Talk:Terminal (Halo 3): Difference between revisions
Forerunner population
Dukester101 (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
(Forerunner population) |
||
| Line 177: | Line 177: | ||
So... Does anyone else recognize the writing from Iris? Has anyone tried figuring out how to translate it and find out what the messages in the ARG were? | So... Does anyone else recognize the writing from Iris? Has anyone tried figuring out how to translate it and find out what the messages in the ARG were? | ||
== Forerunner population == | |||
In the beginning of the first terminal, it says that 1.36 million Forerunners (1.3mn civilians + ~40,000 military personnel) were evacuated from [DM-3-1123 b] (a planet, from what I can tell). Then it says that this number is .0006% of the total population. This would mean that the planet had an absolutely huge number of Forerunners on it - over 200 billion. As in more than 30 times as many occupants as our overpopulated planet. | |||
This includes military, which presumably were only temporarily stationed on the planet, but even still. I don't know how this many Forerunner could live comfortably (and we know they did - look how many "recreational spacecraft" the Flood could find lying around) on one world. Maybe a gas planet - but it can't be, or how could it be cleansed so quickly by orbital bombardment? The other possibility is that is [DM-3-1123 b] is a Halo Installation, but this doesn't seem to explain things either. The surface area of Earth is 510mn square km, and I calculate the surface area of a 10,000km-diameter Halo at less than 10mn square km. | |||
Possible explanations: | |||
The Forerunner have carved out the entire interior of the planet, like I hear has happened in the books, and live on more than just the surface. But then how did they hit the Flood in the depths of the planet with orbital bombardement? Do the Forerunner ships have a sort of mini-Halo-effect weapon? Wouldn't there be a risk of friendly fire? That effect is pretty, to make an understatement, powerful. | |||
The Forerunner are losing the war with the Flood really badly and the planet is smothered in refugees. | |||
Sorry about writing such an essay. Is this a bad place to discuss it?[[User:Mr Toad|Mr Toad]] 04:39, 2 November 2007 (UTC) | |||