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: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) | :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) | ||
::I think Harvest was only ever described as the most distant colony in ''Contact Harvest''. Before then, it was simply "remote". To reinforce Specops, perhaps Harvest is at the end of a "road less travelled" that's a slow, convoluted, or difficult route that restricts traffic (that massive Forerunner [[Relic]] on Harvest might have something to do with it). In any case, most freighters would probably only turn up at around harvest time to buy all the crops, and between then the planet has little to offer investors or tourists.--[[User talk:The All-knowing Sith'ari|The All-knowing Sith'ari]] 02:57, 31 January 2012 (EST) | ::I think Harvest was only ever described as the most distant colony in ''Contact Harvest''. Before then, it was simply "remote". To reinforce Specops, perhaps Harvest is at the end of a "road less travelled" that's a slow, convoluted, or difficult route that restricts traffic (that massive Forerunner [[Relic]] on Harvest might have something to do with it). In any case, most freighters would probably only turn up at around harvest time to buy all the crops, and between then the planet has little to offer investors or tourists.--[[User talk:The All-knowing Sith'ari|The All-knowing Sith'ari]] 02:57, 31 January 2012 (EST) | ||
:::I'm reminded of the concept of "hyperspace routes" in Star Wars - established paths that are safe to use that, if strayed from, can be catastrophic. Perhaps the [[UNSC Astronavigation]] department has its job cut out for it scanning star systems for safe slipspace entry/exit points, mapping and updating the quantum fluctuations of slipspace, and so on, producing long routes that put Harvest at the end of it? | |||
:::We also assume Inner Colonies occupy a certain radius around Earth, and that outside of that are Outer colonies, but we already have the Third/Developing/First World situation as an example that spatial distribution doesn't always equate to economic success. For example, geographically we generalise that the First World is the northern hemisphere, and the Third World is the southern hemisphere. Technically, it's all to do with economic factors and international interdependencies, but we think spatially, geographically. In fact, there are eastern European and west Asian third world countries, and both Australia and New Zealand are first world nations. I wonder if Harvest is the exception to a similar rule - the furthest of the Inner Colonies, or perhaps in that transitory state between Inner/Outer status? -- [[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>]] 03:26, 31 January 2012 (EST) | |||