Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "เฮโล (ชุดวิดีโอเกม)" in Thai language version.
[...] Banks put out the Culture series of books, which envisions a slightly smaller structure called an "orbital" -- probably closer to the Halo structures [...]
we don't want people to think this is the game of Niven's Ringworld, simply because it takes place on a ring-shaped artificial world… you'd be surprised how often people assume this. ... structurally it's more similar to the "orbitals" in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.
[Frank O'Connor, Bungie] The idea of a Ringworld, first posited in sci-fi by Larry Niven in his novel of the same name, is actually a variation of a Dyson Sphere, a fantastically impossible object described by the 20th century physicist, Freeman Dyson... icosohedron-shaped artificial worlds have also been used by Iain M. Banks and others because they are cool. And that's why we used one.
we don't want people to think this is the game of Niven's Ringworld, simply because it takes place on a ring-shaped artificial world… you'd be surprised how often people assume this. ... structurally it's more similar to the "orbitals" in Iain M. Banks' Culture novels.
