once Precursor relics there.
They also know that the mostly dead P.K. is now completely dead. Faber fired Omega Halo directly at it, and we have text supporting that it is a dead galaxy. Anything important there, is now gone. No need to waste time looking for what won’t be found.
well the forerunner armada is there for the taking…and who knows maybe thats where the librarian is at?
> well the forerunner armada is there for the taking…and who knows maybe thats where the librarian is at?
The librarian’s pretty thoroughly dead, the Lifeshaper tittle though, possibly lives on (seeing as how she passed it on before her imminent death).
That said, that forerunner armada could be very, very important, seeing how it was the one that killed the precursors. Sadly most its records seemed to be lost.
> When in Silentium does it state humans have trouble getting to Neptune? Everything else is reasonable. The Forerunner connections w/ the Domain and stuff… Perhaps the fact that the Ecumeme had much more slipspace activity clogged it up, causing the reconciliation effects.
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> Makes some amount of sense. Not very intuitive, though.
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Everything except that part which was listed in the encyclopedia
> > well the forerunner armada is there for the taking…and who knows maybe thats where the librarian is at?
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> The librarian’s pretty thoroughly dead, the Lifeshaper tittle though, possibly lives on (seeing as how she passed it on before her imminent death).
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> That said, that forerunner armada could be very, very important, seeing how it was the one that killed the precursors. Sadly most its records seemed to be lost.
chakas thinks shes still alive…idk why they would end silentium like that if shes not alive