Starting with a response to a post made in a different thread. It was getting off topic so I started a new thread.
I'm a little bit drunk so if this post is really bad somebody do something about it.
Grab your popcorn kids! this could be entertaining.
- Don't call me dude, its an offensive term where i live.
- How can you go the wrong direction? just go any direction until you find human planets, "oh good there are enemies i know i'm going the right way"
- You raise a valid point, the oort cloud could easily hide us.
- 800 worlds is totally wrong, epsilon eridani has 6 habited places.
- I use the word colonies as "world" (s) had been used to describe a fully inhabited planet like earth.
- many of said colonies are asteroids or are just one town like venezia.
- If covenant ships were really that fast, and they really had that ships they could still find any conies easily.
- Rant over
Wait really? I've never heard dude is offensive outside of the 19th century. If it offends you I'll stop.
And no, saying "Oh good there are enemy planets I'm going the right way does not work." For all the Covenant knew they jumped right in the middle of human territory with Harvest.
Also assuming Earth Space is 100 lys by 100 lys by 100 lys around Harvest and stars are an average of 5 light years away from each other I estimate that there are around 200,000 star systems encompassing UNSC Space. If the Covies explored a system a day it'd take them 548 years, if they explored 10 systems a day it'd take them 54 years, 100 systems a day and it'd take them 5 years. But that's assuming that they didn't think it was within a 100 ly expanse, lets say it was a 200 ly expanse. Then at the rate of 1 system a day it'd take 4,383 years, 438 years with 10, and 43.8 years with 100 systems a day. Hell considering they likely found UNSC colonies within 200 lys of Harvest, its possible they even expanded the search to 300 lys.
This is based off of the theory that each star is 5 lys away from each other.
http://wiki.answers...._stars?#slide=1
If the Covenant searched every system within 300 light years of Harvest it would have taken 14,792 years at one system a day, 1479 years at 10 systems a day, 147 years at 100 systems a day, hell or even 49 years with 300 systems a day. The war with the Covenant took 25 years. So even with the Covenant searching with 600 ships it'd take around the time it took the war to play out.