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[Baelfael]

[SPEC] We have a timeframe!!!

[Theorizer]

I thought this was a commonly known fact by now....... maybe not.

[Aelith]

We have the curious time gap between Melissia's memory of Reach burning and their breakout into subluner orbit (which Greene doesn't seem to have reported to GOM.) Then there is how many days later till the official announcement was made?

[Karmic]

[Anton P. Nym]

[Aelith]

Thanks Steve, I did not tie all those broken bits of memory into one coherent whole. That does indeed put a different complextion on the matter.

But that also means it is unlikely that they picked up Guilty Spark??

EDIT: removed smerky remark, sorry

[rose]

timeline "reach burning like a beacon of hope

[Anton P. Nym]

Allow me to put on my "Miracle Max" voice; Reach is "mostly glassed." The Covenant deliberately missed a spot in their systematic bombardment of the planet, said spot containing the Holy Light. It also happened to contain the SPARTAN home base, something that made their archeological dig a bit more perilous than the Prophets had counted on...

It should be noted that the Holy Light, the Forerunner crystal found on Reach, was described as giving off sapphire-coloured light. The Widow found a scrap of sapphire and a piece of ruby... and the navigational coordinates for Reach and for Halo were found on rubies retrieved from Sigma Octanus IV.

Dun dun dunnnnnn.....

So did SPDR find and write to ruby Forerunner crystals when searching for the leftover bits of Melissa? Is that what the tire-shaped Artifact contains? Does the Sleeping Princess come from the sapphire, which was not marked as the Queen's property but noted by the Widow?

Can I squeeze in any more questions?

-- Steve encourages you to tune in tomorrow for the next thrilling episode.

[Ceantari]

Also, it couldn't have happened right away because James was a former ally of Master Chief. If it took him within a month to recooperate and become the man he is that we hear, that's a miracle... especially with the fact that he is now a civilian and not a SPARTAN personnel. They heal fast, but mentally recooperation can't be that incredibly fast.

[Platonix]

The "sapphire" and "ruby" are computer system components. Look at the Widow's Journey / Computer Text Comparison on the wiki. What the story calls "a chip of precious ruby from the Queen's crown", the command dump calls "host sector 0" (or rather, SPDR chooses to call it that.) The Sapphire doesn't have an equivalent in the command dump, but it's sufficiently similar in the story that it's probably host sector 1 or some such. SPDR is tracking Melissa's core program by following traces of the directory. They are referred to as gemstones, rather than the "broken blocks" that SPDR labels as tertiary, because they are more important to SPDR.

[chaotic_mind]