as you know the bio weapon that has appeared in the latest edition of escalation could be related to that of nightfall, and that we know that it looks like the covenant remnant/storm covenant?are Probably using it to target human population centres since we know about juls hatred of humans being part of the core motivation behind his leadership of the group.
But it got me thinking,what if the person that is actually developed the bio weapon is Doctor Halsey. I mean logically it could be possible for example we know she is likely the greatest human mind of the 26 century and she has a unrivalled knowledge of human biology and physiology for examples Spartan ll’s.she seems to of Allied with the covenant remnant and we haven’t heard from her since Spartan ops.
Just a idea and it could lead her to being one of the main antagonists of Halo five guardians or even possibly halo 6,either way it looks like the UNSC isn’t doing a lot to try and track down considering the threat that she is.
As far as developing bio weapons go, it is plausible, yet, in my view, unrealistic. Anyone who has paid attention to Halsey’s character would know that she would never want to disadvantage the human race. Even though she makes it sound that way to Jul.
If however, they want to follow Karen Travis’ example of “Halsey is worse that the Nazis”, then yeah, i wouldn’t put it passed them.
If the two bioweapons are one in the same, then I doubt she’d be part of it. In Nightfall they follow a trail to the bioweapon’s place of origin, the piece of Installation 04. I doubt Halsey and Jul would set up a chemical research and development lab on a place that would regularly kill them.
Impossible.
Halsey is pro-human, she saved the human race, and to do it she spent an entire life time of researches, renouncing to a normal life (like being Miranda’s mother), sacrificing her morals and “her soul”, finally getting imprisoned and nearly assassinated. She didn’t waste her entire life to then send a bio-weapon against human colonies that survived also thanks to her efforts.
She hates Parangosky. Perhaps she hates Infinity. But she doesn’t hate humans, put this in your minds.
And then she also has a librarian geas that is pro-human.
Unfortunatelly in issue 11 of Halo: Escalation it states the bio-weapon was manufactured during the Human-Covenant War, by the Covenant Empire… to which the facility was abandoned and was re-opened only recently by Kig-Yar Merchants.
After watching the new trailer and reading the comic, I seriously doubt that the two are in any way related: first of all, the disease in Eacalation DOESN’T selectively target humans- it killed the Jackals- and that new creature/thing in the Nightfall trailer is giving me the vibe that the bio weapon from Nightfall is more Flood-like than a standard virus (and it doesn’t seem like the Escalation virus transforms its subjects).
Even if they are one and the same, I don’t think the origin comes from Halsey. In Nightfall, the origin is on the Halo ring (hopefully related to the Sarcophagus of the shipwreck Spark discovered in CEA). In Escalation, it seems like this was some lost research from the Human Covenant war that the Covenant Remnant decide to pick up.
I don’t think any of these could be related to Halsey, and that’s without getting into how much of a character assassination that would be on 343i’s part (not that I blame you for coming up with the idea, after Kilo Five and the end of SpOps it’s clear Halsey will be very black and white if not an outright antagonist- but I think she’ll be focused on antagonizing ONI and the UNSC rather than the human race, to which she basically devoted all her life).
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> Since it’s on a remaining piece of a Halo ring, who’s to say it isn’t the cure for the flood that humans found before the forerunner devolved us?
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> Even in the terminals the Didact tried to use our cure but it only worked on humans.
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> Could be our cure, catalogued for future research by the forerunner or whoever came to take the mantle.
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> As far as developing bio weapons go, it is plausible, yet, in my view, unrealistic. Anyone who has paid attention to Halsey’s character would know that she would never want to disadvantage the human race. Even though she makes it sound that way to Jul.
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> If however, they want to follow Karen Travis’ example of “Halsey is worse that the Nazis”, then yeah, i wouldn’t put it passed them.
I agree with this and don’t believe Halsey would willingly attack humanity. If anything she would attack several sections of ONI but to target humanity and only humanity for total destruction? I don’t buy it. Especially given the events of the Janus Key acquisition.
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> Impossible.
> Halsey is pro-human, she saved the human race, and to do it she spent an entire life time of researches, renouncing to a normal life (like being Miranda’s mother), sacrificing her morals and “her soul”, finally getting imprisoned and nearly assassinated. She didn’t waste her entire life to then send a bio-weapon against human colonies that survived also thanks to her efforts.
> She hates Parangosky. Perhaps she hates Infinity. But she doesn’t hate humans, put this in your minds.
> And then she also has a librarian geas that is pro-human.
But, if Brian Reed is now the lead writer for 343, I wouldn’t put that kind of illogic past them.
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> > Since it’s on a remaining piece of a Halo ring, who’s to say it isn’t the cure for the flood that humans found before the forerunner devolved us?
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> > Even in the terminals the Didact tried to use our cure but it only worked on humans.
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> > Could be our cure, catalogued for future research by the forerunner or whoever came to take the mantle.
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> There never was a cure. The cure is a lie.