Halo in Our Galaxy

Community Halo Universe
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I’ve been out of the canon loop for a while, but I happened across an interesting discovery five minutes ago: Most of the star systems listed in the Halo canon really exist. So let’s begin.

  1. Walk outside and find the Big Dipper. Draw a mental line from the outer, bottom corner of the dipper itself to the outer, top corner. Follow this line and you will encounter the north star. This star is correctly called Sigma Octanus.

  2. This next one is too hard to explain, just go here. Oh, this is the Epsilon Eridani system, where Reach is. It is 10.5 light years away.

  3. This one is also a bit difficult to easily spot. Look here. This is Epsilon Indi, where Harvest is.

  4. Go outside and look for that one snake constellation. Jericho VII is in that mess somewhere.

  5. Go to your garbage can and look inside it. This is where Installation 04 is, because the Soell System seems to be completely ficticious.

  6. While you’re there, you should also note that this is where Installation 05 is as well, because it’s also in a fake system.

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Crap I’m stupid. Sigma Octanus is the southern star, not the northern one!

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well you are right that its the milky way.

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So say I wanted to make my own game, I could technically name all of my star systems after the ones in Halo and they can’t sue me for jack because it would be like trying to copyright the word “the”…

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Halo uses real world star system names but not all of them are real and some of the ones that are, are actually located in different locations from their real world counterparts. The best example of this is Harvest because it’s said to be the furthest outer colony established by Humanity. However Harvest is said to be in the Epsilon Indi system which is only 12 light-years away from Earth in the real world. That’s a pretty major inconsistency considering Reach in the Epsilon Eridani system is 10.5 light-years away from Earth, which would make Harvest an Inner Colony. It was also said that Madrigal is the closest colony world to Harvest and it’s located in the 23 Librae system, which is 85 light-years from Earth. Chances are this means the Epsilon Indi system in the Halo Universe is not the same Epsilon Indi system in the real world.

It’s also of note that there is no system called Sigma Octanus, however there is a real world system called Sigma Octantis. Seeing as it is around 270 light-years from Earth, it is way too far to be within UNSC Space.