Forum:Halo Astronomy 101

On my wiki page here, I have added the two slideshows I originally put together for 343 Industries to help them with making a galactic space chart that uses actual astronomical data and data points from within the Halo fiction. While they have not endorsed fully all my work here, they were impressed with the effort I put into it. I haven't worked on too much of it since it was first prepared between 2011 and 2014, but I thought the Halopedia community would enjoy seeing what I had put together.

https://www.halopedia.org/UserWiki:ScaleMaster117#Halo_Astronomy

-ScaleMaster117 (talk) 13:04, 16 September 2018 (EDT)


 * Oohh I love it. May share this around if thats cool with you. I know quite a few folks interested in this stuff that can make full use of this. (Sins of the Prophets come to mind fast) -CIA391 (talk) 13:57, 16 September 2018 (EDT)


 * This is incredible. How would you hazard the more creatively named "sectors" would fit into this, such as Grenadi, Vevina, Polona, Isbanola, Geryon, and Muruga?TheEld (talk) 14:48, 16 September 2018 (EDT)TheEld


 * To offer a potential explanation, I imagine that it could/ would simply be a case that names such as these are more colloquial names given by the people living in the system. So the Gredani sector may simply be one of the sectors from this map in which a planet/ star named Gredani is the most notable location of note, but would otherwise be officially referred to as (for example and totally arbritary) Sector 2, Sub-Volume 2-3. That's a bit of a mouthful and sounds incredibly sterile, so saying it as the Gredani sector is likely easier on the tongue and in general easier to remember. I really love this system though, giving the randomly chosen numbers and letters context is brilliant, and the coincidental similarity with the CAA logo is really just the cherry on top. It gives the CAA logo more symbolism in a similar to vein to how the UN logo is the Earth on a map. Were this to be canon, the side parallel of the CAA logo inadvertently emphasising the Sol System/ Earth's importance at the centre really goes with the UNSC/ UEG's image, and adds a tiny little bit more to the Insurrection conflict as a whole. BaconShelf (talk) 15:45, 16 September 2018 (EDT)


 * I was thinking the same. Earth started out with the sky mapped in constellations covering 100% of the sky. It made sense to me that Earth would be exempt from sector classification itself and that only colonies beyond the Sol system (or more properly the ones requiring slipspace travel to get to) would be in the numbered (and later lettered) sectors. After all, the UNSC even predated Reach's colonization. There's must have been an astrographic arm of the CAA. -ScaleMaster117 (talk) 19:21, 16 September 2018 (EDT)


 * My theory on the different sector names has always been that the FLEETCOM sectors are literally only used by Fleet Command to organize naval forces, while the other sector names like Eridanus or Isbanola are named after a system within the sector (similar to Star Wars, with the Eridanus sector providing evidence) and are "organized" by the Unified Earth Government or CAA. -- NightHammer (talk)(contribs) 01:36, 17 September 2018 (EDT)


 * There can be other interpretations, certainly. the Eridanus system has always been mentioned as being in Sector 4. Halsey's journal indicates she did some personal recruiting in that sector and pother sectors were for other ONI teams. FLEETCOM makes sens that it's dealing with space travel and FLEETCOM is the current arm of the UNSC that does the space traveling. :) -ScaleMaster117 (talk) 06:42, 17 September 2018 (EDT)