: Its odd that the Sangheili are alarmed at how fast humans can colonize, but
: it can slightly explain why the Covenant Empire doesn't seemingly have
: thousands of colonized worlds already. Perhaps they were less interested
: in actual planetary colonization? But how can you have a 5000 year old
: empire and not have expanded across the galaxy? Its that kind of the point
: of having an empire? The conquest?
: Personally, I think its just a fault of the writers. But either way I find
: this to be a very interesting topic.
With the possible exceptions of the Ark, Requiem, and some Halo rings, all of Halo's known events have taken place within about a 3,000 light year radius of Earth and the galaxy is about 100,000 light years across. We've barely seen anything of the galaxy.