Talk:Soell system

Location from Reach
By my calculations the Soell star system is about 42 Lightyears from Reach.

Based on the days and slipspace velocity of the Pillar of Autumn

August 31 - September 19 = 20 days

SS velocity of the PoA = 2.1 ly/d

20 x 2.1 = 42 lightyears.

--UNSC AI 02:32, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

My own calculations have been different. Using a velocity of 2.625 l/d and a distance of 49 lightyears, get a minimum of eighteen days in slipspace. Its well within the range of possibility - there's always been that convenient ""flexibility" to temporal flow" feature of slipspace. The distance between Iota Horologii I got from Celestia, a three-dimensional star map - I don't know how accurate it is, but it's served me well so far. --  Administrator  Specops306  -   Qur'a 'Morhek   10:55, January 18, 2010 (UTC)

Really?
"However, Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, and Halo: Reach show that Soell is located near the edge of, if not outside, the Milky Way; Iota Horologii is roughly fifty-five lightyears from Earth, well within the boundaries of the galaxy."

This passage strikes me as odd: The view of the Milky Way Galaxy seen from the Soell system at the end of these games is clearly cribbed from a real-life astronomical shot like. These pictures are, of course, taken from Earth, but they do not show that Earth is "near the edge of, if not outside, the Milky Way", so if it's okay, I'll remove it.--The All-knowing Sith&#39;ari (talk) 15:19, 14 February 2013 (EST)

Move to "Soell system"
I think the only reason for which this page is named after the star is becaused it's named after a developer. However it's not really practical: I've noticed that most of the time we talk about the star system, but rarely about the star itself. If this page was moved to Soell system, it would also be easier to recap the list of objects that are in the system (Deep-Space Anomaly 0198 anyone? I don't know if there are other such things...) and especially write a little history of the system (like the Battle of Installation 04, the Threshold skirmish, the Threshold raid, the Mona Lisa raid, etc), not anything too long of course. It would also be helpful if we could get a hologram of the system from the Halo 5 map Truth, although we may have to wait until the game is released. Imrane-117 (talk) 19:53, 21 January 2015 (EST)