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| Re: Why is Cortana so important in Halo Reach? | |
| Posted By: Quirel <I_am_quirel@hotmail.com> | Date: 12/7/10 4:40 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Why is Cortana so important in Halo Reach? (Stephen L. (SoundEffect)) : There's some clever writing in I think the Preston Cole story or Halsey's : Journal about how the Covenant should have been able to easily pinpoint : Earth by triangulating transmissions that have been heading out from Earth : since the 1940's at the speed of light. In the intervening 580-odd years, : there'd literally be a spherical region over 1,100 light years diameter : centered on Earth where TV and radio broadcasts would be detectable. It : was made known in the story that Slipspace and conventional scramblers of : some sort were there to disrupt this transmission sourcing somehow. Not : elegant perhaps, but they acknowledged the issue and addressed it. I : thought it was a nice touch. As did I. One of my fanfics has the characters planning on doing that after a botched random slipspace jump. They shared co-ordinates with other ships so they wouldn't have to spend extra time computing jumps when the Covenant were on their tail, got shot down, and only had the raw Navigation data. The idea was to get into space, see where the radio waves are coming from, and then see how old those were by looking at news channels. If they got an announcement about the Fall of the Berlin wall, it's about 550 lightyears to Earth. If they get a fuzzy video of a man with a toothbrush mustache saying "Welcome to the 1936 Munich Olympics"... D : Of course, three days after that chapter was posted, Halo Evolutions came out and jossed it.
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