A connection between Iain M. Banks and Halo?

From: marful@att.net To: halo@bungie.org Subject: The connection between Iain M. Banks and Halo Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 08:43:18 +0000 X-Authenticated-Sender: marful@att.net Dear Louis Wu, Recently I've been reading several Iain M. Banks Novels; and while reading "Against a Dark Bankground" I came across a direct reference to an aritfact/habitat named "Halo." Intersting, aint it? The following is an excerpt from page 108 3rd paragraph: "The Lazy Guns had not had a happy history; they had turned up during the Interregnum following the Second War, seemingly products of Halo; the vast Thrial-Polar Machine Intelligence artifact/habitat destroyed by whatever mysterious weapon [that] had been fired from - and which appeared to have obliterated - the moons of the gas giant planet Phrastesis. The Guns had floated like soap bubbles through the spasming chaos of the war-ravaged system in their drifting, otherwise empty lifeboats, and one by one they had been captured, stolen used, abused, hidden, lost, rediscovered and used and abused again." I'm guesing that the Gas giant near Bungie's Halo is named Phrastesis? Now here is were I make conections. "...the vast Thrial-Polar..." Wouldn't halo have to move in 3 axis in order to provide gravity, seasons, and day and night cycles? And about the "...Machine Intelligence artifact/habitat..." well we know an AI has SOMETHING to do with Halo, which is both a habitat and an artifact. (The last part was easy to extrapolate :P) Matt Shears Marful@worldnet.att.net

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