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Prominence · Boot Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 15

Coral may not even be the name of a planet. It could be a certain area on the planet, or a base. It could even be on an asteroid or moon for all we know right now.

EDIT: And I belive that map only shows star systems, not the names of planets are settlements.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 29, 2004 9:20 pm

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**Posted:** Sun Aug 29, 2004 10:05 pm

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Bubba Wilkins · Boot Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 16

Until ILB, Troy was never mentioned either.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 29, 2004 11:50 pm

Ceantari

It's not really that redundant... They have religious/spiritua names for everything. Harbinger, Phantom, Seraph, Banshee, Ghost, Wraith, Shade, Covenant, Prophet... (and supposedly Apparation and Creep). All religious words or another word for a spiritua.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2004 1:45 pm

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chaotic_mind

Most of those names are human constructs. Banshees are called banshee because of what they're called in Covie speak. They're called that because that's what humans assigned it.

Like grunt, or elite, or jackal.

Proper names, on the other hand, seem to be translated. IE Truth and Reconcilliation, Ascendant Hierophant, what have you.

But, I think you're missing the point Ceantari. Identifying a Covenant homeworld would be redundant, because there'd be seven of them. A single Covenant homeword would be hard to assign. Ater all there are SEVEN distinct races in the Covenant, with SEVEN distinct origins. It might be possible to have a Capital Planet, and the names assigned to significant planets by the Prophets would be significant.

Luke P.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:59 pm

Prominence · Boot Joined: 28 Aug 2004 Posts: 15

If you connect 2 sound files together, they say that coral is 42 light years away, so it cant be on earth.

**Posted:** Tue Aug 31, 2004 1:32 am

Shyndy

This whole aquatic city idea made me think. Ive read about how halo was originally in development for i think mac. technically the game was in development for like 10 years because of the platform switch. Anyway, i remember reading about stuff that was seen in early versions of the mac game (i remember reading this on ign i think). Specifically there was an UNDERWATER level. perhaps the reason it was left out of halo is becuase it was never meant for halo and bungie was working on the whole series at the same time? i cant see any connections to this setting of coral and master chief however, i cant see what would require MC swimming around down there either. but it did make me think...

**Posted:** Thu Sep 02, 2004 7:41 am

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