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	It's a discrepancy, plain and simple. Going by real world star distances, Harvest is only 0.5 light years further from Earth than Reach. So yeah, I don't think there is a proper explanation for this, other than that the author who originally placed Harvest in Epsilon Indi (Staten was the first, I think) didn't bother to put much thought to real-world astronomy.--[[User:Jugus\|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus\|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] \| [[Special:Contributions/Jugus\|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 00:51, 31 January 2012 (EST)		It's a discrepancy, plain and simple. Going by real world star distances, Harvest is only 0.5 light years further from Earth than Reach. So yeah, I don't think there is a proper explanation for this, other than that the author who originally placed Harvest in Epsilon Indi (Staten was the first, I think) didn't bother to put much thought to real-world astronomy.--[[User:Jugus\|<font color="MidnightBlue"><b>Jugus</b></font>]] <small>([[User talk:Jugus\|<font color="Gray">Talk</font>]] \| [[Special:Contributions/Jugus\|<font color="Gray">Contribs</font>]])</small> 00:51, 31 January 2012 (EST)

			:I haven't read Contact Harvest in a while, but I would suggest two factors to resolve this discrepancy - firstly, perhaps civilian transportation is not as state-of-the-art as military transportation; secondly, since contact with the Covenant I would imagine that slipspace navigation, as with all technologies, would benefit from analysis and reverse-engineering of alien technology. What took weeks by the start of the war would take a few days by the end of the war. I don't know about exact specifics here, but it sounds reasonable to me. -- [[User:Specops306\|<b><font color=indigo>Specops306</font></b>]] [[w:c:halofanon:user:Specops306\|<u><i><font color=blue><sup>Autocrat</sup></font></i></u>]] [[User talk:Specops306\|<u><i><font color=purple><sup>Qur'a 'Morhek</sup></font></i></u>]] 02:18, 31 January 2012 (EST)