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General question concerning the storyline. Wondering if anyone has answers/theories on this. The following will be in white text:
So at the end of the game, the portal closes too soon and snaps the Forward Unto Dawn in two. Cortana and Cheif are left stranded in a cut off portion of the ship and Cortana does warn that even with a becon it might take "years" for them to be found. This being the case, the hindquarters of the Dawn would still be in the same sector of space as The Ark.
Now, obviously the humans didn't know the location of the Ark. Secondly, exactly how would the humans manage to find them even if they caught the becon's signal? At the Cartographer, Gulity Spark informed Cheif that the Ark was located "2 to the 18th lightyears from Galactic Center". That's over 200,000 light years from the center of the Galaxy. In comparison the estimated diameter of the Milky Way is only (at maximum) 100,000 lightyears, and our sun is something like 26,000 lightyears from the galaxy center.
And considering how freaking far away that is (we're talking lightyears here), I would imagine that the time it would take for the becon's signal to get to earth would take centuries.
So... how is Cortana figuring that UNSC will 1. Get the signal, and 2. Be able to travel that far to pick them up in a few "years"?
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