Talk:Sagittarius Arm

Onyx
Can we really assume Onyx's supposed placement in the Sagittarius Arm in the Warfleet map is exact? We know Zeta Doradus is a mere 38 LY away, an insignificant distance by galactic standards and hardly far enough to put it in another spiral arm than Earth. Halo has been known to adhere to real-world astronomy even when it would make sense to move stars around a bit (e.g. Epsilon Indi being 11 LY from Earth and the long trip to Harvest being caused by the alien geometry of slipspace), so I don't see why this case would be an exception. I think it would be much safer to assume the Warfleet map shows a rough ballpark for these Forerunner sites and maybe depicts them a bit further apart than they really would be for the sake of visual clarity, rather than to assume that Zeta Doradus has been relocated well over a thousand light-years away. --Tacitus (talk) 01:56, 10 September 2018 (EDT)